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Post by esshup on Aug 5, 2018 6:55:13 GMT -5
You still have time to buy for Wyoming!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Aug 5, 2018 11:10:10 GMT -5
Not too late to get points for Montana either. New Mexico and Idaho are all random draw, no point system.
There's a reason for the point creep in Wyoming.. the hunting quality for elk is generally considered head and shoulders above most other areas, excluding the hard to draw LE areas in surrounding states. A general tag is not difficult to get, and good for the majority of the state.
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Post by medic22 on Aug 5, 2018 14:14:10 GMT -5
I just bought a point each for elk, muley, and antelope.
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Post by ukwil on Aug 5, 2018 14:23:37 GMT -5
I got points for Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. I'll add Colorado next spring. Plus we drew pronghorn tags in Wyoming
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Post by esshup on Aug 25, 2018 13:48:08 GMT -5
Just got back from scouting out there. Area 44 in Colorado. Saw a few doe Mule Deer, no bucks but the area that I will be hunting has had about 1/2 dzn taken over 200" and another half dzn over 180". Also found out that this fat flatlander needs to be in better shape. If I shoot one, getting it out may be a challenge. We're hunting between 10,000' and 11,000' elevation.
The terrain ain't nothing like here, and forget about getting within a few hundred yards of the deer if you spot it. At least with me, if I spot one, I could never catch up with it before I croaked trying. There, glassing a mile away for deer/elk is close range, glassing 4-5 miles away is long range. The smoke from the wildfires in California and further West in Colorado limited our distance glassing. It may have played a part in the wrong weather forecast too. Supposed to have been sunny, we had 3 days of on/off rain and thunderstorms.
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Post by schall53 on Aug 25, 2018 15:19:46 GMT -5
I know what you mean. That elevation is mean and hard to move in for fat old men> I found out I will be hunting between 8000' and 9500', not as bad as you but bad enough!
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 25, 2018 17:41:22 GMT -5
Altitude sickness is real..
I took Woomaster to Colorado when he was a sophomore in High School. He was in excellent shape, but the first day while doing a little too much he says “I don’t feel to well”.
He took it easy for awhile and then was OK.
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Post by esshup on Aug 25, 2018 23:34:15 GMT -5
I read the symptoms of altitude sickness and I had none of them. Just not used to the altitude I guess, but by the 3rd day there I was getting used to it. I plan on getting out there 2 to 2 1/2 days before the hunt starts, we have to get camp set up, do some scouting, etc. so that might help a bit.
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Post by esshup on Oct 29, 2018 19:22:19 GMT -5
Well, it's tag soup for me. We saw deer almost every day and I held out for a 28" or wider Mulie. I could have shot one that was 27" the 2nd day, but passed and another hunter shot it while I was looking at it thru the spotting scope. Long story short, but green score was 187".
I missed getting a shot at a 29" wide one, it walked away 4 minutes before I arrived I was told.
9700' elevation is like breathing through a straw. We had to drive the ATV's 6 miles each way from the camp to the hunting spot, going about 1/2 mile through a 2' dia boulder field while climbing/descending from 9,700 to 10,600 and back again. That beat us up daily.
Talked to a local after he climbed/hunted up from around 8,500' elevation. He said he saw a Mountain Lion covering up an deer that it killed the previous night - not 800 yds from where I was sitting. It was an enjoyable hunt, but I sure did miss indoor plumbing!!
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Oct 29, 2018 20:56:51 GMT -5
Well, it's tag soup for me. We saw deer almost every day and I held out for a 28" or wider Mulie. I could have shot one that was 27" the 2nd day, but passed and another hunter shot it while I was looking at it thru the spotting scope. Long story short, but green score was 187". I missed getting a shot at a 29" wide one, it walked away 4 minutes before I arrived I was told. 9700' elevation is like breathing through a straw. We had to drive the ATV's 6 miles each way from the camp to the hunting spot, going about 1/2 mile through a 2' dia boulder field while climbing/descending from 9,700 to 10,600 and back again. That beat us up daily. Talked to a local after he climbed/hunted up from around 8,500' elevation. He said he saw a Mountain Lion covering up an deer that it killed the previous night - not 800 yds from where I was sitting. It was an enjoyable hunt, but I sure did miss indoor plumbing!! You passed up a 187" buck? Your standards are a LOT higher than mine! Glad you had a good time out there..
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Post by esshup on Oct 30, 2018 7:59:33 GMT -5
Well, it's tag soup for me. We saw deer almost every day and I held out for a 28" or wider Mulie. I could have shot one that was 27" the 2nd day, but passed and another hunter shot it while I was looking at it thru the spotting scope. Long story short, but green score was 187". I missed getting a shot at a 29" wide one, it walked away 4 minutes before I arrived I was told. 9700' elevation is like breathing through a straw. We had to drive the ATV's 6 miles each way from the camp to the hunting spot, going about 1/2 mile through a 2' dia boulder field while climbing/descending from 9,700 to 10,600 and back again. That beat us up daily. Talked to a local after he climbed/hunted up from around 8,500' elevation. He said he saw a Mountain Lion covering up an deer that it killed the previous night - not 800 yds from where I was sitting. It was an enjoyable hunt, but I sure did miss indoor plumbing!! You passed up a 187" buck? Your standards are a LOT higher than mine! Glad you had a good time out there.. LOL I was told that there were bucks in the area that were 30" wide, and that area is known for having large deer - bucks up to 235" have been taken there over the years. While the height was good, the width wasn't there. From our angle, there was a lot of brush behind the deer and it's mass was hard to determine - it was 820 yds away from me. The guy and his father who eventually shot it (at 810 yds with a .28 Nosler) had a different angle and could see it against light colored grass, and could see the mass better than we could. The shooting distance for me was no big deal - calm winds and the gun I'm using will do better than a 4" group at 1,000 yds. My cousin who saw the deer that I didn't get to in time said it was wider and had more mass than that 187" one. We didn't stay until dark every day - we left the hunting area about 45 min before last legal shooting light because of the long 6 mile ATV ride back to camp, and if one was shot at dusk, we couldn't get to it before it got dark out. Leaving one overnight was a gamble - there were Mountain Lions, Bears and Coyotes all active in the area. A few days later (but before my cousin saw the 29" wide one) we heard that 2 guys from Texas shot a 192" buck in the same area at dusk after we left for the night. It must have taken them until midnight or later to get the deer out, because we were at the same area before daylight the next day and they didn't come back. THAT deer was about 700 yds from our vantage point because we saw ravens going into the quakies the next day where we assumed the gut pile was. The closest shot I would have had from my vantage point was 300 yds, and that was down at about a 60° angle. We could watch deer in openings in the quakies and sage, the furthest we saw them was roughly 3500 yds away. We saw a number of 4x4's that were as wide or just a hair narrower than the width of their ears, and there was a nice heavy 3x3 that was as wide as his ears when they were laid flat, but with the rear "spike" he wouldn't have scored good. The front forks were about 8" deep. That one was right at 630 yds, and if he'd walked out on the last day in the same area I'd have been tempted because he was in an easy area to get out - maybe a 3 hour recovery.
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