Multi-Year Hunt Planning

For Ben McCullogh

HUNT WEST SESSION NOTES

This page is an overview of the Hunt West Session from March 7, 2024 at 2:00 pm, Mountain Standard Time. The notes included below are helpful in conjunction with the video found at the bottom of the page. Feel free to replay the video as often as needed.

Colorado

Things to Consider: 

  • 75/25 Split in 2024

  • 2024 Tag Reductions

  • Go more often in Colorado, don’t have high score expectations until you figure a place out

Units >5 Points for Archery Deer: 

  • Unit 55 - 10 Points. 57 Tags. LQ Elk Tags.

  • Unit 66 - 7 Points. 64 Tags. LQ Elk Tags.

  • Unit 76 - 6 Points. 21 Tags. LQ Elk Tags.

NOTE: Units 2 & 201 For 2026 if no August hunts from the new proposals

Things to Consider: 

  • 75/25 Split in 2024

  • 2025 New August Deer Hunts

  • All Archery Elk Hunts Going LQ in 2025

Utah

Things to Consider: 

  • Southern units have WAY FEWER licenses than previously

  • Three great moisture years stacked back to back to back (so far)

  • May be less pressure mentally than a 12-point hunt in Colorado

Wyoming

Wait on mule deer for 4-6 years

Go elk hunting in 2026

Things to Consider: 

  • Archery deer hunt in 2-3 years could be good (low-country hunt recommended)

  • Drawing odds should settle out with new prices

  • Maybe new type-9 archery tags soon

NOTE: Units 38 For Archery Elk. 

Arizona

Wait on Kaibab mule deer

Go elk hunting soon (late archery in 23, Fall of 2025)

Summary

2025 | Arizona Bull Elk in Nov. - Area 23

2026 | CO Mule Deer: Possible August hunt, if not 2 or 201 or 55 | Secondary - WY 38 for Elk

2027 | Arizona Archery Mule Deer - Kaibab | Secondary - WY 38 for elk

2028 | Utah Henry Mtns (Or Diamond Mtn.) 

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