231 deer

Bonehead13

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LAST EDITED ON Jul-31-18 AT 10:14PM (MST)[p]Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone has spent some time in 231 this year looking for deer. If so what type of bucks have you located? I've been out there scouting four times so far and have yet to turn up a wow factor buck. I plan on hunting the whole hunt, plus one more trip this weekend so hopefully I will locate one. Anyway just curious as to how everyone else?s scouting is going.
 
Ram I never received your pm. Just an update, I ended up killing a good buck. Not quite the caliber I was hoping for going into the hunt but one of the best I found. Overall great, fun hunt. I would love to do it again.
 
Post a pic??

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Awesome buck! Congrats. Thanks for posting!

Steve

Cancer doesn't discriminate...don't take your good health for granted because it can be gone in a heartbeat. Please go back and read the last line. This time really understand what it says.
 
Spent a good amount of time there this season. Heard the archery hunt was lights out because drought and heat tied deer to water. Muzzy and rifle were tough. If I am not mistaken they recently took the last 5 days of the hunt off the end of the rifle which is not good because the last 3 days used to be the best, the rut would finally kick in.

I was not impressed, will probably look elsewhere next year.
 
I hunted the last 6 days of rifle season. I never saw a buck over 150" and i had plenty of spotters. Maybe i didn't hit all the honey holes but we were in tried and true areas. Wasted 17 years of applying for a giant dud. Really disappointing. All the hoopla about 231 it was really my worst hunt ever as far as seeing game.
 
The archery and muzzy hunts in 231 are BY FAR the best hunts. I don't even bother with the rifle hunts. Call any good outfitter for 231 and they'll push you toward the archery and muzzy hunts.
 
I have heard the rifle can be tough. They go into that thick nasty junipers and disappear. But I had archery and I had a fun hunt. I saw a dozen or so around 160-165 and a few 170-180 but no monsters. I know they are there. The Johnson boys guided a couple big bucks and so did mossback. There were some giants killed for sure, but I guess I don't know it well enough. And I couldn't bring myself to hunting those private boundaries in the flats. Not really my style of hunting.
 
>I hunted the last 6 days
>of rifle season. I never
>saw a buck over 150"
>and i had plenty of
>spotters. Maybe i didn't hit
>all the honey holes
>but we were in tried
>and true areas. Wasted 17
>years of applying for a
>giant dud. Really disappointing. All
>the hoopla about 231 it
>was really my worst hunt
>ever as far as seeing
>game

Guy I was with was hunting a landowner tag. I have a pile of points in Nevada and this made the decision easy for me. If I was an archery guy I might consider it but I would be sick if I spent 15 years or more on a hunt like the rifle hunt I saw. It would be an absolute waste.
 
I've drawn both the muzzy and archery buck tags in 231. Both were fun hunts with plenty of opportunity. Fun hunts with lots of 140-150 type deer. I would agree that most of the guides congregate on the south end of the unit near private and water.
I've never drawn the rifle tag but have tagged along with some friends who have. The big deer are still there, they just stick closer to thick cover. We caught some larger bucks on trail camera years back but all hit water at night and were in thicker - flatter country. Guys who know how to hunt that country do well on the rifle hunt.
 
Maybe they killed all the giants- here's a few 150's plus bucks from fall to late winter 2017 that survived the hunts (these are worthy enough in my way of thinking):
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