High Buck Hunts

[fillthefreezer]

"High Country Mule Deer" is done, onto "Public Land Mulies".

I'm hoping that the later gets more into the basics.  Felt like a 1/4 of the book I spent reading about B&C scoring and G1, G2, G3, and G4 measuring.  Got some good ideas of how to and where to look for them.  Have even decided on where I'm going to start my 4-year search.

Looking for tactics, field prep/packing out, etc.

i think you'll be dissapointed with public land mulies...
it covers even more scoring with the additon of which western states to choose in depth and even less about the "basics" of hunting the high country.
i think cam hanes' book covered "basics" i would call living in the backcountry the best...

[KopperBuck]

Is that a book - living in the backcountry? Who is the author?

[fillthefreezer]

Is that a book - living in the backcountry? Who is the author?

i wish, if it was i would totally read it, i was referring to some of the topics cam hanes covers in his book backcountry bowhunting

[halflife65]

"High Country Mule Deer" is done, onto "Public Land Mulies".

I'm hoping that the later gets more into the basics.  Felt like a 1/4 of the book I spent reading about B&C scoring and G1, G2, G3, and G4 measuring.  Got some good ideas of how to and where to look for them.  Have even decided on where I'm going to start my 4-year search.

Looking for tactics, field prep/packing out, etc.

i think you'll be dissapointed with public land mulies...
it covers even more scoring with the additon of which western states to choose in depth and even less about the "basics" of hunting the high country.
i think cam hanes' book covered "basics" i would call living in the backcountry the best...

That's probably true.  Having said that, maybe because (at least I like to think) I'm beyond basics, I thought Public Land Mulies was one of the best mule deer books that I've read.  It's been a couple of years, but I think that the first part is scoring, looking at migration patterns, etc.  If that bores you now, go to the later chapters regarding the camping, glassing techniques, etc. - pretty interesting stuff.  When you master that, come back and read the first part of the book.  And, no, there's nothing wrong with reading it that way (I'm not trying to be patronizing.)

[highhunter]

Isnt there a place around crystal thats open

No, there's nothing open south of I-90.

I was looking at that lastnight.  I also talked to a friend that lives in cle elum and he said he has been riding his horses in by alpine lakes  area  for the last few summers now. He said he has seen more bear sign the last few years then deer sign.

I have to comment on the horses thing. In all my wilderness trips, I've seen one set of good size deer tracks that have crossed the trail. Most trails are in creek bottoms so it makes sense to me that anyone will find more bear sign than large deer sign on ALW horsetrails. Sign on trail systems have little correlation to what is present off-trail, of course with exceptions like doe/fawn tracks everywhere in recent burns, natural travel corridor/trail intersections etc.

Also, in my experience it doesn't matter if you are in a great area for a long time camping and hiking. If your not actively looking employing good scouting methods when your in the wilderness, then your not going to see very much of what's actually there.