looking for a new muley area

[Pathfinder101]

Slayrock,
Did you guys run a pack trip in there with horses?

[huntnphool]

You might consider picking one of the places tentatively scheduled to open for 2 points, there should be some decent opportunity for a big one.

[Slayock]

My dad and I rode horses into his elk camp the last few summers and did some scouting but my dad and his brothers used to horse pack in there for elk season.  They found some big sheds and saw a few big bucks.  My great grandpa ran an outfitting business in there.  He had around fifty head of horses and mules and took in 40 to 50 hunters a year.

[Pathfinder101]

Very cool Slayrock.  When I hunted it a few years ago we hiked out on a horse trail (wish we had found it on the way in).  We stayed at a little camp where two creeks run together that had "MAN CAMP" carved into a tree.  If you guys saw deer though, you had us beat.  All we saw was elk (and we think we got a glimpse of a cougar - either that or it was the quietest, quickest deer in history).  Lots of bear tracks too, but it's like that everywhere in the Blues... 

[Slayock]

The seer back there are few and far between you really just have to get lucky.  My dads cousin was elk hunting in there two years ago and saw the biggest mule deer of his life, he thought it was an elk at first.  We usually take off at the Dimond Peak trail head which is a Rorrest Service maintained packing trail so if you go in again that would be a good place to start.

[colockumelk]

I'd go into one of those high buck hunts.  Seems guys get some pretty good buck out of those areas.  I would stay away from Yakima or Kittitas country as the deer numbers here are way down.  Anything that would score over 110 here would be a trophy.  If you hunt with a bow or ML then the areas's just east of here around the Columbia basin hold some really nice open country desrt mule deer.  That's where I'd go. 

[CSOUTFITTERS]

Well i wouldnt plan on going to the Swakane for late season archery.  Sorry guys im just bitter.  I'm thinking about changing gears and goind NE for whitetails, the #r's are good and there are some monsters. 

GOOD LUCK

[Pathfinder101]

Slayrock, if you ever want to get toether for a beer or something, drop me a PM.

[Slayock]

Sounds good 

[royalbull]

check regs, apply for late hunts, you can pretty much tell best units just by amounts of applicants, I like alkalai but only because I dont have to worry about private property