Desert deer

[Ace]

What’s the best hunt for the desert. 1st or second for rifle and why

[highside74]

Both are horrible...please close this thread

[highside74]

A tag is pre rut with bucks that haven't been really pressured yet but should be active. The B tag the bucks should be rutting hard and with does. Both are good but I'd prefer the B tag for the rutting action.

[paultanninen]

The tag is a good one, expect to see quite a few bucks each day. The best buck i ever saw was over there. Real nice bucks now and then. 4 points real common.

[tallcooljuan]

I make it a point to spend a weekend there every year during at least one of the seasons.  This year it was the late season.  It went from below 20 at daylight to hot as soon as the sun came up.  I routinely see bucks, but have never seen anything like the legends I hear about.  This year I saw no hard rut activity.  The only bucks with does were not shooters and not pushing them, just young bucks still hanging out in the herd.
When I go early I see disappointed hunters and the deer I see are the ones I jump in head-high brush.  There is a lot of people activity out there on the public land as it is very popular for birds and coyotes.  The hunter I saw this year was on a high mound glassing with a partner.  I wouldn't have seen him otherwise as he had no hunter orange.
I won't put in for that anymore.  I'm sure there are nicer deer than what I've seen, but it's not the experience I'm looking for.  I hear shotguns for the first half of the day and atv's all day long.

[Ace]

The area I’m looking at has no motorized vehicle access. As far as the bird hunters with no orange thief breaking the law. You should have told them adopt that and hopefully they would have left

[boneaddict]

There are big ones and little ones and a few in between.   The easy ones are dead so you have to have some skills or a little luck.   Profound I know.

[CAMPMEAT]

I've seen some absolute monsters west of Pier 4 near the fishing access road.. At first I thought they were elk.

[howlow]

I live here in the desert and the bucks are less spooking in the first season  but the late season is tough also cause u may see a big buck one day and never see him again cause they travel miles looking for does.    The quality of the area has gone down but if you work hard there are still some nice deer it is probably one of the hardest areas to hunt   because not flat lots of sand to hike through and very thick cover.   If anyone ever gets drawn I will deffintly point them it the right direction just have to msg me.

[splitshot]

Poaching is a bigger problem than anyone wants 2 admit. Lots of 20s to 25s and few bigger. I live close and go there lots. Most of the bigger bucks r on private ground.  Mike w

[IslandStorm62]

Little Help? What Areas a re you all referringto as the Desert?

[boneaddict]

Desert.  290

[IslandStorm62]

Thanks.