SO??? HOW'D THE 2024 SMOKEPOLE DEER HUNT GO FOR YOU ALL???

elkassassin · Monday at 7:54 AM

I'll Have To Admit!

I Mistakenly Raised My REMINGTON 700ML SMOKEPOLE With The 1X Scope A Few Times To Take A Better Look & It Just Wasn't Like Looking Through My Newer REMINGTON UML!

We had A Perty Good Time & Seen Very Few Hunters & Very Few Decent Bucks!

Spent More time Glassing For Billy Goats Than Anything Else!

I Think I just Completed The First 2 Months Of Deer Hunting Season That Hossy Claims I'll Be Hunting 6 Months This Fall!

The Smoke From The Fire About Choked Us Out A Couple Of Days/Nights!

Just Curious How Others Hunts Went?

Hopefully You Were Hunting Where There Was More Deer Than Here Where We Hunted!

Deerlove · Monday at 8:06 AM

elkassassin said:
I'll Have To Admit!

I Mistakenly Raised My REMINGTON 700ML SMOKEPOLE With The 1X Scope A Few Times To Take A Better Look & It Just Wasn't Like Looking Through My Newer REMINGTON UML!

We had A Perty Good Time & Seen Very Few Hunters & Very Few Decent Bucks!

Spent More time Glassing For Billy Goats Than Anything Else!

I Think I just Completed The First 2 Months Of Deer Hunting Season That Hossy Claims I'll Be Hunting 6 Months This Fall!

The Smoke From The Fire About Choked Us Out A Couple Of Days/Nights!

Just Curious How Others Hunts Went?

Hopefully You Were Hunting Where There Was More Deer Than Here Where We Hunted!

I was hoping my tag said something about the scope needed to be removed or one power but instead I had some BS thing about baiting northern Utah is in bad shape for the report

hook1969 · Monday at 8:19 AM

This was a bad year for me! Not sure if it was the heat or just not able to go as hard because I had shoulder surgery at the end of August. I was surprised at how few deer I saw! This was the Wasatch west tag, which in my opinion they give out way too many tags. I guess there's a reason there's leftover tags after the draw for this unit~!

Torq · Monday at 11:20 AM

elkassassin said:
Mistakenly Raised My REMINGTON 700ML SMOKEPOLE With The 1X Scope A Few Times To Take A Better Look & It Just Wasn't Like Looking Through My Newer REMINGTON UML!

Did this a few times myself.

Had a ton of fun though, took my boy out on his first ever hunt and came home with a little buck.

I was never a long range hunter, so I don't think the scope will change much for me as far as success goes. But I do miss having a better sight and feeling more confident in my shot.

Pines_N_Tines · Monday at 3:51 PM

I wish I still had the 3x9 on vs the red dot. My son missed a mature 26"ish wide massy four point at 103 yards. It was probably more of a buck fever situation than the scope but the red dot definite covers more of the target than the cross hairs. Saw a lot less deer than we had scouted earlier on the archery. One 17-year-old buck virgin in our group shot a 2.5 year old 3 point. Gorgeous colors, good friends, and fine weather made for a fun hunt.

tracker12 · Tuesday at 11:05 AM

Well sure hope it cools off before my Muzzy hunt in the Monroe come NOV. Good thing is that I am excited to be back in the UT MNTS and just being there will be great. 9 days on piece an quiet glassing for deer and hopefully seeing some nice bulls for this old retiree cant be neat.

twopointdn · Tuesday at 2:44 PM

It was a tough year. Hot and dry. Not as many deer. I am fine with the changes to the muzzleloader regulations. Yep, I could have killed a bigger buck if I had a magnified scope but it was sure fun shooting my buck at 75 yards. My buddy killed his at 90 yards. Perfect muzzleloader shot distances. Have fun.

elkhunterUT · Tuesday at 3:00 PM

Heat did not help. We only had one day to hunt (opening day) for my youngest boy. We kicked up 3 big bucks walking out from sitting water at last light. He missed the biggest buck once he stopped moving at about 170 yards. Very tough shot with a red dot in lower light. Not sure I could have made the shot either - it was hard to even see the deer with the naked eye with a sagebrush background let alone through a 1x red dot scope.

The new regs definitely make it a tougher hunt and that buck definitely survived because of it, only to be blasted by some dude in a couple of weeks with a 300 win mag and a 22 power nightforce scope at 750 yards