Northern Idaho White Tail Report

[Rutnbuxnbulls]

Heading up to Unit 1 today for a weekend hunt. Trying to seal the deal on a solid buck. Sounds like they are on their feet cruising. Thanks guys for the reports.

Follow up:  killed this buck. Quickest hunt ever for me and easiest drag. Good luck tag holders!!

[elkboy]

Solid action today. Starting to see more mature bucks in addition to does and young bucks. Almost sealed the deal today. Back out tomorrow.

[Machias]

I'm seeing the same thing, the big boys are chasing in my area now.

[boneaddict]

I wish I had Thanksgiving off

[Ridgeratt]

Bone do you remember when Modern firearm in Washington went from tomorrow until the 1st weekend in December?

[Jimmy33]

My son and I sure had fun during our Panhandle hunt. i think we hunt a little farther north than most of you but here are a couple of pics. My sons buck was digging a scrape when he shot him and mine was definitely looking for does. Pretty cold this year…


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[Jimmy33]

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[boneaddict]

Love the fresh rubs.   Nice work

[Karl Blanchard]

I'll be up in NW Montana over Thanksgiving. Hope they are dogging hard for a few more days 🤞

[elkboy]

Great deer, Jimmy33. 

Karl, good luck to you!  At least where I am hunting (Idaho Palouse region), it seems like the real action only just got going. 

[Jimmy33]

I'll be up in NW Montana over Thanksgiving. Hope they are dogging hard for a few more days

Chasing whitetail or mulies?


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[elkboy]

Not to jack the thread... but thought you fellow whitetail aficionados would enjoy a few pics from my hunting time last couple days. 
Pic #1:  Typical view of a north Idaho whitetail- rare to get a complete deer in view... 
Pic #2:  A friendly bull elk dropped by one of my ground sits to say hello.  I think I actually rattled him in.

[elkboy]

Pic #3:  A rare and elusive north Idaho black panther... 
Pic #4:  Interesting young buck- a "spike with eye guards".  One of the several young deer I let get older.

[elkboy]

Pic #5:  A little 4x4 who I thought needed another year.  My forestry mentor (the landowner) took a shot at him a day later... and missed clean.  The Good Lord was looking out for this little guy. 
Pic #6:  A northern flying squirrel peeking out from a cavity in a living western redcedar with a heart rot column.  The family on whose land I hunt keeps a good number of snags, defective trees, and down woody debris for critters like this, even while producing a good amount of timber.  We also under-burn the ponderosa and Douglas-fir stands on the dry ridges to improve deer and elk habitat and reduce the prospects of large, severe fires. 

That's all for now... good luck to all of you!  And Happy Thanksgiving.

[Karl Blanchard]

I'll be up in NW Montana over Thanksgiving. Hope they are dogging hard for a few more days

Chasing whitetail or mulies?


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mulies but if the right whitetail presents itself....