Utah Draw Challenges

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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SHOW NOTES

• Hunting Utah:

Guest Colton Heward, big game guide
Challenges of drawing a Utah tag
"Point creep" —is it unresolvable?
Youth and future opportunities: Can today's kids ever draw a good Utah tag?
Opportunities in Wyoming, Idaho and other surrounding states
A draw hunt in Idaho—tough conditions, few deer, many hunters, and the persistence and techniques that resulted in a professional guide's biggest buck ever.
Stalking close and shooting long
How to make the most of Utah's opportunities
Extended Archery areas
Desert Bighorn Sheep and a grandfather's dream

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0:00.0	Folks, thanks for tuning in today. I've got my friend Colton Heward here, and we've been talking
0:08.1	about the Utah draw that's coming up and some of the challenges related to drawing a good tag in the west.
0:15.0	We're actually sitting in a room down here in Las Vegas at the shot show.
0:22.0	And so we're recording on my field device that usually provides a pretty good sound
0:27.1	but apologies for any poor sound coming through here. I want to get Colton here. First, thanks for joining me again on the
0:34.8	show today, buddy. It's a pleasure to have you back. Colton has agreed to share a story that I feel
0:41.2	like really sets the tone for some of the challenges that our system is facing today
0:47.0	with premium opportunities on premium game and the difficulty of getting there.
0:54.3	Anyway, welcome back, Colton.
0:55.8	Thanks, glad to be here.
0:57.8	Share that story you told me earlier by your grandfather.
1:00.8	Yeah, so this would have been in the spring of 2008. Flashback or go back just a little bit in September 2007 my grandfather got diagnosed
1:15.8	with pancreatic cancer.
1:18.6	They weren't sure how advanced that it was and exactly how long that he had, but unfortunately, Pinkeract cancer is one of those ones you do not recover from.
1:27.6	Eventually it will take your life.
1:29.9	My grandfather was an avid, avid sheep hunter.
1:32.4	He lived in Alaska for a long time.
1:34.4	Shot a lot of doll sheep.
1:36.4	He shot a Rocky Mountain, Bighorn in Idaho,
1:40.3	and he needed a desert sheet for his slam.
1:45.0	He'd been putting in in Utah ever since the point system started
1:49.0	and I can't remember what Max was in 2008, whatever the max points was it was probably 17 or 18
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