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I'm already behind on getting this HAC story started so here we go! There are lots of amazing things going on for me this year including 3 LE elk hunts in Utah, several deer hunts, and my best friend drew his sheep tag that I had him put in for so I hope to keep you all updated on everything as we go.
First off, we will start back in January as we hunted for late season cow elk. My brother and friend both have January cow elk permits for the Nine Mile, Range Creek unit. I live in Price, Utah and this unit is right in my backyard. We also hunted this hunt in January 2011 and took 5 cows out of 6 tags. I was excited to be involved in hunting in January so I spent several days scouting the unit before they arrived to hunt. First thing was to dump out my packs from the fall hunts and re-pack the gear I would need for sub-zero, snowy, tough winter hunts.
On one of my trips I spotted these two bucks over on a hill. I got my spotting scope out to look at them and was treated to a nice little playful fight between the two bucks. Luckily I had my camera and took some photos and video of them having fun. At first I thought the bigger buck was a straight 4 point but after watching him, he looks like he is a 3 x 4 main frame and his fourth tine hooks out sideways and up like a big hook cheater. Pretty cool young buck.
A couple days into the new year, I had to take some time off as my wife was due with our first child. She was able to deliver our baby girl on the 8th of January.
Sage KayLee Pendleton
Back home with our new baby girl, I still had a few days to check out the country for elk before my brother heads down for hunt weekend 1. Elk seemed to be far and few between. I saw at least one elk every trip I made but there wasn't a lot of good prospects. The deer were really fun to see though. Here are a few more bucks that I saw out there.
I spotted an old friend from a week ago - the hook cheater buck.
I also found a promising little herd of elk. They were on private land a ways from the road but after watching them for two days, they looked like they were headed towards public land that we could hike into.
Well my brother arrived and we ended up seeing more deer than elk the first few days of the hunt.
First off, we will start back in January as we hunted for late season cow elk. My brother and friend both have January cow elk permits for the Nine Mile, Range Creek unit. I live in Price, Utah and this unit is right in my backyard. We also hunted this hunt in January 2011 and took 5 cows out of 6 tags. I was excited to be involved in hunting in January so I spent several days scouting the unit before they arrived to hunt. First thing was to dump out my packs from the fall hunts and re-pack the gear I would need for sub-zero, snowy, tough winter hunts.
On one of my trips I spotted these two bucks over on a hill. I got my spotting scope out to look at them and was treated to a nice little playful fight between the two bucks. Luckily I had my camera and took some photos and video of them having fun. At first I thought the bigger buck was a straight 4 point but after watching him, he looks like he is a 3 x 4 main frame and his fourth tine hooks out sideways and up like a big hook cheater. Pretty cool young buck.
A couple days into the new year, I had to take some time off as my wife was due with our first child. She was able to deliver our baby girl on the 8th of January.
Sage KayLee Pendleton
Back home with our new baby girl, I still had a few days to check out the country for elk before my brother heads down for hunt weekend 1. Elk seemed to be far and few between. I saw at least one elk every trip I made but there wasn't a lot of good prospects. The deer were really fun to see though. Here are a few more bucks that I saw out there.
I spotted an old friend from a week ago - the hook cheater buck.
I also found a promising little herd of elk. They were on private land a ways from the road but after watching them for two days, they looked like they were headed towards public land that we could hike into.
Well my brother arrived and we ended up seeing more deer than elk the first few days of the hunt.