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I have been seeing two everyday in my lower pasture! Hope the darn cats don't get them.
Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on December 15, 2013, 05:01:56 PMI have been seeing two everyday in my lower pasture! Hope the darn cats don't get them. I'd be more than happy to get one of them before a cat does. I've been looking to get my first deer.
Quote from: Evoac05 on December 15, 2013, 05:29:20 PMQuote from: Boss .300 winmag on December 15, 2013, 05:01:56 PMI have been seeing two everyday in my lower pasture! Hope the darn cats don't get them. I'd be more than happy to get one of them before a cat does. I've been looking to get my first deer. Pretty sure they are yearlings, mom I think got hit by a car late spring. They let me get close quite often on my walks, I would but the deer in my area are getting hit pretty hard by be cats. Sorry
Sounds like we need to organize a HuntWa coyote / couger purge! Pick an area we want to see deer population rise and sink our teeth in!
Quote from: Boss .300 winmag on December 15, 2013, 05:35:55 PMQuote from: Evoac05 on December 15, 2013, 05:29:20 PMQuote from: Boss .300 winmag on December 15, 2013, 05:01:56 PMI have been seeing two everyday in my lower pasture! Hope the darn cats don't get them. I'd be more than happy to get one of them before a cat does. I've been looking to get my first deer. Pretty sure they are yearlings, mom I think got hit by a car late spring. They let me get close quite often on my walks, I would but the deer in my area are getting hit pretty hard by be cats. SorryNo problem, I understand Boss .300 winmag.I think I'm done with hunting the west side, at least until I get my first deer (doe or buck, I'm not picky). After 4 years hunting the west side during both modern and archery without seeing anything I'm pretty much done with this side of the state. The only time I saw a deer while hunting was during modern and it was 3-4 doe and of course not legal to shoot. I put out 4 cams this summer and moved a couple around getting a lot of activity, but nothing came out while I was in my stand. Moved my stand to another area with lots of sign and still no deer. I have to say blacktail deer are awesome at playing hide and seek, boy can they hide.
This talk about blacktails being tough to hunt- yes that is true, because of the brush, the terrain, and the fact that they're nocturnal most of the time. But it's more than that. I believe there are so few blacktails that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. It didn't used to be like this. Back in the 80's I could go for a drive in the summer and seeing 50 deer in just a couple hours would be nothing. Now I'd be lucky to see five.It is true that there were some nice blacktail bucks taken this year. But is that more due to the fact that there are so few younger bucks out there?
Quote from: bobcat on December 15, 2013, 10:00:33 PMThis talk about blacktails being tough to hunt- yes that is true, because of the brush, the terrain, and the fact that they're nocturnal most of the time. But it's more than that. I believe there are so few blacktails that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. It didn't used to be like this. Back in the 80's I could go for a drive in the summer and seeing 50 deer in just a couple hours would be nothing. Now I'd be lucky to see five.It is true that there were some nice blacktail bucks taken this year. But is that more due to the fact that there are so few younger bucks out there?Or your just getting older and need a better prescription for your eyes.
Quote from: furiouzgeorge on December 15, 2013, 07:17:28 PMSounds like we need to organize a HuntWa coyote / couger purge! Pick an area we want to see deer population rise and sink our teeth in!I vote for 448, but there's a cap on the number of Cougs that can be harvested from most GMUs (if I'm reading it right...)
Quote from: shoot-em-dead on December 15, 2013, 10:03:14 PMQuote from: bobcat on December 15, 2013, 10:00:33 PMThis talk about blacktails being tough to hunt- yes that is true, because of the brush, the terrain, and the fact that they're nocturnal most of the time. But it's more than that. I believe there are so few blacktails that it's like finding a needle in a haystack. It didn't used to be like this. Back in the 80's I could go for a drive in the summer and seeing 50 deer in just a couple hours would be nothing. Now I'd be lucky to see five.It is true that there were some nice blacktail bucks taken this year. But is that more due to the fact that there are so few younger bucks out there?Or your just getting older and need a better prescription for your eyes. Maybe! But I just got new glasses. And I have way better binoculars than I did back then. In the 80's you could just drive logging roads and the deer were everywhere.