Arizona Pronghorn Mule Deer Elk Turkey

Unit 19A (Paulden)

Arizona Hunting Guide — Pronghorn, Mule Deer, Elk, Turkey

Unit 19A covers the Paulden-Chino Valley area in central Arizona, providing classic high-desert grassland pronghorn habitat. The open terrain of rolling grassland, sage flats, and scattered juniper makes this a dedicated pronghorn unit with good visibility and traditional spot-and-stalk hunting. Buck quality is average for Arizona, and the unit offers a quality pronghorn experience in relatively accessible country between Prescott and Flagstaff.

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3,490–6,747 ft

Sampled elevation

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 19A

Where the Pronghorn Are in 19A: Open Lines, Private Ground and the Lower Hills

Start with the boundary lines, not a spot on the map

AZGFD's own unit guide doesn't send you to a named flat or a particular tank. It describes where you're allowed to hunt, and those lines matter more here than any single drainage. The guide also calls 19A one of the highest antelope-density units in Arizona, with good fawn survival. The catch is that much of the herd lives in or near Prescott Valley.

Archery hunters can use the country north of Highway 89A. South of 89A, the open piece is east of Robert Road, north of AZ 69/169 and west of Forest Road 151/643. Rifle and muzzleloader hunters get the same north-of-89A ground, but their southern boundary is Fain Road instead of Robert Road. The east and south edges are the same. Learn that difference before you drive anywhere.

Lonesome Valley: mostly private, so ask first

AZGFD says access in Lonesome Valley is quite limited and most of the pronghorn habitat is privately owned. Its advice for firearms hunters is to get permission before you apply. We'd take that seriously. Get a map that separates private, State Trust and public land. Scout early. Some landowners will say no, and the guide admits it.

The ownership numbers show why. The unit is 60 percent National Forest, 8 percent State Trust and 32 percent private or other. A third of the unit is closed to you without a yes, and the open grassland near town is likely to be a big share of that third.

Public-land hills worth glassing

The packet doesn't name a pronghorn pasture, so the terrain has to guide you. Lower, public-land features include Antelope Hills at 4,911 feet, Pinto Mesa at 5,429 feet, Table Mountain at 4,612 feet, Little Black Mesa at 4,650 feet and Hull Hill at 4,697 feet. The Black Hills range tops out around 5,202 feet. Grief Hill, at 5,347 feet, has a spring listed as Grief Hill Water. A named spring in open country is where we'd start looking.

The unit averages 4,934 feet and runs from 3,490 to 6,747 feet. Stay in the lower half of that range for open country. Woodchute, Mingus and Hickey mountains all top 7,600 feet, which is above the unit's own high point, so we'd treat them as landmarks. They aren't where you'd hunt.

Higher canyons are the long shot

Haywood Canyon (6,484 feet), Burnt Canyon, Little Yaeger Canyon, Gaddes Canyon and Little Coyote Canyon are tagged as holding country. They sit near the top of the unit's elevation range, which usually means more cover and fewer open sightlines. Look at them if the flats are crowded or closed, but don't build your hunt around them.

Getting there

I-17, AZ 69 and AZ 89 are paved and cover most of the unit. Forest Service Road 638 (5.2 miles) and FR 635 (1.3 miles) are high-clearance. Old Sycamore Road is graded gravel that a 2WD rig and small trailer can handle. With 467 tanks and 149 springs, there's water to find, but only Grief Hill Water is named.

Unit 19A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,490–6,747 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,934 ft ; peaks can run higher.
756.6 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

467 tanks
149 springs
4,419 stream segments
3 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Woodchute Mountain (7,838 ft), Mingus Mountain (7,813 ft), Hickey Mountain (7,604 ft), Kendall Peak (6,968 ft)

Holding ground: Haywood Canyon (6,484 ft), Burnt Canyon (6,106 ft), Little Coyote Canyon (5,793 ft), Grief Hill Water

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt 19A: Blinds, Rut Stalks and Crowded Ground

Archery: sit water or work a rutting buck

The guide is blunt about this hunt. It happens during the rut, in hot weather, close to town. AZGFD says high hunter densities are typical and that it isn't a wilderness experience. Archery success runs 48 percent, which is solid for bowhunters, but you'll earn it around other people.

Decoys can work, and so can blinds near water. Water sources are in high demand for blinds, so set yours up early to claim the spot. Be tolerant of others who want the same area, and pull your blind when you're done. Don't bank on exclusivity.

The guide's stalk plan is simple. Find a buck chasing does or running off other bucks. When he circles out of sight, move into that area and wait behind whatever cover there is. He'll often come back and keep defending the spot, and AZGFD calls that return reckless.

Rifle and muzzleloader: the hunt is mostly permission

Rifle success is 82 percent and muzzleloader is 60 percent, and both reflect the unit's density. We'd read the numbers cautiously. Getting on huntable ground is the hard part, so work that before the season. Do your landowner calls and map work first, then glass.

Glass from lower public-land high points such as Pinto Mesa, Antelope Hills or Hull Hill. Look for herds in open ground before you commit to a stalk. Check every approach against land ownership before you move.

Firearms rules matter here. It's unlawful to discharge a firearm within a quarter mile of a residence or occupied structure. Ranch headquarters and developed areas are scattered through the open area, and AZGFD says unsafe-use violations will be strictly enforced. Keep that distance in mind before you pick a shooting lane.

