Ritzville Buck

[Jimmy33]

Just curious if anyone has had this tag? I have quite a few points for buck and thinking of hunting rifle next year...just trying to see if it’s a viable option. I understand it’s a lot of private land. I’m curious about size of bucks in the unit? Any tracts of public? General observations if you’ve hunted the unit.


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[CAMPMEAT]

All I can tell you is, I have a rancher gal friend who lives in Odessa and her and her hubby kill some nice mulies.

[outdooraddict]

i have been trying to draw this tag. with the limited number of tags, and difficulty to draws, rut season, any buck, I cant believe the brilliant wdfw doesn't call this a quality tag.

[jjhunter]

There are VERY few quality bucks.  Not much escapement in that country cause we can run nearly every square foot of it with a pickup.   

Whitetail hold tight, so they can get big.

[jjhunter]

Somebody on here has that tag this year because I remember getting a PM.   Kinda sounded like they had joined the Scabland hunt club which would be a decent approach with that tag if you weren't local/didn't have access.

[Tradhunter]

How are the whitetail numbers in this area? Ive heard there are some big ones but we didn't see any in there yesterday. My buddy and I were scouting a bit in a couple of units as he has the whitetail raffle tag so we are hoping to find a good buck to go after. We planned on putting out a bail of alfalfa and cam just to see if we can get some pics but spotting a ton of I'm guessing (wild horses) that quickly became not an option haha. We did not see any scrapes anywhere like we were seeing in the more northern units.

[jjhunter]

I’d hunt north central or north east with that tag.  If I ever draw the raffle, I’ll prescout the lower country and try to kill on Sept 1st before the velvet goes.  Most years, you get one or two days during the archery to make it happen.  Once the giants strip, the’re gone!

[Tradhunter]

Thats about exactly what we found this year! we had a bunch of cams out for his bull moose tag and had got some dandy bucks but once the velvet was off...so where they haha. We only had one buck that actually stuck around after he rubbed out and came in mid day almost everyday but he was only about a 150 buck and it wasn't something he wanted to hang that tag on that early in the season. Most of the bucks stopped showing up all together in late August. Our mature blacktail over here are the same way so they are nearly impossible to kill.