Fun While Hunting Utah Deer

How To Have Fun While Hunting Utah Deer

One of the things I love more than anything is hunting, especially hunting Utah deer. However, one must also have a sense of humor at times, as there are days when it can be very boring. So to make up for some of those boring times, you have to have a bit of an imagination, and a little bit of a crazy streak. I remember one day that I was out hunting with my brother-in-law and a good friend of mine and we all got our deer. The problem was that the land we were hunting on was all private and only had one road into the hunting area. The land owner was nice enough to let us hunt on his land, but that we would have to walk in as he didn’t allow any vehicles on his property. Watch this , and then read the rest to find out why I like having a good hunting camp to go to at the end of the day.

When Hunting Utah Deer You Need To Think Ahead.

As I was saying, we had access to the land to hunt these Utah deer, but we had to hoof it into the property. Going in was the easy part, as the longer part of the hike was flat, it was that last part of the hike that was rough. You had to pick your way down a long drop into the river bottom that takes the longest. You might be asking why we went down there if it was so bad, but if you saw the amount of deer in this area you would have known why we went. But what we weren’t ready for was the walk back out. We had great success that day, and all three of us got our deer. Now, if we had done this in this day and age, it probably would kill us, but we were kind of young and stupid back then. Getting from where we shot the deer to where the hike back up the drop off started was easy, but looking back on it now, we realized we were very ill-prepared for what was to come.

Utah Deer Stay Where They Do For a Reason

I guess that to say Utah deer are smart is a bit of a generalization, because all deer, especially the big ones, don’t get that way by being stupid.  It is also my general opinion that you have to be almost stupid yourself to get into the places these damn things like to hide. By the time we got to the top of that uphill climb, we were banged up, scraped up, and just plain ass tired. So we decided that we needed a well-deserved rest period before we finished our trip to the truck. Did I fail to mention that it was getting dark, and none of us had a flashlight with us? It was a starlit night with a full moon, so we didn’t really need it to walk the trail, but it would have been nice to have one before we sat down. Also, thinking back on that moment, I should have put the deer down first, as I was carrying it on my back. But no, I sat down first, thinking that I could just lean back and set the deer on the ground. I should have been more selective of my sitting spot as I didn’t see the pile of cactus on the very spot I had chosen to sit.

The Best Part of a Utah Deer Hunt Is Camp

OK, so as I was saying, I sat right on a pile of cactus, and believe me, I got up way faster than I sat down, and I think the coyotes in the next county heard me howling. Have you ever asked your friend, even a best friend, to pull cactus needles out of your ass? Yeah, like that is going to happen. I managed to get the majority of them out and have a very painful ride back to camp, where thank God my wife wasn’t too proud to help pull the rest of the needles out of my now swollen buttocks. So I spent the rest of the hunt sitting ( or should I say standing around) in camp while everyone else enjoyed more hunting and even a little fishing.