What now?

[Antlerglazed]

I've been watching a herd of bulls for some 2 or 3 weeks now. Only problem is, half a dozen other guys have too. One bull (300") dropped yesterday and I know exactly what bush they're under. All the other seven bulls with him still have both sides, including one thats over 380. I've watched a few guys hike, and ride wheelers right to them and just watch. I was planning on waiting until they had all dropped and moved out before I went up, but know they can be safe for to much longer. What does a guy do now? I hate to push them out and never see the big one again, but at the same time I've spent a lot of time watching them and don't want to leave them up there for someone that spooks the herd just to get one and finds the set I saw drop! I had the sheds laying on the ground tonight in my scope and would've never thought I would just look at a set of elk sheds sitting there and do nothing about it! The snow has all but melted, and if they were spooked, they wouldn't be in any danger. My ethics are telling to hold back, but my "horn"mones a rarin' to go!!!! ????????

 

[jmcd]

Get a job.

 

[Ungulate]

Hope your not talking about Cache county. For anyone considering checking out the bulls on the faces near town be warned that the area is being watched heavily by the DNR. If you think you can sneak in there around 3 o clock A.M. Your chances of getting caught are even better. People sitting on bulls has caused the northern shed season to be as it is. If they are in northern Utah its not worth the 550.00 to go retrieve them. Wait til May 1st. 550.00 is just for possesion.

 

[Antlerglazed]

LAST EDITED ON Mar-18-08 AT 00:05AM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Mar-17-08 AT 11:47?PM (MST)

Not in Utah, and I have a Job. I work nights 9-7.

Believe it or not, Utah is not the only state that people hunt sheds!

I almost forgot how worthless this site can be!

 

[wyohikeit]

We do have to have thick skin to take the inevitable BS with every post made on this site. I found out years ago it is not worth racing the hornymone mob to get ANY sheds!!! It's a lot more productive to focus on an out of the way area where just a few bulls winter in " Noseeum Valley " Go in at prime time pack out any antlers that fall so any late commers don't find anything to come back for!!! Yea its fun, but maddening to watch them from the road but even a 380 bull is not worth the race, especially if it is against the law!!!




Time in the hills is always worth more than money

 

[Huntemup]

Good for you Antlerglazed! You did the right thing. A lot of people forget...

THEY'RE JUST BONES!

 

[Antlerglazed]

I feel like I'm doing the right thing, but I know that soon they'll be ran out, and some dumba$$ will get them!

Wyo,
I have a little hunny hole that is basically surrounded by private property. No, the spot where they shed isn't on that property, its public ground. I stumbled over it on the deer hunt two years ago. I found one 170" elk shed and thought it was a fluke. Went 50 yards further and found a 310" set that had been laying there for a year! I've pulled a total of 31 sheds out since then. That is why I was looking at these other bulls, but know that now I'll just have to hope theres a big boy in the hole!

 

[Ungulate]

Whoa mucho take it easy!!! Sorry if my post offended you antlerglaze. Maybe I am just getting a shed hunting fever from not being able to pick up anything here in my home state. I'm not going to lie, it's gotta feel so good to be able to just get out and pick up antlers wherever you are. I for one have to get permission to shed hunt land in Idaho and Wyoming until May 1st or make the long drive south. It just makes me extremely jealous.
I might have seemed a little aggitated on my first post but only because I crossed paths with a DNR officer who had a pair of cutt offs that he had to confiscate from a poacher on the winter range. He said that he watched the guy shoot the bull and try to shake its antlers loose and when they didnt come loose the guy sawed them off. I guess things are getting a little out of hand here in Utah. Good thing that DNR officer was on top of things.

 

[toughshed]

Does Utah have that many DNR folks to enforce their silly rule? Obey the law and laugh at the idiots who get caught.

 

[Antlerglazed]

NO WAY! No state could! If they did, there wouldn't be poaching going on down on the most prized piece of land, the Henry's! There's a lot of talk and smoke blown on this site about guys knowing everything and making threats about nothing to make themselves look better or bettering their chances at what there after! I would be pissed if my tag monies were going to an officer to watch for shed hunters at 3 A.M.! Spend the money on something that will actually make a difference, LIKE BUYING WINTER RANGE. Hell, without that, there is no sheds and thats a bigger threat than ungulate running game in belly deep snow! Theres always going to be dumba$$ hunters and shed hunters!