Updated: Apr 18, 2019

For people who are new to western big game hunting the process of obtaining a big game license or tag is often a very complicated puzzle, especially if they are used to hunting whitetail deer in the Midwest, South or East and their state requires no more than presenting a hunter safety card and the cost of the license to hunt anywhere in the state. Hunting in the West, they soon find out, is a whole other ball game.