Might as well get you some Mountain Extremes to keep your ankles happy with you.

Good unit since they restock from it.

Congratulations on the draw. That ought to screw up your sleep for a while.

Thank you sir. Funny you say that every morning since I heard I have awoken at about 4 AM and cannot go back to sleep for thinking about the hunt. May be that way till December IDK.....

I would be willing to go by "proxy" for you counselor, you know, purely out of concern for your health of course

Congrats! Tough tag to get. Had a buddy go 18 yrs and he finally drew his AZ Desert Bighorn. Then just a little bit later got drawn on a Montana Bighorn in the same year. He hunted in an southern arid area of AZ and they told the biggest limitation was taking in potable water. He killed his sheep in 4 or 5 days IIRC and it went 167.

AZ doesn't let many Nonresident tags loose. Congrats. Where will you be hunting?

I never fully understood the whole hunting/hiking in the desert thing till I made it up to a 6000' mountain in Southern Arizona and ran out of water. [censored] gets real out in the desert.

I never fully understood the whole hunting/hiking in the desert thing till I made it up to a 6000' mountain in Southern Arizona and ran out of water. [censored] gets real out in the desert.

Yes it does. Temps can get you too. I was mule deer hunting at the base of the Hill (Unit 20C - high desert more or less) back in 2008 when a norther blew in over night. We were expecting low 40's/high 30's for lows and planned for that - it dropped down into the single digits that night. One of the coldest nights of my life. I laid out on a rock when the sun came up like a damned snake trying to get warm enough to move around while the fire was picking up some steam.

Worst part is we found sign of mule deer all over the place, but never saw a single living thing resembling one. Ran into a good sized pack of javelinas, and that's it. A few weeks later I was back in the unit javelina hunting and ran into nothing but mulies. Go figure.

Water is the most important when running around the Sonora - planning for the weather is the second most important.

I don't know if it's sunk in yet, but you have drawn the holy grail of North American hunts. Get in shape, square away your rifle, and pleeeeeeeeze post pictures when you're done. I wish you all the best!