Do You Know The Number One B.C. Area?

quest · Sep 1, 2008

I was going to post on how bored I was during this off season...NOT! I found something out while in my (what my wife calls the library) reading my B-material. The book I was reading is PUBLIC LAND MULIES by DAVID LONG. While sitting there thumbing through the pages something jumped out and caught my eye. Something, I've overlooked and just never thought about it. It was quite interesting. But there it was in black and white. Some of you already know the answer and it's no surprise. Your saying by now come on quest what the heck are you talking about? Ok, ok... We all know that if you go by the whole State of Colorado it's the number one state for B.C bucks. Now if you look at Colorado, almost every county has at least 1 B.C. buck. The state of Colorado is a pretty big area in comparison to the state of Arizona where everyone concentrates on the Kaibab and the AZ strip... do you agree? Me too. BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE NUMBER ONE *COUNTY* IN THE UNITED STATES IS? I don't mean state...I mean COUNTY! For the amount of B.C. bucks that come out of this area...no other county even comes close! It's good reading material guys...check it out and let me know what you find

BreederBuck · Sep 1, 2008

You have struck my interest, now you have to share the answer.................

BomberBlackies · Sep 2, 2008

Just a guess...Rio Arriba Co in New Mex. Home of the Jic and unit 2 ?????

AZBUGLER · Sep 2, 2008

coconino county, Arizona

lonetree · Sep 2, 2008

I know I will be archery hunting there really early next year.

sageman · Sep 2, 2008

Dolores

300MIKE · Sep 2, 2008

+1 for Rio Arriba.

NMRaptor · Sep 2, 2008

Rio Arriba County, NM
-Raptor

kilowatt · Sep 2, 2008

EAGLE COUNTY, COLORADO

YukonDall · Sep 2, 2008

+1 FOR EAGLE COUNTY COLORADO.........YD.

BrowningRage · Sep 2, 2008

My guess is Cache county Utah. Its got to be. ALL the bucks have been harvested and now there are no deer left there... LOL

ForkWest · Sep 2, 2008

My first thought was Eagle as well.

nmtaxi · Sep 2, 2008

Rio Arriba, NM

Dean Parisian · Sep 2, 2008

Surely any hunter who has done the homework knows it's Eagle.

http://chippewapartners.blogspot.com

nmtaxi · Sep 2, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Sep-02-08 AT 12:16PM (MST)[p]Rio Arriba has Eagle easily beat. Rio Arriba has 81 entries opposed to Eagle's 57.
http://www.outdoorlife.com/article/Hunting/Trophy-Zones-21009785

beartrap35 · Sep 2, 2008

MESA COUNTY

cjboz · Sep 2, 2008

LAST EDITED ON Sep-02-08 AT 03:22PM (MST)[p]+785 Rio Ariba Co. NM

gitrdun · Sep 2, 2008

UTAH COUNTY

BUCKSPY · Sep 2, 2008

The Utard cheerleaders are going to have to come to grips with the fact that things happen outside of state lines on this one.

Eagle county is rewriting the bottom end of the typical category and awards entries. Atleast until last winter. The Rio Arriba might as well be called Jicarilla Indian Reservation County.

I don't think there are many knowledagable big buck fanatics out there who wouldn't want a AZ strip tag over anything else.

RandallT · Sep 2, 2008

one more for Coconino

BOW_N_ARROW · Sep 2, 2008

Well I did a little research and I would have to say Rio Arriba, NM (95) for typical and Coconino, AZ for non-typical (28). Rio Arriba is 3rd in non-typical with 22. So 95+22=117 and makes Rio Arriba NM the overall winner.

Now, I'm not familiar with other states (particulary NM & CO), but in researching AZ, I found 34 entries (typ & non) that were listed as Kaibab, North Kaibab, Kaibab Nat'l Foret, etc. The Kaibab is a forest in Coconino County. With being said and adding those entries to its total, the top 3 would look like this:
1. Rio Arriba NM - 117 (95T, 22NT)
2. Coconino AZ - 92 (40T, 52NT)
3. Eagle CO - 84 (60T, 24NT)

As I said, other counties may have more that are listed under a forest name or city, I only familiar with AZ.

Just my $0.02 with a little help of a B&C research tool ;-)

JB

Fortis · Sep 2, 2008

Let's go another way.....What's the #1 county in the past 10 years?

quest · Sep 2, 2008

And the drum role please...da da dada da da...and the winner is..... may all those who chose Rio Arriba (Arriba, Arriba) NM were correct and a BIG Kudos goes to Bow_N_Arrow for coming up with the top 3 and in order! Congrats to all who participated in our Quest ;-)