Be a good neighbor near Prescott Valley

The guide asks hunters not to walk through yards or drag dead antelope past neighborhoods. Many residents don't hunt and enjoy having antelope nearby. Park out of sight, carry your animal out the long way, and keep your image clean.

After the shot

Heat is the real danger to your meat. AZGFD tells hunters to remove harvested antelope quickly and cool the meat as soon as possible. Have ice and a plan before you tag.

A realistic day

Expect to share the country. Be at a high point or blind early, glass until you've located a buck you can reach legally, then work in on public or permitted ground. Other hunters moving animals around can help, as the guide notes, so don't treat them as pure competition.

Getting in and staying out: unit 19A

Named routes and what they need

I 17 — 24.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 69 — 20.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 89 — 7.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Forest Service Road 638 — 5.2 mi · High-clearance
Forest Service Road 635 — 1.3 mi · High-clearance
Old Sycamore Road — 1.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Jerome — 7.6 mi · lodging
Prescott Valley — 9.2 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Clarkdale — 10.8 mi · groceries
Cottonwood — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Dewey-Humboldt — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Mingus Mountain Campground · Fee
Playground Group Campground · reservable
Powell Springs Campground
Mingus Mountain Tent Camp Sites · Fee
Verde River RV Park & Cottages · Fee

Season weather and signal

Jan53° / 32° · 1.5" precip
Aug90° / 65° · 2.7" precip
Sep85° / 60° · 1.5" precip
Oct74° / 49° · 1.1" precip
Nov62° / 39° · 0.8" precip
Dec52° / 31° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Arizona rules that decide your day

Summarised from AZGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken only during daylight hours — from sunrise to sunset. Check the sunrise and sunset times for your unit, not for Phoenix.

Motorized retrieval

Arizona permits motorized big-game retrieval only where the unit's travel-management decision allows it, and in several units only for elk. Where it is allowed it means one vehicle, one trip, within one mile of a road shown open on the Motor Vehicle Use Map — never inside a quiet area, a wilderness or a closed area. Pull the MVUM for your ranger district and confirm before you shoot somewhere you cannot carry an animal out of.

Tagging

Sign your tag before you go afield and attach it to the animal immediately after the kill. Hunters aged 10–13 must carry their Hunter Education card with the licence and tag.

Leaving meat

Leaving edible meat in the field is illegal. Edible meat means the four quarters and the loins at a minimum.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting within a quarter mile of an occupied farmhouse, cabin, lodge or building without the owner's permission. That rules out shooting toward most lakeside cabin tracts.
Campsites and developed areas — Forest Service rules prohibit discharging a firearm within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area.
Roads and water — No shooting from a vehicle, and no shooting on, across or into a road. No shooting across a body of water adjacent to a Forest road.

Pronghorn: where to put the shot

Broadside, straight up the front leg, a third of the way into the body. Pronghorn are shallow-chested and the lungs sit forward.

Shots to refuse

Range it, then range it again. Open country makes 400 yards look like 250.
Wait for the buck to stop. Nobody kills a running pronghorn cleanly on purpose.
Mind the backdrop. A miss carries a long way across a flat.

Plan the carry: roughly 30– 45 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — one large cooler with ice already in it. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Pronghorn Success Rates

Rifle82%

Muzzleloader60%

Archery48%

Pronghorn success rates in Unit 19A typically range from 60-80% for rifle hunters. The open terrain makes locating pronghorn relatively straightforward and tag numbers are managed conservatively. Archery success is considerably lower at 15-30% due to the extreme difficulty of closing within bow range on open ground. Buck quality is average for Arizona pronghorn with most bucks in the 65-78 inch range.

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — Early Rifle bull/buck only (combined pool)	20	1,826	0.7%	—
Muzzleloader — Early Muzzleloader bull/buck only (combined pool)	5	302	1.7%	—
Early Archery — bull/buck only (combined pool)	10	261	3.8%	—

Data from 2025 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

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Unit 19A pronghorn tags are moderately competitive. Rifle tags typically require 5-10 bonus points. Archery may be slightly more accessible. The unit's central location between Prescott and Flagstaff makes it a popular application choice. Apply consistently to build bonus points toward a realistic draw timeline.

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 19A

Unit 19A is an Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) mule deer unit. Tags are awarded through AZGFD's weighted-random bonus-point draw. Applicants accumulate bonus points that add additional random entries each unsuccessful year. Review AZGFD hunt guidelines, regulations, and the draw results page for current season dates, legal weapons, unit boundaries, and historical odds before applying.

Mingus Mountain, Woodchute and the drop toward the Verde

Mingus Mountain and Woodchute Wilderness

Start here. AZGFD's own unit guide says that during the archery season, and in mild rifle weather, many deer sit in the ponderosa pine on top of Mingus Mountain and in the juniper along its sides. The Woodchute Wilderness Area and the west side of Mingus are the guide's named hunting areas for that window. Woodchute Mountain and Mingus both show up as glassing summits in our terrain data.

The west side has an access problem. Housing developments north of Highway 89A have squeezed it. The agency says to come in from Perkinsville Road (County Road 70), which leaves State Highway 89 in Chino Valley. Don't count on the 89A side.

Copper Mountain and the Agua Fria near Mayer

The guide calls the area near Copper Mountain and the Agua Fria River by Mayer "also productive" in that same early or mild-weather window. Copper Mountain is a modest 5,012-foot summit. Think of it as a lower-elevation backup when the top of Mingus feels crowded or the weather hasn't pushed anything down yet.

