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What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« on: September 25, 2013, 07:06:32 PM »
Where is the best area to hunt unguided for mule deer? This would be in Modern Rifle Season.

I have hunted mule deer in Idaho for a few years. Time away from my family and cost have made me decide to give WA deer hunting another try. I have hunted blacktail on the wet side most of my life. Taken many 2-3 year old bucks, no trophies.

Never hunted in Eastern WA before. I am not familiar with any hunting areas east of the Pacific Crest Trail. I do not know if there are any areas open to the public that are productive enough to make the trip.

Are all of these big mule deer bucks on this site taken from private ranches, or can someone point me to a GMU that I could hunt that would be worth my while?

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2013, 07:09:42 PM »
LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2013, 07:10:04 PM »
Best muley hunting I ever had was out of Wenatchee.
Go up #2 Canyon Road until it ends and turns into dirt road.
Lots of nice deer up there.
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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2013, 07:19:02 PM »
Welcome to the site.
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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2013, 07:25:24 PM »
C-Post???

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2013, 07:35:14 PM »
The Nile

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2013, 07:39:10 PM »
Welcome to the site.

Thanks

C-Post???

You lost me  :dunno:

dj,

Welcome to the site there are quite a few smarta$$e$$ on this site and loads of great information and great people. The best thing to do is hang out for awhile post some pictures of past hunts, look through the harvest reports on the WDFW site and see where the habitat is for good Mule Deer.

C-post is a bad running joke kinda like no-tellum ridge, going on a snipe hunt, or whatever fictitious place you can come up with. Also check out the special permit areas for Mule Deer never know you might get lucky next year and draw a once in a lifetime Mule Deer hunt!
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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2013, 08:05:56 PM »
wow impressive usually newbs get told "in the woods"  :chuckle: good luck and welcome noodle :tup:

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2013, 08:11:03 PM »
the best mule deer hunting is mid dec. just ask the Mucks

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2013, 08:20:11 PM »
Definitely agree with a bunch of smart as*&s on here, but there is some great guys here also that use the site for what I think it was intended for, to help hunters helping hunters....
Good Luck. East Okanogan late season if you can get drawn is a great hunt. Regular season good luck, probably hit the Okanogan and get above some of the orchards.....

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2013, 08:27:47 PM »
It used to be Okanogan and Chelan counties. But I don't think so much anymore. The units around Ellensburg and Yakima are terrible. Just look at the harvest reports. A 5% success rate is about as good as it gets.

The best areas might be isolated sections of public land that's mixed in with private land, near farm country and away from concentrations of cougars and wolves.

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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2013, 08:29:13 PM »
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LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.
i would have to disagree, all the yakima units are abismal(sp)
« Last Edit: September 25, 2013, 08:34:46 PM by jdb »
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Re: What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2013, 08:32:02 PM »
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LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.
no it ain't!

 :yeah:  I can't think of a worse place to hunt mule deer, except western Washington!

Like I said, look at the success rates. Umtanum has got to be one of the lowest in the state.

 


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