Let the games begin!

[TripleK]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-08 AT 09:58AM (MST)[p]Lookout! It's opening morning in Utah! Engines revving, lead flyin', and pumpkins everywhere!

I opened my window up this morning at 5:30 because I was hot and I heard someone blowing a whistle. I thought that was just perfect. Blow the whistle to start the hunt. Open the gates!! LOL

I almost didn't get to go out this morning because I couldn't find my tags last night. Finally, at midnight, I located them. It's what I get for being unorganized, I suppose. I lost them last year too and had to make a run to the DWR office in Vernal to get new ones printed up. Next year I'll put them in a much safer pile when I get them. lol

Good luck fellow Utards. ;-)

 

[kilowatt]

Jenn,

Like I said "put them with your undies", you will find them a lot easier next year. LOL

Brian

 

[alp75]

The whistle...that is great. Sometimes you just got to wonder what is going through peoples heads??? Anyway, I CHOOSE to work the opener and have every year for the past ten years cause I can't stand bumping into everybody. Then I go out and hunt the Tuesday - Thursday following once the deer have settled back down and the crowds have disappeared. I am usually on the mountain by myself. This only sucks if I connect on a good buck and have to pack it out by myself. It is great. I am lucky enough to be able to schedule my work weeks to justify this.

Anyway Good luck to all!

 

[tageater]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-08 AT 06:50PM (MST)[p]Well, after staying up all last night (its easier than sleeping for 3 hours after work and then getting up) and driving up with "the guys" I'd rate the opening morning an F- .For game seen and a B- for entertainment value.


Although going into today fully knowing there would be lots of orange, we went in extra early...

( we dont care if people walkdrive/race the 4 wheelers by/around/near us, as long as we have the best seats!)


...well there was plenty of orange, but NO ONE was pushing anything....its as if everyone was afraid to push anything towards any one else....I mentioned to my buddy "We have them surrounded!why dont they just give up and come on out with their hooves up?" .... but no one was willing to go in and stir the pot, so we all sat there, which i was fine with, as i was tired!
Of all the people who drove by in trucks and quads, i saw the only deer- a scared shatless doe! that couldn't figure out which way to go, she eventually walked up over a little ridge into a smaller patch of quakies and disappeared(and i still aint sure i saw her, did i mention i was tired?)

But now that i'm at work, i am going to take a nap...goodnight for now.Let the games continue!

The one thing that would have been funny would have been the whistle or a fog horn! Maybe next year!

 

[257Tony]

I took my 8 year old out here in the No. region and had a great time. Got to see a husband/wife duo shoot a nice 20" 4x4 that I'd been watching for a few minutes, they were on the hill about 100 yds below us, I didn't even know they were there! She made two good shots and put him down. On the way back to the truck, two nice 4 pts busted out below the trail at about noon, they were already 300 yds out and moving when they busted, and by the time they stopped they were at 577 yards. Other wise I would have shot the bigger one, he was about 155" ish.

 

[tabbyhntr]

Well my morning was great! Connected on a 24" 4x. Only to have it run 50 yards around the saddle and drop dead in front of another hunter (who claimed he shot it) eh oh well if that's the only way some people get there deer then so be it cuz you'll never stop them. But an hour later I spotted another 4x feedin really close to a property line, well I took the risk and connected but it spun around and jumped the fence and died 50 yards across, so I did the right thing and called the landowner and a few cusswords from him later I didn't get permission to cross. So now what do I do? I went home after bein disgusted with the landowner, ill check in the morning to see if they retrieved it.... Hope yall had a good morning!

 

[muzz]

Hunt sucked, didnt see a deer. 10,000 people in a tiny area of public ground. God I love this state.

 

[muzz]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-08 AT 06:57PM (MST)[p]

I would have told him to kiss your ass!!! I would have got it anyway. dik head land owners!!

Hell he should have had no problem with it after you doing the right thing.

 

[muzzle]

Well just got back and I would rate the hunt a D-. I hiked my arsh off to get back into a high basin. I just started making out deer when the whole mountain erupted and every buck & doe in the canyon headed over the mountain into the deep pines. I couldn;t figure it out until I looked up on the saddle where a whole pack string of horses had snuck in. I dont have a problem with horses but how do you hunt with them noisy bastards? I watched these guys blow every canyon they went into and they never got a shot, hell I dont think they even saw the deer they were busting. All I know is the country I was in was too steep for horses and they were pissed off! It was kind of fun watching the horses rebel as it got kinda western a couple of times. Lazy horse hunters anyway! Overall way to much orange for my liking!!

 

[huntFX4]

I hiked up into some of the roughest stuff thinking I'd be somewhat alone. NOT!!!! I couldn't believe all the hunters that had gone even further up there than I did. Every finger seemed to have at least 2-4 hunters on it. Saw about a dozen deer but no decent bucks and 4 moose.

