I have never taken 1 hunters perspective over a unit as if it were good or terrible. Hunt it for yourself and do what you know. Example I hunted a unit in ID one year and probably saw 300-400 elk and elk were on every single ridge I glassed from the fs road. I read a guys story on a forum and he...
Wondering if anyone on here has drawn this tag in the past and willing to discuss unit in pm's? Not looking for spots, but access, bull quality and over all what you thought of the hunt.I have spent some time on the MT side archery hunting over the years.
I just saw your message, snow is very different from year to year from what I had gathered. Last year was record snowfall in UT and I saw a hunt in 21 that was in the 60's
lotta elk will be right where they were during archery and lotta bugling in the beginning of the season. Only factor is early snow could push them down some, but they are right at snow line. Lotta elk in that unit. I have a hard time not seeing elk in almost every drainage
how fawns and calves survive. First 2 weeks of life fawns spend very little time moving with mom, if they did they would end up dead as they are not fast enough to out run predators yet
I did learn if you are on the fence on a bull or think Ill shoot him tomorrow dont lol. I learned that almost every bull I saw one day I never turned up again. It was like a revolving door of bulls every day...new ones every morning. You could glass from the same spot every day and see new elk
I shot my bull just off the top of big ridge trail above the dairy fork road. Lotta elk in there too. I hiked up to the top to see the other side as there was not really any access in there due to snow and didnt see any elk in there, but lots of tracks.
That gated road if you walk a mile down to coffee pot creek there is a good trail going up and you will run into a water tank. At that tank there is small trail in that draw heading north west and will tak you up on top of coffee pot ridge. Was a pretty nice hike and got you right in on lots of...
If you follow the Dairy fork you will see "Side canyon" a intersection in the road it turns into 0070 road or Lake fork road. That road is gated and nobody walked it. If you look at map there above that gated road is " Sky high trail" you need a sxs or atv to get up there, but its well worth...
Its a hard hunt to plan for as I was told some years you can drive the skyline on late hunt and others you cannot. There was 25" 2 mi up skyline on my hunt. I saw a hunt in 2020 where it was in the 60's on the late hunt
I stayed in Helper and ventured some west of there and saw some elk, but there was too many guys glassing and seemed like to many roads. I ended up spending 90% of my hunt on 1 road as I saw over 53 bulls and was able to find a area that required some hiking to get to elk and not a soul was...