Palouse buck tag help

[scottfrick]

Wife drew this tag this year and we are going to give it a shot. This will be her first white tail and she's extremely excited. Not sure where to focus on tho. My sister had the tag last year and got a nice whitetail with my dad. Plans were she was going to come along with us and show us some places. With everything that has happened since last year I'm not sure that's going to happen. No one needs to give up their honey holes I was just looking for any help any one has to offer. If not that's fine, we will see what we can find
Below is a picture of my sister and dad with her buck.

[jrebel]

Good Luck.....blue tongue has hit the palouse as well as north of spokane but there are still some stud bucks out there.  I am sure you already know, but most of it is private so look for State, BLM, ect. sections to hunt on.  Well, unless you have acess to private.  Can't wait to see success photos. 

[scottfrick]

Good Luck.....blue tongue has hit the palouse as well as north of spokane but there are still some stud bucks out there.  I am sure you already know, but most of it is private so look for State, BLM, ect. sections to hunt on.  Well, unless you have acess to private.  Can't wait to see success photos.

I've been hearing a lot about that blue tongue we will figure something out.

[M_ray]

Lots of private ground, that tag is better served if you have some private to hunt on 

[scottfrick]

Lots of private ground, that tag is better served if you have some private to hunt on 

We will make the best of it.

[Dhoey07]

Try the hunt by reservation maybe

[trophyelk6x6]

I have the same tag but blue tongue has hit all the way down into Oregon's blues. My buddy south of Pendleton said they have found 8 dead bucks on just the land he leases. A nat bites them on their nose and causes a fever that can kill them in 7 days. Muley's can get it also but it doesn't seem to kill them like the whitetails.  Their tongues actually go black. 

[scottfrick]

I have the same tag but blue tongue has hit all the way down into Oregon's blues. My buddy south of Pendleton said they have found 8 dead bucks on just the land he leases. A nat bites them on their nose and causes a fever that can kill them in 7 days. Muley's can get it also but it doesn't seem to kill them like the whitetails.  Their tongues actually go black.

Wow that's some scary stuff!!

[buckmaster_wa]

We had a biologist check our animals at the campground last week. He said that they figure there has been a 60% die off from Bluetongue this fall. He also said that for some reason it seems as though the bluetongue affects the bucks more than the does.

I know it was extremely obvious that the property I hunt was hit hard. We saw 7 deer in two days, where we would generally see 50-75 deer a day. Hopefully they don't have a tough winter on top of this outbreak. That is what happened in NE Montana in 09-10.

[scottfrick]

Leaving tomorrow night  hopefully the buck gods are in our favor Saturday morning. Stay tuned...

[wreckerman5288]

The blue tounge has made it tough here this year, at least on all the ground I have permission to hunt. This year was not kind to me. Good luck on that tag, ordinarily its a good one, this year not as much.

Go to WDFW's web page, there is quite a bit off Feel Free To Hunt land here in Whitman County and I  know of a few of these pieces that have shot bucks on before and bucks come out of the every year.

If you get this before you leave, PM me and I could make a few suggestions.

[jrebel]

Good Luck and make sure to let us know how you did.   

[jjhunter]

Headed over on Tuesday.  Only takes one.  Good luck!

[palousehunter]

We have lost more buck this year, Friends have hunted the Regular Deer Season and not even seen a legal Buck,

[scottfrick]

Leaving town here in a few. Got a place we are heading too. Hopefully the blue tongue left at least one buck for us. Fingers crossed.