Hunting Washington Forum

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  With a quality deer permit in my pocket since spring I haven’t been able to think about much else but big ol stinky bucks. The wait felt like forever but here I am already, home and warm and dry and reminiscing my time in the mule deer mountains. I only wish it lasted longer because it took nearly a quarter century to get a late Wa tag. I didn’t have a number or specific antler configuration I was chasing but I did need to find a buck I felt was extremely mature before I was going to end my hunt. I was blessed to turn one up that not only checked that box but several boxes when it comes to a good muley buck. As it often seems to happen I killed at last light and spent the night solo and far from everything leaving me with not much for field photos, I apologize for that but here is my 25 buck.

Hoooooleeeeeee smokes!

Been down on the mighty Columbia four times now.  Limited 3 times  , seen the beasts jumping , the water is way up , I know 3 of the monsters cought 12lb fish I’m told by the locals there , a guy my son works with cought one also , I’m headed down again in the morning, had two big batches out of the smoker already , there all gone somehow jeeeeze ! Until everybody cranks there heat it’s action packed adventure in search of jaws !!

Sorry for the poor quality pics. All in low light or fog…

I wish I got a better shot of the one in the fog he was pretty nice.