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Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« on: December 09, 2015, 06:18:53 PM »
I'm just curious how many of you see them and how many big bucks you've seen. I've never seen a mule deer buck in this corner of the state.

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2015, 06:55:14 PM »
Go by the drive in theater between colville and kettle and their standing in the field across the road

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2015, 07:15:26 PM »
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs)  Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2015, 07:19:51 PM »
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs)  Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

Theyre always running around buck canyon lodge.  Came close to bagging a couple muley bucks with my truck right in front of his driveway on a couple occasions

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2015, 08:45:24 PM »
I see them all the time!

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2015, 09:10:54 PM »
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs)  Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

 :yeah:  hunted hawk creek for the early archery opener again this year.  Deer numbers were WAY down and they were SUPER skittish.  Last couple years there were lots of mulie does, up to 40.  This year, only 14.  :dunno:  But there are some great deer around Seven Bays (and yes, they've ALL been right on the road behind no trespassing signs!   :bash: :bash:)

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2015, 08:54:33 AM »
There are no mulies in this general area


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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2015, 08:59:50 AM »
There are less and less it seems - over time - but I still see mule deer all they way to Canada throughout the year.  Actually I saw more mule deer this year than I've seen in a while in units 117 and 121.
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2015, 09:11:03 AM »
There are no mulies in this general area


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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2015, 09:29:34 AM »
I know there are mule deer in alot of places up there I just haven't spent any time hunting them. Usually I'm on the trail of a big whitetail and run into mulie doe's but don't recall ever seeing a buck.

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2015, 09:34:50 AM »
See them all the time, tend to get out of Dodge while the whitetail scurry about their haughts

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2015, 09:35:02 AM »
They are pretty sneaky during seasons.  I see most of them in spring/summer.  Mostly narrow, heavy, non-typical characteristics on the older bucks.  I can never stay on them after August 15th though.
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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2015, 09:39:17 AM »
Pay attention to some of the photos I take.   Like that might be in my calender this year. ;)

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2015, 09:41:54 AM »
On any given morning I can see between 50-100 without leaving the deck around my house in 121.  They eat everything around the house except the lavender plants and the ponderosa pines.  Really intermixing with the whitetails in the area and I'm pretty sure some of the deer around us are in fact mixes of the two.  Had a little spike running around breeding anything that would hold still and saw him chasing the whitetail does as well as the mulie does. Bigger bucks didn't seem to be nearly as "spunky" as that little guy.

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Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2015, 09:44:12 AM »
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs)  Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

Theyre always running around buck canyon lodge.  Came close to bagging a couple muley bucks with my truck right in front of his driveway on a couple occasions

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