Manti 2023

nvguy2 · Aug 10, 2023

Curious if anyone has been out on the Manti this year and if anybody has been seeing any good bulls and what the overall conditions are this year? Planning a trip over in a few weeks but just curious if anyone has any info on this. Getting a little anxious for the hunt I guess!?

Westernization · Aug 10, 2023

I hear you on the anxious part. I have the archery tag and am about to start counting down the hour’s instead of days.
I’ve seen tons of cows and calf’s everywhere I go. But I haven’t seen a single bull besides spikes through the glass. Couple smaller bulls on a camera I had set up but that’s it.
It’s hard not seeing bulls but they will come to the cows so it’s nice knowing how many of them I am seeing.
The cows look fat and happy and everything is green still.

elkassassin · Aug 11, 2023

Wondering How The Calf Crop Is Looking on Manti?

It's Not Good Up This Way!

Westernization said:
I hear you on the anxious part. I have the archery tag and am about to start counting down the hour’s instead of days.
I’ve seen tons of cows and calf’s everywhere I go. But I haven’t seen a single bull besides spikes through the glass. Couple smaller bulls on a camera I had set up but that’s it.
It’s hard not seeing bulls but they will come to the cows so it’s nice knowing how many of them I am seeing.
The cows look fat and happy and everything is green still.

hossblur · Aug 11, 2023

For sure the greenest I can remember. We weren't looking for elk, but the deer we seen looked good. Saw couple rag bulls, one with a really messed up side that some spike hunter is going to have to make a hard decision on.

Still a bunch of snow, Jetts snow drift doesn't let you pass.

Only 318 sxs each day so that's good?

One day maybe I'll get that tag

elkassassin · Aug 11, 2023

And You Were One Of The 318?

hossblur said:
For sure the greenest I can remember. We weren't looking for elk, but the deer we seen looked good. Saw couple rag bulls, one with a really messed up side that some spike hunter is going to have to make a hard decision on.

Still a bunch of snow, Jetts snow drift doesn't let you pass.

Only 318 sxs each day so that's good?

One day maybe I'll get that tag

nvguy2 · Aug 11, 2023

Yeah, you’ll be in good shape if you know where all the cows are. Heard antler size for elk on the unit was down. Kinda surprised me but made me wonder if they got a late growing start because of the later harsh winter. My buddy seen this one last Sunday on the unit. Nice front end but looks like the backend is lacking. Hard to tell in the pics. It’s still green here in NV in a lot of places it’s normally brown by now.

Nockbuster98 · Aug 11, 2023

Westernization said:
I hear you on the anxious part. I have the archery tag and am about to start counting down the hour’s instead of days.
I’ve seen tons of cows and calf’s everywhere I go. But I haven’t seen a single bull besides spikes through the glass. Couple smaller bulls on a camera I had set up but that’s it.
It’s hard not seeing bulls but they will come to the cows so it’s nice knowing how many of them I am seeing.
The cows look fat and happy and everything is green still.

Pm me. I’ll trade you some bull info for some spike info!

Vanilla · Aug 11, 2023

nvguy2 said:
Nice front end but looks like the backend is lacking.

Seems to be a pattern up there this year, for sure.

nvguy2 · Aug 12, 2023

Vanilla said:
Seems to be a pattern up there this year, for sure.

Have you seen any at all with a decent back end? I would assume they are about done growing by now at this point.

Archeryonly · Aug 15, 2023

Yes, had some on cameras that were finishing very nice! Middle of July looked like they still had some growing to do.

nvguy2 · Aug 16, 2023

Archeryonly said:
Yes, had some on cameras that were finishing very nice! Middle of July looked like they still had some growing to do.

Yeah, just talked to a guy whose friend has the Multiseason and he said they have seen some good ones too. Time will tell. Can’t wait to get up there. Archery is getting close.