Hunter orange
Utah Code § 23-20-31
You must obey Utah’s hunter orange regulation if a centerfire rifle hunt is happening in the area where you’re archery hunting. If you’re hunting in an area where a centerfire rifle hunt is occurring, you must wear a minimum of 400 square inches of hunter orange material on your head, chest and back.
A camouflage pattern in hunter orange meets this requirement; however, the Division strongly encourages hunters to continue using solid hunter orange whenever possible.
There are some exceptions to the hunter orange rule. You’re not required to wear hunter orange if you’re participating in a bighorn sheep hunt, a bison hunt, a moose hunt or a mountain goat hunt—or a hunt that requires you to possess. Unless You are on private property.
This year we went to the north eastern region of Utah. We went to vernal, or LaPoint Utah.
It was 27 degrees every morning or lower, frost on the ground. The first three days were rough, We saw big bucks every day. The deer were so pressured from the previous week of hunters, by this time of the hunt the rest of hunters were back to work and have already got their deer. The deer you could tell have been pushed, which makes it A lot harder on us. The first day we saw probably 4 decent size bucks, they were either to far or in brush to the point that I could not shoot. We hunted from 6:00 in the morning till 3 in afternoon, and the deer only move from 6 till 9 o’clock. But we kept trying. The second day we saw the same deer same spot. Third day same thing. Now... its the fourth day, Last day of the general deer hunt. I had a dream the night before that today was the day. The place we were hunting was along a canal. Where we saw the deer every day was in my uncles friends field and gave us permission. We woke up at 530 in the morning got ready ate breakfast and hopped in the truck. Maybe 2 miles from my uncles house was our spot. Parked the truck walked up the road, still dark, Sat up against the fence and spotted four doe, just waited for 10 minutes, you don't want to spook off the doe because the bucks rely on the doe, they watch them feed and make sure its safe before they come out of the trees. so we held still waited and a little fork and horn walked across, about to shoot the small one and in the corner of my scope there was a 4x3 walked up from the ditched put the cross hairs on him and slowly squeezed the trigger and shot him right behind the left front shoulder, a little high, he walked 5 feet and dropped. Now im stoked and really happy. We walked down to him and started to clean him. What a good hunt, just had to be patient.
