Manti Muzzy Elk 2024

Ac300win · May 26, 2024

Super stoked to have drawn a muzzy tag for 2024 as a non resident after 24 years of applying for early rifle. Grew up in Midvale and our group has hunted the area for generations.

We had an early rifle tag in our group last year and had a good hunt with a nice older age class bull (8 yrs old) on the 4th day. We struggled finding bulls over 330 and consistently saw poor tops and mass above the G-4’s. That 5 day hunt was tough mentally and decided a longer season with the smoke pole was good choice to take advantage of a relatively mild winter and the abundance of stunted bulls we saw last year.

Anticipating a great horn growth year and hoping for some inspiration from those that haven been spending time in the central-south end of the unit.

Going to be a great experience with close family and friends. Trying to mentally prepare and not worry too much about inches and staying focused on finding precision with this smoke pole.

elkhunterUT · May 27, 2024

Good luck to you-should be a great year to have a tag and if I had a choice, I would take the muzzy tag as well.

Vanilla · May 27, 2024

I’d love to have that tag in my pocket this year! Any year you get to chase big bulls is a good year, but I think this year might be exceptionally good on the Manti. And the muzzy dates almost always have the best rut action.

Best of luck!

Ac300win · May 27, 2024

Vanilla said:
I’d love to have that tag in my pocket this year! Any year you get to chase big bulls is a good year, but I think this year might be exceptionally good on the Manti. And the muzzy dates almost always have the best rut action.

Best of luck!

Agreed, good moon phase as well!

MuskegMan · May 27, 2024

Hope you smoke a nice one with your smoke pole

MACK13 · May 28, 2024

Congrats on your tag Ac300win, my brother drew the same tag as well and we are excited.

Good luck to you!

Ac300win · May 28, 2024

MACK13 said:
Congrats on your tag Ac300win, my brother drew the same tag as well and we are excited.

Good luck to you!

Thanks and luck to you as well. Hearing some reports of good antler starts. Be interesting see if the oak crop is similar to last year

Ac300win · May 28, 2024

MACK13 · May 30, 2024

Ac300win said:
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Is that a pic of last years rifle hunt?

elkassassin · May 30, 2024

I'm Perty Sure If you Had Hit A Few Banquets & Whipped Your Pocket Book Out You Could Be Hunting It This Year!

For A Nominal F'N Fee!

Vanilla said:
I’d love to have that tag in my pocket this year! Any year you get to chase big bulls is a good year, but I think this year might be exceptionally good on the Manti. And the muzzy dates almost always have the best rut action.

Best of luck!

Ac300win · May 30, 2024

MACK13 said:
Is that a pic of last years rifle hunt?

It’s an Oregon bull from a few years ago. I hadn’t asked to load last yrs bull

Ac300win · May 30, 2024

You are probably right Sassy

MACK13 · May 31, 2024

Ac300win said:
It’s an Oregon bull from a few years ago. I hadn’t asked to load last yrs bull

Copy, was going to say you guys got some early snow!

Are you a fellow Oregonian?

Ac300win · May 31, 2024

Yeah Mack. Oldest son’s Emily bull. I’m in NE Oregon. Where abouts are you? Just learned that our resident party has an archery and two early rifle tags for Manti. Hope they leave a good one for me.So much for trying to stagger tags…

MACK13 · Jun 3, 2024

Ac300win said:
Yeah Mack. Oldest son’s Emily bull. I’m in NE Oregon. Where abouts are you? Just learned that our resident party has an archery and two early rifle tags for Manti. Hope they leave a good one for me.So much for trying to stagger tags…

Nice! I'm in Albany/Corvallis area, was born in SLC and raised in southern Idaho. Wow... three tags that is cool, you guys will be busy!
Yeah, save us one if you can! My cousin from Utah has an archery tag as well.

Good luck to you guys this year.

CC11 · Jul 2, 2024

Should be a great hunt! Looking forward to getting down there this year!

Ac300win · Jul 2, 2024

CC11 said:
Should be a great hunt! Looking forward to getting down there this year!

Be here before you know it.

Been hearing of some good bine growth.

Ringneks · Jul 4, 2024

Plenty of feed up there this year. Good luck on your hunt.

Ac300win · Jul 4, 2024

Thanks Ringneks!

Hoping the sheep and cattle don’t annihilate the mtn like last year

Tikka · Jul 5, 2024

Ac300win said:
Thanks Ringneks!

Hoping the sheep and cattle don’t annihilate the mtn like last year

I think you meant “like every year”

Ac300win · Jul 5, 2024

True that Tikka. I hadn’t been on the mountain for a few years until last fall and it seemed worse than I remember.

FairweatherHTR · Jul 8, 2024

There is a good mix of various age class bulls from what I saw on the mountain two years ago. My wife had the multi season tag and the rut was going strong. I also had a muzzleloader expo tag a couple of years before that. The sheep were all over on both hunts but toward the end of the muzzleloader they start moving them off of the mountain which can create a lot of commotion but the elk are used to it and just move over to the next canyon.

Tikka · Jul 8, 2024

FairweatherHTR said:
There is a good mix of various age class bulls from what I saw on the mountain two years ago. My wife had the multi season tag and the rut was going strong. I also had a muzzleloader expo tag a couple of years before that. The sheep were all over on both hunts but toward the end of the muzzleloader they start moving them off of the mountain which can create a lot of commotion but the elk are used to it and just move over to the next canyon. View attachment 150751 View attachment 150752

Was somebody looking at horns through the scope?

Nice bull...