Last year my dad and I had the central deer tag and we hunted in diamond fork near strawberry ridge. We saw quite a few road doggers and atver's but the number of hunters was manageable. Once we got off the roads and back into the bush several miles in we only saw one other group of two. We covered lots of ground and didn't see anybody else. Anyway, we drew the Wasatch West tag this year and hunted the exact same area. My dad and I went to the exact same spots several miles from any road and saw many hunters this year. Guys on horseback, guys packing in, guys everywhere. It seemed all the awesome places that I had scouted and hunted last year had a group of hunters in it. And this was the second weekend! I cant even imagine how bad the opener would have been. Honestly my dad and I would just be getting to our "spot" when we'ed round the corner and see a group of hunters on the adjacent hill side or up on the ridge or right in the damn spot that we were trying to get to. I am not frustrated at the other groups of hunters... They had as much right to be there as I did. I am however, very frustrated at the DWR for issuing 7500 permits for that relatively small unit. Sure the area is big geographically but about half the unit is unhuntable (being in Salt Lake county)for rifle hunters. The only other unit that issued more permits was the central mountain manti/san rafael unit and this unit is freakin huge. Probably the biggest in the state. Anyway, my gripe is that the Wasatch west unit can not accommodate near that many hunters IMHO. To make things worse it seemed a large majority of 7500 tag holders hunted near diamond fork. Anybody else experience this in Wasatch West?