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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: bearpaw on September 11, 2009, 08:01:23 PM

Title: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 11, 2009, 08:01:23 PM: One of my guides is guiding a limited entry elk hunt in Utah tomorrow. Wanted to be there myself but had too many bear hunters to leave....I will hopefully be posting up some good photos soon.....they have an estimated 370 spotted and going after him in the morning.... :) :) :)
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: couesbitten on September 11, 2009, 08:12:39 PM: Bearpaw, what unit are they hunting in down there? Can't wait to see the pics.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 11, 2009, 08:15:13 PM: book cliffs....but not the roadless....the roaded area always produces 320+ for us. I honestly have never seen a 400 in that area though. It was in the roadless area that Moss got the 400+.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Craig on September 11, 2009, 08:20:00 PM: Post pictures if they get one. I will be hunting bulls in the Fishlake in November.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 11, 2009, 08:40:34 PM: I will post if they get one....the hunter is going to be very selective and says he is looking for 360 plus only, they are there, but not a lot of them go over 350. So far the 3 best bulls spotted scouting are 370ish, 350ish, 340ish. I am pretty sure I was on the 370 two years ago when he was a 360ish with a broken point, but got busted when the wind swirled. We only had a couple days to hunt and we had to settle for a 325+ on the second day, wasn't too bad for a muzzleloader bull. The 370ish bull is in the exact same spot this year.....

I don't know the fishlake area....what's that area usually produce?
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: huntnphool on September 11, 2009, 08:49:02 PM: Are they using rifles this time of year over there?
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Craig on September 11, 2009, 09:01:24 PM: I'm going with a guide and he said 320-350 it pretty typical bulls for them with some 350+ bulls running around.

I think Utah started the late hunts in 2006. The guides have taken at least one hunter every year on this hunt and they are 100% on bulls over 330+. Last year they got a 355 bull. I hope I don't break the pattern of success.

Maybe there will be a lost bull wondering around and I can find him.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: shag on September 11, 2009, 10:59:39 PM: I'm headed to Utah for muzzleloader bucks 2010!! I was born there. Been a dream of mine for along time to put a tag on a big mulie from my birth state!! :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Bigshooter on September 12, 2009, 02:33:59 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on September 11, 2009, 08:49:02 PM
Are they using rifles this time of year over there?

Early rifle season started the 12th this year and ends the 20th.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 13, 2009, 12:34:22 AM: Yes it is a rifle hunt.

They looked at some good mature bulls today but nothing close to the 360 mark that the hunter is looking for.....

Tomorrow is another day......hopefully the big boy shows up again....
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Wyoming08 on September 13, 2009, 12:40:12 AM: Quote from: shag on September 11, 2009, 10:59:39 PM
I'm headed to Utah for muzzleloader bucks 2010!! I was born there. Been a dream of mine for along time to put a tag on a big mulie from my birth state!! :IBCOOL:
Ya your dang right we are going shag. We'll see how you do up in the high hunt this year, if you don't get eaten by all those bears.
Monticello here we come brother.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Wyoming08 on September 13, 2009, 12:42:34 AM: Quote from: bearpaw on September 13, 2009, 12:34:22 AM
Yes it is a rifle hunt.

They looked at some good mature bulls today but nothing close to the 360 mark that the hunter is looking for.....

Tomorrow is another day......hopefully the big boy shows up again....
My bro-in law and his brother and friends are scouting for the this years governors tag holder. Everyone hates moss down there. Utah is the place for 400+ bulls.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 13, 2009, 01:03:08 AM: Which units are they scouting in? Quite a few units have produced 400+ bulls.

I know everybody hates Moss, one reason is that he is effective and I don't fault a guy for that, I respect that, but I have heard a few stories of blocking roads and stuff like that which isn't right at all if it is true.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 16, 2009, 06:14:01 PM: Still no bull.....passed numerous 320 to mid 340's. Heard from other hunters that a 370's was killed the last day of archery season in the same canyon that we were hoping to kill the 370 I had mentioned earlier. We are running out of time, may have to go back after the mid 340's bull......
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 17, 2009, 10:11:43 PM: my guide called and they killed a 345-350 bull today. Was the best bull they had crosshairs on and the guy is happy with the bull so all is good.....will post pics after I get them.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: SHANE(WA) on September 17, 2009, 10:21:34 PM: :drool: nice
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Wyoming08 on September 18, 2009, 02:20:43 PM: Just got off the phone with a buddy. His brother and dad drew the Pahvant hunt. His brother killed a nice 300+ class bull in the Pahvant unit I know not very big apparently the 380+ and the 300+ switched places in the timber and as soon as he saw horns come out he shot! :'( :'(
But his dad hunted really hard all week, had several 350-380 class bulls that he had "Almost chances" on and wasn't able to connect. So after 10 years of putting in for that hunt his dad had to eat his tag. :'( :'( :'( :'(
He is going up tonight to "Somewhere around Logan" on a CMU hunt to get his wife a 350+ bull. They have been watching it all day, dang near have it tied up so she can get it. I'll let you know what happens with her.
He said in the Pahvant they saw ALOT of very nice 380-400 class bulls just weren't in the right spot... :bash:
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: WDFW-SUX on September 18, 2009, 02:24:31 PM: I wish I could draw a pavant tag in the next 10 years
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: huntnphool on September 18, 2009, 02:24:56 PM: Wyoming08, Is this an archery hunt?
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: huntnphool on September 18, 2009, 02:25:41 PM: Quote from: WDFW-SUX on September 18, 2009, 02:24:31 PM
I wish I could draw a pavant tag in the next 10 years

Yeah, get in line. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 18, 2009, 02:56:13 PM: If you are asking me about the hunt we were doing, it was a rifle hunt. The bull green scored about 348, they scored it conservatively so it might make 350. I should get a picture in a few days and will post it. My guide called it in, they shot it, it started to leave, and he called it back again, I know that sounds crazy, but it happened, the guy shot it again, then it went off a ways and bedded down, they snuck in and it took a couple more shots to polish him off. That's what happens when the first shot isn't a good one....

They are headed to the Henry Mtns next for a mule deer hunt. Hoping for a 180-200 class buck....

I think I have 10 points now, so one of these years I might draw an elk tag for myself. I would like to shoot one more bull elk, then I will probably just shoot cows every year to eat and save the bulls for my hunters....
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: MtnMuley on September 18, 2009, 03:04:47 PM: Damn it bearpaw! I was hoping you were selling a cancellation hunt for cheap, after reading the title!! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on September 19, 2009, 04:56:18 PM: I do have two really good landowner bull elk tags available in a great Utah elk unit. 350 to 400 class bulls are the target.

My cost for these landowner tags is $9000 each. I will do the hunt for $2000. Your cost would be $11,000. These premium hunts usually sell for about $15,000 to $18000.
Title: Re: Utah Trophy Elk Hunt
Post by: Wyoming08 on September 19, 2009, 08:12:27 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on September 18, 2009, 02:24:56 PM
Wyoming08, Is this an archery hunt?
Negatory. they were hunting rifle. :hunter: