1st ELK IN YOUR AREA?

elkassassin · Apr 20, 2013

In 1979 Me & a Friend Hiked back in to an area looking to see if We could See any Ruttin Bucks on the South Slope!

Was November!

I had never seen an Elk in Utah Until that day!

Ya,I know they were here in the Late 1800's-Early 1900's in Fair Numbers!

I was kinda in a Daze seeing a Bull that at that time I thought was Amazingly Big!

Found out Later it was just a PISSCUTTER Bull!

Just wondering what the 1st Year was that you seen Elk in your Neck of the Woods in Utah?

The Dew I had for Breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for Dessert!

goofyelk · Apr 20, 2013

1977, on the Nebo unit.

And watched it improve for many years ..Got damn GOOD!

The quaity peaked out a few seasons ago,

And now, it looks like their trying the herd to get back to 1977 numbers, again.....Wink ;-)

chewyman55 · Apr 20, 2013

My old man still talks about the first time he saw a Utah elk. He wouldn't have been as surprised to see a sasquatch. Times have changed a bit!

BCBOY · Apr 20, 2013

When did you guys get your first season? I saw my first elk around my place in 2008. I hope I never see them grow to become a huntable herd. I like my muleys too much.

piper · Apr 21, 2013

Grandpa and I tagged a 5 point east of Ephraim back in 1974 if I remember right, made the front page of the town paper and it was a raghorn.
The Utah elk herds have changed a lot in 40 years, so have I.

Blanding_Boy · Apr 21, 2013

1983 on the San Juan

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one_dryboot · Apr 21, 2013

1979???

I was still a twinkle in the stars

elkassassin · Apr 21, 2013

Hey boot?

I wasn't asking if you were a Rookie at that time!

The Dew I had for Breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for Dessert!

rowdyblueman · Apr 21, 2013

My earliest memories of elk hunting in Utah was back when the Beaver and Boulder mountains were open bull units. My dad killed a rag horn five one year. I thought that thing was giant!!

elk_horn · Apr 21, 2013

My earliest elk hunt was 1978 our camp shot a rag horn two spikes and two cows.

Trix4me · Apr 21, 2013

When I was a young buck my dad and uncles and some friends hunted the Manti up Ephraim canyon, Trail Ridge, Big and Little Bear. They brought back some big ones. I hunted there at 16.. (40 yrs ago)

Zeke · Apr 22, 2013

LAST EDITED ON Apr-22-13 AT 10:24AM (MST)[p]I remember it was 1974 (2 years out of High School) when I saw the first elk in the White River area.
Man, we had a lot of deer back then and few elk.

Zeke

Shut up about my old age one_dryboot! lol

BeanMan · Apr 22, 2013

My Dad hit a cow elk with his Landcruiser in 1968 on the west side of Rabbit Ears Pass. We would see them regularly from the Gondola of the Steamboat ski area fro about 1972 on.

BacDoc · Apr 22, 2013

My Dad killed Elk on tbe Manti in the Early sixties. I remember a six point bull that he killed and gave away the horns in 1965. I killed my first bull in 1972. Back then any bull was a trophy. Sometimes you hunted all season and were lucky to see one bull. Dad killed a six point bull on the Heaston the day before he turned seventy, and a 150 class buck in the Book Cliffs a month after he turned eighty. I was lucky to be there for both. BacDoc

ktg · Apr 22, 2013

Not me, but my grandpa

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/vernal3/id/583/show/612/rec/14

one_dryboot · Apr 22, 2013

LAST EDITED ON Apr-22-13 AT 10:56PM (MST)[p]Ah yes I remember like it was just yesterday. Twas the summer of 1936, I was trappin beaver on the west forks of the black fork near Elisabeth peak. As I rounded the river bend, there it was in all of his majestic glory. A true warrior of his time. The elusive pisscitter our friend BBC always talks about. If that bull is still alive today I'll bet he has grown into a true trophy!

Smokepole · Apr 23, 2013

I seen my first elk up Dry Fork Canyon in 1976. Killed my first elk a spike in Black Canyon by Alma Taylor Lake in 1980.

Smokepole

BradN · Apr 23, 2013

Approximately 1976, two point bull and several spikes near Spirit Lake. My dad shot a raghorn a few years earlier in the same area, but I wasn't along on that hunt.

bowhunt3r4l1f3 · May 8, 2013

Saw my 1st elk in high school in 2003. Until that point my dad had only taken me muley hunting. We hiked up a big draw and had bought a cheap grunt tube at Cal Ranch. It was the day before the opener and he told me to try a bugle. I didn't even know what I was doing at that point but a few minutes after my bugle 3 nice bulls walked into the field across the draw from us and started smacking horns for about 5 minutes. I've been hooked ever since!