Cold-weather country: St. Matthews, the Verde and the foothills

Snow is possible at higher elevations on the rifle opener. When it comes, the agency says deer slide downhill. Look north of St. Matthews Mountain (6,282 feet), toward the Verde River, and into the lower foothills of Mingus and Woodchute. The unit runs from 3,490 to 6,747 feet, so the vertical drop is real. A storm can empty the pines and fill the juniper in a day or two.

Several holding canyons are mapped in the unit, including Haywood Canyon (6,484 feet), Burnt Canyon (6,106), Little Yaeger Canyon (6,066), Gaddes Canyon (5,993) and Little Coyote Canyon (5,793). The agency guide doesn't single them out for deer. We'd treat them as places to glass from the ridges, not promises. Goat Peak (6,644) and Pinto Mesa (5,429) are other listed glassing points.

Country to skip, or ask about first

The Mingus summit recreation area. It takes in the Forest Service campground, the fire lookout, the Methodist Church Camp, some private homes and Mingus Lake at Elks Well. No firearms or arrows may be discharged there.
East of Watson Lake. It's private. Get permission first.
Roads toward the Verde River. ATV damage led the Forest Service to close most of them. Check the Prescott National Forest Motor Vehicle Use Map, which is free at any local Forest Service office.

About 60 percent of the unit is National Forest and 8 percent is State Trust. The other 32 percent is private or other, so keep your boundaries straight.

Unit 19A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,490–6,747 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,934 ft ; peaks can run higher.
756.6 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

467 tanks
149 springs
4,419 stream segments
3 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Woodchute Mountain (7,838 ft), Mingus Mountain (7,813 ft), Hickey Mountain (7,604 ft), Kendall Peak (6,968 ft)

Holding ground: Haywood Canyon (6,484 ft), Burnt Canyon (6,106 ft), Little Coyote Canyon (5,793 ft), Grief Hill Water

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

Hunting 19A's drought-thinned mule deer

Set your expectations

The agency is blunt that the mule deer population has struggled after many years of drought through winter and mid-summer. The packet shows 22 percent rifle success. That's a number to respect, not beat. Plan on glassing a lot of empty country, and be ready to pass the first marginal buck, or take him, depending on how your week is going.

Glass the pine-to-juniper transition on Mingus

Early or in mild weather, work the ponderosa on top and the juniper on the flanks. Get on a high point before light and glass the edges where timber breaks into juniper. Move slowly. Deer in thick pine are easy to walk past, so spend more time on openings and ridge shoulders than on dark timber.

Archery hunters get the best shot at this country. A bowhunter can sit quietly near the transitions, with no rifle pressure to push deer around. Keep the recreation area closed to discharge in mind, and keep a quarter mile from any building unless you have the owner's permission. That's state regulation, and the Mingus top has homes scattered through it.

Watch the weather, then follow it down

Check the forecast before the rifle opener. If snow is coming to the high country, shift plans. The agency says deer drop to lower elevations once cold sets in. That means glassing north of St. Matthews Mountain, toward the Verde, and along the lower foothills of Mingus and Woodchute. Don't expect to drive to the river. Most of those roads are closed.

Without a closure map in hand, you can't know which roads are legal. Pick up the Motor Vehicle Use Map before you go.

Roads and legwork

The paved highways (I-17, AZ 69, AZ 89) get you to the unit. Forest Service Road 638 (5.2 miles) and Forest Service Road 635 (1.3 miles) are rated high-clearance. Old Sycamore Road (1.2 miles) is graded gravel that a 2WD rig and small trailer can handle. With only a few miles of mapped rough road, the best way to beat other hunters is to park and walk a ridge or two beyond the closest pullout.

Water

The packet counts 467 tanks, 149 springs and 3 lakes in the unit. It names only one spring, Grief Hill Water (near Grief Hill, 5,347 feet). In a drought, water draws deer, so we'd glass it, but don't rely on it alone. Check any water you plan to sit on for private ownership.

Know your deer

Coues whitetail live here too, in relatively small numbers. Be certain of what you're looking at before you shoot, and check your tag and current regulations for what's legal.

Getting in and staying out: unit 19A

Named routes and what they need

I 17 — 24.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 69 — 20.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 89 — 7.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Forest Service Road 638 — 5.2 mi · High-clearance
Forest Service Road 635 — 1.3 mi · High-clearance
Old Sycamore Road — 1.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Jerome — 7.6 mi · lodging
Prescott Valley — 9.2 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Clarkdale — 10.8 mi · groceries
Cottonwood — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Dewey-Humboldt — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Mingus Mountain Campground · Fee
Playground Group Campground · reservable
Powell Springs Campground
Mingus Mountain Tent Camp Sites · Fee
Verde River RV Park & Cottages · Fee

Season weather and signal

Jan53° / 32° · 1.5" precip
Aug90° / 65° · 2.7" precip
Sep85° / 60° · 1.5" precip
Oct74° / 49° · 1.1" precip
Nov62° / 39° · 0.8" precip
Dec52° / 31° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Arizona rules that decide your day

Summarised from AZGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken only during daylight hours — from sunrise to sunset. Check the sunrise and sunset times for your unit, not for Phoenix.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Sign your tag before you go afield and attach it to the animal immediately after the kill. Hunters aged 10–13 must carry their Hunter Education card with the licence and tag.