 

[AWHOLELOTTABULL]

Yep, walked out in the driveway this morning in my shorts and slippers to get the paper and it sounded like a war zone up on Loafer Mountain. All I could think about was some poor little 2 point running for his life. I' pretty sure that he was still running with the amount of shots fired. Southbound I-15 was a parking lot of trailers and atv's on Thursday and Friday. Just a great reminder of why I don't hunt opening weekend anymore.

It's always an adventure!!!
www.awholelottabull.com

 

[1911]

The whistle was from the referee Jen, someone has to monitor this circus.

 

[JLTD]

i guess some people just need something to ##### about! ya i saw alot of orange no i didnt see many deer but guess what i still had a blast. and will be back out in the morning doing it all over again. So all i got to say is if it sucked so bad stay home because you can surely find something to ##### about there!


Just Living The Dream

 

[TripleK]

Hey Cam! I'm not bitching, just laughing at it all. You know I only laugh at things I find truly amusing and general season deer hunt behavior is mostly amusing.

I went today and still had fun too. And I'll be there again next weekend, as well. Me and a thousand other pumpkins on the same ridge. ;-) lol

Jenn

 

[TripleK]

>Yep, walked out in the driveway
>this morning in my shorts
>and slippers to get the
>paper and it sounded like
>a war zone up on
>Loafer Mountain.

Hey Jim- I was at the Loafer View Sports complex on Thursday and Friday. Salem is BEAUTIFUL, btw. Love it there. That's the 2nd baseball tournament my son has played there and I do love playing in Salem. Is Loafer the one with the tower on top?

Southbound
>I-15 was a parking lot
>of trailers and atv's on
>Thursday and Friday.

Non-stop camping trailer traffic all the way home Friday night too. Spanish Fork and Indian Canyons were packed. Made me jealous! I wanna camp for the deer hunt again. We just hunt from the house now.

 

[kfed]

thats why we were home, we had our turn a few weeks ago, as for me i wanted to see what was harvested so i drove to the bottom of a popular canyon and sat for an hour and the largest buck of the day. . . 140 maybe. I sure felt bad for all those two points i passed up on the archery
happy for the hunters though, i remember my first two point my first year hunting it was good experiance, to know what not to shoot the next year. oh and i love the 300 lb guys who had their buck strapped to their wheelers. i saw about four of them,
its so awesome how much of a chance the deer have now a day

 

[AWHOLELOTTABULL]

"Is Loafer the one with the tower on top?"

TK - That's "tower mountain". Loafer is the next one South. I actually live up in Elk Ridge. It's the town straight South of Salem. My kids go to Salem schools though.

It's always an adventure!!!
www.awholelottabull.com

 

[out4elk]

LAST EDITED ON Oct-19-08 AT 09:35AM (MST)[p]People everywhere. Spent the morning glassing and trying to figure out what everyone was shooting at. For all the shooting in my area I only confirmed one guy that killed a decent 4pt. As for everyone else that was blasting away I have no clue what they were shooting at.

Did get a shot at a running coyote, didn't get him but got close enough to urge an abrubt left turn and a yelp.

Decided to spend the second half of the day in the roadless area by the horseshoe and had my afternoon squashed by a couple yahoos that can't read or obey road closures. Drove their red Yamaha Rhino all the way up from the bottom to the edge of the shoe. The driver had no clue he was on 60X when he was toolin through the brush. Had to look away when he stepped out of the Rhino and decided to wizz. He and his friend decided they had better get moving when two other hunters hiked out of the shoe and into their area. From my distance I couldn't get enough magnification to read the numbers on the registration so the call to the law enforcement officers didn't do much good. All I can hope for is the two foot hunters that ran into them down the trail gave them a little crap for being stupid.

Other than that I just enjoyed the day out in the field with a good friend. We haven't hunted together for a few years so it was good.



?Here?s to the hero's that Git-R-Done!!?

 

[ktg]

All these stories make me miss the general hunt.... NOT. I haven't hunted the general hunt since 1999 and from the sound of the DWR's plans, I probably won't for a while.

 

[woodruffhunter]

Sounds like another freat Utah opener, lol...

I gave up on the rifle in 2005, sounds like much hasn't changed.

Good luck to everyone out there.

 

[tabbyhntr]

So I didn't physically check the deer to see of they retrieved it but another hunter who knows the landowner said his nephew tagged it! Makes me feel better knowing it didn't go to waste. Nothing disgusts me more than animals being left to rot, I felt shitty for havin to leave it...

 

[swbuckmaster]

I hunted with a friend?s 14 year old daughter as she was the only one with a rifle tag. We went out Friday night and located 5 four points and at least 15 two and three points. My friend and I didn't think she could do the grueler of a hike. So we elected to hunt in another area where we could take my 8 year old daughter and his 9 year old son. The hunt was great we put in over 5 miles on foot and still saw 4 bucks all on public land. The hunter still got a shot at two different bucks. She didn't connect but we had so much fun. I probably had more buck fever than she did when she pointed the bang stick at those dink bucks.

The funny thing is we saw as many bucks as we did does in 1.5 days go figure








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