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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:03:56 PM EDT
Tomorrow is the deadline to put in for big game draw. I could only pick deer because of the time I have off. I didn't do my research ahead of time and picked one unit with .03
chance of getting a tag and then as a back up I picked the most deer free crap unit, Beaver. I did somehow get a late season elk tag last year but couldn't go |
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Quoted: Tomorrow is the deadline to put in for big game draw. I could only pick deer because of the time I have off. I didn't do my research ahead of time and picked one unit with .03 chance of getting a tag and then as a back up I picked the most deer free crap unit, Beaver. I did somehow get a late season elk tag last year but couldn't go View Quote Plenty of deer tags in NYS! |
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This is a lotto for blacktail or whitetail ?
Lotto though ? you just can't buy a tag to deer hunt in Utah |
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Quoted: Tomorrow is the deadline to put in for big game draw. I could only pick deer because of the time I have off. I didn't do my research ahead of time and picked one unit with .03 chance of getting a tag and then as a back up I picked the most deer free crap unit, Beaver. I did somehow get a late season elk tag last year but couldn't go View Quote Time off? I thought you were a retired lawyer? |
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I've been putting in for deer on Antelope Island for 15 years. Haven't drawn yet.
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Utah DWR has done it's very best to decimate the deer herd especially here in Southern Utah.
Decent bucks are very scarce. |
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Quoted: I saw these, but I don't have an Arizona hunting license https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_0399-3197241.jpg View Quote Well everything is better with some cows around Livin' in town sometimes brings me down Let me bestow this western blessing share what I have found May you always have cows around |
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I guess I take that back. I saw a bunch of deer near beaver in the mountains but that's all small copses of trees and open plains. That might be pretty exciting during deer season since all that area is accessible by dirt roads you could drive a Corolla on
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Quoted: Mule deer are in decline everywhere. I think they look down from the hills and see all those new subdivisions and they just feel too sick to breed. View Quote I talked to some local guys I ran into on Utah's free rifle range/garbage can (ie Arizona) an old guy said he had a hunting cabin and deer hunting had been bad for years. I saw a moose up north. That was cool |
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Quoted: I guess I take that back. I saw a bunch of deer near beaver in the mountains but that's all small copses of trees and open plains. That might be pretty exciting during deer season since all that area is accessible by dirt roads you could drive a Corolla on View Quote Yeah. You’re gonna need boots, a backpack, decent binos, a tripod (or monopod) and motivation. If you’re hunting an area that a new guy from New York can find, you’re in the wrong area. This produces some challenges, for you, being a new guy from New York, but you’ll just need to try harder. You aren’t far from the best mule deer areas in the world. A tag might be challenging however. |
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Quoted: Yeah. You're gonna need boots, a backpack, decent binos, a tripod (or monopod) and motivation. If you're hunting an area that a new guy from New York can find, you're in the wrong area. This produces some challenges, for you, being a new guy from New York, but you'll just need to try harder. You aren't far from the best mule deer areas in the world. A tag might be challenging however. View Quote The tags Utah seems to be willing to hand out are in irradiated deserts or surrounded by angry Indians and private land patrolled by murderous cowboys |
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Quoted: Mule deer are in decline everywhere. I think they look down from the hills and see all those new subdivisions and they just feel too sick to breed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Utah DWR has done it's very best to decimate the deer herd especially here in Southern Utah. Decent bucks are very scarce. Mule deer are in decline everywhere. I think they look down from the hills and see all those new subdivisions and they just feel too sick to breed. I fully expect mule deer to become a "threatened species" in my lifetime. Hence my motivation to kill a fine example before they are not huntable. |
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Quoted: Beaver only has something like a 44% success rate, so the local boys from the closed pig rendering plant aren't exactly bowling them over either. Too bad to as they probably need the meat unless they got a job in tourism. There's a formerly closed ski mountain that's reopened and a bunch of fancy ski chateaus being built The tags Utah seems to be willing to hand out are in irradiated deserts or surrounded by angry Indians and private land patrolled by murderous cowboys View Quote 44% success rate in the west is absolutely crushing it. No matter what species. |
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Colorado released a bunch of wolves that are already killing cattle. I'm sure they'll get moose, elk and deer
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Quoted: Beaver only has something like a 44% success rate, so the local boys from the closed pig rendering plant aren't exactly bowling them over either. Too bad too as they probably need the meat unless they got a job in tourism. There's a formerly closed ski mountain that's reopened and a bunch of fancy ski chateaus being built View Quote 44% is a reasonable success rate. It’s not back east where you sit in a tree on ten acres and wait for the whitetails to show up to the corn feeder. I’m sure “ski chateaus” are just what the area needs. |
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Quoted: Beaver only has something like a 44% success rate, so the local boys from the closed pig rendering plant aren't exactly bowling them over either. Too bad to as they probably need the meat unless they got a job in tourism. There's a formerly closed ski mountain that's reopened and a bunch of fancy ski chateaus being built The tags Utah seems to be willing to hand out are in irradiated deserts or surrounded by angry Indians and private land patrolled by murderous cowboys View Quote Nothing wrong with angry Indians and murderous cowboys. |
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I put in for Panguitch otherwise I will take the point and wait. Buy a over the counter elk tag and hunt the Wasatch.
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Quoted: I saw these, but I don't have an Arizona hunting license https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_0399-3197241.jpg View Quote Them are Slowww Elk |
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Our draw results don’t come out till June.
I’d like to say Colorado just got stoned and “spaced it out”, but it’s been that way forever here. They claim they want to be able to get herd estimates, factor in winter kill, all that, before deciding how many tags to issue. Meanwhile half the state can be hunted by an unlimited number of rifle tags, no draw needed. |
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Yeah you really should be in the point game. Pretty cheap for a resident.