Leaving meat

Leaving edible meat in the field is illegal. Edible meat means the four quarters and the loins at a minimum.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting within a quarter mile of an occupied farmhouse, cabin, lodge or building without the owner's permission. That rules out shooting toward most lakeside cabin tracts.
Campsites and developed areas — Forest Service rules prohibit discharging a firearm within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area.
Roads and water — No shooting from a vehicle, and no shooting on, across or into a road. No shooting across a body of water adjacent to a Forest road.

Mule Deer: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body.

Shots to refuse

Nothing behind or overlapping the animal you picked.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have shot a three-shot group into a paper plate from the rest you are carrying.
Pass the shot you are talking yourself into.

Plan the carry: roughly 40– 120 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two large coolers. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Mule Deer Success Rates

Rifle22%

AZGFD publishes annual harvest data. Consult hunt reports for the most recent Unit 19A success rates by weapon and season.

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — General Rifle Oct bull/buck only (combined pool)	250	534	36.0%	—
Rifle — General Rifle Oct bull/buck only (combined pool)	250	678	29.4%	—
Rifle — General Rifle Oct either sex (combined pool)	250	678	29.4%	—

Data from 2024 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

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Arizona uses a weighted-random bonus-point draw. Each point adds random entries, improving odds gradually. Check AZGFD's draw results page for current unit-level odds.

Elk Hunting in Unit 19A

Unit 19A sits on the Prescott National Forest south and east of Prescott, covering the Bradshaw Mountains and surrounding ponderosa-chaparral country. Elk here are part of Arizona's central-region herd with ~245 tags against ~501 recent 3-year applicants — one of the higher-volume Arizona elk hunts. Per AZGFD, hunts run August through December with archery, muzzleloader, and rifle opportunities. Bull quality is solid (280-310 class typical) with the occasional 330+ bull showing up in archery harvest data. The unit's proximity to Prescott and Phoenix makes logistics approachable.

Where to Find Elk in 19A: Lower, Thicker Country Than You'd Expect

Forget the timbered high country. AZGFD's own unit guide says most 19A elk live in juniper and shrub oak, lower than hunters expect. The unit runs from 3,490 to 6,747 feet with a mean of 4,934, so you're hunting the middle and lower slopes. The population is relatively low, and permits have been few every year since 1993. You won't stumble onto elk here. You'll have to find them.

The Prescott National Forest core: Onion Mountain, Boulder Canyon, Cherry Creek

The guide points to the Prescott National Forest map for the places where most of the unit's elk are found. Onion Mountain sits just north of the I-17/Hwy 169 junction, and it's a good first stop. The rest of the list: Boulder Canyon, upper Cherry Creek, Powell Springs, upper Ash Creek, and Goat Peak. Part of the Goat Peak area burned in the summer of 2003, so expect a mix of old burn and standing cover there. Burnt Canyon, between Forest Service roads 413 and 132, rounds out the list. We'd start with whichever of these you can reach and glass from fastest.

West and northwest of Woodchute Wilderness

The guide calls out good elk densities west of Woodchute Wilderness in Martin Canyon and CCC Canyon. Northwest of the wilderness, it names Munds Draw and Wildcat Draw. That's a cluster of drainages in one general part of the unit, so you can hunt several in a trip without burning a day on the road. If you only have a weekend to scout, we'd pick this block and work it systematically.

Verde River off Forest Service Road 638

The third named zone follows the Verde River off FSR 638, downstream to Perkinsville, where County Roads 70 and 72 meet. FSR 638 is rated high-clearance in the packet, and the mapped stretch is 5.2 miles. Don't take a low-slung truck down it. Plan on walking from wherever the road ends.

Year-to-year movement, and what to skip

Elk concentrations shift. The guide says local summer rainfall decides which stock tanks fill and which patches green up, so last year's hotspot can sit empty. The unit has 467 mapped tanks and 149 mapped springs, but the packet doesn't say which hold water in a dry year. That's why pre-season tank scouting matters.

Roughly 32% of the unit is private or other land, against 60% national forest and 8% state trust. Check your boundaries before you chase an animal across a fence line. We'd also pass on anything far from the named drainages. With elk numbers this low, random country isn't worth your time.

Unit 19A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,490–6,747 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,934 ft ; peaks can run higher.
756.6 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

467 tanks
149 springs
4,419 stream segments
3 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Woodchute Mountain (7,838 ft), Mingus Mountain (7,813 ft), Hickey Mountain (7,604 ft), Kendall Peak (6,968 ft)

Holding ground: Haywood Canyon (6,484 ft), Burnt Canyon (6,106 ft), Little Coyote Canyon (5,793 ft), Grief Hill Water

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt 19A Elk: Tanks, Monsoons and Thick Cover

This is a tag you hunt with legwork. The agency's advice starts before the season: check stock tanks for elk tracks. Do it in the weeks ahead, because summer rain decides where elk sit from one year to the next. A tank with fresh sign this year tells you more than any map.

Scout tanks, then hunt the sign

Start with the areas the guide names, then look at the water in each one. Powell Springs is the obvious one to check. Grief Hill Water is the only named spring in our map data, and we can't tell you whether it holds elk. Treat it as a place to look, nothing more. Walk the edges, read tracks and droppings, and note which direction trails leave the water. Then pick a glassing spot and let the animals show you the pattern.

Glass from the high points, stalk the thick stuff

The guide warns that dense vegetation makes stalking difficult at times. So glass first. Goat Peak (6,644 feet) and Onion Mountain (5,732 feet) are both mapped as public-land summits suited to glassing. Use them to find elk before you commit to the brush. Be at your glassing spot early and again in the last light, when animals move out of cover toward feed and water. Keep the wind in your face when you drop in, and expect to cover short distances slowly. Juniper and shrub oak hide a bull until he's close.

