Methow twice as good as last year?

[huntnphool]

Its all fu@%ing BS Sux!!!  I found 7 dead deer this weekend and all of them appeared to have been killed this last summer, not last winter. Mark and I heard wolves every morning in the Smith Canyon, and for those of you nay sayers I do know the difference between coyote and wolf howling, these were not yotes.

[WDFW-SUX]

If I shared where I hunted and saw ZERO deer people would cry...

And yes I literally mean ZERO dear

[Skyvalhunter]

That whole deer situation up there is depressing. Then they go and throw out more special permits. What a mistake

[WDFW-SUX]

The number of late tags is a disaster...same as the rest of the situation.

[saylean]

I did see some more hanging than normal...

but it was still par for the course for our camp...we average one deer a year....sometimes two.

This year, out of 16 people off and on, we got one.

MOST of us put on lots of miles on the legs. I was the only one with a shot op. I do think the later start helped, but I didnt see hardly any shooter bucks...all does or spikes/2 pts.

[wolfbait]

Its all fu@%ing BS Sux!!!  I found 7 dead deer this weekend and all of them appeared to have been killed this last summer, not last winter. Mark and I heard wolves every morning in the Smith Canyon, and for those of you nay sayers I do know the difference between coyote and wolf howling, these were not yotes.

Wellcome to my front porch huntnphool, whats even worse is when the wolves are howling just beyond our corrals, the dogs which we have to keep in the house go nuts. I am thinking of just selling out to wdfw let them have their wolf habitat area. Last year I think it was s.fitkin said there was a 70% fawn mortality rate,( can't think of the word). So the wolves, bears, cats, get on the fawning grounds. But I would have to say from what I have seen, the wolves are making the difference between deer and no deer. I have rode through the killing fields of the wolf, and it's not a pretty sight. I always carry the camera now, so the next time I see one, you folks will too.

I took my daughter to the place I have hunted for 35 years, this is where if I only had one day off work to go huntin I could get a nice buck. No deer! So then I took her to another great spot, same thing. So then we went home to hunt where there are some deer. We saw one whitetail doe, four muley doe's and three wolves.

[WDFW-SUX]

Can't wait to see this years photo's should be plenty horrific

[SkookumHntr]

--The units north of the methow was the same story, The mule deer herd seems to be in big trouble!

[Skyvalhunter]

Same damn wolves that run up Booth Canyon. They run that Twisp River to Chelan area quite well. What a shame.

[Okano-gun]

Well if you go by the antlers saloon, antler contest it was much better this year. last year they only had 50 entrys this year it was close to 80.

[Skyvalhunter]

Yea but that was with alot of little 3 points or 2 point with eye guards. Soon enough there will just be alot of 2 points running around.

[Gobble]

Yea but that was with alot of little 3 points or 2 point with eye guards. Soon enough there will just be alot of 2 points running around.

Yeah, MY buddies hunted the Methow a couple of days before I came up from hunting Brewster and saw a monster 2 point that was definately a mature buck, some other hunters saw him as well. Every 2 pr 3 years they need to allow the youth hunters tags to clean those out of the gene pool to prevent them from passing those crappy genetics 

[wolfbait]

Don't worry about those genetics, Gobble, the wolves will take care of them this winter.

[Alchase]

From our experience this year in the Methow, we actually saw allot more deer (non shooter bucks) then in the last three years (pre-fire) we also saw allot of fawn mortality by cats then in the last few years as well.
Though we saw less shooter bucks hanging?

[M_ray]

Its all fu@%ing BS Sux!!!  I found 7 dead deer this weekend and all of them appeared to have been killed this last summer, not last winter. Mark and I heard wolves every morning in the Smith Canyon, and for those of you nay sayers I do know the difference between coyote and wolf howling, these were not yotes.

Yeah I found quite a few when we split up too! Sounds like this Fitkin is blowing smoke!!!