Antelope 57
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tailchasers
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Gorgeous buck!! Crazy curles.
Sparks Shooter
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One of the prettiest I've seen. Great buck!----SS
DoubleDropMuley
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Sweet buck!!
PleaseDear
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Oh Hell Yeah!
Congrats
Robb
Congrats
Robb
Zeke
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We can all play the "what if" game after we shoot something but one thing is for sure about that buck. He's beautiful and somewhat unique, replete with respectable mass, good length, great hooks and awesome prongs. What's not to love?
Well done Mr dsbudman.
Zele
Well done Mr dsbudman.
Zele
desperatehills
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My taxidermist heads to unit 57 tomorrow. Sounds like he is in for a great trip. Congrats on a good looking buck
dsbudman
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yes extremly
elks96
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The unit is down over all. No doubt about it. Having been in that unit for years both the lopes and the deer have taken a huge hit between drought and winters etc.
It is a pretty scary situation right now. My cameras show nearly all deer left look underweight heading into this fall, the range especially for the local animals is in terrible shape, again the worse it has been in the 20 years I have trounced around.
that being said, they dismally rounded up a bunch of feral invasive horses. So things might get better for a bit. However the elk numbers appear to be going up and elk are expanding into new areas.
That being said the lope hunt is fun. Wide open tons of public lands and even when 30% plus below normal there are still a lot of lopes. On my hunt this year 8 was finding/glassing 40-50 buck as a day as well. But a few years back that number was easily 110-120. Last year on the hunt I was averaging around 60-80.
hopefully we get the right weather and the area recovers.
It is a pretty scary situation right now. My cameras show nearly all deer left look underweight heading into this fall, the range especially for the local animals is in terrible shape, again the worse it has been in the 20 years I have trounced around.
that being said, they dismally rounded up a bunch of feral invasive horses. So things might get better for a bit. However the elk numbers appear to be going up and elk are expanding into new areas.
That being said the lope hunt is fun. Wide open tons of public lands and even when 30% plus below normal there are still a lot of lopes. On my hunt this year 8 was finding/glassing 40-50 buck as a day as well. But a few years back that number was easily 110-120. Last year on the hunt I was averaging around 60-80.
hopefully we get the right weather and the area recovers.
It's a good tag if your timing is right. Weather pushes those elk around. Archery is the way to go imo.
matchbook454
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Beautiful buck!
dsbudman
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Wild787
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Elks you are exactly correct, but i think numbers are even lower than 30% off. I know for fact the deer numbers are way less.. i have lived and hunted this unit for 40 years and it disgusts me how poorly they manage this unit.. we did have a couple bad winters but they never implement any changes until its years too late...
this unit is overun with horses and elk are becoming a major problem as well. overall its poor management... lander manages unit 55 and the units north of 80... in 55 they took measures when they should have and havent issued a doe tag for the last two years and the numbers are rebounding...
57 is managed by green river and the local warden in baggs who has single handedly wiped out the deer herd in the baggs area with her CWD bullshit beliefs... anyhow yes 57 is way down from what it should be...
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