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Arizona Hunting Workshops/Scouting Field Trips
The Arizona Hunting Club & Outdoor Adventure Club invites you to attend any of our
Arizona Hunting Workshops and/or Arizona Scouting Field Trip for Hunt Units throughout Arizona.
Arizona Hunting Workshops and Scouting Field Trips are avaiable for:
Part one of any Arizona Hunting Workshop consists of learning material from an
Arizona Hunting Workbook, which to teaches students about the each game species, their feeding
habits, watering habits, the habitat like to live in, their travel patterns
as well as specific hunting strategies, tactics and methodologies to successfully harvest a trophy animal.
One important portion of the hunting workshop will show students how to use a
topographic map and satellite aerial photos in order to predict where the highest
concentration of game animals might be located within a given hunt unit.
All students will need to bring a U.S. Forest Quadrangle Topographic map of the hunt, which
can be purchased for around $10 at any map store.
Part two of Arizona Hunting Workshop includes taking students on an
actual scouting field trip. Students will be armed with a digital camera and GPS unit
and will spend an entire weekend scouting the areas predicted in class to hold large concentrations
of game animals based on sources of food, water, bedding areas and known travel patterns.
The purpose of the Arizona Scouting Field Trip is to find good
places to hunt game animals the following week during the actual hunting season.
The scouting field trip is important because it teaches students how to adjust their hunting
plans in the field based on animal signs such as droppings, grazed eating areas, fresh
animal tracks and visual sightings of game animals in the field.
Each day the class will be split up into small groups and sent into the field to scout
during the morning and evening. At the end of the day every team will share their
findings, their digital pictures and their GPS waypoints of important areas where animals
or fresh signs of game animals were found. Students will learn to appreciate the fact that
working together as a team is the best way to find the animals prior to the hunt.
The Arizona Hunting Workshops are held in Gilbert on Wednesday nights at 7:00 pm.
Scouting Field Trips are held on the weekends. Students will depart for the field trips from
Gilbert on Fridays at 7:00 pm or they have the option of meeting the at the designated campsite.
Click here for the Arizona Hunting Workshop class schedule
or the Arizona Scouting Field Trip class schedule.
The Arizona Hunting Workshops and Scouting Field Trips will cover the following topics:
- Game Unit Tours and Campouts
- Game Unit Managers
- AZ Game and Fish Scouting Reports
- Topographic Scouting
- GPS Navigation
- Real World Scouting
- Mapping Way Points
- Aerial Scouting
- GPS/Topographic Software
- Finding Water Resources
- Finding Bedding Areas
- Finding Feeding Areas
- Finding Staging Areas
- Salt Licks/Molasses/Game Feeders
- Evaluating Game Trails
- Animal Travel Patterns
- Game Cameras/Trail Timers
- Camping Equipment
- Animal Calling/Game Calls
- Scent Covers/Wind Patterns
- Sound Covers/Sound Patterns
- Choosing a Weapon
- Rifle Practice Makes Perfect
- Archery Practice Makes Perfect
- Scouting Before the Hunt
- Still hunting/tree stand hunting/trail hunting
- No pressure vs. heavy pressure
- Where to camp
- How to Get Drawn
- Where to hunt
- Using Optics to Increase Your Odds
- Single Hunting vs. Hunting Drives
- Using Radios to Communicate
- Should I use a hunting guide?
- Scouting maps from guides?
- Retrieving Downed Game
- Taxidermist
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