May I recommend Cochise county?
We have plenty of public land available.i.e. state trust land,BLM, Coronado National Forest.
Some of the big ranches Sands Ranch, Cowen Ranch, allow unrestricted hunting. Just mind your manners and close the gates and don't shoot the cattle.
Ft Huachuaca is available if you are military or federal civil service and don't mind the b.s. involved with the military. (I do.)
Terrain is everything from valley bottom mesqite and grease wood to oak and pine covered mountains. Some grasslands and everything in between. Something for every taste.Plenty of GOOD hunting country.
Lots of coyotes and respectable bobcat populations. Mountain lion populations are also pretty healthy. Plenty of sign and lots of deer for them to eat. Foxes are in the hilly areas.
The eastern edge of the county is also the state boundry with New Mexico. I understand that N.M. doesn't even require a license to hunt coyotes, but I can't confirm that. If that assumption is accurate, you have that much more land to hunt!
Sierra Vista is the biggest town at about 40,000.
Motels are available in towns such as S.V., Benson, Bisbee, Wilcox, etc.
I-10 runs through the county from east to west, so if you were to get a motel on the interstate you could reach just about anyplace in the county within about 1.5 hours.
Here's a pic of what we bagged this afternoon. This was in areas that Onefoot and I hunted just yesterday and got skunked. Sorry Kevin
The bobcat we got just off of a gas line road at about 4 pm and the coyote was taken at 2:30 pm from a stand a couple hundred yards from a state highway.
I am not saying everyday results in a boat load of critters, but they're there. We get skunked here just like every place else.
Afterthought...
Here's the game I saw this weekend.
Coyote 3
Bobcat 1
Javilena (HUGE!!!) 1
Coues Whitetail 3 (All bucks)
Grey fox (Fresh road kill)
Mountain Lion (Calm down, pup, it was Fresh track only, not a Kodak moment
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