Over here the non resi have to buy a small game tag just for the privilege of applying for big game lol. It’s about 100 bucks just to apply, win or lose. But then they get a point, or some just apply for the point and try to gain enough points to get a decent tag. The best units take 20+ years to draw. What a $ maker. |
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Quoted: Yeah you really should be in the point game. Pretty cheap for a resident. Over here the non resi have to buy a small game tag just for the privilege of applying for big game lol. It’s about 100 bucks just to apply, win or lose. But then they get a point, or some just apply for the point and try to gain enough points to get a decent tag. The best units take 20+ years to draw. What a $ maker. View Quote I wish we could sell our points. Talk about a money maker |
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Quoted: Yeah you really should be in the point game. Pretty cheap for a resident. Over here the non resi have to buy a small game tag just for the privilege of applying for big game lol. It’s about 100 bucks just to apply, win or lose. But then they get a point, or some just apply for the point and try to gain enough points to get a decent tag. The best units take 20+ years to draw. What a $ maker. View Quote I was just bitching about this to my wife a couple days ago, as I was slipping the UDWR another $140 bribe for this year's point. |
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Quoted: I saw these, but I don't have an Arizona hunting license https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_0399-3197241.jpg View Quote Weird lookin deer you got out there man. |
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Come to Maryland.
These aren't even all the days. Attached File Attached File $160 non resident permit, straight walled cartridges legal for firearms statewide (bottleneck cartridges allowed in some counties) . No bids for zones, just pay your money and pick your tree (with a big bait pile 50 yards away if on private property). Kharn |
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I was successful drawing an Elk tag for bow season. 1st week in Northern New Mexico. Unit 2. Been a few years since
I was last out with the bow. |
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Just go to CO for weekend and do some night work
Attached File Attached File Attached File In Minecraft of course |
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Quoted: Come to Maryland. These aren't even all the days. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084504_jpg-3197358.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084429_jpg-3197359.JPG $160 non resident permit, straight walled cartridges legal for firearms statewide (bottleneck cartridges allowed in some counties) . No bids for zones, just pay your money and pick your tree (with a big bait pile 50 yards away if on private property). Kharn View Quote The spirit of a properly done western deer hunt is not the same as doing what sounds basically like suburban pest control for the state. Those hunts would make me feel like I should be able to submit a time card for my hours at the end of the hunt. |
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Quoted: The spirit of a properly done western deer hunt is not the same as doing what sounds basically like suburban pest control for the state. Those hunts would make me feel like I should be able to submit a time card for my hours at the end of the hunt. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Come to Maryland. These aren't even all the days. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084504_jpg-3197358.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084429_jpg-3197359.JPG $160 non resident permit, straight walled cartridges legal for firearms statewide (bottleneck cartridges allowed in some counties) . No bids for zones, just pay your money and pick your tree (with a big bait pile 50 yards away if on private property). Kharn The spirit of a properly done western deer hunt is not the same as doing what sounds basically like suburban pest control for the state. Those hunts would make me feel like I should be able to submit a time card for my hours at the end of the hunt. You can walk five miles around your car before going the 100 yards from the parking lot to your tree if you want. But the other hunters will think you're weird and take your picture. Kharn |
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No surprise, got nothing in deer lotto. Now I'm stuck with possible left over over the counter permits. Unfortunately those are all weeks where maybe I could go on a weekend but not during the week
-sigh. https://wildlife.utah.gov/remaining-permits.html |
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Quoted: You can walk five miles around your car before going the 100 yards from the parking lot to your tree if you want. But the other hunters will think you're weird and take your picture. Kharn View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Come to Maryland. These aren't even all the days. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084504_jpg-3197358.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084429_jpg-3197359.JPG $160 non resident permit, straight walled cartridges legal for firearms statewide (bottleneck cartridges allowed in some counties) . No bids for zones, just pay your money and pick your tree (with a big bait pile 50 yards away if on private property). Kharn The spirit of a properly done western deer hunt is not the same as doing what sounds basically like suburban pest control for the state. Those hunts would make me feel like I should be able to submit a time card for my hours at the end of the hunt. You can walk five miles around your car before going the 100 yards from the parking lot to your tree if you want. But the other hunters will think you're weird and take your picture. Kharn Do you field-dress those cute little Bambis after walking laps around your car? |
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Quoted: I saw these, but I don't have an Arizona hunting license https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/14563/IMG_0399-3197241.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: You've never seen a Mule Deer on public land? Goddamn. The legend of Aimless takes another hit. Those are cow deer. They’re an invasive species, no tag required. Should have taken one. |
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Quoted: Do you field-dress those cute little Bambis after walking laps around your car? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Come to Maryland. These aren't even all the days. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084504_jpg-3197358.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/195/Screenshot_20240425_084429_jpg-3197359.JPG $160 non resident permit, straight walled cartridges legal for firearms statewide (bottleneck cartridges allowed in some counties) . No bids for zones, just pay your money and pick your tree (with a big bait pile 50 yards away if on private property). Kharn The spirit of a properly done western deer hunt is not the same as doing what sounds basically like suburban pest control for the state. Those hunts would make me feel like I should be able to submit a time card for my hours at the end of the hunt. You can walk five miles around your car before going the 100 yards from the parking lot to your tree if you want. But the other hunters will think you're weird and take your picture. Kharn Do you field-dress those cute little Bambis after walking laps around your car? .450 Bushmaster usually deposits the backstraps 25m away. Just pick them up and go before the Karens get there. Kharn |
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