Utah Harvest Data is up for OIL and LE

dillon · Feb 1, 2011

I look for this information every year to help me pick my hunts, I am glad they got it up today. Just go to the wildlife.utah.gov website, click on hunting, then big game, then about half way down the page you will find it. If someone else could get the link to work that would be awesome.

CDclub · Feb 1, 2011

Thanks for the headsup Dillon.

http://wildlife.utah.gov/hunting/biggame/pdf/10_stats/

B_BOP_A_LU_LU · Feb 1, 2011

The StickFlippers will be Pissed again!

God is Great!
Life is Good!
And People are Crazy!

I love not acting my age,
Damn I love my NASCAR race,
And Hell yes I love my Truck!
And a good BBQ!
I am Medicine And I am Poison!
What Voltage of Cordless Sawzall are you running & what's your quickest Drive-By at hackin the Horns off of RoadKills?

This Favorite Shhit is getting old already!

BIGJOHNT · Feb 1, 2011

The cwmu have a high success rate.

c3 · Feb 1, 2011

Thanks for the link CD and dillon!!!

Holy crap the San Juan archery only had 53% success. There be some unhappy folks out there it would seem.

Cheers,
Pete

utahbigbull · Feb 1, 2011

WOW! I feel lucky now, seeing my 2010 LE muzzle elk tag only had a 52% suscess, seems like most of the numbers are going in the throne.

Dreaminbig · Feb 1, 2011

Someone ate a Zion desert tag???? What the heck happened there??
I know the one tag on the Dirty Devil went unfilled because the hunter got hurt. But the Zion tag surprised me.

Sniper1 · Feb 1, 2011

Wow there was over 300 bulls killed off of wasatch last year. How can that happen every year and still keep an elk heard healthy?

utahbigbull · Feb 2, 2011

I know one of the four rams taken on the Zion unit was a bruiser. Seen a 2010 ram first hand taken from there n have pics. He measured in at the #2 utah ram ever taken. He said it was one sonsabtch of some rough goin and drained his bank account in the process. Mabey that fifth tag holder ran out of money.

dillon · Feb 2, 2011

Those Zion sheep are way off in the bottom of nowhere. They can be and usually are very hard to access. My brother saw the ram that scored in at #2 and said it was a stud and a half. Most of the locals don't know how to get into the sheep on the Zion and if you are not careful you can run them into the national park.

Overall it looks like Fillmore Oak Creek deer was the worst success in the state for deer. I have a friend who was one of the unsuccessful hunters on the Thousand Lake muzzleloader deer and he struggled to find a decent buck. I am still wondering how bad things really are on the Panguitch Lake for elk?!? I got into them last year hunting archery deer, but by the harvest results Panguitch Lake was not the place to be in 2010. I have a buddy who had an archery tag on PL and he worked really hard to get his bull.

Tree · Feb 2, 2011

All 3 sub-units on the Wasatch are well over objective, last year roughly 850 animals over. With the bull to cow ratio being what it is on the wasatch, it seems that we are barely, if at all, killing bulls that are beyond excess, according to objectives.

Also, age class objective is being exceeded every single year.

Tree · Feb 2, 2011

LE elk hunting was tough last year, but I don't think it was due to a lack of animals. If the weather cooperates a bit, it should be a banner year this year.

utahbigbull · Feb 2, 2011

I can tell you, he was. He brought him by for me to see and had him in my hands. He lives in the Morgan valley and is one hell of a guy, couldn't have happened to anyone better. One day man, one day.

bowhunt · Feb 2, 2011

The non resident on the Zions Unit did not kill a sheep. He was in a great area, on opening day...got tracked down by search and rescue. His wife was in a car accident in Alaska and in critical condition. He left for home and never returned. Sad Deal for sure.

If someone think they can stroll into the Zions Unit and shoot a Ram, they are sadly mistaken. It takes scouting, hiking, hunting, and luck. It is some nasty country.

Hawkeye · Feb 2, 2011

B_BOP_A_LU_LU said:"The StickFlippers will be Pissed again!"

B_Bop, I always seem to have trouble following your logic (or lack thereof). Why exactly are the archers going to be pissed again? Please enlighten us.

Hawkeye

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Winchester Apex .50 Cal
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littlebighorn · Feb 2, 2011

Correct me if I am wrong bowhunt, but I am told the Zion is almost exclusively a hike in/backpack in unit with a lot more cover than all other Utah Desert Sheep areas. Anyone who has hunted desert sheep knows how easy it is to get a bad break and come up empty. For sure the Zion is no shoe-in for a ram. My son and I were a cats whisker away from missing his OIL ram last year in an easier access unit. Just look at the number of hunt days for desert sheep. None of the hunts are a cake walk and if a guy can't dedicate a couple of weeks to hunt you can easily choke on that OIL tag. The Zion is for sure no exception.

bowhunt · Feb 2, 2011

Littlebighorn
Yes it is a backpack hunt. Most of the unit is wilderness study so the 4 wheeler trails and roads are closed. There are some areas that hold sheep that a guy could day hunt, but certainly not the prime areas.
The unit is loaded with cover, and the sheep use it!

Elkhunter96 · Feb 3, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Feb-03-11 AT 02:06PM (MST)[p]I can't stop looking at the reports. Crazy, the muzzleloader elk tag was brutal in some units.

Cache north and cache meadowville looked like horrible hunts. Even the early rifle hunts were at 50% or less