Boulder Creek Rd. Deer hunting

[NavyChief08]

Has anyone hear if the road on the north or south side of Boulder/Deer Creek will be open and how bad is the area burned. Then will have to go west of Curlew.

[TeacherMan]

Burned all the way over, both south almost parallel with Malo and north to Canada of the highway. Still looks like a nuke zone.

[NavyChief08]

Well that sucks. I was hoping to hunt that area before going back to Afghanistan. Looks like I will be hunting west of Curlew then with the 50 million other hunters.

[Gary2013]

I hunted out of the Deer Creek Summit FS camp at the summit for a couple of years. There was a navy chief hunting there too. Was that you Navy Chief08? If so, my partner was through there a week ago. The picnic tables have about an inch of "char" on them, all the roads east of hiway 21 and north of Sherman pass are going to closed the rest of the year and the area South of the hiway (Long Alec} to Malo is Burnt! I was thinking of hunting the area around Sullivan Lake (Ione, Metalline Falls), but I'm reading it's pretty rugged. Maybe west and south of Curlew isn't too bad of an idea, lots of country between Curlew and Republic!

[boneaddict]

A bunch of the area is closed....the roads in the area are, not the area itself.  Even the tribe is blocked out.   

[NavyChief08]

Gary how's it going. Yepp it's me. How did your mount turn out. Man that was a big deer last year. Yeah looking at a few areas to camp west of Curlew.no camp grounds so going to find an opening off a dirt road. That sucks that the summit is closed and that it burned so bad. I can't remember your partners name and his wife. They going to be up that way again this year? Well hope to run into you out in the woods. Good luck and hope you nail another huge buck this year.

[Ridgeratt]

Here's from 2 weeks ago. All the side roads have signage stating the area is Closed.

[NavyChief08]

Holy crap!! It will take a few years for it to get back to normal.

[Gary2013]

That's depressing as hell! I was so looking forward to hunting the area this year. Maybe I'll go back west of Curlew. I was thinking of the Sullivan Lake area but most of the posts I've read here say that it's pretty rugged and not anymore deer there than other areas. Comments, ideas?

[TeacherMan]

Head toward Bonaparte, find an open area and just sit. Half the state will be there this year pushing the deer all over the place lol...

[Gary2013]

Head toward Bonaparte, find an open area and just sit. Half the state will be there this year pushing the deer all over the place lol...

Ain't that the truth! The very reason I go so far east. Still, a guy's gotta hunt! I'm familiar with the Curlew area, both east and west of hiway 21 so maybe I'll just poke around there. I'm retired and I can go early, look around and if I don't like what I see, I'll move!

[NavyChief08]

This year in the woods is going to be interesting. Once you get a mile or two from the roads the deer population should increase due to the burns. Find vegetation and a water source and they shouldn't be far.

[Ridgeratt]

This year in the woods is going to be interesting. Once you get a mile or two from the roads the deer population should increase due to the burns. Find vegetation and a water source and they shouldn't be far.

You also have to take into consideration that the fire doubled in size sometimes over night. So when it crowned and jumped any of the animals that were ahead of it are then trapped and the fire back burned to them and they perished in the fire. 

[Ridgeratt]

Fire fighter's

[jnevs23]

Any pics of last years deer Gary?