Well i hunted the Nation this past year. The hunt was great! I didn't harvest anything during my archery hunt, but my rifle hunt i was successful. I was even drawn for an elk hunt that took place in Jan....unsuccessful, but what an adventure!
Well the prices are pretty much set into two different categories, Navajo and Non-Navajo. And there are your regular hunts and trophy hunts and trophy units. And prices are all different, example:
Archery Deer hunt...Non-Navajo.....190.00
General Deer hunt...Non-navavjo....990.00
Archery Elk hunt....Non-Navajo.....490.00
trophy elk Hunt.....Non-Navajo.....2990.00-3990.00
Genenral Elk hunt...Non-Navajo.....990.00
(As per Navajo Nation hunting regulations-2004)
Some rules you have to know, must have a Licence Navajo guide, must have completed hunter safety course, if you were born after Jan 01,1970.
As for the stories about the locals...never really heard of any that were life threating. But beware of them skinwalkers... Ha ha ha! Being Navavjo myself, i Hunted there almost all my life. There is some truth as to how the hunting was or is now, but i seen enough these past two or three years to know that there are plenty of MoNsTeR MuLeYs up there!
Happy Hunting!
Mike