Archery: monsoon rut and warm days

Archery success runs 18% against 25% for rifle in the packet's numbers. That fits country where you often get a close, quick look instead of a long shot. During the archery bull hunt, the guide says monsoon-type storms briefly intensify rutting behavior, and hunters who stay afield benefit. So don't pack it in when the clouds build. Most elk are at low elevation and temperatures are still warm, so think about meat care before you shoot. AZGFD says to plan ahead so your location and field-care routine let you cool the meat quickly. Cold storage is available in Camp Verde, Dewey and Chino Valley.

A realistic day

Be at a tank or glassing knob before first light. Glass until the morning movement ends, then check tracks and sign on foot through midday. Be back on the glass for the evening. In a low-density unit, one animal seen in a day is a good day. Rely on the named areas, check the water, and stay flexible when the rain moves the elk.

Getting in and staying out: unit 19A

Named routes and what they need

I 17 — 24.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 69 — 20.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 89 — 7.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Forest Service Road 638 — 5.2 mi · High-clearance
Forest Service Road 635 — 1.3 mi · High-clearance
Old Sycamore Road — 1.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Jerome — 7.6 mi · lodging
Prescott Valley — 9.2 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Clarkdale — 10.8 mi · groceries
Cottonwood — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Dewey-Humboldt — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Mingus Mountain Campground · Fee
Playground Group Campground · reservable
Powell Springs Campground
Mingus Mountain Tent Camp Sites · Fee
Verde River RV Park & Cottages · Fee

Season weather and signal

Jan53° / 32° · 1.5" precip
Aug90° / 65° · 2.7" precip
Sep85° / 60° · 1.5" precip
Oct74° / 49° · 1.1" precip
Nov62° / 39° · 0.8" precip
Dec52° / 31° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Arizona rules that decide your day

Summarised from AZGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken only during daylight hours — from sunrise to sunset. Check the sunrise and sunset times for your unit, not for Phoenix.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Sign your tag before you go afield and attach it to the animal immediately after the kill. Hunters aged 10–13 must carry their Hunter Education card with the licence and tag.

Leaving meat

Leaving edible meat in the field is illegal. Edible meat means the four quarters and the loins at a minimum.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting within a quarter mile of an occupied farmhouse, cabin, lodge or building without the owner's permission. That rules out shooting toward most lakeside cabin tracts.
Campsites and developed areas — Forest Service rules prohibit discharging a firearm within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area.
Roads and water — No shooting from a vehicle, and no shooting on, across or into a road. No shooting across a body of water adjacent to a Forest road.

Elk: where to put the shot

Broadside or quartering away, on the back edge of the front leg about a third of the way up the body. That is lungs, and on a quartering-away angle it picks up the far shoulder.

Shots to refuse

No straight-on and no straight-away shots. An elk's chest is deep and the margin is small.
Nothing standing behind or overlapping the animal you picked. A pass-through kills the elk behind it too.
Your maximum range is the farthest you have put three shots in a paper plate off the sticks you are actually carrying. Not the farthest you have ever hit anything.
Scope on 3–4x. A herd fills a 12x field of view and you lose the animal you picked.

Identification:On an antlerless tag, legal means no antler of any kind through the skin. A spike looks exactly like a cow until it turns its head. If you can't see the head, don't shoot.

Plan the carry: roughly 150– 220 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — two to four large coolers, plus bagged ice from town. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Elk Success Rates

Rifle25%

Archery18%

Unit 19A rifle hunters average 25-40% success. Archery success runs 10-18%. Bull quality is solid with 280-310 class typical and occasional 330+ bulls in archery harvest. A good mid-tier Arizona elk unit.

Elk Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Rifle — Late Rifle Dec bull/buck only (combined pool)	35	153	15.0%	—
Rifle — General Rifle Oct antlerless (combined pool)	35	40	35.0%	—
Rifle — Late Rifle Dec antlerless (combined pool)	30	26	53.8%	—
Rifle — Late Rifle Nov bull/buck only (combined pool)	35	111	14.4%	—
Rifle — Early Rifle bull/buck only (combined pool)	15	34	14.7%	—
Early Archery — bull/buck only (combined pool)	15	34	14.7%	—

Data from 2023 draw results. Each row is one residency pool — read the label before the number. This agency publishes no point thresholds, so the Pts column stays blank and these are pool odds, not what a point total draws.

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19A draws via Arizona's weighted bonus-point system with Hunter Education bonus. With ~245 tags against ~501 recent 3-year applicants, this is one of the more approachable Arizona elk draws. Mid-point applicants (4-8 bonus points) draw rifle codes regularly; archery typically draws with fewer points.

Turkey Hunting in Unit 19A

Unit 19A turkey covers the Prescott National Forest and Bradshaw Mountains south and east of Prescott. Merriam's turkey populations use the ponderosa-oak transition zones and the upper canyon drainages of the Bradshaws. With 15 tags against 108 three-year applicants, 19A turkey is a competitive draw but produces good-quality gobblers in classic Merriam's country accessible from Phoenix and Prescott.

Where the Birds Are in 19A: Mingus Mountain First, Then Woodchute and the Verde

Mingus Mountain's ponderosa and Gambel's oak

Start here. AZGFD's own unit guide says most of the turkeys in 19A live on Mingus Mountain, in ponderosa pine mixed with Gambel's oak. It's the one place the agency commits to, and we wouldn't argue with it. Our topo data puts the Mingus summit at 7,813 feet. That's well above the unit's mean elevation of 4,934, so you're looking at the high-country pine belt, not the desert floor.

