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A Whole Series Of Successful Family Hunts

By STEPHANIE BUNKER

Moapa Valley Progress

Casey Robison harvested this 6×6 bull elk in Utah’s Fish Lake area.

The Ben Robison clan, of Overton, had a great year of hunts this season. They had five big game tags filled and drew three Javelina tags.

Ben’s son Casey Robison drew a rare bull elk tag in Utah that allowed him to hunt all 5 seasons in the vast Fish Lake area. Casey was the only out of state hunter to draw this tag, and he took advantage of it. He hunted a total of 15 days with his father. They hunted a few days in the archery, rifle, and black powder.

Casey and his dad had their eye on one nice big elk for a while. But it was being tricky. Every time the two of them would get in on the elk it would cross over into private land where the hunters couldn’t shoot it.
“There is so much private land in that area that you have to hunt with a GPS to determine where you’re at and where the private land is at,” Ben said.
Apparently that elk had its own GPS and stayed in the protected areas.

Finally in the 4th season of the rifle hunt, in late October, Casey was driven to hunt high in the mountains, due to the over abundance of hunters from the over-the-counter spike tags that were hunting at the time. While hunting high he found the elk he liked and shot it.

The 6×6 elk was a mile and a half away and Casey had a friend with horses to help him pack it down. But his friend’s horses couldn’t carry the antlers and cape of the elk off the mountain without spooking the horses. So Casey had to carry those extremely heavy parts himself.

Ben also had a bull elk tag in Nevada in area 22. The hunting party consisted of Casey, son-in-law Cord Overson and Cord’s son Dane. The group left for Patterson Pass with a 10 day hunt planned.
“We couldn’t get our wives to give us our Thanksgiving dinner ‘to-go’ so right after Thanksgiving we headed up to the mountains,” said Ben.

The group didn’t get to hunt as long as planned. The next morning they spotted four bulls so high on the mountain that they couldn’t get to them. But they also spotted more bulls on another high peak about 800 yards away. Robison snuck within 252 yards of the elk and made a good shot that was filmed by Overson.

The 6×6 bull went over the hill but the video they watched saw that Robison had hit him good.So the group waited and then followed its trail. Sure enough they found the bull 100 yards away.
They were a long from where they were parked. So Casey made the trek down to the ATV and drove it up to them. They were able to get within 100 yards of the elk which made packing it out much easier.
Robison was surprised to have shot his elk so soon. “I had a 10 day hunt planned and I came home after one day with a big grin on my face,” he said.

He was slightly disappointed to have had all those days to hunt but didn’t get full use of them.
There were a few big horn sheep tags that the Robison family drew as well. Casey filled his ram tag in area 281. This area contains the Nevada Test and Training Range. So in order to hunt in this area Casey had to attend a mandatory meeting to learn about the rules of hunting there.

The hunt started in December and the Robisons had a family Christmas party on the opening day. So they missed the first day it was open. But the following day they headed up to the area.
Once again this tag didn’t take long to fill. Overson left to help with the hunt later than the rest of the hunting party. But while he was on his way up to the area, Casey called him to say that he had already shot the sheep and he could turn around and go home.

The other sheep tag was a ewe tag that Overson got right in Logandale’s backyard, area 268. Overson and his son Dane went out to Logandale Trails Red Rock where they found sheep everywhere and shot a ewe.

Overson’s daughter Sage had a youth mule deer tag in area 13. She shot a 3×4 point buck during the early black powder hunt. Overson surprised both Dane and Sage for Christmas by giving them the European mounts of the buck and ewe.

The Robisons have hunted their hearts out over the last few months and the hunts aren’t quite over yet. In February the Overson kids Coy, Sage, and Dane will be heading to Arizona to hunt Javelina.

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