Southwest Desert Muzzleloader

Blake_vandy · Jun 1, 2024

Greetings,
I drew the southwest desert LE muzzy elk tag. Haven’t spent much time in this unit before the rut and would love to find some places to take inventory of bulls. I do know most bulls migrate in during the muzzleloader season, but I’d love to go see what I can. Any insight would be helpful.

Also, any pictures from past hunters would be appreciated

treedagain · Jun 1, 2024

How did your 52 tag go? More free info and then ghost for another 4yrs?

Wapitiwilly · Jun 1, 2024

One heck of a unit. Definitely some 350+ bulls to be had. Hunted it 3 of the last four years.
Quality is coming back

Blake_vandy · Jun 3, 2024

Wapitiwilly said:
One heck of a unit. Definitely some 350+ bulls to be had. Hunted it 3 of the last four years.
Quality is coming back

Blake_vandy · Jun 3, 2024

That’s sweet! You got any pictures from your past hunts out there?

Bwht4x4 · Jun 3, 2024

Here are a couple of bulls from my SWD archery hunt. The hard horn bull is the bull I killed on the hunt 2 days after this trail cam pict was taken. I was after the velvet bull, but I never saw hime during season. The archery hunt was tough, but I'd think the muzzy hunt would be the best as more and more bulls come into the unit from NV.

Blake_vandy · Jun 3, 2024

Dude congrats that’s a stud bull! Congrats!

Don_K · Jun 3, 2024

Have yourself plenty of spares, that unit eats tires.

Bwht4x4 · Jun 3, 2024

Don_K said:
Have yourself plenty of spares, that unit eats tires.

Agreed. The other thing is you DON'T drive through any of the mud located in the bottom of Hamblin Valley. That mud will eat your truck and leave you sitting there waiting for a buddy.

Blake_vandy · Jun 3, 2024

Noted. I’ll make sure to avoid that.

treedagain · Jun 3, 2024

Bwht4x4 said:
Agreed. The other thing is you DON"T drive through any of the mud located in the bottom of Hamblin Valley. That mud will eat your truck and leave you sitting there waiting for a buddy.

Between that and flash floods. No issues with tires

Bwht4x4 · Jun 3, 2024

treedagain said:
Between that and flash floods. No issues with tires

The flash floods in that country can make the hunt extremely difficult. There was a lot of road damage when I was there. As for tires, I didn't have any issues, but I always ride my quad around for hunting and just drive my truck to get to camp. The other issue I found there is that many of the smaller two tracks that are for quads and SxS can be scary. I almost rolled my quad.

Justhunt14 · Jun 7, 2024

LE southwest desert muzzy bull | Elk

I guess you could say this hunt started when I was 14, thankfully my dad started putting me in for LE elk as soon as I was eligible, he starting applying me for the Paunsagaunt elk, which at the time was the best chance to draw a tag with little to no points, after my points started building I...

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