White-tailed Deer Hunters....Your favorite tip

[yelp]

Thanks guys for all of the tips...it helps.  I drew a Blue Mtn A tag anyone hunt down there.....I love whitetail hunting.  been doing it a few years and it sounds like I am on the smae page as most of you...my biggest whitetail came from 204 East Okanogan Permit in 2000. I shot it after using deer pee in his scrapes and setting up a ground blind 45 yards off the line down wind.  after three hours he came sniffing the line and I shot him..I din't know he had the 6" dropper.  He was about 24" wide too.  Thanks again for the advice and I will take anymore you have... I want to get a big buck in the blues this year.

[Colville]

You've already got a brute. My area just doesn't hold racks like that, but it is a family and friends camp that I won't trade for better racks. We spend a week live in style and take game every year.

Here's a picture, looking downslope at a cut edge. There's still about 70 yards of upslope to the ridge top behind me and a small ridge saddle 100 yards away. The trees in the cut look small but they get larger quickly. No way to hunt this cut of 15+ foot trees throughout. 2 trails cut the top edge, I cleared most of the stuff out of the way for a shooting lane, it wasn't this open to begin with. Yes, I took off my orange for the picture.



He's a 3 1/2 yr old according the bio.  Almost every deer we've shot here be it 2 yrs or 5 yrs old has been a main frame 3 pt with guards. We did see a 4 pt last year but we swear the deer are clones, same racks they just get wider.

[yelp]

Nice buck Colville...Good deer hunting is good deer hunting.  I shot a spike last year.  Good eatin.

[Jackjr]

Thats a nice buck

[Wacenturion]

Hey Yelp....I hear "Flipper Juice" works well....lol ..lol .   Sorry guys....inside joke...lol .   

[yelp]

   Nice shot partner... you had to bring that up again...I will pick some up for you guys..

[TeacherMan]

I've shot a few nice ones, several over 150, a couple over 180. My number one tip, have fun in the early season and hunt HARD in the late season, find does. Does that are up in the timber (the hills not fields) will produce better bucks as well. Does down in the fields will produce bucks, but they will usually be smaller rag 4's or less. Last couple days of the Nov. rifle season are priceless...

[SHANE(WA)]

November, find the does there will be bucks

[6 Point]

We use Cumere-deer in a small meadow above a creek, a little NE of Colville.  There is always a buck in the evening sniffing around the scent.  Carry a comfortable chair and sit still for the last 2 hours of daylight.

[Gobble]

Nice Buck!

I took my 5 x 5 WT last year as well near Colville. He didn't have long tines due to genetics but had great heavy mass and a huge body. Genetics  play a big role in the deer racks as does nutrution. There are BT deer in the northbend area (lots of them) that never get above a 2 point. My buddy shot a buck that weighed over 200 lbs and was 8 yrs old that was a 2 point. That is the reason I think we should have a gene pool cleaning hunt (for youth) that allow the taking of mature bucks that will never get to the reqd point restriction. I know many of you have seen mule deer in the same situation as the BT in Northbend.