Medical Lake Mulies

[andrew_12gauge]

There are tons of muleys in Medical Lake.  The biggest concentration of deer is on restricted state/city property.  A few winters ago, I counted 80 (yes... 80) deer in a 15-minute period while driving around Eastern State Hospital/Pine Lodge CCW area.  There not "spooky" and you can get some really nice up-close pictures.  Just don't stop for more than a few seconds or get out of your vehicle when driving around (ESH/PLCCW)... you'll get jacked-up by security/correctional officers... I used to work at the prison.

This past winter, we had a bunch of deer come deep into my neighborhood (even had deer crap in my backyard)... which was a big surprise.

I even saw two whitetail about a 1/2 mile east of West Medical Lake last month... freaked my out!  

dont know why youd be surprised by whitetails out there ive seen them out around warden and even on the columbia national wildlife refuge near othello

[SHANE(WA)]

ton of whiteys out there

[Straight Shooter]

There are tons of muleys in Medical Lake.  The biggest concentration of deer is on restricted state/city property.  A few winters ago, I counted 80 (yes... 80) deer in a 15-minute period while driving around Eastern State Hospital/Pine Lodge CCW area.  There not "spooky" and you can get some really nice up-close pictures.  Just don't stop for more than a few seconds or get out of your vehicle when driving around (ESH/PLCCW)... you'll get jacked-up by security/correctional officers... I used to work at the prison.

This past winter, we had a bunch of deer come deep into my neighborhood (even had deer crap in my backyard)... which was a big surprise.

I even saw two whitetail about a 1/2 mile east of West Medical Lake last month... freaked my out!  

dont know why youd be surprised by whitetails out there ive seen them out around warden and even on the columbia national wildlife refuge near othello

   Just haven't seen any until recently  .  Shot a nice 4x4 whitetail above Reardan years ago, but had never seen any in ML.

[andrew_12gauge]

wierd that you havent seen any out there but then again ive never really explored the area much but with whitetails every way you go from medical lake i imagine they mustve been there the whole time, i never realized there were so many muleys around medical lake

[New England Native]

I was at Medical Lake two weeks ago saw a bachelor heard of 7-8 bucks not one of them was smaller than a 4 pt.  Also they tried to have a archery youth hunt around eastern hospital to thin out the population and was denied by the state. I shot a 4x3 out there a few years back on the other side of west medical lake.