Looking for Alta Whitetail

[Jbell1221]

I'm new to the Board and looking for help.  I drew a whitetail tag for the Alta unit and started hunting Saturday. I have seen hundreds of Muleys, including several bucks I would gladly have come home with. I have only seen one scrawny little 3x3 whitetail and a handful of does.  I've seen the posts talking about how most of the sightings are on private lands down low.  Does anyone have some ideas for me?  I don't want to spend another day staking out a game trail or driving the highlands only to watch another Muley walk by.  I only have so much vacation time!   
Thanks!

[kirkl]

go shoot the scrawny 3x3. id shoot the first whitey i see.

[jaredwitman]

I had the tag last year. The Alta Unit is pretty tough to find any whitetail. Shoot that 3x if I were you, you might not see anything bigger. We were lucky enough to fill 2 tags last year (small 2pt and a 4x4). Those were the only 2 whitetail bucks we saw. I will PM you with a little bit more information on where you might want to spend your time.

[Romulus1297]

Friday day I took my little girl to the Alta Unit for her doe tag and had a whitetail doe at 30 yds in 30 minutes and told her to pull the trigger but the gun started shaking up and down. Dang. The Remington 700 has a trigger that isn't working wow perfect timing Sat. at 3:38 PM there were 8 legal whitetail dow in the Alta unit field but my daughter was wandering and shopping around town with grandma.  Sunday afternoon we will try to fill her doe tag with a whitetail.  If we cant we will try the next few days if homework allows it. Tag soup isn't that bad of a snack

[Jbell1221]

I left the Alta unit with nothing but my tags. The "Quality Whitetail Hunt" was nothing of the sort! After 12 days in the field, driving, hiking, climbing, and glassing fields, I saw a total of 3 bucks, the best of which was a 4x4 50 yards into a farmer's field. After knocking on the farmer's door on three separate occasions, I gave up and hunted the surrounding hillsides to no avail. I saw maybe a dozen does, but none with suitors, so hopefully the rut will start so the muzzleloaders will have better luck.

I saw a moose cow and calf, a cougar, several gaggles of wild turkeys, and enough "Quality" muley bucks to make me want to draw that tag someday.  A shame I used my points on this tough hunt.  Next time I'll get some whitetail tips earlier in my season!  Thanks all for the ideas and hints.  Good luck to everyone else!

[kirkl]

It's not a quality whitetail hunt. It's a buck hunt if you look at the regs.