The guide calls the unit's turkey habitat limited and the population stable. Don't expect birds everywhere. Expect them in the pine-oak band and not much beyond it.

Woodchute Mountain and the canyons below it

The guide also names Woodchute Mountain as holding a small population. Woodchute tops out at 7,838 feet on our data, so it's the same kind of high ground as Mingus. Small means small, though. Treat it as a second option, not a plan A.

The guide doesn't name specific drainages for turkeys. Our map data does list several canyons at mid-to-upper elevations: Haywood Canyon (6,484 feet), Burnt Canyon (6,106), Little Yaeger Canyon (6,066), Gaddes Canyon (5,993) and Little Coyote Canyon (5,793). That's our read, not the agency's: those elevations sit near the pine-oak country the guide describes, so they're worth a look when you scout. Confirm with tracks and sign before you build a hunt around any of them.

The upper Verde River at Granite Creek

This is the low end of the unit's turkey range, according to the guide. The unit bottoms out at 3,490 feet, so the river country is a long way down from Mingus. The guide lists it as holding a small population too. We'd save it for when the mountain birds are pressured or you can't find sign up high.

Country to skip, and who owns what

The guide doesn't point you to the open grassland and juniper flats, and the habitat description doesn't support birds there. We'd skip them. About 60 percent of the unit is National Forest and 8 percent is State Trust. The other 32 percent is private or other, so know where your boundary is before you walk a drainage.

Access roads in the data include Forest Service Road 638 (5.2 miles, high-clearance), Forest Service Road 635 (1.3 miles, high-clearance) and Old Sycamore Road (1.2 miles, graded gravel, fine for 2WD). Paved routes are AZ 69, AZ 89 and I-17. The packet doesn't say where each forest road ends up, so check them against a current Forest Service map before you commit.

Unit 19A terrain and land status

Measured from the unit boundary, not from the agency write-up

The lay of it

3,490–6,747 ft on a terrain sample , averaging 4,934 ft ; peaks can run higher.
756.6 sq mi inside the boundary.

Who owns the ground

National Forest — 60%
State Trust — 8%
Private / Other — 32%

Roughly 68% is public. Carry a land-status layer anyway — these are area percentages, not a map of where the boundaries fall.

Water on the ground

467 tanks
149 springs
4,419 stream segments
3 lakes

Counts from mapping data, so this is how many exist, not how many hold water in a dry year. Sitting water only pays where you find fresh tracks.

Named features inside the unit

Glass from: Woodchute Mountain (7,838 ft), Mingus Mountain (7,813 ft), Hickey Mountain (7,604 ft), Kendall Peak (6,968 ft)

Holding ground: Haywood Canyon (6,484 ft), Burnt Canyon (6,106 ft), Little Coyote Canyon (5,793 ft), Grief Hill Water

Every one of these was tested against the unit polygon before it went on the map. They are starting points, not agency recommendations.

How to Hunt 19A Turkeys: Scout the Tracks, Then Be Sure of the Bird

The spring season here is a limited, two-season, shotgun-only hunt. AZGFD started it in 2015. The packet lists a 35 percent shotgun success rate. That's decent for a small-habitat unit, and you earn it by scouting.

Scout tracks at roads and tanks

The agency's advice is blunt: pre-season scouting matters, and you should look for tracks in the road or at water tanks. Take that literally. The unit has 467 mapped tanks and 149 springs, so you won't run short of candidates. Narrow them down on Mingus and Woodchute by walking the forest roads and checking dirt around water. Grief Hill Water is the one named spring in our data, and it's an easy place to start. We'd rather find a fresh track line than guess at a ridge.

Once you have sign, work the pine-oak slopes near it. This is timber country, so listen more than you glass. The summits in the data, like Mingus and Woodchute, are useful for orienting and for locating openings. They aren't going to show you a bird in the pines.

Check the beard, then check behind the bird

This is AZGFD's own warning, and it's the one to take seriously. Make sure the bird you're about to shoot has a visible beard. Don't trust a colorful head. Don't trust a gobble either. Then confirm no other turkeys are behind or next to your target. The guide says killing multiple birds with one shot happens more than you'd think. In thick oak and pine, with birds bunched up, it's a real risk. Wait for a clean, open look.

Beating the pressure and handling access

With limited habitat and two short seasons, birds concentrate and hunters follow them. High-clearance roads like Forest Service Roads 638 and 635 can get you away from the paved corridors. Walk past where the pickups stop. Give yourself time in the field, since 35 percent isn't a gimme.

Know your land status. A third of the unit is private or other, and you'll cross boundaries in broken country. The packet has no travel-management details, so check the current Forest Service motor vehicle use map for road closures and any limits on motorized retrieval before you go.

A realistic day

Expect to cover ground. Drive a forest road at first light, stop where tracks show, and listen from the pine-oak edges. If Mingus is quiet, move to Woodchute, and drop toward the Verde only if you've found sign. Wait for the clean shot. Don't take the marginal one.

Getting in and staying out: unit 19A

Named routes and what they need

I 17 — 24.5 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 69 — 20.6 mi · Paved (all rigs)
AZ 89 — 7.9 mi · Paved (all rigs)
Forest Service Road 638 — 5.2 mi · High-clearance
Forest Service Road 635 — 1.3 mi · High-clearance
Old Sycamore Road — 1.2 mi · Graded gravel (2WD / small trailer)

Ratings come from road data, not from a drive this season. Check current conditions with the managing office before you commit a trailer.

