SOLD OUT! UT ARCHERY!

[Prism]

Utah's archery tags are SOLD OUT!

I imagine there's gonna be a just a few guys wishin they'd taken care of it sooner.

Crazy!!!

 

[swbuckmaster]

I got both of mine on the first day i wont let it take that long next year

Archery is a year round commitment!!

 

[PleaseDear]

I got mine last sunday after I got back from Wyoming.

Lucky for me.

Robb

 

[Gator]

I guess alot of guys will start putting it down as last choice.

 

[AndymanSavage]

WOW, I don't know why they don't just call them "southern unit archery tags".

My buddy from work is finishing his hunter's safety next saturday. I hope there are still northern tags left then, we are planning a backpack muzzy hunt and it would suck if he missed out.

Andy

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[woodruffhunter]

Unbelievable

 

[Silentstalker]

They should actually be called left over rifle tags! Man maybe next year they will sell out in the draw? Seriously though, it is good to see the interest in Bowhunting growing!

 

[carbonnation]

Can 12yr olds hunt archery. Lowering the age limit sure has made it interesting.


Support your local Dentist...Rinse with Mountain Dew every night before bed.

 

[DallanC]

>I guess alot of guys will
>start putting it down as
>last choice.


You wont get a preference pt then... fyi.


-DallanC

 

[AWHOLELOTTABULL]

Silentstalker is right on the money with that one. It's always been my first choice for Utah. Unlike some who put in for rifle tags and don't draw so they HAVE to hunt. I really hope it gets popular enough that there won't be any left over tags. I guess it's been a great backup plan for some but that's soon to change!!


It's always an adventure!!!
www.awholelottabull.com

 

[JREDBUCK]

I told one of the guys at work that I thought they would sell out early this year. I'm gonna have to give him a call and check it out , my guess is that he didn't do it.

 

[1highpeak]

Do tell, Are we looking at the end of the statewide archery?
Please tell me we are, cause I for one am getting sick of guys pounding the Southern units with bows screwing up others all summer scouting (for the bowhunt!) Just to run back to thier real unit of "choice" for the rifle on DH. I am not against the DH Program, just the thought that there is no holding back how many guys hit one or two particular spots in the state with bows!

 

[NEVADAGUY]

Got mine the first day too

 

[hollysdad]

I agree with '1highpeak', I live in the southern unit and it just sickens me how every year I scout the areas near here, just to have everyone and their dog show up and chase and screw with all my summer scouting efforts. And they know that if they don't get their (my scouted) big ones here, they can just go back to their DH unit and hunt the rifle.

 

[wileywapati]

High and Holly let me promise you that if the statewide hunt is no longer an option you " owners of all lands south of I-70"
will be thrown in the draw with every other person that you perceive as ruining " your hunts and scouting "

I can't understand how you would take away the good part of this issue ( statewide bowhunt ) and not address the real issue in any way ( the DH )

 

[Mul3y_CraZy_]

>I agree with '1highpeak', I live
>in the southern unit and
>it just sickens me how
>every year I scout the
>areas near here, just to
>have everyone and their dog
>show up and chase and
>screw with all my summer
>scouting efforts. And they
>know that if they don't
>get their (my scouted) big
>ones here, they can just
>go back to their DH
>unit and hunt the rifle.
>
Even with the archer hunters, my experience with southern utah, where the big ones roam, are still the same as they were from archery to rifle, with dedicated and going down by penguitch lake there has never been a problem with finding a buck, whether its one you saw during scouting or not. There is plenty to go around.

 

[Pruney]

Selling out this early is likely a side effect of the Kaibab going to a draw only. I guess I wont be trading my Southern Region Rifle for Archery after all.

 

[AWHOLELOTTABULL]

LAST EDITED ON Jun-28-08 AT 09:55PM (MST)[p]I really have to laugh at you southern boys. Give me your address and I'll send you a brick of cheese with that whine you've got going. You guys must really think you have something special down there. I've hunted it and you can have it. I've seen just as many and just as big of bucks North of I-70 as south (Henry Mountains not included). Believe me, there are just as many hunters up North as there are in your beloved country. I hate to burst your pitty party bubble but you don't have the majority of the bow hunting population hunting in the Southern units.

