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Congratulations to the 5 winners of this years Big Outdoors Vernon voucher giveaway application. Voucher #1 Lacey Nelson of Cedar Valley Utah. ODDS 1 in 1,586 Voucher #2 Tatum Tatton of Price Utah. ODDS 1 in 1,508 Voucher #3 Joseph Riggs of Highland Utah. ODDS 1 in 1,485 Voucher #4 Jason...

Thanks you to EVERYONE that participated in this drawing. We had a great time doing it and feel it was a great opportunity for people to have a shot at another hunt. Below are the applicants drawn, the city they live in and the odds of drawing that voucher. As well as the recipient of the Vortex...

Hello all, As you know today is the last day to apply for the 10 Vernon Landowner Vouchers and Vortex Ultimate Optics Package. 11:59 tonight and the application will close. This was the first year we did this and have had a really good response from people glad for this opportunity for...

Hello fellow MMers. Hope all is well. I am working on a project and am in need of 10-12 really good photos of bucks you have harvested on the Vernon unit. I don't care what year they were taken I just need them clean and nice. If I choose to use your photo in exchange for you allowing me to use...

Hello fellow MMers. Hope all is well. I am working on a project and am in need of 10-12 really good photos of bucks you have harvested on the Vernon unit. I don't care what year they were taken I just need them clean and nice. If I choose to use your photo in exchange for you allowing me to use...

LAST EDITED ON Feb-01-17 AT 08:05PM (MST)[p]UDWR director Greg Sheehan just announced on The Big Outdoors Radio that he will sign an order tomorrow to close shed hunting statewide Thursday February 2nd until April 1st. Great decision Greg. I hope all you sportsman will honor this and help...

Greg Sheehan will joining me on air tonight on ESPN 960am in Utah on The Big Outdoors Radio at 7:00 pm to talk about the shed hunting closure as well as the feeding of wildlife going on. You can listen on the air or on the web at www.espn960sports.com He is also announcing some more breaking...

http://tonylabbott.com/in-defense-of-aryanna-gourdin/#more-335 Tony Abbott www.thebigoutdoors.com 801-885-1274

After 5 years off the air I have decided to bring back my radio show on ESPN radio AM700 in Utah. I did the show from 2002-2011 before and it was a great time. The show Starts Wednesday June 15th and will be on every Wednesday from 7-9 pm. My first guest will be KSL Outdoors TV host Adam Eakle...

Thanks to Founder for supporting the expo and helping me promote it on MM. and Thanks to the many of you that supported it. It was a great Family event that had something for everyone that love the outdoors. Remember You won't have many pictures of you & your son playing the Xbox, but you will...

Does you County need an Outdoor, hunting, fishing type of an expo? Tony Abbott

Below is an email MDF sent out today to its "supporters". As you can tell they are misleading what the meeting is about as well as bribing their members to show up by giving them a hat. (I wonder if I will get a hat since I am a life member). Don't you think they should of thought about who...

Give me all the conservation tags and expo tags, I will market them and return 95% to the dwr to use for Utahs wildlife. I will keep 5% for my expenses and time. I will generate more money then the current conservation groups do and my track record moving permits backs that up. Then the current...

May 31, 2012 Dear TONY : Thank you for your recent applications for the Big Game Drawing. Your results are: Appl # Hunt # Result --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 228857 6801, , , , Rocky Mountai SUCCESSFUL for hunt 6801...

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=20141598&title=chaffetz-looks-to-preserve-land-by-y-mountain This should not be allowed to happen without a clause that guarantee's access on the trail to the thousands of acres above and around it that are accessed every year by deer and grouse hunters...

LAST EDITED ON Apr-12-12 AT 05:58PM (MST)[p]I was contacted last week by some people I met at ISE. They are looking at putting on a 2 day outdoor expo somewhere in Utah County later this year or the 1st of next. I met with them today to hear their ideas. They said they contacted me because...

Not sure if this has been posted or not. I apologize if it has. http://www.hcn.org/blogs/range/sportsmen-stab-theodore-roosevelt-in-the-back Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com The next buck to have a fawn will be the 1st.

I need to be the 1st to call myself a hypocrite. I said I would never put in for the Antelope Island deer tag yet I just finished my application and that was my only deer L.E. deer choice. But I vow to do something different with the permit when I draw it. I will either go to the wildlife board...

I want to thank all of you for your passion and interest in wildlife. No matter the state or the opinion I appreciate ANYONE that gets involved. Thanks to all those that contacted me about the deer situation in Utah and for lighting a fire under me. I am glad I could help in my own small way...

Just curious how you guys feel about a permit you draw in a drawing being able to be sold or given away since it is yours? Arizona lets a parent or guardian give theirs to a child or a sick or disabled child. If you buy a voucher you can resale it or transfer it, why is a drawn tag not the...

