04-30-2009, 06:07 PM
The CWMU I was referring to about the wife's elk hunt was the Weber Florence Creek unit. Day before our hunt opened they ran 5000 head of Range Magots thru the area to the loading chutes. This hunt is on the 1000 Peaks Ranch and they only let the CWMU Elk hunters hunt from the Weber River to the top of the ridge line to the North, this extends 3-4 miles up river from the main entrance at the turn off to Smith Morehouse. We saw a few elk but nothing worth shooting, one guy from Ogden killed one the first day a 6X6 that would maybe score 270 to 280. My wife ended up shooting a spike the last afternoon just so we could take home some meat. I'm hoping with the WY. tags we drew this year that she will have an opportunitiy to take a decent bull during our archery hunt. Several guys here at the base drew that same tag 2 seasons ago and nobody that drew a tag for the unit killed a bull the first 5 days so after alot of complaining to F&G and the Outfitter they were allowed to hunt a second period for 5 days and still didn't see any bulls to shoot. Mind you these guys weren't looking for 350 bulls at that stage of the game and would have taken rag horns but couldn't even locate a bull in the unit.They said they didn't think anyone else that drew tags killed any bulls either. These guys were young guys that covered all of the country in their designated area. They filed a big grievance with Fish & Game but I see the the operator is still running hunts on the unit.
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