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The season dates for each hunt will be 365 days starting August 15th! 
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
. This package will include the 15x56 SLC binoculars, 10x42 El binoculars, STS-80 spotting scope, Swarovski Rangefinder and 4x12x50 rifle scope.
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. After each winning ticket is drawn, the remaining
tickets for that species are placed in containers, still separated by species, and made available for inspection for one year.
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