Why did 2004 produce so many big bucks?

straightshooter · Jan 25, 2005

Just curious of everyones opioion on why 2004 produced so many big bucks. I live and hunt in southern Utah and I know of a ton of quality animals taken this year. Even better is that I've seen numerous big bucks on the winter range this year and two pigs that would absolute gag anybody.

Deerlove · Jan 25, 2005

4 feet of snow in the high country.

legacy · Jan 25, 2005

Good amount of spring moisture and most importantly...the snow!!!

Prism · Jan 25, 2005

Everybody knows why, and if you don't let me beat someone else to the punch. Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. Atleast that's what they're telling everyone.

Nevermind the fact that Utah hasn't had a real winter in over 10 years and that the snow conditions in '04 were perfect for an amazing season.

I'm not saying that SFW didn't have anything to do with it, but the latest issue of their publication is one hell of a pat on their own back. C'mon guys lets not hog all of the credit.

I give 90% of the credit to mother nature and what she gives one year she can take away the next several!!!!!

Prism · Jan 25, 2005

After reading my post it sounds little more harsh towards SFW than I had wanted. Without a doubt, SFW does some great things for our mule deer.

However, I think there were a lot of factors that led up to the success of the 2004 hunt.

bobcatbess · Jan 25, 2005

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!!!

BETTER GREEN FEED DURING THE HORN GROWING SEASON!!!

SNOW,SNOW,SNOW!!!

97,000 HUNTERS IN THE FIELD TOOK SOMEWHERE AROUND A COUPLE HUNDRED DECENT BUCKS,DAMN THIS MUST OF BEEN THE BEST HUNT EVER!!!

BIG GAME HUNTS FROM MID AUGUST ON,JUST HUNT TILL YOU GET ONE!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THINKING WHAT MIGHT OF BEEN GOOD IN SOME AREAS THIS LAST SEASON MAY NOT BE WORTH A DAMN THIS COMING SEASON!!!

udderdelite · Jan 25, 2005

You will never be happy. Must be a miserable life . Life just aint fair waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaa Vroommm vromm vroooooom

bobcatbess · Jan 25, 2005

UDDER

IT'S VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOM SEASON,WELL ALMOST!!!

WHAT BRINGS YOU OUT OF THE BARN???

HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN A WHILE!!!

MILK PRICES UP,DOWN???

YOU MUST BE MAKING A KILLIN,I'M PAYING OVER 3.00 A GALLON FOR THE FINISHED PRODUCT!!!

THE ONLY bobcat THINKING UDDER MUST BE ON VACATION TO GET ENOUGH TIME TO SHOW UP AT MM!!!

theridge · Jan 26, 2005

Everybody has to agree that off shore drilling, SUV,s bovine burping and the war in Iraq are causing incredible GOLBAL WARMING. This trend is allowing the wintering grounds to have fewer days of frozen snow and more of warm rain. Sound good?

BOBCATSTRESS · Jan 26, 2005

WHAT DID MOTHER TELL YOU ABOUT BEING NICE!! YOUR GONNA GET THAT KITTYKITTYBITCHSLAP!!
THE ONLY bobcat THINKING BASIN CATS ARE ******

huntnphool · Jan 26, 2005

Hey Bobcat, is it too much to ask for you to hit your "Capslock" button? I would appreciate it, thanks..............rf

quickdrawkinker · Jan 26, 2005

2004 was a good year for the hunters, not so good for the deer. It will be interesting to see how 05' turns out, the feed should be great if there's anything left to eat it. With the majority of the deer already on the winter range during rifle season it was a total slaughter in the area I was hunting. Some guys have no shame, every fawn that had nubs was hittin' the dirt. Opening morning I was set up in the bottom of a drainage where I could glass up 4 different canyons and there were a ton of deer, lots of little bucks and everytime one would crest over a ridge it sounded like WWIII. A guy that was working at a DWR check point emailed me a bunch of pictures that he took and it's incredible the amount of good bucks that were taken. I just hope that the DWR and everybody else doesn't have the misconception that the deer heards are back because of the numbers 2004 produced because 2005 could be a pretty sorry year.

manny15 · Jan 26, 2005

This is the kind of post this site was meant for, and keeps me coming back, but Bobcat and udder...flippin grow up man!!!......

Muleyslyr · Jan 26, 2005

If it was all about the Snow....how come we saw a ton of big azz bucks taken by archery hunters??

I think I'm gonna have to agree with Bobcat on this one....97,000 hunters, there's gonna be more than a few nice bucks killed. Snow or not.

Prism · Jan 26, 2005

Because Utah hasn't had any significant winter kill for 10 years, with the exception of a few pockets up north.

I reread the "Sportsmans Voice" and have to laugh cause the magazine makes it sound like there weren't ANY big bucks in Utah 10 years ago (which was right after our last hard winter). Well, DUHHHH! Even with the hard winter I know of enough big bucks that were taken 10 years ago to fill the magazine with all sorts glory pics.

And they were taken before the era of big money landowner, conservation, and CWMU tags. Not that these tags are (all) bad, but to think we owe a recovery in our deer herds to them is selfserving to a few and very dangerous to the majority of Utah's hunters.

boneaddict · Jan 26, 2005

In some state other than UTAH, imagine that.... it was because the stupid game department extended the hunting season which happened to be at the same time as an early rut, and many of the big boys got taken. Next year is probably going to SUCK.

Clyde Hollinger · Jan 26, 2005

IMO, 5 Day Hunt!!! I know that's why we had em' here!
Elk

straightshooter · Jan 26, 2005

The snow was the obvious answer here in Utah. But booner bucks in good numbers were taken in almost every western state this last season. I for one am stoked for next year. Overall deer numbers may not go up any,but I am definately seeing a good number of older age class bucks onthe winter range, at least in my neck of the woods.

BOBCATBEST · Jan 26, 2005

huntnphool,

We have tried to give bobcatbess lessons on how to use the
'CAPS' key. He just doesn't want to learn!!! Maybe he is
just mad at the world so he just yells.

The only bobcat who would pay for and send bessy a new
customized keyboard!

bobcatbess · Jan 26, 2005

huntnphool

YA KNOW,I HIT THAT BUTTON SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND ITS BEEN WORKING PERFECT EVER SINCE!!!

YOU CAN'T TEACH AN OLD CAT NEW WAVE TECHNOLOGY!!!

MANY HAVE TRIED,100% HAVE FAILED!!!

JUST THINK,IF IT WAS PROPPER TO CAP LOCK EVERYTHING AND I WAS THE ONLY bobcat USING THEM SMALL WANNA-BE LETTERS YOU'D STILL BE PISSED AT ME!!!

THE ONLY bobcat TAKING THE CAP-LOCK LESSONS TIME & TIME AGAIN!!!

Lien2 · Jan 27, 2005

manny15 said it..........udder and bobcat take it outside and quit wasting all our time by posting your crap.

Lien2

shotgunjim · Jan 27, 2005

There was the Colorado 3rd season slaughter of '02. Where heavy snow came right before the season opened resulting in lots of buck deaths. Maybe someone from Col. can give us their opion on the number of bucks the following season.

Verticalslope · Jan 27, 2005

Mother nature was kind this past year with a wet spring and an early snow fall. I still suspect there will be some good quality bucks in Southern Utah next year. I hunted in the Fillmore, Utah area in 2004 and observed several 170 to 190 bucks taken. I have been back several times with the spotting scope and observed several good bucks that made it through the season, as well as numerous yearlings and medicore bucks. I do know that several land owners in the are, including my family,that have posted their property in the area do to problems with hunters this past year. I guess it only takes a few bad apples to spoil a bunch.