Nearest services

Jerome — 7.6 mi · lodging
Prescott Valley — 9.2 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging, gear
Clarkdale — 10.8 mi · groceries
Cottonwood — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries, lodging
Dewey-Humboldt — 11.1 mi · fuel, groceries

Developed camps

Mingus Mountain Campground · Fee
Playground Group Campground · reservable
Powell Springs Campground
Mingus Mountain Tent Camp Sites · Fee
Verde River RV Park & Cottages · Fee

Season weather and signal

Jan53° / 32° · 1.5" precip
Aug90° / 65° · 2.7" precip
Sep85° / 60° · 1.5" precip
Oct74° / 49° · 1.1" precip
Nov62° / 39° · 0.8" precip
Dec52° / 31° · 1.4" precip

Best signal is Verizon at about 26% of the unit. Plan on being out of contact and tell someone your route.

Arizona rules that decide your day

Summarised from AZGFD regulations. They change — read the current regulations and your permit-tag before you hunt.

Legal shooting hours

Big game may be taken only during daylight hours — from sunrise to sunset. Check the sunrise and sunset times for your unit, not for Phoenix.

Motorized retrieval

Tagging

Sign your tag before you go afield and attach it to the animal immediately after the kill. Hunters aged 10–13 must carry their Hunter Education card with the licence and tag.

Leaving meat

Leaving edible meat in the field is illegal. Edible meat means the four quarters and the loins at a minimum.

Where you may not shoot

Occupied structures — No shooting within a quarter mile of an occupied farmhouse, cabin, lodge or building without the owner's permission. That rules out shooting toward most lakeside cabin tracts.
Campsites and developed areas — Forest Service rules prohibit discharging a firearm within 150 yards of a residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site or occupied area.
Roads and water — No shooting from a vehicle, and no shooting on, across or into a road. No shooting across a body of water adjacent to a Forest road.

Turkey: where to put the shot

Head and neck with shot, at 40 yards or less. On an archery bird, the wing butt broadside or the base of the neck.

Shots to refuse

Know the limit of your pattern. Pattern the gun on paper at 40 yards with the load you are carrying.
Never shoot at movement or sound in cover. Spring woods are full of other hunters stalking the same gobble.
In spring, legal is a bearded bird. Look for the beard, not the gobble.

Plan the carry: roughly 5– 9 lb of boned-out meat, before head and hide — a small cooler is enough. ProHunt planning estimate, not an agency figure.

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Turkey Success Rates

Shotgun35%

Unit 19A turkey typically runs 25 to 40 percent success for drawn hunters — competitive for Arizona Merriam's. Gobbler quality is solid with mature 2- and 3-year-old longbeards common. The accessible terrain from Prescott and Phoenix makes 19A a popular draw choice.

Turkey Draw Odds

Season	Tags	Applicants	Draw %	Pts (n/p)
Shotgun — Spring bearded turkey (combined pool)	9	34	11.8%	—
Rifle — Spring either sex (combined pool)	9	219	3.7%	—

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Arizona applies the weighted bonus-point draw to turkey tags: 20 percent of tags to max-point applicants and 80 percent drawn through the weighted random bonus point system. A Hunter Education bonus point is available to applicants who complete the accredited course. Unit 19A turkey with 15 tags against 108 three-year applicants draws competitively — most successful applicants hold 3 to 6 bonus points.

Unit Logistics & Expectations

Planning Notes

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RV Sites

Limited developed sites. RV-friendly dispersed camping on BLM land near the unit.

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Camp Sites

Dispersed camping on BLM and state trust land. Flat, open ground makes finding camp sites easy. Some areas may require a State Land Department recreation permit.

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Trailer Access

Main highways paved. Ranch roads and two-tracks vary — many are suitable for short trailers in dry conditions.

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Water

Carry all water. Paulden has limited services. Prescott Valley (20 min south) or Flagstaff (60 min north) for water fill.

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Road Conditions

Highway 89 provides paved main access. Interior roads are a mix of graded ranch roads and rough two-tracks. Generally passable for 2WD in dry conditions but 4WD is recommended.

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Terrain Difficulty

Easy. Open, rolling grassland terrain. The challenge is closing distance on pronghorn, not navigating terrain.

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Hunting Pressure

Low to moderate. Limited tags keep pressure manageable across the unit.

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Weather

Early-season hunts can be hot — 80-95°F. Fall hunts are more comfortable at 40-75°F. Wind is common and can be relentless across the open grasslands. Bring sun protection and hydration for warm-season hunts.

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Cell Service

Variable. Some coverage near Highway 89 and Paulden. Spotty to none in the backcountry grasslands.

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Nearest Town

Paulden (very limited — no major services). Prescott Valley (20 min south, full services). Prescott (30 min, full services).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Unit 19A the best pronghorn unit in Arizona?

Unit 19A is one of Arizona's most consistent pronghorn units with classic grassland habitat. Whether it is the 'best' depends on your criteria — it offers reliable hunting, reasonable draw odds, and good access. Units like 3A may produce slightly larger bucks but with longer point requirements.

What is the biggest challenge of pronghorn hunting in Unit 19A?

Closing distance. Pronghorn have the best eyesight of any North American big game and the open terrain offers few hiding spots. Successful stalks require creative use of subtle terrain features and extreme patience. Many hunters resort to water ambush tactics when stalking fails.

