Mule deer or white tail around Curlew, methow, Colville, and Pend Oreille

[elkaholic]

I echo what Bearpaw saids....  I can also help with a whitey DOe for a youngster. Let me know when the season gets closer.

[DoubleJ]

Thanks a lot you guys.  He's really set his heart on his first deer being a buck but, I know if he doesn't see one, he'll take what he can.  He wants to impress his brothers with a rack.  Who wouldn't?

He's a smart boy.  Enough so that he knows there are more does than bucks and that harvesting a doe wouldn't be bad for the population.  He loves deer burgers too so, as long as we get some meat, I'm sure he'll be happy.

Again, I can't thank you guys enough for all of the offers of help.  Now, can you guys help me fill my tag too? 

[boneaddict]

Hunter orange doesn't start until November........meaning "most of the locals don't even think about hunting until the later season.   Very low pressure during that time frame versus the late hunt.  Most are in other places of the state.  Very little westside pressure east of Curlew/ Republic.  

As I know has been told to you, getting a young lad on a doe with private access is pretty easy.

[dlaw]

I was just curious why he wouldn't be looking at Sherman Unit?

[DoubleJ]

I am looking at Sherman.  I am looking everywhere.  Going scouting in July.

[MtnMuley]

I wouldn't recommend the Sherman Unit.  From the scouting that I've seen there, the deer are on the downhill.  Personally, I'd spend the time elsewhere.   

[TeacherMan]

I would say this year in the Curlew area its seemed more 60/40 with the mule deer actually on top. I've been out a lot and I'm just not seeing the whitetail. Head down the valley toward Republic and even Malo and you find more Whitetail but the whitetail numbers around Curlew to the Canadian boarder are down. Just my opinion.

Below 2500 ft for whitetail you'd guess?  Still trying to wrangle this aspect of hunting.  Where I've hunted in the past has been plains where the elevation doesn't change but 100ft up or down over the course of miles.  This place is 2000ft to 6000ft. and everything in between.

I live at 1800' and it is all whitetail, but a mile down river from me (I live 4 miles north of Curlew) its mostly mule deer. I find the whitetail all the way to the top of boulder pass at 4600' The whitetail in my area that are down below 2,000' tend to be on private land, the large open blocks of land that you see on Google Earth tend to be better for Mule deer. Example the face area of Vulcan Mt. outside Curlew, you can glass over a mile and see deer all over the place but they are mule deer. Whitetail tend to be more abundant on the south side of the Kettle River when you are driving toward Job Corp. Or to the East of Danville when you are driving toward Canada outside Curlew. I'll say it again to, lots of private land in the valleys, but good hunting is still available, you just need to do your homework.

[TeacherMan]

If you come out this way in July PM me and we can meet up and I will put you in some area that is public that he has a chance at a nice buck and would have no issue getting a doe. Just make sure he can shoot 200 yards with a rest and he will be good, that being said I get my deer whith a bow under 50 yards every year  . Do you have a quad???

[DoubleJ]

No quad.  2x4 F150 only.

[TeacherMan]

No quad.  2x4 F150 only.

We can work with that, I use my Subaru outback all the time, good gas millage. Just let me know when you are in the area and I will put you in the some drainages that hold lots of good deer.

[DoubleJ]

Be there July 2-6 scouting spots.  I have about 8 spots to look at so far.  I need to thin that out to about 4 if I can.  Thank you for the offer to guide us.  I will let you know closer to the time we're going to be there.