public land palouse bucks

[nachesboy72]

well despite (most of you) downing on my hunt, thank you for the ones who were actually encouraging!  any way as i said i would, i hunted all free to hunt land, and saw quite a few bucks! one HUGE whitetail  but he was hot on a doe and just would not slow down for a damn thing. kept hunting hard through the day and saw a few mulies also a very large clean 2 point! but i wasnt going to get down on myself, i knew there was quite a bit of public land just hard to find, we ended up taking tons of backroads for about an hour or so during the afternoon and we ran into a farmer, he stopped to talk to us and i told him i was just trying to hunt public land this year nothing special, he was im guessing in his upper 70's he told me a good chunck of land was just up the road. hed also never seen hunters on this road in about 7 years! "im shocked you guys are on this road, but glad to see you doing it the challenging way and hunt the public land not alot of people do that anymore" his words exactly and made me feel pretty good!  we found the where he was talking about and i made my way up and over some rolling hills and glassed the edge of the ground where it had been bladed and hadnt been bladed met up, sure enough a doe bedded down, 2, 3, 4, BUCK! he wasnt the pig i had seen early in the morning but hey i saw 3 points!  so tag not wasted, ruined, or given up on. it all depends on the effort you put into the hunt. no i didnt have time to scout out the area this year, but it brought me somewhere new, and into a diffrent type of hunting, i had never hunted whitetails and it taught me alot actually. i also plan on hunting there next year so really the tag wasnt a waste one bit.. and for the people that said things about me being a moron for not asking farmers for permission to hunt there land, private property yadda yadda yadda. all i asked for was what should i expect with free to hunt land since thats where i had planned on hunting the day i drew the tag. but thanks for all the info on private proprety 

[nachesboy72]

when i got up to him, found out he had eye gaurds also! forst whitetail, and i wont complain one bit about a 3 point with eye gaurds! the 3rd picture is where he lay! spotted him bedded down, shot him bedded down, never even flinched, i almost thought i missed when i loooked up to see him the exact way i saw him before i shot!  the last picturre is of the mulie i was talking about!

[SemperFidelis97]

Way to get it done, and find yourself a little honey hole in the process.

[PolarBear]

 

[Bigluke1981]

Awesome, way to go on getting over there and getting it done. Congrats on a great deer!!

[BAR C3]

when i got up to him, found out he had eye gaurds also! forst whitetail, and i wont complain one bit about a 3 point with eye gaurds! the 3rd picture is where he lay! spotted him bedded down, shot him bedded down, never even flinched, i almost thought i missed when i loooked up to see him the exact way i saw him before i shot!  the last picturre is of the mulie i was talking about!

You obvious don't take things well. No need to private message me. You can air it on here. I have thick skin. I deal with felons everyday.
Nobody is plotting against you. I hope all on here are successful! Myself and several others were just pointing out what to expect. Sorry you didn't like it, I'm glad you were successful! Next year do some homework and maybe that huge buck you saw will make it through the year and you will have a shot at him.

[wsubeagle]

Congratulations! This was my first season hunting whitetail. I hunted public lands here in the Palouse. Mostly around Rimrock Cannnon and Nisqually John Canyon, and a little around Colfax. I saw probably about 30-50 doe and about 300+ hunters, but no bucks. Although opening day was Dad's day at WSU (and a football day), so I wonder if more people came into town then normal. It was like the fourth of July opening day with all the gunfire. I'm glad somebody new to the area and hunting public lands managed to find something. I went this weekend up to Colville for the late hunt, struck out there too. LOL so maybe I'm just bad at this.

[Snakeriver10]

Congrads on the deer! 

[hambone]

Congrats hunting public lands is a tough find in the palouse 

[Naches Sportsman]

Nice buck going for a blackie next year?

And also, a real hunter only hunts public ffth land. Good job