What is the Best Public Land Muley Hunting Areas in Our State?

[ghosthunter]

LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.

 

Really
I hunt that for elk every year and I have seen 5 deer.

[bobcat]

LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.

no it ain't!

   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.

342 sucks . I helped the harvest rate go up in 2010 and 11 though .

I hear the Yakamas do okay on the deer in that unit in late November and December. 

[huntnphool]

LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.

no it ain't!

   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.

LT Murry north of Selah. GMU 342.

i would have to disagree, all the yakima units are abismal(sp)

 

[ghosthunter]

Noodle no one is going to give you the answer you want. Got to do your own research.

Welcome

[jdb]

the best mule deer hunting is mid dec. just ask the Mucks

 . I think the best hunting is on rez land as the indians kill off of our land instead of theirs .

actually the yak res is almost void of deer

[huntnphool]

the best mule deer hunting is mid dec. just ask the Mucks

 . I think the best hunting is on rez land as the indians kill off of our land instead of theirs .

actually the yak res is almost void of deer

The Colville Res is loaded though.

[djnoodle]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll start scouting these areas a bit over the next summer. I'm not expecting you all to tell me where your honey holes are. Just areas that I can hunt without knowing the land owner personally. I was told by some people when I was a kid that most deer hunting in eastern wa is on private land. I knew better, but I never investigated until now. I'll try to keep up with the smarta$$e$. I can be quite a bit of one myself, once I settle in.

To answer the questions, I am looking for a place to hunt modern rifle, not this season, too late for that. Not necessarily the GMU with the most area of public land, but I don't want to spend all day in the truck, looking for an area that I am allowed to carry a rifle in. Of course, I want to fill my tag, but I realize that the success rates are around 5% in most GMUs. I'm looking for a chance to get a shot at a trophy of course, who isn't. My main reason for looking over that side of the fence, is that I have not hunted deer in Western WA in 10 years, and my scouting this year has taught me two things, many of my favorite hunting spots are now unaccessible, and many of the ones that are not, are now overgrown with brush.

And here is a pic of my most recent buck. It's a 2x3 and I got him on Old Baldy Mountain, near Lava Hot Springs, ID. Smaller than I was hoping for, but it was the last day of the hunt...

[Fowlweather25]

Nice buck! Welcome

[Buzz2401]

There is a ton of public land in eastern washington.  I would just do some research on the wdfw website to see success rates for different units then see if those units with good numbers have much National forest land. There is a lot of DNR land to, but often times DNR land can be land locked by private land.  I would start my search in the north central part of the state.

[jdb]

the best mule deer hunting is mid dec. just ask the Mucks

 . I think the best hunting is on rez land as the indians kill off of our land instead of theirs .

actually the yak res is almost void of deer

The Colville Res is loaded though.

for sure

[predatorpro]

definitely the west side.....

[yakimarcher]

There's lost of deer around Yakima, you have to know where to look and hope that you can avoid all the numb nuts from the west side who invade and push all the game back into the wilderness

[Nilehunter]

Noodle no one is going to give you the answer you want. Got to do your own research.

Welcome

Welcome!

[Nilehunter]

There's lost of deer around Yakima, you have to know where to look and hope that you can avoid all the numb nuts from the west side who invade and push all the game back into the wilderness

Fuzzy nuts thank you!

Hope were not getting back to the "hunt your own zip code" discussion. 

[fastdam]

There's lost of deer around Yakima, you have to know where to look and hope that you can avoid all the numb nuts from the west side who invade and push all the game back into the wilderness

True story.