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Thanks IdahoHntr, that sounds like a truly bad experience. I appreciate all your responses. Maybe the every-other-year non-resident license is the way to go. It is about the same cost that way as buying the full-time multi-year resident license and there is no risk of being in trouble with...

Bobby, that makes sense to me. You would obviously have to apply for non-resident tags, but you wouldn't need to buy a new non-resident license in order to apply for them, since you have the lifetime license, or in our case, the multi-year resident license. And since my daughter will only...

Thanks for your thoughts guys. I hadn't thought of the lifetime license angle. Obviously that one is good enough (i.e. you don't need to purchase a new non-resident hunting license) to apply in the drawings. Since my daughter is only buying bonus points and not applying for non-resident tags...

Hi folks, My daughter is moving out of state for several years of grad school. We wonder if she buys a multi-year license if she can still apply, legally and ethically, for bonus points in her absence. I can't find the answer in the guide books anywhere. Thanks in advance, DEADicated

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Not to defend the CWMU program or anything, but if a CWMU has public land inside of it, the DWR makes them give a higher percentage of public permits on the CWMU, and thus compensating the public for the use of their land. Before the CWMU program, that "landlocked" land would have been off...

Congrats Hubba! I sent you an email. Good luck!

What are the odds??? A 3-legged deer in the same spot! I'm actually starting to think the bull is scratching his ear like several of you have suggested. But we still need to tag him to know for certain.

I've zoomed in as far as I can over and over, but for the life of me I cannot see a leg or hoof. I really think he's just got 3 legs. And of course this is the only picture we have of this bull... Hopefully there will be a trophy picture of him in 2 weeks!

We got this picture off our trailcam. Can you see what is wrong with this bull? If you can't see it, try not looking at his antlers... Have you ever seen an elk in this condition before? Would you put an arrow in him?

I've used mine a couple of times and have two sets of diametrically opposed results. 1 - During the rut in the Book Cliffs roadless area, we decided to see what we could call in one morning. We set up and immediately had a bull coming in. The direction he was coming from was at a right angle...

Here's a pic from a couple years ago. With this spot my wife doesn't complain about us hunting so much...

Tractor - Just sent a message. Awesome work!!! And to think I just finished selling all my recent finds for Christmas cash...

Here's the email I just sent to [email protected]: Dear friends at KSL, I am extremely disappointed that you would remove ALL listings of not only "assault weapons", but also of listings for generic hunting equipment. Please tell me how it is dangerous for me to buy a trail camera, a tree...

OMGosh! The G1's on that last one must go 6"!!! I think you are underestimating the scores on those monsters! I really enjoyed your narrative. You are a gifted writer.

The doe in the photo below had just instructed her fawns to show us what they thought of us trying to hunt down daddy...

Very nice Mike! Now we need to get your brother an even bigger one! I'll guess about 165 for his score. DEADicated

Welcome to the forum elkhunter33. You are probably right, we shouldn't complain about people hunting on our property. But we do complain if they don't get permission. If they ask nicely, and give us permission to hunt on their property, we are more than happy to grant reciprocal access on...

I agree with your sentiment on 4,5,6. I've never seen so many people either, both during the muzzleloader and rifle hunts. And we were on private property! Our property borders a CWMU and 3 other properties. We were educating trespassers non-stop, including those we saw cross the fence to...

We were in the 4-5-6 unit in the Northern Region.

My daughter's Utah buck. This bruiser came running towards us at 9:00 a.m. on opening day after being jumped by other hunters. She was having trouble putting a shell in her chamber, so I put one in mine and lowered the scope to 3x and handed it to her while I prepared her rifle. She shot at...

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Do any of you have data or good studies on calf survival when the cow is killed early in the archery season? I was wondering when reviewing trail cam pics that show suckling calves, as late as Aug 16th. Thanks, DEADicated

The Yellow Fork idea is fantastic. The main horse trail just left (South) of the creek has lots of noxious weeds, specifically thistle and burdock that could be dug out. A group of 7 boys and 2 leaders could knock all those out in one evening. Thanks for the idea. If you decide not to do...

We've only ever seen bear tracks, and always during the early hunt and very high. A biologist once told me that by mid-November the bears are already hibernating or almost dormant. However, a friend of mine killed a bear there during the Spring hunt years ago. I've never been in the Middle...

We've never seen a whitetail there. It is classic muley habitat.

Middle Fork Aviation charges based on the price of fuel, amongst other things. Last year we paid about $330 per flight. So it would have been $330 to get you and your buddy and your stuff into one of the strips, and then another $330 to get you out. Their planes (Cessna 206) can carry three...

We don't use an outfitter. When I don't fly myself in, we use Middle Fork Aviation in Challis to ferry me and my kids in. Here are some photos: These first ones are last year: Here is another of 2009: Here are some from 2006: And one of 2002:

Sorry, I'm not good with photos... This first picture was 2009. My daughter's buck only had one antler, the other broken less than an inch up. My younger son got a 4x4 of about the same size and we sent it out on an earlier flight. This next picture is the big one from 2011. I got him at the...

We hunt in unit 27 every several years. Last year I got a 185" buck, but that is the biggest one we've ever seen in four hunting seasons there. Usually we get smaller ones like the ones in the picture with the airplane. Good luck out there! DEADicated

We saw a bunch of buffs in the roadless area in 2008, right after they introduced them there. But we haven't seen any since then. The Roadless area isn't in the Agency Draw bison unit, which is considerably further North. Here's the map of where the hunt will be...

What a great video Russ! Kevin is truly talented with that camera. My whole family enjoyed watching the whole video. Thanks again for letting us be a part of your hunt! DEADicated

My vote goes to Iowan. Amazing elk hunts, whitetails up the wazoo, pheasants, youth hunts, locked bucks, etc. And with great pictures too.

Hey GreatWestern, I apologize. I read your post again, and we are in perfect agreement on the greens. Great post. DEADicated

I disagree that the greens are ignorant. I think their pro-wolf agenda is calculated and they know exactly what they are attempting to do. There is no question in my mind that their end goal is to end the biologic reasons for hunting deer and elk, which is to control the numbers of the...

I love it when the kids come hunting with me. This is my youngest daughter's first buck.

I agree with you 110%! I'm 49 and have now run 23 marathons and run 50-60 miles per week. My heart rate is 47. I can hunt up and down mountains all day for days on end. My kids and I hunt almost exclusively in wilderness areas and they are troopers also. We do have horses, but not enough...

Here are pictures of the bucks my daughters killed. My boy ate tag soup after passing up too many bucks. It is a 3 point and better unit (27) where we hunted. The one picture makes my daughter's buck look like a 2 point, but it really does have a 3rd point. My buddy killed a 4 point and I...

This is the biggest buck we got on our recent Idaho hunt. He's the biggest buck I've ever tagged. He rolled about 400 yards down the hill and ruined his cape, with big tufts of hair missing. I love hunting deer in the rut! I'll try to put up more pictures of the other deer we got...