Eastern Washington Late Archery

[jstone]

How it going.? No snow warmer weather. I was out on opening day saw only 1 legal buck. Maybe 12 does. In my normal honey hole. 8 miles later

[carlyoungs]

I'll be heading out Wednesday for the late muley/ elk season. Hopefully get a chance at something. I like not having a lot of snow in the spot I hunt, the roads are super sketchy when it gets some snow on them.

[jstone]

Good Luck.!!!

[addicted1]

Saw a small dusting of fresh snow on the west cascade slopes this afternoon once the clouds broke. I think you’ll have some great weather rolling in to make this an exciting hunt.

[NOCK NOCK]

Seen 2 get taken. VERY VERY busy in my normal area, and way less deer there. Tried Swakane proper 1 day, never saw a deer. 
They are all spread out still up to 6K feet, where I did miss a shot at a smaller 4x.....never ever had a buck string jump a shot before now, and frustrating that it's my fastest bow ever. 

[jstone]

Crazy how a place can go from almost no one to lots of people. My usual spot went from only seeing a couple people to 5-6

[Pegasus]

Seen 2 get taken. VERY VERY busy in my normal area, and way less deer there. Tried Swakane proper 1 day, never saw a deer. 
They are all spread out still up to 6K feet, where I did miss a shot at a smaller 4x.....never ever had a buck string jump a shot before now, and frustrating that it's my fastest bow ever. 

Had my first buck string jump sixty years ago. Over the years I have had another four happen. Did not seem to matter what speed the arrow was. The first was with a recurve and heavy wooden arrow. As time went on the bows and arrows changed with more speed each change. When I quit bowhunting I was using a compound bow set at 110 pounds pull with 50 percent let-off. Did not seem to matter with the jumping for some reason. It was extremely frustrating if you spent two hours maneuvering around with the wind and terrain to have the buck jump the string. Hopefully your miss happened without hours of effort on your part.

[throttlejocky20]

Seen 2 get taken. VERY VERY busy in my normal area, and way less deer there. Tried Swakane proper 1 day, never saw a deer. 
They are all spread out still up to 6K feet, where I did miss a shot at a smaller 4x.....never ever had a buck string jump a shot before now, and frustrating that it's my fastest bow ever. 

Had my first buck string jump sixty years ago. Over the years I have had another four happen. Did not seem to matter what speed the arrow was. The first was with a recurve and heavy wooden arrow. As time went on the bows and arrows changed with more speed each change. When I quit bowhunting I was using a compound bow set at 110 pounds pull with 50 percent let-off. Did not seem to matter with the jumping for some reason. It was extremely frustrating if you spent two hours maneuvering around with the wind and terrain to have the buck jump the string. Hopefully your miss happened without hours of effort on your part.

Had the buck i killed duck my arrow the evening before i shot him. Never had anything like that happen before. His front legs shot out and chest darn near touched the dirt.

[vandeman17]

Seen 2 get taken. VERY VERY busy in my normal area, and way less deer there. Tried Swakane proper 1 day, never saw a deer. 
They are all spread out still up to 6K feet, where I did miss a shot at a smaller 4x.....never ever had a buck string jump a shot before now, and frustrating that it's my fastest bow ever. 

Had my first buck string jump sixty years ago. Over the years I have had another four happen. Did not seem to matter what speed the arrow was. The first was with a recurve and heavy wooden arrow. As time went on the bows and arrows changed with more speed each change. When I quit bowhunting I was using a compound bow set at 110 pounds pull with 50 percent let-off. Did not seem to matter with the jumping for some reason. It was extremely frustrating if you spent two hours maneuvering around with the wind and terrain to have the buck jump the string. Hopefully your miss happened without hours of effort on your part.

110 lb draw weight 

[Pegasus]

Seen 2 get taken. VERY VERY busy in my normal area, and way less deer there. Tried Swakane proper 1 day, never saw a deer. 
They are all spread out still up to 6K feet, where I did miss a shot at a smaller 4x.....never ever had a buck string jump a shot before now, and frustrating that it's my fastest bow ever. 

Had my first buck string jump sixty years ago. Over the years I have had another four happen. Did not seem to matter what speed the arrow was. The first was with a recurve and heavy wooden arrow. As time went on the bows and arrows changed with more speed each change. When I quit bowhunting I was using a compound bow set at 110 pounds pull with 50 percent let-off. Did not seem to matter with the jumping for some reason. It was extremely frustrating if you spent two hours maneuvering around with the wind and terrain to have the buck jump the string. Hopefully your miss happened without hours of effort on your part.

110 lb draw weight 

Been a few years since I quit and it appears no one hunts like that anymore. The last year I hunted I was still hunting and it was cold out. After freezing for several hours  I attempted to pull the bow back on a nice buck and could not. The rest of the season I cranked the poundage down to about 85. Never bow hunted after that year because of nerve damage. Turned out that quite a few of the bow hunters I knew that used the same methods also ended up with nerve damage. I suspect the bow hunting and practice with high poundage had a lot to do with it.