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Getting ready to go. I leave Thursday morning and the hunt starts Saturday. The end of last week the area I am hunting got 2-3 feet of snow up high and started pushing the elk down to lower parts of the unit. The guide called me on monday morning and told me about his Saturday and Sunday scouting trip. On those two days he seen 120 bulls. The biggest ones were in the 350 range. he called today and said he found a Big bull. Who knows if they will stick around tell the hunt starts but it should be a fun hunt. Then I go from Utah to Montana to hunt Mule deer. I hope to have some good pictures when I get back. I will try and send Ridgerunner some text messages with hunt updates. I  will see if he can keep people updated.
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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 04:35:52 PM »
good luck sounds like the weather is working for ya

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 04:38:14 PM »
Good luck, hope you kill a monster.
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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 05:41:30 PM »
Hope you get a giant, Craig. Sounds like things are going your way take lots a pics and enjoy. Good Luck
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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 06:10:38 PM »
GO GET EM!  Hope you kill a monster!

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2009, 09:16:39 PM »
Hope you get what you hope for looks like the weather will play a role. Good Luck

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2009, 01:29:58 PM »
Craig is in UT scouting for his big bull, the hunt officially starts tomorrow, hopefully he finds a 350 bull today to keep tabs on. 

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2009, 01:31:37 PM »
Good luck!  Sounds like you have a couple of great hunts planned!  Go get em!
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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2009, 01:45:20 PM »
Rolled into town about a hour ago. It is 65 degrees out. Not to good. Melting a lot of the snow at the lower elevations. Going out scouting in about a hour. Going to look for some bulls seen earlier in the week. I bought a new digiscope thing. I will se if it works tonight. Suppse to cool down into the low 50s after today.

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2009, 03:58:06 PM »
Thanks Craig, keep us posted man!!

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2009, 04:00:05 PM »
Getting ready to go. I leave Thursday morning and the hunt starts Saturday. The end of last week the area I am hunting got 2-3 feet of snow up high and started pushing the elk down to lower parts of the unit. The guide called me on monday morning and told me about his Saturday and Sunday scouting trip. On those two days he seen 120 bulls. The biggest ones were in the 350 range. he called today and said he found a Big bull. Who knows if they will stick around tell the hunt starts but it should be a fun hunt. Then I go from Utah to Montana to hunt Mule deer. I hope to have some good pictures when I get back. I will try and send Ridgerunner some text messages with hunt updates. I  will see if he can keep people updated.

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2009, 06:36:05 PM »
Just got back from scouting. Seen about 35 bulls tonight. About 6 or 7 shooters. There are four real good ones. We were not the only guys watching these bulls. So we need to be the first ones out there in the morning. The good thing is two other guys that were watching them can't hike to get to them ( we were about a mile away spoting them ) it's going to be quite a hike to them. Straight up and over the mountain. Will se how it goes tomorrow.

Here is a little side story. I am hunting the fishlake unit but we were in the Monroe unit spotting back across to my unit. The guy that is with me took me to the spot that spider bull was killed. About 5 minutes from were we were spoting from. I don't know how that bull lived so long. Wide open sage brush. He must have been in some dark hole hiding and finaly made a bad move and got shot.

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2009, 06:56:02 PM »
Sweet, cant wait to hear how tomorrow goes for ya!!

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2009, 08:27:38 PM »
35 bulls with 6 or 7 shooters, rest up tomorrow could be a BIG day.  Can't wait to see the pics.  Sounds like itll be an awesome hunt.

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Re: My Utah trip is about to start.
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2009, 08:32:52 PM »
good luck
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