Palouse Tag-anyone draw it?

[GEARHEAD]

they don't buck hay huh. so just what do you think they are feeding their cattle with. they aren't buying that stuff, they cut their own, as i do. in two weeks i'll be bucking hay for our 100 head, along with several other outfits in the area (gmu127) while i'm happy with the draw for the late buck now, there is still alot of pressure legal and illegal. i spend half my hours hunting, chasing trespassers and posting the usual signs. alot of us are tired of the damage to fences and trespassing, even hunters driving in the fields, chasing down animals with their trucks. our outfit is trying to work with wdfw to place decoy deer at the usual drive by hotspots in our area , but with little success. seems the state just wants to visit butcher shops rather than patrol the field. it's abit frustrating and that is why permission is rarely handed out. even when it is, it's usualy abused. as i stated earlier, if ya want to hunt, then ya gotta clean dishes, so to speak.

[Gutpile]

Most of the land on the program in 139 I'm refering to are wheat and / or CRP. Not hay / cattle. I'm not generalizing EVERY RANCH. I'm talking about the land on the ask to hunt program.

I'm also refering to the fact that EVERY WHEAT FARMER IN WHITMAN I'VE TALKED TO ASKS, "PLEASE DON"T COME DOWN DURING HARVEST".

Just trying to save a guy a tank of gas and a wasted day.

[GEARHEAD]

Sorry gut, just had to get my bi-annual vent "on",  i admit, more of a vent than informational, sorry.

[buckmaster_wa]

Another tip when hunting over there is to walk the (eyebrows). These are small hill sides that are to steep for the farmers to cut so they end up growing  tall wild wheat and trees and shrubs etc.etc.etc. Anyhow the deer love to run and hide in these areas. A few years ago on opening day, I talked to a few guys on the gravel road on my way  into where I hunt and they said " I have been driving this road back and fourth all day and havent seen but a few does, theres nothing left alive around here" Typical road hunters. I then hiked out to five different eyebrows and jumped eight different legal bucks. I didnt shoot any of them because I was wanting to get a particular muley that was in the area. Also there are a ton of young bucks there every year so try and hold off for the mature ones. The good thing about that late tag is the fact that they are chasing does around and are a lot dumber.

P.S  when hunting the eyebrows make sure you walk the top edges so that you get a lot of time for a shot.

[MHWASH]

Very good advice, Buckmaster. Also don't over look the "Feel free to Hunt", especialy if it surronded by crop land. If you find a large parcel 30 or more acres of it, hunt it like you would for birds. Those bucks will let you get awfuly close before they jump up and take off. Another good stratagy is to get to the top of a hill before daylight and wait for the other hunters to run deer in.

  The late buck hunt is still over hunted. The big bucks are making a slow comeback.  It will a couple of years before I start putting in for the hunt.