Why Desert unit is tough to hunt

[wastickslinger]

You practically have to hit the bucks in the head with a rock to get them out of the cattails until rut. They are very good at layin low. This guy wouldnt budge, I was 20 yards.

[boneaddict]

Its that 10-12 feet high swamp grass thats a pain too with the myriad of paths through it.

[wastickslinger]

Ya that too. And to find a shed in that crap it has to stick through your boot. 

[Guy]

Ticks.... thousands of them...

[bucklucky]

My budy literally had to step on a buck that he watched bed down in that stuff to kill him. Anyone ever shoot a buck from the hip? Seriouse as a heart attack, damn thing didnt even get up, 32 inches wide at bout 3 yards  Muzzy buck BTW. He about crapped himself, never in all the years of Muley hunting did he ever expect to kill a big old buck like that. He has a wall of Mulies even bone would drool over. Should see his 36 incher, scored like 220 

[bowhunterforever]

bucklucky, I bet he tells that story of that buck all the time.Sounds like it would be a good story.Is he a member on here?

[wildwood]

I drew a desert A tag this year i've never hunted mulies before only blacktails went over there last week and seen a couple deer all does im not used to hunting terrian like that  what do they eat  im going to go back over there in a couple of weeks and put on a few more miles

[Bighorse]

I was raised in Moses Lake.  I recall one time walking in some big sagebrush adjacent to a spillway and having a buck burst out of the brush just in front of me like a flushing pheasant.  They will hold tight.  Thats for sure.

In fact I asked my wife to marry me while on a canoe trip down the Winchester Wasteway.  I know that country some and while I lived in WA I always tried for that permit but never got it. 

Thanks for sharing that photo.

[wilsongideon]

looks like a nice deer

[SHANE(WA)]

I still see nicer bucks coming out of high hunt than desert

[fishunt247]

That's what scares me about putting in for that muzzleloader hunt. It's too bad the state caters to rifle hunters and gives them the rut when muzzleloaders get late October. I wish they'd switch the muzzleloader hunt to the first week of November. I might have to seek out another muzzleloader tag to put in for. Hate to blow ten points.

[sjhgraysage]

If you apply for and draw the later (rut) hunt you could still use your muzzleloader!

[teal101]

When they get in the russian olives and cattails they are gone.  Its crazy.  I duck hunted a lot of that unit and the deer move at first light then are gone for the rest of the day.