"G or H" Stories

ridgerunner

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Let's hear some stories about these great areas of how opening weekend went. I know some people on this board were in the high country up there this past weekend, lets hear about it!
 
LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-06 AT 02:25PM (MST)[p]I wasn't up there but if I was here's my guess as to how it went.

It was a cold son of a gun, the wind blew, the snow brought the tent down. There were people everywhere. Hiked in 4 hours opening morning only to find a camp from Utah right where we'd been watching the bucks all summer. Watched some guys shooting 600 plus yards at a 20" 4 point. Passed on a 24" 160 buck, which I should of shot. Came home wet, cold, and tired.

It aint what it use to be:)

Hope I'm wrong, but I'm willing to bet that this is what 90% of the guys experienced.

Lets hear your makebelieve story, probably more interesting than the real one.

I forgot to throw in the wolves and grizzly bears and the hotties from the bar in Alpine:)
 
Prism,
You just hit the nail on the head no I was not up there hunting this year but what you said is so very true.Hope they prove you wrong but it is not what it used to be that is for sure.
 
LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-06 AT 08:01PM (MST)[p]Prism, Great idea for a highjack...

This is how it Really went, beside the factual cold and weather which you talked about.

Scout a few weeks in advance and find some good quality deer. Head back the day before the hunt, ride the horses in for 2 hours only to find 4wheelers with Utah tags on them parked in the saddle. Then make camp and leave to glass only to find a Utahn's tent set up in the exact set of jack-pines which a nice 180 typical and his buddies were bedding in just 1 week prior. Then glass a large meadow only to see 3 more 4 wheelers 2 miles off the approved trail (findout later they are Utahns also). Then opening day sun comes up and there are 14 guys within 400 yards of us. Then we ride 3 miles the opposite direction to look into another canyon, only to have another Utahn side hill his 4 wheeler over to and past us. We shoot one good 4 point and come home, thinking that the time would have been better spent watching Burly Bucks.......

Wait that happened in 2002.... what was I thinking....

By the way, I am also from Utah.
 
2001 -

Pack in the day after September 11th. Find some nice bucks, day before the season starts, 4 wheelers start showing up everywhere, blazing new trails across the meadows. They ride up to a saddle at 10,500 feet where they park. Decide to skip glassing for the opener and set up on an escape route, miss the biggest buck I've ever seen as it nearly runs me over. Forgot to mention the guy that poached a buck the day before the opener. Ok so its not what it used to be, its still one of my favorite spots to chase the grey ghosts though....
 
I backpacked in a ways on Thursday and spent the night. Glassed all morning Friday (opener) and didn't see much for deer, but also didn't see a single other hunter. I guess maybe I didn't see anyone because it doesn't seem that I was where the deer are, but I'm more inclined to think it's because most hunters like to piss and moan about how crowded it was whenever they happen to see someone else on "their mountian" or in "their basin".
Anyway, after that the weather moved in, and I moved out. Still have plenty of hunting time left, so I decided to wait for better glassing weather.
 
LAST EDITED ON Sep-17-06 AT 09:18PM (MST)[p]It's w/o a doubt some of the coolest country in the West, and I'm by know means able to say I hunted it during the "good old days."

I was able to hunt it for 4 years in a row and learned a lot about highcountry mulies and myself as a hunter. Infact, I'd say most of what I've learned about hunting mule deer came from my short time up there.

If I had a region g tag I would of maybe hunted opening morning if I had a buck I wanted to camp out on for the first day. If I didn't have it shot I wouldn't even bother hunting for a couple of weeks and then only during the weekdays.

It's really sad to see how the Wyoming F&G is letting this country go to he$$!

Well, anyways I'm sure we'll see some great bucks popping up here soon. There's still a few of them wandering around up there.

It's funny that the biggest deer I've ever seen in Wyoming, let alone G was summering down in the LOW country not up high. He was so low there wasn't even an antelope around;)

Here's a picture from the last year I hunted up there. This was a great hunt with Torch and Cowslayer. This is the only buck I shot up there that I didn't have to bring out in pieces on my back.

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Where's all the over zelous Forest Service law enforcement dudes that everyone's always complaining about? Sounds like they could have a field day writing tickets. Oh yea I forgot, they only issue tickets to people within a 30 second walk from their trucks.

I haven't drawn a Wy. tag in 4 years, sounds like things haven't changed much.

I'll be heading up for the remainder of the season on Tues. hopfully all the ATV riding Utards will be gone. We'll be riding horses up an old road thats been closed to motorized travel for quite a few years, there is no doubt that some lazy jackass Utards have been riding ATVs up and down it already.

By the way, I live in Utardia but I'am not from here.
 

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