Larry Knipp filled his Arizona auction tag on the 333rd day of a year long season with a 94-inch (unofficial) pronghorn! He was guided by Eli and Tony Grimmett of Pronghorn Guide Service and Chad Smith of Vaquero Outfitters. The buck sports 17-1/2-inch horns, 6-inch prongs, and 7-3/4-inch bases! Congratulations Larry! Bill Dunbar's 2010 AZ Commish Buck The 1st AZ antelope auction tag was sold last night at the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society Banquet. It was the 4th item up for bid and sold for $40,000, which is $10,000 and $7,500 more than the two tags sold for last year. It was interesting and I actually had planned on filming it just for kicks, but there actually wasn't anything worth filming. Chad Smith had a phone bidder, we had a phone bidder, and I believe one other person had a phone bidder. The auctioneer started it off around $50,000 looking for someone to jump in and no one did. He then lowered it a bit and Chad's bidder jumped in for the first bid at 40K. Needless to say, there were no other bids. One bid to start and end the auction at 40K. First time in history I've seen the antelope tag bidding start that high. Here are the pronghorn hunt proposals for the 2011 season. Here's a link to the entire document: AZ Hunt Proposals.
It looks like we're in for another reduction in tags, which isn't surprising from what we've seen in the field. 13A lost the most rifle tags with 15 while Unit 1 gained the most with 10. Overall we're looking at a total tag reduction of 57 dropping our total number of tags to 874. |
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