Youth Elk Hunt

Rushton,

Welcome to Muleymadness. :thumb

Congrats on the tag.

Rushton, welcome to the site and I'll ride Hiker's coattails and say CONGRATS on the draw.
Can't help ya with your request...never been there myself. However, if anyone on this site has hunted that area I am sure that they will be more than willing to help you fill that youth tag.

Rushton,

Never hunted the Uintas for elk, but the nice thing about Elk is they aren't to difficult to find. They are big animals and tend to stick in some good size herds. Good luck and let us know what you see.

I drew that tag in 04 - AWESOME HUNT! I loved it! All I can say is do some scouting - look around lots for water and good feeding areas with some good cover close by - that's where they'll be - Myself im personally a high country hunter so i'd tell you to get to the top.. up up up .. and then start your hunt from ridgetop to ridgetop lookin down on somethin to sneak into.. But mid-mountain would probably be fine. As muleymadness said, elk arent too hard to find for the most part - I think you should do great.

Keep us posted and congrats on the tag!
(Just curious - they let you hunt about 2 weeks earlier than everyone else, dont they? I don't quite remember but i think its somethin like that)

Thanks everyone for your help!! ill keep you posted when i find out whats happens..

My kid drew the same tag (I think.) Are you talking Hunt #YH499?

I'm travelling down from Alaska to do this one.

My first comment is that this hunt is not confined to the Uintas. I suggest you look at the 2006 Proclomation. You can hunt "Any Bull Elk Unit" except those that are "Spike Bull Elk Unit" only.

While I don't have any good recommendations, make sure you get something like the DeLorme State Atlas so you can get an idea of the topography and land ownership. The DeLorme only has 300' contours, which is not that great, but gives you some ideas.

I found Utah Geologic Survey has free 7.5 minute quad downloads. This can give you better topographic resolution. Helps ever better if you know how to stitch the images together. Of course you can alway pay lots of money for the individual topo maps or a collection of all the state quad maps.

http://geology.utah.gov/maps/topomap/7_5Quads/

From what I've gathered, the South Slope is not a bad place to look for an elk.

Hope this helps.

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Hey welcome to the site Rushton i havent ever hunted any elk yet but just wanted to say hello. by the way were ya from i know some Rushtons from vernal. are you one of um. ::wel

a good place to go hunting in the uintas is at mile marker 23! we have seen some big elk there!!

Congrats on the elk tag. ::wel

I noticed at HuntOdds.com they have their 2006 Utah draw data posted.

I learned that a NR has a 6x (53% vs 8.5%) better chance than a Res to draw this tag. Go figure. About the only time I've heard of a NR having better odds.

You a Res or NR Ruston?

Got our tix to Denver bought and think I'll drive over from there. I'll definately check out some great Mule Deer country in western CO on the way over.

The kid tried my .338 out on the range and was looking good at 200 yds. Looks like we'll bring that instead of his short bbl (16.5") litewt .308 Winny.

Don't know what to do to get ready for the 10-11k elevation, except plenty of exercise. Probably do a couple of 2-3k vertical climbs chasing down some blacktails here before we leave.

Starting to get kinda excited even tho I can't pull the trigger on this hunt.

I've got some area scouted out on the South Slope (topos & Terraserver) that look ok.

UBH - what route is that Milepoint on anyway, or is that just a tease?


MM

I believe that you are able to take and hunt any "Any Bull area" You can not hunt spike units, and you can not hunt limeted enty units. I tell you this because last year I had a run into a youth hunter and his dad in the wasatch unit. Good thing I had my proclamation and cleared things up for them. Then again I guess I should have let them poach one, turn them in and get a limeted tag for my self. (J/K)

Like said before just do a little scouting and you should be able to come up with somthing, I will tell you though that you probably shouldn't be real picky, yes there are some toads in those areas but chances of finding them are about like drawing a limited enty big bull tag here in utah.

Yeah im a resident!! We are going up on the northern slope by gilbert medows and china medows we went scouting and it looks like a good area its nice cause its in the rut!! and there will be few hunters since only 200-300 in the hole state drew out.. thanks for your comments and help send more if you got any!