Bowhunting in Arizona

Biennial Award Recipients

-Updates Ongoing-

The Bowhunting in Arizona Committee recognizes that a variety of factors can and does affect antler, horn or skull growth, including uncontrollable climate variation affecting food supplies and quality, and that hunting management theories may change including hunt pressure, new hunt units being opened and various other events which may affect the harvest of a higher percentage of the best, mature males during particular periods of time. In order to document to some extent these variations, the Biennial Award was established to recognize these factors and award the best trophies taken during subsequent two year periods with the recognition they deserve for being the "state records", so to speak, for each two year period. The three largest trophies of each species collected during each of these two year periods are awarded their appropriate place in the current period's Biennial Awards and are recognized at a banquet which occurs the year following the close of each biennial period. The currently listed biennial period recognizes those trophies taken from 7/01/05 - 6/30/07 and entered into the program through the most recent update.

The Biennial Awards are presented for animals taken during the applicable Biennial period which runs from July 1 of one year to June 30 two years later.  Quite often animals taken during a particular period are not recorded until well after the Biennial has ended.  Years ago the committee decided that the actual Biennial Awards would be given according to the applications received and approved up to the time that the Biennial Awards were ordered from the trophy manufacturer.  This has not been of any concern in the past.  Now however with this website we find that we have listed the Biennial Awards according to our current records but that as new applications are received the order of the Biennial Awards may change.  We intend to continue to show the current status of the Biennial Awards but those people that make the list at some point in time need to keep in mind that a bigger animal may come along and bump theirs off the list.  In one sense this can be viewed as a challenge to see how long a particular animal can stay on the list and / or maintain its position on the list.  If an animal you have entered makes it onto the list only to be bumped off at a later date feel fortunate that at least for a period of time it did make it onto the list.

Once the 16th Biennial Awards (shown) are awarded, this page will be updated with the current leaders in each category for the 17th Biennial Awards period, 7/01/07 - 6/30/09. Prior Biennial Award winners may be viewed under the heading "All Time Awards" on the "Awards" page.

Antelope
2753 Robert D. Griego 82 6/8 8/27/06
2490 Kyle Wells 78 4/8 9/04/05
2580 David Dubois O'Brien 73 4/8 9/03/06
Bison
2501 Russell Richardson 118 2/8 8/02/05
2785 Vaugn R. Liljenquist 108 6/8 6/09/07
Black Bear
2521 Brian Ham 20 5/16 7/10/05
2581 William D. Wright 19 11/16 9/08/06
2647 Lee Sorcinelli 19 7/16 6/08/07
Coues Deer
2512 Eric C. Rhicard 120 2/8 1/04/06
2511 Bill P. Mattausch Jr. 120 1/8 1/28/06
2582 Gary W. Iles 114 7/8 12/30/06
Coues Deer (Non-typical)
2623 Michael J. Bylina 107 0/8 1/20/07
2749 Eugene F. Wullkotte 103 7/8 1/18/06
Cougar
2525 Richard Stewart II 14 3/16 12/10/05
2718 Russell Richardson 14 1/16 3/16/06
2520 Sean Ham 13 13/16 12/18/05

Elk (Typical)
2594 Shawn Patterson 412 1/8 9/16/05
2506 Danny Moore 385 7/8 9/16/05
2470 Frisco Tsosie 385 0/8 9/17/05

Elk (Non-Typical)
2476 Mike Drake 411 2/8 9/17/05
2548 Jay Scott 391 0/8 9/09/06
2471 Robert J. Rush 381 2/8 9/20/05

Javelina
2576 Tim Edwards 14 14/16 1/20/07
2683 Jeremy Ennis 14 11/16 1/14/06
2552 Bill Corbin 14 10/16 1/06/07

Mule Deer (Typical)
2566 Johnny Ray Estrada 180 6/8 12/31/06
2570 David Sipe 162 4/8 12/27/06
2564 Roy E. Grace 150 6/8 1/03/07
Mule Deer (Non-Typical)
2645 Ernie Batcheller 197 3/8 12/29/05
2692 Matthew Liljenquist 182 3/8 1/20/06

Desert Bighorn Sheep
None

Rocky Mountain Sheep
2573
David Baker 163 4/8 12/16/06
Turkey - Merriams
2588 Rick Forrest 1 14/16 4/29/07
2590 Robert Forrest 1 10/16 4/29/07
2591 Mark Ovitt 1 9/16 4/27/07
Turkey - Gould's
2595-07
Mark D. Sipe 15/16 5/07/07

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