Friends of the Paunsagunt

[cannonball]

Had a friend who just got back from the Paunsagunt and said they saw more elk than deer. If this is happening watch the deer population plummet. Sure hope Wade Heaton is on top of it and gets the elk numbers reduced. Personally I would like to see no elk on the Paunsagunt.

 

[elkantlers]

Your friend is wrong.

 

[hossblur]

Count on Wade to take care of Wade

 

[legacy]

I have a friend who's wife had a deer tag last year down there and drew an expo tag for there this year (I know). He spends quite a bit of time down there and has never mentioned there being more elk then normal. Travis Roundy would be another source for facts. He's never eluded that the elk down there are taking things over.

 

[smokepolejohnson]

All of the Apple piles must’ve been keeping our elk herds in check down there over the years.

 

[257Tony]

All of the Apple piles must’ve been keeping our elk herds in check down there over the years.

Don't forget about all the elk killed by cameras!

 

[Vanilla]

Count on Wade to take care of Wade

Which would mean the Pauns stays one of the premier units in the west to hunt mule deer. His CWMU is entirely surrounded by the LE unit, and dependent upon the deer migrating back to his property so they can kill then before they leave again the next fall.


I’m not buying this notion of more elk than deer. Not at all. Cannonball, you know how few elk are on the unit.

 

[2lumpy]

Which would mean the Pauns stays one of the premier units in the west to hunt mule deer. His CWMU is entirely surrounded by the LE unit, and dependent upon the deer migrating back to his property so they can kill then before they leave again the next fall.


I’m not buying this notion of more elk than deer. Not at all. Cannonball, you know how few elk are on the unit.

He knows!!!

 

[elkassassin]

Hey Niller!

Somebody Is Feeding The Deer Apples As We Speak!

Wanna Take A guess Where?

Which would mean the Pauns stays one of the premier units in the west to hunt mule deer. His CWMU is entirely surrounded by the LE unit, and dependent upon the deer migrating back to his property so they can kill then before they leave again the next fall.


I’m not buying this notion of more elk than deer. Not at all. Cannonball, you know how few elk are on the unit.

 

[Blank]

I made 3 scouting trips and spent the entire muzzy deer hunt there last year. I saw 5 elk total, and decided I would never apply there. The Park, Tropic, the passes, and down to the highway on West side didn't show us much at all.

 

[cannonball]

Granted it was hearsay, but knowing the person it was true. He and his family goes on top and camps for a week each year. Their main purpose is to look for deer. Said he had never seen the likes of it with that many elk this year. Said it was an unusual year, Kanab C and Blubber are closed and the elk were where they usually are in large amount of around with100 in one bunch and had seen other bunches Were they off the Dutton/Duncan who knows.? I just trust what he told me. Yes, I hunted it for elk a couple of years back and they have been few and far between, but are they increasing? Unless you scouted this year, how do you know, and him and I certainly know there are many more deer than elk on the Pauns, but that is what he saw during his rainy stay down there.
In my estimation, like the Henries one elk on those units is to many!

 

[SS!]

This thread is hilarious. I still laugh thinking of how the pausy is one of the best deer tags out there and the guy who made that claim killed a 160 buck+ 5 pt internet curve + 10 utard so 175. ????

 

[pounder]

Maybe slow elk “Beef” cattle lol hell their maybe more deer than Subarus down there this year.

 

[pauns08]

Had a friend who just got back from the Paunsagunt and said they saw more elk than deer. If this is happening watch the deer population plummet. Sure hope Wade Heaton is on top of it and gets the elk numbers reduced. Personally I would like to see no elk on the Paunsagunt.

Your friend is wrong lol.

 

[cannonball]

As he mentioned to me that it may have been the weather raining every day, but as many elk as he saw on top is concerning to me.

 

[SS!]

As he mentioned to me that it may have been the weather raining every day, but as many elk as he saw on top is concerning to me.

How many elk did he see? Also how many beers did he drink?

 

[buckhorn]

When I was scouting the Pauns a couple years ago for deer I did see some elk around the Podunk guard station. Not many though. They disappeared when the archery hunter activity started!

 

[cannonball]

Exactly, but that is not this year. The Dutton and Boulder Mountain are just across the Bryce highway. The point is or should be, if the herd is increasing, take immediate measures to do something about it. Like it or not, elk are an indirect predator of the Mule Deer. I would sure hate to see the Paunsagunt unit Mule Deer destroyed by an increased number of elk on that unit. Any of you who think the elk wouldn't cross the highway, go to Dave's Hollow or Blue Fly on the Pauns and look at the antelope. Years ago they were only found north of the Bryce highway to Antimony.