Southern Utah Deer Hunting

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1highpeak

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So I have been thinking about this, when can we see how many people put in for southern archery for there first hunt choice, I know there is no cap on which units get the 16,500 Tags they could all be in the Central for that matter, but I doubt it.
I think this may be one step closer to making all of us pick our region for archery deer in the state of Utah, just like the rifle hunt, you know at first I thought that might be a good idea to make people choose but the more I toss it over im not so sure that would be the best decision for the state, expecially now that you can hunt any LE Elk unit with a bow for Spikes and cows, I think we are a year or 2 away from the archers picking a region for the ENTIRE hunt, what do you guys think?
 
Well we all know the southern region is the most popular region (who knows why!) Just as an example there are 4,992 people in DH that choose to hunt SR 50% So my guess that at least 50% of archers choose to hunt southern if not more, just my thoughts.
 
I seriously hope that archers will wise up to what the DWR is doing here..!!!! The DWR hasn't put a cap on the southern archery this year because they want as many hunters as possible to buy that tag this year. They will study that number and find that 60% or so of archers bought the southern tag. That percentage will be deemed too high and they will put a cap on southern archery tags for 2010. Within 2 years of that, the southern archery tag will be a draw just like the southern rifle/muzz tags are.

As archers we need to sacrifice 2 weeks of hunting the southern region this year and buy tags for other regions. We can all hunt the southern for the last 2 weeks (There's way too much country for it to be too crowded) and then the DWR will not be able to put a cap on the southern archery tags next year... And we can hopefully post-pone the archery tag being a draw tag.

As a background reference, I live in the Northern region. Every archery season I hunt the Northern region for the first weekend, then the Southern the second weekend and then my vacation time is generally dried up. I will be buying a Northern region archery tag, and if I don't get a deer, I may go down south for the 3rd weekend this year... But only if I can get down there in the summer to scout... Using up more vacation time.
 

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