LAST EDITED ON Jan-08-11 AT 06:54PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Jan-08-11 AT 06:50?PM (MST) My brother had 4 shots at him opening weekend in AZ. Buck fever is beautiful..... Filming through spotting scope at 600+yards http://www.monsterhuntclips.com/video/1302/How-Wide-score Tony Abbott...

Think of it this way. If the DWR simply killed on average 3 more lions per deer unit we would save more deer than cutting 13,000 hunters and we would not lose revenue. And I am not just talking bucks. We would save Bucks and doe's by killing 100 more lions state wide and those doe's would have...

Shouldn't removing hunters from the field be the last action taken to try and fix a deer herd? Now I am not against it if it is needed but consider what I wrote below. What is really happening is we are removing hunters and their offspring, and these are people and families that we will NEVER...

If you claim to of never had buck fever then you have never really hunted or have no pulse. Buck fever is what keeps us going back year after year. Of course watching someone else get buck fever is about as entertaining of a thing as a guy can see. Those of you that have it know what I am...

My son and I were both SUCCESSFUL in not drawing a sportsman's permit again. Man I am good at that..... Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com The next buck to have a fawn will be the 1st.

Here is a perspective from a Utah law maker. http://www.monsterhuntclips.com/video/1229/Utah-State-Rep-Gibson-Speaking-About-Mule-Deer-in-Utah Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com UTAH HAS TOO MANY LAND CARP!

This is too funny to not listen too, especially that lady at about the 43 minute mark. It starts at about minute 13 but the lady from Montana at about 43 minutes will make you bust up. http://pandora.bonnint.net/audio/2010_12_02_nightside3.mp3 Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com UTAH HAS TOO...

Regardless what side of the fence you sat on today it is apparent to everyone that our deer herds suck and something must be done. This has caused us ALL to wake up. None of the options today were what I wanted and status quo was not what I wanted either. I want our herds fixed and the way I...

Option 2 passes 4-2 It was a pre-written motion which gives the appearance that their mind was already made up. Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com UTAH HAS TOO MANY LAND CARP!

Obviously we are all passionate about what we believe in and for that I am grateful. As with anything there is always many ways to get to a destination. Some are quicker then others but harder, and others seem to be simpler but take much longer. It does not make any of them more right or wrong...

Here is a link to listen to and watch live the Wildlife Board meeting info going on now and the "decision" which is to be made tomorrow. http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/news/42-utah-wildlife-news/407-listen-to-the-dec-1-a-2-board-meeting.html I am the only MM member here right now. That is a...

This is a simple question. With all things being equal, meaning quality, season length, opportunity, hunt in the rut if desired, etc Which would you rather hunt if you had to choose, ELK or MULE DEER? Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com UTAH HAS TOO MANY LAND CARP!

Mule Deer Hunters Tuesday Night at Jordan Commons will be a Kfan/Jazz sponsored public forum on Utah's Mule Deer Herds and situation. This is not a rac meeting and will have no rac members or wildlife board members participating. They may or may not be in the audience. SFW,MDF,DWR have all...

I am curious how many years everyone has been hunting Utah's general season deer hunt and how many bucks they have killed. I have had 22 general season tags and killed 2 bucks on general season, the 1st in 1988 and the 2nd in 1999. I have had plenty of opportunity but have chose not to kill. 9...

Since all of you love Colorado I thought you would like this study and findings. It proves the only point I am trying to make. Reducing buck harvest has a NEGATIVE impact on fawn production. So yes, You will have more bigger bucks but it comes and the price of the health of the deer herd. So...

LAST EDITED ON Nov-19-10 AT 12:36PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Nov-19-10 AT 12:30?PM (MST) Northern rac option 1, kick out 7,000 hunters for no biological reason Central rac option 1, kick out 7,000 hunters for no biological reason Southern rac option 2, kick out 13,000 hunters for no biological...

We have 3-4 times as high of buck to doe numbers today then we did in the early 90's. Our deer herds still are not fixed. Guess buck numbers are not the answer to fixing a deer herd. Maybe we should look at other factors like ELK and. Tony Abbott www.myfreehunts.com

This is what I hear everyday from people. "Close the hunt for 2-5 years and then cut the tags in half and it will fix everything". Gentlemen that statement could not be further from the truth. If you close the deer hunt statewide for 2 years it will save roughly 24,000 BUCKS. SO over 2 years...

The following info was taking from the DWR records and the WAFWA records. These are actual and factual numbers. You decide for yourself what they mean. 1983 360,000 deer in utah 1983 228,907 buck tags in Utah 1983 82,552 bucks killed in Utah 1993 240,000 deer in Utah 1993 140,701 buck tags in...

LAST EDITED ON Aug-06-10 AT 08:26PM (MST)[p]Just to clarify upfront why I am posting this. I have been sent over 200 emails from people that live in this state mostly, that are wanting a new conservation group that is proactive yet transparent. A group they can trust and believe in. I also have...