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Offline Caveman123

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2022, 01:52:46 PM »
I live in Ellensburg, there is lots of public land around. My only word of caution if you choose to go north of I90 is know where the nanium quilomine boundary is. I here of a few guys new to the area getting hit with tickets every year accidentally wandering across unit boundaries. There are a few guys in the area I have a lot of respect for that kill deer consistently around here. I personally choose to go elsewhere.

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2022, 05:33:20 PM »
If you want to drive around on an endless supply of dirt roads and drink beer, those are great units. If you want to actually kill a deer scout heavy but if you find deer there's a good chance 20 other guys already know about them. I'd suggest picking units with higher success rates. There's plenty of units out here that you'll have a better chance in.

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2022, 07:54:21 PM »
I live in Ellensburg, there is lots of public land around. My only word of caution if you choose to go north of I90 is know where the nanium quilomine boundary is. I here of a few guys new to the area getting hit with tickets every year accidentally wandering across unit boundaries. There are a few guys in the area I have a lot of respect for that kill deer consistently around here. I personally choose to go elsewhere.
Accident my arse lol what’s hard about colockum pass as a boundary line


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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2022, 09:02:47 PM »
I live in Ellensburg, there is lots of public land around. My only word of caution if you choose to go north of I90 is know where the nanium quilomine boundary is. I here of a few guys new to the area getting hit with tickets every year accidentally wandering across unit boundaries. There are a few guys in the area I have a lot of respect for that kill deer consistently around here. I personally choose to go elsewhere.
Accident my arse lol what’s hard about colockum pass as a boundary line


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Isn't Colockum Pass the road that goes up and over from Vantage to Eburg?

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2022, 09:12:51 PM »
Lol must be next thing I will here is that the firing center boundary are confusing


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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2022, 09:39:41 PM »
I live in Ellensburg, there is lots of public land around. My only word of caution if you choose to go north of I90 is know where the nanium quilomine boundary is. I here of a few guys new to the area getting hit with tickets every year accidentally wandering across unit boundaries. There are a few guys in the area I have a lot of respect for that kill deer consistently around here. I personally choose to go elsewhere.
Accident my arse lol what’s hard about colockum pass as a boundary line


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Isn't Colockum Pass the road that goes up and over from Vantage to Eburg?
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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2022, 09:43:28 PM »
It was a joke.

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2022, 09:51:27 PM »
It was a joke.
Thank goodness…


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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2022, 10:18:32 PM »
With the price of fuel being what it is. The further your away, the better the hunting is going to be (think 200+ miles more)

that logic works if there was 0 cities east of the pass. there are alot of hunters on the eastside

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2022, 10:20:32 PM »
I always laugh at these posts and the people everywhere, yet I somehow go to places and never see a single hunter

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #25 on: May 09, 2022, 06:20:35 AM »
Are you and your son, in moderately good shape? Not afraid to burn some boot leather? Can you break down a deer and pack it out? If the answers are yes to these questions, then you should be able to find somewhere to hunt without a ton of other people busting your hunt. What I see as the biggest problem, with first time west siders coming east to hunt, is they spend to much time walking  not enough glassing. A lot just can't find deer, even though they are hunting in good areas. Learn to glass from your boot tips, to about two miles out. Even further, if the terrain allows. Remember, most won't hunt more than a mile from their rig. Get a mile or better away from roads,  chances are you will have the whole area to yourself. :twocents:

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #26 on: May 09, 2022, 07:26:07 AM »
The pride and joy of Washington is not the mule deer or whitetail hunting, its the blacktail hunting. You might as well just stay over there and get better at hunting the blacktails.


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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #27 on: May 09, 2022, 07:36:58 AM »
The pride and joy of Washington is not the mule deer or whitetail hunting, its the blacktail hunting. You might as well just stay over there and get better at hunting the blacktails.


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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #28 on: May 09, 2022, 09:31:20 AM »
I always laugh at these posts and the people everywhere, yet I somehow go to places and never see a single hunter

Normally I'd agree with you, I usually don't have trouble getting away from people either. I will say I hunted one of my old spots for the rifle opener last year and my mind was blown. I don't spend much time up the Teanaway anymore but I had a day to kill. It's a long ways in and off trail, steep with lots of blow down. Daylight came and I had orange on almost every knob around me. The amount of shooting going on was unreal, even by rifle opener standards. By 10 o'clock I decided I wouldn't kill a buck even if I found one I liked and walked out

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Re: Public land East of the mountains?
« Reply #29 on: May 09, 2022, 10:22:57 AM »
I always laugh at these posts and the people everywhere, yet I somehow go to places and never see a single hunter

Normally I'd agree with you, I usually don't have trouble getting away from people either. I will say I hunted one of my old spots for the rifle opener last year and my mind was blown. I don't spend much time up the Teanaway anymore but I had a day to kill. It's a long ways in and off trail, steep with lots of blow down. Daylight came and I had orange on almost every knob around me. The amount of shooting going on was unreal, even by rifle opener standards. By 10 o'clock I decided I wouldn't kill a buck even if I found one I liked and walked out


The only reason i say this is that the population density is much higher on the west side and everyone (including me) is looking for a better place to go. Everyone i work with except 1 person drives east looking for deer/elk to go to places where locals are already hunting. Also blacktail hunting has a steeper learning curve it seems like, you cant just hike around like you can in more open areas.

 


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