Like WW said, be really careful what you wish for with the unit specific draw. Some of you "southern boys" may not be bowhunting every year anymore if you get your way. If what you say is true, all of Northern Utah will be putting in for the Southern units. Imagine how hard that would be to draw!


It's always an adventure!!!
www.awholelottabull.com

 

[nochawk]

What AWHOLELOTTABULL said...
They did a survey last year and the southern unit got a whole lot less peopel hunting it that what they thought for all the complaints, I believe the southern unit ranked 3rd in number of hunters in the state.

 

[utfireman]

I agree, I don't hunt the southern units, but I do go down with my friends that live down there, and I have never seen this swarming of hunter's that everyone talks about.

However, if your going to limit us northern hunter's from coming down there, then I want to limit you southern guy's from coming up north and hunting the extended area's.

 

[Cam@strawberry]

Who cares where ya hunt in utah there arent any deer in this state anyway ;-) at least no bucks, well no bucks in the unit i hunt they all move to surrounding units when i draw the tag just to piss me off

Bury me in the hills so i can fertilize the grass and grow bigger animals for the rest of ya

 

[BrowningRage]

I gotta say I'm not shocked it happened, but it makes me a little sad. I'm 27 years old and have been hunting since I was 14. I've never harvested a trophy mule deer, but I have harvested deer with both rifle and "stick and arrow". Archery has been my preference for only the 4th year now. I love it. After stocking in on, and blowing shots at 3 different bucks which would be trophies in my book, I have been hooked. Events like this make me wonder what the future of hunting will hold not only for me, but for my children.

I can't afford Private Land tags, and will only draw for Limited Entry every 10 years probably. But from year to year I love being able to hunt mule deer, I am obsessed with them. I would hate to not be able to look forward to deer hunting each year. If the entire state were a draw, for every season, I'd miss out on my family's greatest tradition some day, it is inevitable.

I do appreciate the support for hunting throughout the state. I personally make trips to the southern unit every year scouting, then I drive down there and camp for a week of the hunt. I spend hundreds of dollars in gas, and this year will be even worse. If I could live off the radar somewhere down there i would, but my life is here, and that is my escape. If my escape were my life, what would i be doing with my life. This state is everyone's, no matter your geographical location.

 

[swbuckmaster]

Browningrage that is a very nice first post!!

Are you a UBA member if not you aught to be. UBA is an organization that is looking out for the Utah bow hunter as well as the general health of the Utah big game animals
Archery is the only way to over the counter tags, with the opportunity at big bucks and big bulls.

There is no better example of good management with over the counter tags than the Wasatch front.

There is no better example of what bad management looks like than the Utah general season deer




Archery is a year round commitment!!

 

[hollysdad]

Hey guys, I'm sorry, I sometimes get off on a tangent, and lose myself. sorry I steared this thread off in the wrong direction. this thread is about the sold old tags, not about my dislike for how the DH program lets us hunt all 3 seasons, I just wish that it was set up to make us pick our season. The DH program has a great purpose to it, thats why I'm in it, I just choose to hunt the archery only.

I also agree with 'SWBUCKMASTER' we should all join the UBA, it's a good cause.

again sorry I steared this thread off course.

 

[blazingsaddle]

+1 for UBA
If the majority of the UBA members want to keep the statewide archery hunt, then thats what UBA will push for. Join all of who are not already members.

 

[wileywapati]

Saddle don't limit yourself to UBA join BOU as well.
a couple years ago when this deal first popped up the founders of BOU saw this as another AR-301. A loss for no biological or responsible game management reason. We decided that we could either sit back and whine after the fact, approach the previously mentioned group with a plea to put more emphasis on bowhunting or get a group started that will tell it how it is.

Statewide Archery has flown under the radar for a few years for a couple of reasons. first a few important people asked the right questions of those that wanted to do away this with hunt opportunity. Secondly once it looked like support was present to keep the hunt as it is the flames were not fanned several months later by a group of latecomers.

This hunt may very well be in it's last year, But I guarantee you that I will tell everybody why, who and for what reason it went away.