BLooDTRaCKeR · May 8, 2013

I still ain't seen an elk and I'm damn near over the hill!!

sageman · May 8, 2013

1975 just over the Limhi pass in Montana,I had a either sex tag and did not shoot the cow or calf.My uncle never forgave me,we came home skunked for a three week hunt.

brutus54 · May 10, 2013

The first Elk I saw was back when I was just a kid. Back About 1965 above Mill Hollow Res Utah. It was A big 6x6 . I Called it A Stagg like in the the Bambie movie . My Dad let me know later that it was an Elk the first he had seen in Uath.

littlebighorn · May 12, 2013

Age has a way of dimming memory, but I am guessing the year was around 1960. I was with my father on a deer hunt on the very north side of the Skyline Drive. Just as the sun came up, a raghorn bull ran right up to us and I swore it was the biggest deer ever. I yelled to my father to shoot it but he responded he couldn't because it was an elk. I then yelled, "shoot it anyway"!

littlebighorn · May 12, 2013

Age tends to fuzz the edges, but it had to be in the early 60s when I saw my first Utah Wapiti. My brother and I were with my father deer hunting. In the early morning sunlight a raghorn bull burst through the oaks on the north end of the Skyline Drive, not 80 yards away from us. The sun gleamed off his antlers and having never seen an elk before we yelled for our father to shoot. He exclaimed he couldn't because it was an elk. Our simultaneous response was "shoot it anyway"!!

It was obviously the biggest horned animal either one of us had ever seen. In retrospect it was only a "pisscutter", but a rare sight back in the day. It would be another decade of deer hunts before I saw another. Now days, deer hunts usually produce more elk sightings than deer!

elkassassin · May 12, 2013

LOL littlebig!

The Dew I had for Breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for Dessert!

littlebighorn · May 13, 2013

HUH????
Did I do that????
Funny how stories get better with age!

Gunnie3035 · May 14, 2013

>My Dad killed Elk on tbe
>Manti in the Early sixties.
> I remember a six
>point bull that he killed
>and gave away the horns
>in 1965. I killed
>my first bull in 1972.
> Back then any bull
>was a trophy. Sometimes
>you hunted all season and
>were lucky to see one
>bull. Dad killed a
>six point bull on the
>Heaston the day before he
>turned seventy, and a 150
>class buck in the Book
>Cliffs a month after he
>turned eighty. I was
>lucky to be there for
>both. BacDoc

I thought the first ever Utah hunt was in 1968.

BacDoc · May 19, 2013

>>My Dad killed Elk on tbe
>>Manti in the Early sixties.
>> I remember a six
>>point bull that he killed
>>and gave away the horns
>>in 1965. I killed
>>my first bull in 1972.
>> Back then any bull
>>was a trophy. Sometimes
>>you hunted all season and
>>were lucky to see one
>>bull. Dad killed a
>>six point bull on the
>>Heaston the day before he
>>turned seventy, and a 150
>>class buck in the Book
>>Cliffs a month after he
>>turned eighty. I was
>>lucky to be there for
>>both. BacDoc
>
>I thought the first ever Utah
> hunt was in 1968.
>
Better think again. Dad and his brothers killed several bulls on the Manti, and on the Heaston before that. That's just the first one I remember,and could put a year on. BacDoc

elkassassin · May 19, 2013

>>>My Dad killed Elk on tbe
>>>Manti in the Early sixties.
>>> I remember a six
>>>point bull that he killed
>>>and gave away the horns
>>>in 1965. I killed
>>>my first bull in 1972.
>>> Back then any bull
>>>was a trophy. Sometimes
>>>you hunted all season and
>>>were lucky to see one
>>>bull. Dad killed a
>>>six point bull on the
>>>Heaston the day before he
>>>turned seventy, and a 150
>>>class buck in the Book
>>>Cliffs a month after he
>>>turned eighty. I was
>>>lucky to be there for
>>>both. BacDoc
>>
>>I thought the first ever Utah
>> hunt was in 1968.
>>
>Better think again. Dad and
>his brothers killed several bulls
>on the Manti, and on
>the Heaston before that.
>That's just the first one
>I remember,and could put a
>year on. BacDoc

BacDoc never said anything about a 'Season'!

It was Feedin the Family that counted most!

RAZZIN Ya BacDoc!

The Dew I had for Breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for Dessert!

Gunnie3035 · May 19, 2013

>>>My Dad killed Elk on tbe
>>>Manti in the Early sixties.
>>> I remember a six
>>>point bull that he killed
>>>and gave away the horns
>>>in 1965. I killed
>>>my first bull in 1972.
>>> Back then any bull
>>>was a trophy. Sometimes
>>>you hunted all season and
>>>were lucky to see one
>>>bull. Dad killed a
>>>six point bull on the
>>>Heaston the day before he
>>>turned seventy, and a 150
>>>class buck in the Book
>>>Cliffs a month after he
>>>turned eighty. I was
>>>lucky to be there for
>>>both. BacDoc
>>
>>I thought the first ever Utah
>> hunt was in 1968.
>>
>Better think again. Dad and
>his brothers killed several bulls
>on the Manti, and on
>the Heaston before that.
>That's just the first one
>I remember,and could put a
>year on. BacDoc

I stand corrected: "The first authorized hunt was on the Cache and Mount Nebo units in 1925.

By 1967 there were five elk units in Utah. By 1983 there were 27 units".