Do I need to worry about private land in Unit 19A?

Yes. Parts of Unit 19A include private ranchland and state trust land. Verify public land boundaries using the AZ Game & Fish Hunt Arizona app or a GPS mapping app before hunting. State trust land requires a separate recreation permit.

What rifle setup works best for Unit 19A pronghorn?

A flat-shooting rifle capable of consistent accuracy at 300-400 yards is ideal. Popular choices include .270 Win, 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5 PRC, and .300 Win Mag. Bring a solid rest (bipod or shooting sticks), a rangefinder, and practice at extended ranges before your hunt.

How do I apply for a Unit 19A mule deer tag?

Apply through the AZGFD online draw portal during the posted deer application window. Tags are awarded through Arizona's weighted-random bonus-point draw.

How does Arizona's bonus-point system work?

Each unsuccessful year you apply, you earn a bonus point. Bonus points create additional random entries in the draw, improving your odds over time.

How many bonus points do I need for Unit 19A elk?

Mid-point applicants (4-8 bonus points) draw 19A rifle codes regularly. Archery codes typically draw with 1-4 points. The weighted bonus-point system with Hunter Education bonus rewards every year of applying.

Is Unit 19A a trophy elk unit?

19A is a solid mid-tier unit rather than a trophy destination. Bulls 280-310 class are typical with occasional 330+ animals. For trophy potential, look to Units 1, 9, or 27.

Does Unit 19A have spring and fall turkey seasons?

Yes. Arizona offers both spring and fall turkey hunts in Unit 19A when quotas allow. Spring is the classic gobbler season; fall hunts are either-sex and run concurrent with other fall game seasons.

What subspecies of turkey lives in Unit 19A?

Merriam's turkey. 19A is classic central Arizona Merriam's country in the ponderosa-oak country of the Bradshaws.

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Sources & Verification

Every fact on this page is tied to a primary source below. Last fact-checked 2026-04-17.

GMU 19A — Expanded Hunt Information (April 2023) — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Unit boundaries and land ownership categories, Species present in the unit, Seasonal distribution and hunt areas, Habitat and access notes · accessed 2026-04-16
GMU 19A — Unit Landing Page — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Canonical unit info page · accessed 2026-04-16
2026 Arizona Pronghorn and Elk Regulations — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Season structure, Tag quotas, Hunt area boundaries · accessed 2026-04-16
2025-26 Arizona Hunting Regulations — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Season structure, Bag limits, Legal equipment · accessed 2026-04-16
AZGFD Draw Portal — Hunt Drawing Information — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Bonus point system, Draw application portal, Historical draw data · accessed 2026-04-16
AZGFD Hunt Guidelines — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Hunt guidelines, Permit allocation, Unit management objectives · accessed 2026-04-17
AZGFD Hunt Regulations — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Season dates, Legal weapons, Bag limits · accessed 2026-04-17
AZGFD Draw Results & Bonus Points — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Draw results, Bonus point totals, Mule deer draw odds · accessed 2026-04-17
Prescott National Forest — USDA Forest Service · supports: Road status, MVUM, Bradshaw Ranger District info · accessed 2026-04-17
AZGFD Turkey Species Page — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Merriam's distribution, Prescott NF turkey populations, Season framework · accessed 2026-04-17
2025–26 Arizona Hunting Regulations — Arizona Game and Fish Department · supports: Unit 19A turkey season structure, Tag quotas, Bag limit and legal methods · accessed 2026-04-17

Unit 19A (Paulden)

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Pronghorn Hunting in Unit 19A

Where the Pronghorn Are in 19A: Open Lines, Private Ground and the Lower Hills

Start with the boundary lines, not a spot on the map

Lonesome Valley: mostly private, so ask first

Public-land hills worth glassing

Higher canyons are the long shot

Getting there

Unit 19A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt 19A: Blinds, Rut Stalks and Crowded Ground

Pronghorn Success Rates

Pronghorn Draw Odds

Mule Deer Hunting in Unit 19A

Mingus Mountain, Woodchute and the drop toward the Verde

Mingus Mountain and Woodchute Wilderness

Copper Mountain and the Agua Fria near Mayer

Cold-weather country: St. Matthews, the Verde and the foothills

Country to skip, or ask about first

Unit 19A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

Hunting 19A's drought-thinned mule deer

Mule Deer Success Rates

Mule Deer Draw Odds

Elk Hunting in Unit 19A

Where to Find Elk in 19A: Lower, Thicker Country Than You'd Expect

The Prescott National Forest core: Onion Mountain, Boulder Canyon, Cherry Creek

West and northwest of Woodchute Wilderness

Verde River off Forest Service Road 638

Year-to-year movement, and what to skip

Unit 19A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt 19A Elk: Tanks, Monsoons and Thick Cover

Elk Success Rates

Elk Draw Odds

Turkey Hunting in Unit 19A

Where the Birds Are in 19A: Mingus Mountain First, Then Woodchute and the Verde

Mingus Mountain's ponderosa and Gambel's oak

Woodchute Mountain and the canyons below it

The upper Verde River at Granite Creek

Country to skip, and who owns what

Unit 19A terrain and land status

The lay of it

Who owns the ground

Water on the ground

Named features inside the unit

How to Hunt 19A Turkeys: Scout the Tracks, Then Be Sure of the Bird

Turkey Success Rates

Turkey Draw Odds

Unit Logistics & Expectations

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