Who hunts Lincoln County?

[GrainfedMuley]

I don't even want to know anybodies honey hole. But I am curiuos who hunts Lincoln county and roughly where you are when you hunt and where you are from/live? Are you usaually successful? I am just curious because according to the game regs, Lincoln county has a fairly high success rate. So are you successful in Lincoln county?

[GUscottie]

My guess on why Lincoln county has such a high success rate: lots of private land. I hunted there last year, 3 of us, 2 deer down. On private land. The same property this year: 3 deer down, and only one more guy to hunt it... That's my take on it... There are a few plots of DNR land out there, and lots of farmers post "feel free to hunt"... Its not a county where one can just drive in on opening morning and hope to get into the deer...

[GrainfedMuley]

Very true. I agree with everything you have said. I have hunted the DNR land but not for several years. I pulled a 23" wide 3 point off the Swanson Lake area in the mid 90's. Now days it get hammered opening weekend and everything gets pushed to private land. I will be NE of Davenport between Harker canyon and Mill canyon.

[Buckblaster]

Swanson Lakes looks like a pumpkin patch on opening weekend.  I quit hunting that years ago since half of Spokane knows about it.

[bushmaster]

I have hunted 136 for a very long time. I can tell you it takes 2-3 years to figure out patterns,hot spots and where they always go at certain points of the day. Have you ever hunted Lincoln? Have you been to area before? Where have you been hunting? I personally have 6 honey holes for Lincoln. This deer was taken in Lincoln on the 4th of sept. This is a friend of mine that had never harvested a deer before, until now!!! I wont give you a sure thing, but if you shoot me an email I will get you in the action. There is a trick to hunting these mule deer. And if you don't know the trick, you will be like everyone else that goes out there, dumb hunting will get you nothing!!!!!!

[bushmaster]

elk311, I just got a mail failure notice. It wont let me reply to your mail. WTF???

[Ballance1]

I hunt there all on private land and am successful every year

[Pathfinder101]

Interesting thread.  Nothing cool to add, just want to follow the posts.  I have a buddy that I elk hunt with that used to hunt Lincoln County years ago.  He still says that it is THE place to go for muleys.  he had private land to hunt on though....

[bowhunterforever]

I live here and hunt here but havent killed a buck here for 5 years cause all thats here is (small 1x1 and 2x2 mostly) and some 3's and 4x4, inmature bucks. This year all my bud's got there deer ( 4 out of us 5 got deer dinks) but they just want meat and a rack, not a mature buck.I'm the 5th guy waiting for that late hunt    Good luck if you hunt here and want a good buck

[GrainfedMuley]

I live here and hunt here but havent killed a buck here for 5 years cause all thats here is (small 1x1 and 2x2 mostly) and some 3's and 4x4, inmature bucks. This year all my bud's got there deer ( 4 out of us 5 got deer dinks) but they just want meat and a rack, not a mature buck.I'm the 5th guy waiting for that late hunt    Good luck if you hunt here and want a good buck

I personally don't belive that is true. 2 years ago I shot a real nice 4x5 that was 24" wide and he scored 149 5/8". I have seen several bucks just as big and even bigger. I don't know how you hunt, but there is some large bucks out there.

[Ballance1]

Lincoln County is big and I would agree with Bowhuntforever, there are a lot of dinks around.  Not saying there arent mature bucks but you will see a lot of dinks and barely legals

[GrainfedMuley]

Lincoln County is big and I would agree with Bowhuntforever, there are a lot of dinks around.  Not saying there arent mature bucks but you will see a lot of dinks and barely legals

Wouldn't that be the case anywhere you go?

[bushmaster]

Did anyone see the pic at the to of the post! Does that mature 4x4 look like a dink??? If you are seeing dinks (i.e) immature bucks, then i just figured out where you hunt, and the type of hunter you are! My boots have 100's of miles on them! Hope you see a nice one from the truck! They are known to cross roads every now and then. Until then, spend all day looking at that spike and two point saunter up the shale rock hillside with your hunting Buddie WAITING for their big brother to jump out of thin air! And then!............You and hunting buddie go to where you saw the "dinks" the day before!!!!! DEER, DEER,DEER...............OH, never mind.......its that spike and 2 point from yesterday,.............."lets just watchem for a bit! Big brother might be with-um today"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bobcat]

Did anyone see the pic at the to of the post! Does that mature 4x4 look like a dink???

Well, since you asked, the tines ARE kind of short.   

[sagerat]

No kidding, do you really think that's a mature buck?