Vernon

huntFX4 · Sep 3, 2016

It's on fire. 3000 acres burned so far and zero containment. Hope they get it out soon. Have the rifle tag this year.

Tristate · Sep 3, 2016

Be thankful. These are good things. I still hope you get your buck. Don't panic.

Tikka · Sep 3, 2016

It's a good thing it's burning... And there's a ton of area that is nowhere affecting prime deer country....

ridgetops · Sep 4, 2016

It's not a good thing if a guys just used max points on the unit and spent all summer scouting a buck of a lifetime and now the whole area is closed to access. I hope some of those guys have a back up plan.
In the long term, many fires like this are good for the range.

There's not always next year

huntFX4 · Sep 4, 2016

I realize fire is good but this close to where the better hunting is and this close to the season is not good if the fire burns that entire range. It's super dry out there and not much chance of good feed growing again to keep them in the area.

Utah400Elk · Sep 5, 2016

The person can turn their tag back in for a Utah hunt. It's not the end of the world but it does suck. I had he same thing the year I hunted Vernon. There were still plenty of deer and it was a great hunt.

Tikka · Sep 6, 2016

I know it would suck to have the tag and you had scouted a particular buck where the fire is, that would not be good... But I was near the unit all weekend and there is hundreds of thousands of acres not affected by this fire...

In the long run this is great for the unit...

johnhansens · Sep 20, 2016

I drew this tag as well and am having a hard time finding a draw tag Buck. I know no one wants to give up an area but I could really use some help.

fullthrottle · Sep 20, 2016

Stop looking in the obvious places that 90% of the other guys go hunt and start looking in the out of the way unlikely spots if a giant is what you are after. Won't be easy.

johnhansens · Sep 28, 2016

Still finding 26" 4x4 bucks. Looking high and low. 1 month left.

jray · Sep 28, 2016

Good luck. I live close by and you couldn't pay me to hunt that unit. There's always a few monsters out there, but they are needles in a haystack or live on private. Similar to the book cliffs, it's not managed for trophy quality. If you have a nice, deep forked 26 inch buck spotted, you better seriously consider shooting him in my opinion.

johnhansens · Sep 29, 2016

Bummer!, Thank you for the heads up. I was hoping for a big buck considering it's a 10 year draw.

RutnBuck13 · Sep 29, 2016

>Good luck. I live close by
>and you couldn't pay me
>to hunt that unit. There's
>always a few monsters out
>there, but they are needles
>in a haystack or live
>on private. Similar to the
>book cliffs, it's not managed
>for trophy quality. If you
>have a nice, deep forked
>26 inch buck spotted, you
>better seriously consider shooting him
>in my opinion.

Is there alot of private in the bookcliffs? Ive never been there hoping to draw a tag soon.

BrowningRage · Sep 29, 2016

RutnBuck13- There is NOT a lot of private in the Book Cliffs, however, a lot of the little private areas happen to be in very prime spots to "shelter" animals from the public hunters. Often that includes mature deer and elk, and those landowners can make some money off it.

"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24

RutnBuck13 · Sep 29, 2016

Yes im aware i was being a smartace. If your hunting the bookcliffs and having to pay to hunt private land there is a issue. ALL of the best hunting in my opinion is not even close to private property.

jray · Sep 29, 2016

>Bummer!, Thank you for the heads
>up. I was hoping for
>a big buck considering it's
>a 10 year draw.

Sorry, I did't mean to discourage you. There's always a chance for a monster but I would hate to see someone pass up a nice 26 inch 180 buck hoping for bigger and eat tag soup. I think most people see kill pics of Vernon bucks that come off private property, not knowing they were killed on private, and it false advertises the unit. It's a very big reason why I have 15 points and continue to put in elsewhere, even though it would be the ideal LE unit for me to hunt being so close to home.