1/1/2024 0 Comments Utah elk vs deer![]() The study, published last month in the Journal of Wildlife Management, finds elk reduced their use of public lands by 30% in the middle of rifle season. Elk hunting is immensely popular in Utah, so popular that it took fewer than 10 hours for all 17,500 of Utah’s elk hunting permits to be scooped up last season.īut while Utahns know when it’s hunting season through a set calendar, a recent study suggests Utah elk also seem to know when it’s hunting season - and where to go to seek refuge until it’s over. To get John and Denise Phillips’ free cookbook, “Miz Denise’s Outdoor Cooking: More Than 35 Recipes for Elk and Mule Deer,” go to. I like to hunt in August and September when the weather is really good. I believe that being in the mountains listening to elk is just an awesome experience. When I'm out in the mountains with them, I really have a lot of fun listening to the elk bugles and trying to get close enough to take a shot with my bow. Sometimes I'm asked, “Troy, what do you like about elk hunting?” I guess the easiest explanation is that elk are majestic animals. The Utah elk season begins a little bit earlier. In New Mexico, our archery elk season starts in mid-September. One of the advantages of being an archery hunter is that many of the western elk seasons for archery are scheduled around the time of the rut. I've only hunted with a rifle twice in my life, and I've never taken an elk with my rifle. Each hunter got their share of the deer meat. The meat from the deer that was harvested would be put into packages. All the deer would be taken back to camp, skinned, butchered and cut up into pieces, depending on the number of hunters who had hunted that day. Then the standers would harvest the deer. The drivers and dogs went in and spooked the deer. Hunters would be put out on a certain piece of property. The best way for easterners to understand our family elk meat hunt is to think about a southern deer hunt with dogs like those held many years ago. We usually average about three elk per hunt, because we all try to take an elk cow or a spike, and we all pitch in to help prepare the meat. For me and my family, we make sausage, kielbasa, cube steaks, roasts or elk burgers. Then each family processes the meat in their favorite way. This way, we always have plenty of help to field dress, debone, cut up the elk meat and package the elk meat. Then we debone the rest of the meat and divide it into packages for the number of family hunters in camp with us. When we take an elk, we use the elk tenderloin to cook up for camp meat while we’re on the hunt. The number of family members who show up for our annual elk hunt will vary from five people to as many as 15. We set up a camp, and we all hunt together. My extended family and I meet in Utah.My family and I love the taste of elk meat, and we eat a lot of it.I can draw a tag for cow elk and spikes much easier than I can draw a bull elk tag, especially during archery season.There are three reasons I hunt cow elk and spikes: He’s taken two mature bull elk but also 25 to 30 cow elks and spikes. He’s been hunting elk for at least 27 years. Then he moved to Farmington, New Mexico, 15 years ago. Editor’s Note: Forty-one-year-old Troy Grogan has been a Mossy Oak Pro for 7 years and lived in Utah for 26 years.
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