CouesFanatic

Don't hire a guide. If theres any elk hunt in the state that you don't need a guide, thats it. Enjoy success from your own hard work. I can't stand dragging a guide around with me on an archery bull hunt. From your profile pic it looks like you have a lot of experience hunting, you should be fine if you can put some time into it.

Can't even draw the poverty tags! Glad we could in the past. My kids have no hope of getting tags which is really unfortunate.

My concern is where this is going. LE hunts may turn into hundreds of auction tags like Utah. Why have them a draw when you can get 10X or 100X the money with them all being auctioned? Its a slippery slope.

What did he say about his reasoning? $$$$?

From what I've heard it would start Jan 1 through Dec 31st. So January would be guaranteed open but August and December could close. I could be wrong though. Anyone have good info in this?

No. Extended warranties are where the dealers make most of their money. If you can do the basic stuff on your own occasionally you will save money without it. How much is your time worth?

When does it get put on the portals?

emailed

500

He drew antelope, not elk. Don't point guard it. You will likely wait 20 years to draw that again

Got an elk hit

hopefully before the Utah deadline

Thats what I have been doing so far. It really is a good bow.

bump

550

big enough for OTC

Anyone on here just finish up the 23 December rifle mule deer hunt? Looking to talk to someone who had the tag. Send me a message.

It's nerves. When you get too excited you always seem to screw it up, at least I do. Stay calm, focus on shooting properly, make the opportunity count. You worked too hard to get that opportunity to screw it up. You can look at antlers later.

Because of the fire? That road is a lot better than many roads ive been on

what's the reasoning?

where's the guy with the 3c tag?

There will always be a small percentage that lie, but Flatlander is right. We will get better data from mandatory reporting, not perfect, but better than current info. Better info on how the deer herd is doing is always a good thing. I agree with you on the baiting/camera thing.

Good question. Anyone know? I’m assuming it will be an estimated number of archery harvest allowed per unit and changed each year from the previous years numbers.

Ya it will be interesting to see how many deer for each unit they allow. I hope we don’t lose the august velvet hunts all together. All of January could close a lot of units

Ya I think you are right on that and thats fine. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I still think we will head to a draw down the road after the units get hit hard enough to close most of them after the first weekend. We'll see how long it takes. I'm fearful a lot of the units will close before we get to January but I hope I'm wrong on that and we still get to hunt in the rut.