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 There are very few limitations on hunting areas
and the prices for each ticket have been set to give every hunter in the world an opportunity to win a true hunt of a lifetime. Prices range from $5-25 each. (See the Buy Tickets page).
Arizona offers some of the best trophy opportunities in North America for each of these species. A quick review of the both the B&C and
P&Y record book will confirm this. (Click for B&C and P&Y websites). If you are after a truly huge
mule deer, elk, antelope, Coues deer, desert bighorn sheep, or buffalo, then Arizona is where you need to be. The only huntable population of
Gould's turkeys in the United States exists in Southern Arizona and can be hunted with this tag.
Optics Raffle
In addition to these tags is an optics raffle for a package of products donated by Swarovski
Optik. This package will include the STM80 Spotting Scope, 15x56 SLC Binoc, Range Finder, New Model 10x42 El Binoc, Z3 4-12x50 Rifle Scope. Tickets are $10 each.
New Mexico Trophy Elk Hunt
We are also offering a trophy elk hunt from West Tex - New Mex outfitters. Tickets are $20
each or 6 for $100. Receive a free entry to win this hunt when you purchase an “All Eleven”
package, which includes a ticket for each of the 10 AZ species and the Optics, for $150. (Hunt details here)
What is the Raffle For?
These Special Tags are designed to earn money for wildlife and wildlife management in
Arizona. Every dollar raised for each species by the raffle of these special big game tags is returned to the Arizona Game and Fish Department and managed by the Arizona Habitat
Partnership Committee (AHPC) for that particular species. With input from 12 local habitat partners across the state, as well as the input from the organizations involved with the fund
raising, they collectively determine which projects will provide the most benefit to each species represented.
Operating costs are covered entirely by sales of the Optics Raffle tickets as well as
contributions from the sponsoring organizations. The management of the raffle is overseen by a volunteer board of directors.
Read more in a press release from the Outdoor Wire Newsletter HERE, or in an article
published in a recent edition of Western Hunter Magazine HERE.
About the Drawing Process
All mail-in ticket order forms are data entered by an independent professional accounting
service. This data, along with online ticket order data are then used to produce computer generated tickets with your name, address, city, state, zip, and phone number and the
species/item that you have purchased a ticket(s) for. If you purchase more than one ticket they are all computer generated prior to the drawing. These tickets are then placed into separate
raffle barrels and the winning tickets are pulled during a public drawing on July 15, 2010. One winner per species, one optics winner, and one incentive hunt winner will be drawn, for a total
of thirteen (13) winners. After each winning ticket is drawn, the remaining tickets are placed in containers and made available for inspection for one year.
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