Plateau archery speedgoat? Thoughts?

Thanks to goofeyelk for his thoughts.

Have 6 points. Thought I would split them with my son and burn them so we can get yo waiting a couple decades to draw elk.

Just want a fun hunt, decent population. For novices like us, any archery antelope is a trophy.

Be interested in thoughts. Either the area, other units. Kinda curious about what guys think.

Thx in advance.


"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

I had the tag this year for archery, area is beautiful! Me and my brother in law was arguing bout being antelope at 9500' elevation, and soon as he said there's none up here around the corner we go and 2 does standing there.

This was west of Loa, up by Dixie national forest, but there are ton of goats down lower auctually on the plateau, it was the funnest hunt I've been on.

I was too greedy for hunting over water I wanted a spot and stalk goat, after several unsuccessful stalks I didn't harvest one, but in 2 years best believe I'm headed down there again, probably saw 150 goats the 6 days I was down there, moving a lot early morning, didn't see much moving in the evening, but that's not saying there not moving, seemed like they water at pretty much dark, we seen a doe on a water hole when we was backing out from several hundred yards away, almost to the point we couldn't see it.

Don't worry about the water though, there is a ton of that, I was really surprised at the amount of water was down there. He never been down to that part of the Plateau and never have I.

So we just went and asked the resident's of Loa and they directed us right up to smooth knoll, and said keep headed southwest, an sure enough right where they would be, we drove quite a bit despite the amount of glassing we did too. Seen like 5 or 10 driving down that morning on the fish lake road, right by the big turnout for snowplows that divides the fish lake from the Monroe, saw tons of elk, and deer, even some elk bugeling.

I'd say give her hell and goodluck to you and your son, I think it'd be worth it burn your points, but that's just mho.

Goodluck with whatever route you take.

Also what helped me a lot, is 2lumpy on the UT forum gave me a ton of info on regards with this, I'm sure he'd be able to fill you in!

Pse thx. In searches I saw your name too, was just reading your reply to Manti muzzy elk and was gonna pm u. You were too fast.

That's what I hoped to hear.

Its climate change. We have been seeing antelope on the n. Slope of the Uintah above 9000ft. Al Gore has them all screwed up on where they should be


"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

Not a problem, I seriously thought there was no better hunt then a archery Sept elk hunt....

But to me, being a WA state boy born an raised, the antelope archery tops it all for me.

I call antelope my hunting candy. They are so much fun to hunt with a bow. A rifle if pretty anti-climatic but with a bow in your hand the experience is fantastic. With that many points I would hit SWD. you will have less pressure and lots of country to see. If you do go for SWD just get ready to see very few animals by glassing but set up a camera or sit a waterhole and those dang things seem to crawl out of the ground.
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