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After going through a divorce and trying to figure life out. I lost my fire to hunt (she hunted with me) and hunted a few years and it was depressing so I took a leave of absence. Then a good friend asked me to teach him how to hunt 3 years ago he got a javelina tag I half butt showed him how to hunt. He bugged me about deer until we got tags last year he got a deer I got tag soup. Javelina season was over in about 2 hours for us we both tagged out. This year was different for me I got a new 243 about a month ago dropped a leupold cds scope on it and learned how to use it lol I am old school. Everything I had heard was that this year deer where hard to find. This unit doesn't produce very many bid deer normally so my standards are typically set low. Opening day we see 5 doe not bad considering what people where saying day 2 we get to our first spot and people are there back up plan hit a spot we seen a good buck in the year before. I don't hike in in the dark so we where glassing the area we where going to be hiking through. I set up and within 3 minutes I have this guy glassed up at 7:30 a.m. I hit him with a range he is at 285 I dial my scope in and get on him squeeze the trigger sob I left the trigger on roll the safety off and squeeze the hand loaded Hornaday 95 gr sst hit him high rib hit his spine and out the other side. The fire determination and love is back. God is good now I just need to loose some weight

So...is everyone that complained in the thread about the special draw going to boycott the draw? Sure would be hypocritical if you apply....🤣

Update: My wife and I spent the week prior to the hunt scouting and staring at elk pretty hard in the unit and were able to be successful opening morning! About 10 minutes after shooting light I hit my bull in the shoulder with the 28 Nosler at 385 yards. We saw quite a few elk in some really rough places. All in all it wasn’t a terrible pack out and I’m super proud of this bull out of a mid-tier unit.

Sorry for hijack. Target Buck #1- Dead buck #2 - Sheds of target buck and damaged cape- I wasn't even looking for his sheds and stumbled upon them later that year. It was an unreal find and closed the chapter into what happened.

75"?

Terrible, wait till next week after they fix the bugs.

Mike was a good guy. Gone way too soon. I had the pleasure of scouting with him for one of his kid's hunts in 21.

My buddy's Dad just smoked a decent bull in 4B this morning.

Still so great the whole family was able to tag along! Looks and sounds like you had a wonderful time out there together. That’s what it’s about 😃

For those that are interested...... For those that new him, you know he had the best of stuff and who needs ammo? I am told within the next few days all the items will be uploaded. AMMO - HUNTING - CAMPING - POP UP CAMPER... starts on 12/3/2021 (estatesales.net)

Pm me a price

I hope so, but that would be a switch from the Side Saddle Calvary. I'm on a budget so even if I cough up the $78 I might have to limit myself to $2500 for scouting, practice ammo, new camo, better optiks and the list goes on and on.

On a youth hunt that one should probably be in the freezer. Young buck, probably a 3 year old but pretty good tine length and beams. I’d say 75” as well, give or take 2-3 inches.

I'm in also it's just money and ill piss it away somewhere anyhow.Good luck to all.

My uncle swears he shot a deer once and he later assumed that the bullet must have hit the deer in the antlers and cold knocked the deer out. He thought it was dead and when he approached it and started to prepare it to field dress, it came to. My uncle grabbed it by the antlers as the deer took him to his back and with everything he had kept the deer from goring him. He reached in his pants and pulled out his kabar and knifed the deer right in the heart. I'd call BS but my uncle was and is a pretty hard core hard working Marine, and I believe his story 120% - he isn't the lying type.

Just a thought but they are kicking around proposals on the OTC deer tags. Option 2 I think,?? which is an archery draw is projected to lose about a million dollars should it be implemented. Wonder if this is to offset some revenue loss when they go to a draw. With the drought, human encroachment and predation I don't see how they can avoid a draw in the near future.

Finding a good stucco contractor that is less than three months out is a miracle right now!

Great job! Nice buck.

let see some pictures !! that is cool situation

Two years ago my target buck was intact a week before opener. Opener comes, glass him up, he's missing his right side from his brow up. Devastated. Thought it was shot off, etc. Three days later I killed my #2 buck in same basin. My #2 buck had stab wounds and marks on his neck that looked like antler scrapes. I got suspicious they had a tussle. I verified that was the case when I found my #1 bucks sheds. Antler was not shot off but was a very irregularly broken with no bullet evidence. Break was up and down, not from a shearing bullet. Buck #2 is on wall, with buck #1's sheds next to him. Buck #2 was mounted as he was with cape damage from antler. For some reason they got into it. This is my long winded version of it can happen this early because I've seen it. Combined with this year's conditions and I bet it wouldn't take much this year for breakage. Bunch if ways he could have gotten broke including a bullet.

Right on guys, good for you all. Make them memories. ..the most important thing in life for you and your family. When them kids grow older..and they will...you all will be sitting around talking about it and them kids will remember more than you do. Trust me, it is happening to us now.

nice work- nothing clears the mind like the hills!

I don’t think the fire ever goes out, may merely smolder occasionally

I can get behind this. What I disagree with is that they are allowing them to put in for a draw without a license. This isn’t a raffle or an auction. Pony up a license. I get the angle they want to appeal to a bigger crowd. Make them pay for a license in a draw.

I deplore Utah’s expo model. But in this case they used a few opportunities to create a bunch of money without impacting tag #’s, making anyone pay extra that didn’t want to, or messing with bonus points. If you are upset by this you are just whining to whine.