Tag soup yet again

well after huntn my big ol butt off this year, im stuck eatn that nasty tag soup. it was a weird year. i hunted hard and only cut one track even after the snow. never saw a deer or elk to save me. and every one that i talked to that shot a deer shot it right off the road. kinda makes a feller mad! but oh well i still had a good time just need to keep after it
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My best friend and his dad had a tough time in unit 58. They hunted 7 days without seeing a buck. It wasn't until a cold front that they saw the two they got.
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ABert
I saw plenty of deer down in 681, at least one wall hanger and 4 to 5 mature bucks that most anyone would take on opening morning. Many more meat bucks including a big bodied small rack 3 pointer.

Problems was...

I didn't have a deer tag. The only elk I saw were in the headlights on the first night after coming back down to camp. Not a lot of fresh sign but enough to keep a fella interested. Hunted hard and never saw an elk since those we saw that first night.

I feel your pain but feel good knowing a good number of bucks will be around next year around the north end of the San Luis Valley.
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yea i hunted high i hunted low i hunted the medium. never seen fresh tracks once. only tracks i seen was a heard of elk that got spooked out from a deep hole. cut one track after the first snow i followed it for 3 or so miles till it went down into a dark deep canyon that i wasnt about to go into. i was in unit 34 and will never hunt there again. opeing morning we counted 100 different trucks with in the first 2 hours. was hunters every where. i mean every where. was a horrible season
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stillhunterman
It was a strange year in Utah for the hunts. Elk and deer were simply NOT where they normally were. Once the weather hit and snow was on the ground, a good number of bucks were take, some real bruisers too. I feel yer pain, had almost the same experience here but there is always next year, as Ridge always says! :thumb
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