Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
I hope you're hunting unit 55 in 1st rifle season? 2nd or 3rd season is OTC, and a real zoo over there. Even the wilderness areas will be full of outfitters.
I'm right next to the unit. The 4th picture down. Unit 55 is right over that ridge.
In my unit we have only 75 muzzleloader hunters. In the rifle seasons we have almost 900. I won't ever hunt rifle seasons again.
Still hunting only works when no other hunters are around.
Although I never worried about long range hunters, because they can't see into my timber. They'll be up on some ridge with a spotting scope glued to their head.
Last time I hunted it, was second season, some years ago. Lot of Texan fourwheelers cruising the forest roads then. Gunnison guide service ran a mule train up to the top of the ridge in the wilderness area. I hunted close to the south flank pretty high up and came into elk there and no other hunters back then. You must be working the unit just to the east?