Tripod Burn Bucks??????

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

The subject came up again and curious if there has been very good success in the Tripod Burn for Bucks this year?

[boneaddict]

You can guess with 85% certainty which ones came from there in the success thread.

[boneaddict]

I think the paper said three bucks were checked in Winthrop on the opener.

[WARHORSE]

3 bucks out of the 500,000 hunters......good odds! Lol

[h2ofowlr]

The tripod bucks definitely have some unique racks.  I saw a few this week that looked like they crowned.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

You can guess with 85% certainty which ones came from there in the success thread.



That is what I was thinking as well....

[rickomatic]

I think the paper said three bucks were checked in Winthrop on the opener.

We (16 guys) hunted Ramsey, Perrygine, Boulder Creek, Cougar, etc. for over a week. Never saw one gamey or check station. Was the only one on 20 out of Winthrop? Not very scientific, IMO.

[boneaddict]

Never has been Rickomatic.   It used to be further up the road.  If you wanted to avoid the hassle you just took the other side of the river.   

[vfilbert]

I think the paper said three bucks were checked in Winthrop on the opener.

We (16 guys) hunted Ramsey, Perrygine, Boulder Creek, Cougar, etc. for over a week. Never saw one gamey or check station. Was the only one on 20 out of Winthrop? Not very scientific, IMO.

I also never saw a gamey how did u guys do up thier?

[rickomatic]

My son was the only one out of our group to score. He gat a small 3x4 on Wednesday 4 miles past the gate on the 200 road towards Boulder Creek. Took 3 of us 2 hours to take in the game cart. He had just gotten it down to the road. It was pouring rain. Is that fun, or what? 

[Alchase]

The tripod bucks definitely have some unique racks.  I saw a few this week that looked like they crowned.

I would not bet on that being a "Tripod" characteristics, last year there were at least 4 bucks I know of taken in the "Pearygyn/Bear Creek region that all had larger then typical (for that area) dark with knots, crowns, and Palmations. In all the years hunting there I never saw that many large dark racks.
Unless they were Tripod bucks on the move, early
LOL

[bigmacc]

The tripod bucks definitely have some unique racks.  I saw a few this week that looked like they crowned.

I would not bet on that being a "Tripod" characteristics, last year there were at least 4 bucks I know of taken in the "Pearygyn/Bear Creek region that all had larger then typical (for that area) dark with knots, crowns, and Palmations. In all the years hunting there I never saw that many large dark racks.
Unless they were Tripod bucks on the move, early
LOL

I remember as a kid(7 or 8 yrs old) back in the early 60,s the grandparents had me convinced that the bucks they would shoot around Pipestone or up around Harts pass had legs that were shorter on one side of their body than the other cause they grew up and lived in such steep country. They would lay them on the ground and hold there legs just right to even show me,so it must be true ..All kidding aside,I think the ash from that fire has helped in some antler growth for deer hanging in that area,I know a few locals over there that say they even dump the ash from there wood stoves in certain areas of there property where deer feed for antler growth. If its true and if it works there will be some big bucks living south of twisp all the way to the columbia river in the next couple years!....my

[Katmai Guy]

Maybe that's where all the big bucks have gone.  We need to let more fires burn instead of putting them out.

[bigmacc]

Maybe that's where all the big bucks have gone.  We need to let more fires burn instead of putting them out.

EEEEEASY there big fella,dont be waving your stick around that hornet nest!

[Katmai Guy]

 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Real nice Tripod Burn Buck right there!

[Alchase]

I remember as a kid(7 or 8 yrs old) back in the early 60,s the grandparents had me convinced that the bucks they would shoot around Pipestone or up around Harts pass had legs that were shorter on one side of their body than the other cause they grew up and lived in such steep country. They would lay them on the ground and hold there legs just right to even show me,so it must be true ..

That is awesome!

[boneaddict]

    I think before cellphones, facebook, internet, cable tv, people had sense of humors.

[Skillet]

I remember as a kid(7 or 8 yrs old) back in the early 60,s the grandparents had me convinced that the bucks they would shoot around Pipestone or up around Harts pass had legs that were shorter on one side of their body than the other cause they grew up and lived in such steep country. They would lay them on the ground and hold there legs just right to even show me,so it must be true ..

That is awesome!

Grandpa used to tell me the same thing about the muleys on the Ferry county mountains he hunted - with the added twist there were "left hand deer" and "right hand deer" that could only go one way around a mountain, depending on which side had the shorter legs.   

[bigmacc]

I remember as a kid(7 or 8 yrs old) back in the early 60,s the grandparents had me convinced that the bucks they would shoot around Pipestone or up around Harts pass had legs that were shorter on one side of their body than the other cause they grew up and lived in such steep country. They would lay them on the ground and hold there legs just right to even show me,so it must be true ..

That is awesome!

Grandpa used to tell me the same thing about the muleys on the Ferry county mountains he hunted - with the added twist there were "left hand deer" and "right hand deer" that could only go one way around a mountain, depending on which side had the shorter legs.   

  :chuckle:Thats good stuff right there........And your right bone,things were alot simpler back then,people actually had to entertain themselves

[Alchase]

My uncle told me to watch out for the sneaky bucks when I told him I was hunting in the Winthrop area instead of the Skokomish river drainage for the first time back in the late 80s.
 I asked him what he meant?
He said some Muley bucks are so sneaky they will get down and almost crawl away at times.
I obviously thought he was pulling my leg.........
Then a couple years later I was up in Pearygin, and I had a 1x2 in my sights 15 minutes into the opener. I was torn with getting a "legal" buck or waiting for somethine bigger. I heard something behind me and turned my head around there wer two does walking through the log poles behind me, and following them was a nice 4x3 squatted down, his head thrown back, just like he was actually crawling around me. I was so flustered in disbelief, I swung my rifle around to line up an him but hit a branch on the pine next to me which flushed a grouse!
All heck broke loose!
I tried to go one way, the buck another.
I checked myself in time to see the buck and his harem stot over the ridge line.
So I learned Muleys are sneaky, lol

[_TONY_]

I saw a whitetail buck do the exact same thing lol funniest thing I've ever seen a deer do...

[bigmacc]

I saw a whitetail buck do the exact same thing lol funniest thing I've ever seen a deer do...

A big 4 by 4 actually snuck up on my mom(in whats known as THE TRIPOD BURN area) years ago,before the famous burn :chuckle:she was with my dad hunkered in a makeshift blind of pine bows and limbs by a tree that very few will know of(I know one guy on here that knows this spot)and I know his lips are sealed,hes a good man and a savy hunter,he,s my brother.Anyways,mom and dad were dozing and just about shooting time my dad smelled a buck,they started wondering where that smell was comming from. My dad said "dont move there is a buck real close" she was shooting a 30-30 cause you only had about a 40 to 50 yard radious of shooting in this spot,it was smack dab in the "freeway" of a migration route. That buck had snuck in on them,sniffed them,and blew snot on them from there back,he bounced to about 30 ft away and stood broadside to them. From inside the "blind" my dad said "theres your buck,knock him down" ,she blazed away with that 30-30 and ejected all the shells just like the "rifleman"without ever pulling the trigger! .One big "TRIPOD" buck that lived to breed another day....Oh the "tripod buck"