Sergio4195
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According to draw odds on go hunt I have a good chance of drawing the general season deer for this unit. Question is anyone who has hunted it for deer have any knowledge of what this hunt is like and expectations?
My son had a muzzy Pronghorn last year. One evening we sat in a blind on a big water tank. We counted well over a hundred horses come into water that evening and they wouldn't let anything else come near when they were watering.I'd echo the same comments the others have. I had a late cow elk tag there in November a few years ago and was there, camping, for 7 days straight. I was hard at work scouting an hour before dawn and after sunset every day. I routinely hunt the Nevada side of this unit (#231 archery deer) so I was checking out a bunch of stuff beyond just the cow elk. Sitting on water holes, following game trails, etc. Mostly focused on what the deer are doing that late in the year as it relates to movement between Utah and Nevada.
In any case, I glassed up a maybe 5-6 bucks in that time. All in burn areas. Antlers were nice enough at 500-600 yards but I wasn't too focused on them unless they were moving in and out of Nevada too. For comparison I glassed up at least a dozen nice bull elk in that same time period so I would say to expect the deer hunt to be difficult and the density is low (at least to what I saw). I do believe the deer had for the most part moved down in elevation. So perhaps an earlier deer tag would see more numbers.
Also there was an absolute fook ton of horses out there and I never once saw deer going to a water hole that the horses were using.
Hope that helps!
How did your sons antelope hunt go?My son had a muzzy Pronghorn last year. One evening we sat in a blind on a big water tank. We counted well over a hundred horses come into water that evening and they wouldn't let anything else come near when they were watering.
It's crazy how they interacted. One stallion and his little group would water and there would be about four or five groups lined up in the distance. As soon as one group was leaving another would come in. This line lasted all evening. A few times a couple groups would get too close and the stallions would fight.
One stud discovered us and he was pissed. He kept circling around the blind for about twenty minutes, keeping about 50-100 yards from us the entire time.
TAG SOUP. We passed up a couple decent bucks on day one that in hind sight we should have gone after. We only hunted it for three days because my kids had four muzzy deer tags going on at the same time.How did your sons antelope hunt go?
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