Riles1050
Lil-Rokslider
I'm feeling nice today.
Cost for NR Any bull or Spike tag is $393
Cost for NR Any bull or Spike multi-season tag is $700
Cost for NR Any bull or Spike tag is $393
Cost for NR Any bull or Spike multi-season tag is $700
I’m of the opinion that you don’t leave elk to go try to find elk.
If I want a bull opportunity I go out of state. Last year I was blessed to draw the Ut LE bull tag and had a great hunt. But these are basically once in a life time tags.
If he is in SW Utah, and wanting to hunt there really bad, I suspect he is seeing elk or hearing of elk. If that's the area you are going to hunt, his intel is all you need. If you're going to a different area in Ut, then yea, ask questions, but seems to me he is in the area you will hunt, so his info should be sufficient?
There's no way Ut compares to Co for group hunts.
SW Utah has to be the Pine Valley unit. According to the UDWR, there's about 50 to 75 elk on that unit. here
https://wildlife.utah.gov/hunting/plans/elk_30.pdf
you might want to read that.
I don't know about this, I've been hunting here over a decade and have tagged out on an elk every year in my unit some of those have been cows , which is legal with the archery tag.I would hope they are looking at Zion and not Pine Valley. Zion is mostly private land. There are bulls there but they are hard to come by. I know people that have been hunting it their whole lives and struggle. Archery will be especially hard with the elk not talking. I would never pay non resident prices for an any bull or spike elk tag in UT over CO. In fact I would pay to hunt CO over the $50 tag as a resident in UT.
Given the dates for Utah archery, I'd do Utah first and then hunt Colorado on your way home.
Yes the Zion Unit is the one my buddy is talking about. After researching UT all day and reading the info posted on this thread I’m not excited at all about hunting OTC in UT. If we end up there I’m going the spike only route and hoping to photograph some big bulls in those units.
Haha CorbLand, yeah we were trolling.
Let's make a deal that when the next guy asks about Utah OTC elk we only refer him to this thread rather than counter his push back (based on no actual knowledge) that Utah general isn't that bad.