invictus1218Nice info. I am new to hunting and I already got my pack it's a Kuiu 1850 Icon Pro from https://huntmode.com and I also want to get a camera. This really helped in my decision whether to get one or not. I am now looking for hunting outfitters that sells trail cameras. Thanks again.
I started using trail cameras in 2018. Originally it's was out of curiosity and just for fun. I really got hooked on them when I started getting great elk pictures. Now I run several cameras all year. I get pictures of coyotes, foxes, deer, elk and antelope. I bought my first 4 cameras used from a store in town. Then I bought several Stealth Cam units. The images got significantly better. I got dr... Read more
I can say that I have learned more fron the hunts and setups that I have blown than my successful hunts. The biggest lesson that I have learned is that PATIENCE has killed more birds than the best of calling.
In the past I was always a pot calling user. But now I would say for the past 10 years or so I primarily use nothing but a mouth call. On a rare occasion I might pull out a pot call just for the hell of it. But mouth calls are my go to call for turkeys.
Darrell MorrisLeaving tomorrow morning for Oyster class!!! Fingers crossed I don't screw it up! Won't sleep a wink tonight.
Darrell Morris@darrellmorris JUST graduated Oyster class! Best wife ever sent me. Bill, Riley and Dean are super! Can't thank them, along with Shannen,Quinn,and Kassie enough. What a super experience! Hoping I can do it again.
I have been hunting and guiding elk since 1985. Most guys that shoot those big magnum cartridges don't shoot them very well. They are afraid of the recoil. Too many hunters do not take their hunt as seriously as I think they should. There is no substitute for practice. I have many hunters ask me what gun they should bring on their elk hunt and I tell them "bring the gun you shoot the best". Shoot ... Read more
It is hard to break the fly right out in the skis are having so much fun. But thanks for the story it gets me motivated. I think I'll bring my flyrod down to SLC this week for a combo trip
Sorry you had a bad experience. Looks like from your pictures that the area was in a late succession stage conifer encroached aspen anyway and needed a high intensity fire to regenerate the aspens, in which elk love (fire/forest ecology 101). Come back in the years to come and and it will probably be an elk heaven. Hats go off to all the firefighters.
Tim BanekSorry you had tough luck. I had a general season bull tag and a control cow tag this fall. First time hunting in Utah. Harvested a 5x5 and a cow. Happy with my Utah elk hunt. It snowed nearly every day and the area was beautiful.