LAST EDITED ON Aug-23-17 AT 11:12PM (MST)[p]>I have a hard time listening
>to hunters from Utah that
>think Utah has a good
>herd of deer to hunt.
>The only good deer tags
>in Utah are limited entry,
>and by limited I mean
>once in a life time
>because that is what limited
>is in Utah. The general
>population of deer in Utah
>is not good and severely
>mismanaged. I have hunted Mule
>deer all over the west
>and Utah is the last
>state I would go hunt
>in unless you draw one
>of the premium units that
>it takes 46 points to
>draw. So to answer your
>question , I have been
>scouting deer in Utah this
>year, which includes 8 cameras
>in various locations and elevations,
>at least 14 days in
>the field in some of
>the best looking deer country
>god could have made. it
>is as bad as I've
>seen it in my lifetime,
>and I killed my first
>buck in the 80's. The
>most frustrating part is that
>everywhere you go people seem
>to have the same solution
>to Utah's deer problem. Cut
>tags !!!!
>Kill the predators! Limit the unlimited
>access ( ATV's)!!!And Cut Tags!!!But
>apparently the Division thinks this
>is not a good idea.
>And this is why I
>spend my time and money
>in other surrounding states.
Haha alright.... maybe in your "secret" spots the deer hunting sucks, but there's quite a few guys that know muledeer around this state that are seeing great things. I've seen personally more 180"+ bucks killed on GS units than LE units. A guy can have a great hunt on just about every general unit in the state with a trophy buck possibility if they put forth the effort. That said, most of the general season hunters in the state are a bunch of quitters and shoot the first 2x2 they see opening day from their SxS. Then hop on MM and ##### about how all the predators are killing the deer, the DWR gives out way too many tags and too many atv roads have huge impacts on our deer, their population numbers and habitat.
Oh and they also talk about how great the deer hunting is in every other state, except Utah.