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Just got back from Boulder mountain,
Had to cut the trip a day short due to heavy rain/lighting/hail storms!
Between Wednesday and thursday nights we saw 50 different bucks...
alot like this guy.



Several like this guy, and 5 bigger I failed to get good pic's of.



Saw a dozen bulls, this group of 5 had 2 impressive ones...



Hit Oak creek res 5 times.



Caught a couple dozen of these...



Swung around Hell's Backbone, cuz my yungest boy had never seen it before..



Was going to spend today and tomarrow looking the antelope over.
Weather ended that Idea so I guess we'll just have to go back again next week..:D..:cool:...
 
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How was the water and forage situation on the mountain?
Boulder look really good! Escalante, the Grffin top and Parker are OK but
lakes , resoirvors and water holes are lower there.......Grass not as tall.
 
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Catherder, here a pic from Wendsday of camp at 8,400 feet on the Oak cr res road.

This was BEFORE we got another 1 1/2 inches of rain the last 36 hrs there!

 
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Best post I've seen on this website in a long time.
Thanks....;-)...

I killed my first archery deer down there 33 years ago ....

Super pumped for this years hunts.....3 antelope and 4 deer ..:!:..

The deer are looking like they did back in the 80's again on Boulder..8)..
 
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Nice report Goof. Where is the older boy? Did you kick him out of the nest? I like the looks of that second buck, thick with eye guards is a good start. ------SS
He started a lawn mowing business 3 years ago on his own.

It has exploaded this year!.... He works 6 days a week during the summer.

But, I remind him every day--He's taking the bow hunt off!...:grin:...
 
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Boulder /Plateau pronghorns ....







And what Fishlake looked like at 10am this morning....:cool:..:D..

 
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Definitely seeing more antelope around 'forested' type areas ....

The open flats that antlelope used there in the past years are almost empty .....

Things have changed alot over the last 25 years from what I've witnessed.
 
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Fish Lake is AWESOME!

GREAT place to kill some time waiting for the archery hunt to arive... 8) ....
 
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Bucks like these two are a common sight all most everywere on Plateau this year!
REALLY nice to see it like this once again.
Took this pic yesterday.

 
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