I have been offered a position in Cedar City, UT. Anybody hunting anywhere near and is the area gun and hunter friendly?

Thanks,

T. W. Cornelison

I have been there but never hunted there beautiful place and it seems like it would be some good hunting.

Go to:

http://wildlife.utah.gov/index.php

Beautiful place, very gun/hunter/fishing/outdoors friendly. They have an awesome Shakespeare festival in the summer.

To live there though it would be much more comfortable if you happen to be of the correct religious persuasion.

My wife is from Cedar City. Her mother and some of her family still live there. Nice place to be!!! Great place for hunting and shooting. Mountains to the East and lots of open country and desert to the west! Great Schools there also. I like the place a lot!!!

Cedar city is nice. There is some real good deer hunitng to be found it that part of the state, some of the best. (Pansaguant etc.) To the west is desert area and you can find rabbits, coyotes etc. Lots of fishing opportunities nearby as well. Only about 50 miles to the south is St. George, the elevation drops like a rock and in the winter you can go from winter wonderland to golfing in 60 degrees in an hour. Lots of national parks nearby as well.

Its a very nice place.

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Originally posted by TWC:
I have been offered a position in Cedar City, UT. Anybody hunting anywhere near and is the area gun and hunter friendly?

Thanks,

T. W. Cornelison

I stop there on the way north and om the way back, nice place, pretty good rifle right shop on the main drag, excellent scenery everywhere you look. Nicest houses are west side amongst the red rock.

I have not hunted that area, would like to sometime. The Smith's supermarket stocks the best brand of corned beef hash and you can get dry ice there for the coolers, e.g., good camping supply place. The KOA in town is quite fine as well.

It is a good jumping-off place for the Grand Canyon and other fine destinations, and the Salt Lake City gun shows used to be the best I've seen anywhere.

I drive through Cedar City UT a few days ago, there was still a lot of snow on the ground.

Looked like a nice place.

I'v spent some time there working for FAA and would love to live there..


Good luck.

There is some mountain lion hunting in the hills to the west. Beautiful place to be.

You won't go wrong. As far as being in the religious minority, don't believe everything you read.

Mormons come in all persuasions; liberal, conservative and in between, just like any other group. Though you'll probably find more are political conservatives than say east coast Episcopalians!

Cedar City is a great place! And, as has been said, Utah on a whole is a very hunter/gun/fisher/outdoorsman friendly place. It's a great state to live in!

It is a fine area to live. As for hunting, it is very hunter and gun friendly. There are good deer herds and great elk herds within 30 minutes of Cedar.

The problem is obtaining a tag. Deer hunts are drawn and usually take 1 to 2 years to obtain a tag. So you can hunt deer in the area every other or every 2 years. (Archers can get a tag easier). Elk tags are by drawing and it will take you approximately 30 years to draw a bull tag. Antlerless tags will take 2-7 years to draw. Some spike elk tags are availible and success runs around 12%. There are some ok public lands duck hunting. Grouse and chuckar are found in ok numbers on public lands.

So while it is a nice place, the hunting is marginal at best simply due to not obtaining tags on a regular basis.

MC- Those tag wait cycles don't sound terribly different from Nevada or even Arizona.

I can draw the mule deer tag I want in Nevada about every 3 or 4 years. The Coues tag I want in Arizona I can get about every 3 years.

In 17 years of living here I've drawn ONE Nevada antelope tag and ONE Nevada elk tag (muzzleloader at that).

I've been trying to draw a Red Desert antelope tag in Wyoming for about 20 years now.

Don't even get me started on sheep.

I think all of the draw states are pretty comparable if you're talking about a particular hunt or tag in a desirable area.

I'll second what LRH says. The draw system is comparable to other states now. Not too many years ago, opening day of deer season was a recognized school holiday and deer tags were bought over the counter. But like elsewhere the word got out and southern Utah has grown by leaps and bounds the past decade.

Nice place, and nice people that still wave at you with all five fingers when you pass them on the smaller roads.

Keith

If you guys are satisfied hunting your home states every 2-5 years then I am glad for you. He asked about the hunting and that is the story. The deer herd is not what it used to be. The elk are overmanaged and underharvested. The public bird areas are marginal. There are public areas to hunt grouse, chuckar, ducks, doves. Getting big game tags is more difficult, but can be done if one thinks outside the box (archery, dedicated hunter, etc) or if he is willing to travel for 5 hours.

I didn't say I was happy, I just said that's the way it is. Demand exceeds supply in many places, not just in southern Utah.

That's why we do Africa in the summer, New Mexico landowner antelope in August-September, ducks in Louisiana in November and deer in Texas in December.

If I ever had a year when I drew EVERYTHING I put in for I'd have to quit work and get a second mortgage.