Recent content by elktaker

Access is pretty good if you are a capable hiker. Units small look high and/or try and find bucks hitting ag on private and bedding on public. I have elk hunted it a bunch.

Because those are odds just results. You got to do the math yourself.

Hard unit for a decent buck and lots of private and tags (tag numbers cut this year so maybe less hunters). The fires is the other side of 89 and there was a fire closer to virgin Utah but it’s out.

The solution is no points, not a new point system. Creep is out of control.

I live, work, and hunt on the unit. Does not match my style too much. Areas that I want to hike into get a lot of illegal atv us. I typically pick up a muzzy yearly no points but I have one this year so another local unit instead. Also a ton of any bull hunters during early rifle so...

I wouldn’t burn 4pts on Zion unless I have private access.

Get rid of multi season general tags. Go back to pick 1. Personally I feel we need to go to a straight lottery/no points for limited hunts. Points don’t work once creep sets in. ID and NM knew what they were doing. I will start applying for limited elk next year in Utah. In 30 year, odds...

With the temps, the rut has not really kicked on yet but still some to easily see from the shuttle and a couple Springdale city bucks worth looking at. I live in the park and had the limited muzzy tag this year and definitely a down year and it’s still hot and dry.

I didn’t lobby Utah to a one shot rifle season instead of a muzzleloader season. I would prefer that we had primitives only and much shorter rifle hunt (definitely not two rifle seasons on most general units) and I would prefer we got rid of rifle rut hunts for elk. I have wounded one big...

That’s a great accomplishment, but probably belongs as it’s own thread.

The BC is much higher. They make this bullet in a 300 as well but the 275 is plenty for how far I will shoot at fur. you need a gun that can stabilize the higher bc bullet. I believe my barrel is 1-18 twist. If I would use smokeless powder and speed it up just a little then it would start...

I am hoping to head down from Utah with a rifle couse tag at some point but I am likely going to have some points by that time. So hard to decide which out of states hunts to try and draw each year. I have 3 points now and this year I have a limited buck tag in Utah, next year a Colorado elk...

I have a primitive and an inline cva wolf as well. I would prefer states kept the regulations inline with primitive guns during muzzleloader seasons that make the hunts harder and less desirable to draw but many have gone the other away. I live in Utah where this gun is legal during the...

I tried a new combo in my custom savage (Steven’s actually) muzzleloader. 28” .458 barrel Brake Arrowhead 209 plug Sits in a XLR element chassis (I use this for my PRC and WSM actions as well) Nightforce SHV 275 gr .402 bullets out a blush crush sabot I thought for sure they weren’t going...