Contact Mardon resort and ask to speak with Dick Hemore. He is the most knowledgable man in the area. He is the go to guy for the game department on animal counts. He loves taking out the youth hunters and has lived in the area and worked for the Bureau of land reclamation since 1953. I got in contact with him and he told me told me to tell any youth hunters that draw to get a hold of him. The year my son drew he had taken out 4 kids and they all killed bucks; 6x4, 4x4, 4x3 and one kid shot a forkhorn out of a herd of bucks and it was the smallest. The year before my son drew Dick had taken out two hunters with 'A' tags and they killed a 31" and a 32".
We saw 40-50 bucks in the six days we hunted and that is not including double ups. We were after a herd of 12-14 bucks that had a 28" deep forked 4 point but we never got close enough for a shot with the muzzlestuffer. He connected on a nice 4x3 about 22" wide.
It's too bad the season is so short, in fact it's complete *censored* to do that to youth hunters. There was alot of bellyaching by adult hunters who couldn't draw their desert tags,so hey let's screw the youth hunters. My son after going on the hunt, he's hooked. In fact this year is his first year bowhunting.
Let's worry about ourselves and not the youth hunters, I mean hell their only our future!
