rimrock gmu

[270Shooter]

i'd hunt up behind lost lake.

[jackelope]

i spent 3-4 days in that unit a few years ago elk hunting and saw a really nice buck in the wilderness. i saw a few other deer here and there but nothing to write home about....i have not been back since.

[backwoods_boy]

i have a ton of info about RIMROCK...ask anyone on this site i can tell you alot about RIMROCK.
just look my topics from last elk season. i have enough for a few hours of reading.

[fishunt247]

Used to hunt the rimrock back in highschool, when deer hunting Yakima was good (so like 2005 and prior). I killed my first buck up there, no digital pics, but its a 16" 3 pt, pretty blacktail type horns. But going in blind is not the way to hunt this unit. Its thick as balls, and there aren't many deer. We'd see maybe between 1 and 8 deer a day, but 90% of the time the deer you saw was a buck. Now I think you'd be lucky to see 2 deer a day there, maybe. 

[backwoods_boy]

we spent 3 weeks up in that GUM last year and saw 5 deer. 1 buck and 4 does.

[jason4429]

When i was elk hunting up there this year . I saw about twenty deer in two weeks .

[Craig]

I have posted this picture a couple times. I seen this buck while I was scouting for my elk permit. I think he might be a cross blacktail/muley buck.

[270Shooter]

All of the deer in this area are Blacktail/mule deer crosses.

[Red Dawg]

If you are serious about hunting deer in rimrock area send me a pm.

[Pathfinder101]

Never hunted Rimrock, but I muzzeloader hunted Cowiche for elk for a full week a couple of years ago and saw a grand total of one benchleg buck.  a fork horn.  If I were after deer, I would hunt somewhere other than the Yak units.  If you insist on hunting there, I guess my advice would be to listen to the guys that know the area, find your buck BEFORE the season starts, figure out where he's going to head when "spooked", then wait there on opening morning.
Good luck.

[tony04]

thanks everyone for the help. i really appreciate it! i hope to do alot of scouting. when would the best time to go? august?

[sparksbr]

I've hunted the Yakima G.M.U.'s my whole life...Pre-season scouting is necessary to find the general areas the deer are inhabiting, yet once the first shots begin to ring out on opening morning, it all goes out the window!  With the amount of hunting pressure those deer receive, they are pretty much impossible to pattern.  Once this happens, all the mature bucks usually go totally nocturnal and hole up in the nasty *censored*!  At that point, it's basically a crap shoot.

You're best bet...As someone previously mentioned, get out and hike!  There's no substitute for being out in the woods.

As everyone else has said...Rimrock has deer but they are few and far between.

I'd be up scouting right now!  There's lots of places for the critters to hide up in Rimrock!

Good luck!

[Pathfinder101]

I've hunted the Yakima G.M.U.'s my whole life...Pre-season scouting is necessary to find the general areas the deer are inhabiting, yet once the first shots begin to ring out on opening morning, it all goes out the window!  With the amount of hunting pressure those deer receive, they are pretty much impossible to pattern.  Once this happens, all the mature bucks usually go totally nocturnal and hole up in the nasty *censored*!  At that point, it's basically a crap shoot.

You're best bet...As someone previously mentioned, get out and hike!  There's no substitute for being out in the woods.

As everyone else has said...Rimrock has deer but they are few and far between.

I'd be up scouting right now!  There's lots of places for the critters to hide up in Rimrock!

Good luck!

Good advice.  I have found the same thing with the mule deer down here.  I got some advice from an old mule deer hunter a few years back that has seemed to work for me the past couple of years.
He said that as soon as the shooting starts the mule deer bucks WILL change their patterns and habits, but when the first shots go off on opening morning they will run along a set "escape route" to their nearest hiding place.  What he suggested was to try to pinpoint that escape route by intentionally spooking the deer a few weeks before the season starts.  Then come back on opening morning and sit along that escape route.  It took me a couple of years to figure out how to make this work, but it does.  I killed 2 of my last 4 bucks this way and my son killed his first last fall doing the same thing.  In fact the deer I shot in 07 and my son's deer in 08 died about 200 yards from each other in the same draw.
Like I said though, this technique involves finding the deer you want to shoot WELL BEFORE the season starts.

[270Shooter]

  The last time I hunted deer in the cowiche unit (2 years ago), we didn't see anyone hunting, and didn't hear any shots . We did see 1 camp with 3 guys sitting in lawn chairs, no meat hangin though.

[Red Dawg]

  that is what I was thinkin myself. Not much shootin up there during deer season.