Diamond Mountain Bulls

fuzzyvelvet · Oct 4, 2006

Alright, lets see those Diamond Mountain, Utah bulls killed this season. What was your weapon of choice? Were you hunting public or private land? Were there a lot of people hunting? Were the elk bugling real good? Just wondering what was killed, big or small.

3point · Oct 4, 2006

I'd like to hear about the S.W. Desert unit. I haven't heard anything yet this year.

South_slope · Oct 4, 2006

I hunted Diamond for elk with my uncle and it was sad. We had seen 3 bulls the first weekend in one group. 1 spike, a 2 point, and 1 small rag horn 4 point that was herding a half dozen cows. The 4 point bugled 3 times, and I almost had to laugh.

The second weekend we located 11 bulls, largest was a small 5 point. My uncle shot a small 3 by 4 because it was easy to get and we left a little disappointed. If he had not drawn the tag in his first year it would have been really sad.

I paid him for his tag just because I talked him into putting in. We could have done better above Bobcats house.

I cannot wait to go to Colorado for the first season to hopefully see some better bulls.

dogwood · Oct 5, 2006

Where did you hunt on diamond mountian. Which range. There are some good bulls up there, unfortunatley most of them are on private ground.

muzz · Oct 5, 2006

Well there you go Private ground, theres the damn problem with this piss hole state. I dont realy think the signs mean no trespassing I just think there highlighting the good hunting areas. Thats to bad you only got that kind of bull on a tag like that. That would pi ss me off but then again this is Utah hunting we are talking about.

bschnoor · Oct 5, 2006

I hunted diamond mountain unit as a non resident on public land. I got a bull on opening morning that I'm pretty happy with with the little bit of public land available. I can email the picture if someone wants to post it. Brian

MuskegMan · Oct 5, 2006

Hell, when I look at Diamond Mountain on the maps, I see the plateau where the Jones Hole Rd goes and all the private property is. The ENTIRE south slope of this mountain (15 mile long x 5 miles wide = 50,000 acres) is BLM. Yeah, this in not where there are 4x4 or ATV trails, so it's not much of a "road hunt" unit - bummer if that's what you're figuring on.

MM