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Congratulations, ID Milton. What Unit?

Best of luck to you.

L.W.

Unit 51 (Howe) for the elk. The antlers aren't nearly as heavy as they are in southeast and water access keeps numbers down,and with the wolves (I saw one and my buddy saw four, along with a den), elk numbers are way down.

BUT, we've hunted that unit for years for cows, and the times my buddies have drawn bull tags, so I think I stand a REALLY good chance of getting one. The hardest part will be finding a good one. Last year I got a spike out with my bow and will probable focus on the same canyon. It's about 3.5 miles past the no four-wheeler point, so that helps keep a lot of guys out.

My antelope is in unit 63, north of Mud Lake. I haven't hunted that unit and I know there is more private property, so I need to get out and start looking. I've drawn three times before, in 1990 out at Medicine Lodge and took a decent buck (15 inches), but later someone stole it's head. (I had nailed the skull above a shed door.) I drew 58 in 1996 as a non-res, then in 2007. 12.5 inch bucks both times, the biggest we could find.) Since the draw odds are 1 in 14, I've gotten lucky on antelope, but that is a lot of yeas of applying!

Unit 51 is Little Lost River country, huh? In 2003, my two buds and I pulled bull elk tags for Unit 37A just northeast of Unit 51. We camped/hunted way up in Little Morgan Creek, east of the Pahsimeroi River. It was hotter than a forged hammer in Hell and we only killed one bull. Had a great time, however.

That's rugged country. We saw one of the largest buck antelopes I've ever seen, on the hillside east of the main dirt road going north past Patterson. Huge buck. Did not even need my binocular to note those huge, high horns. We did not have tags, however, for 'lopes.

Hope you'll be carrying a wolf tag, too... and shoot one.

Best of luck on your hunt.

L.W.