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Chiliwist Quality Tag
« on: June 09, 2012, 02:08:38 PM »
I got lucky drawing Chiliwist Quality Archery tag. I don’t need help with areas unless someone wants to point me in the right direction. ;) I have hunted the unit in the past during general season so I have a good idea of where I would like to start. My question is what should I expect when it comes to migration deer, rut and quality of deer?
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2012, 02:21:17 PM »
Xforce, that is 2 of us on here with that tag.  There were only 15 tags given out.  I have hunted there many times but not in the last 10 years.  I drew a muzzy tag there many years ago, same time frame.  With snow it will be a great hunt, without.... ?  Hope for snow.  I took the biggest Muley I have ever gotten in Wa there, so hopefully it will be as good this year.  I will be scouting quite a bit this summer... errrrr I mean camping with the family in the area...... :-) 
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2012, 03:30:49 PM »
Im in the same boat. I think the last time i hunted the unit was 8 or 10 years ago. Do you have any pics of your buck?
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2012, 04:09:29 PM »
non digital pictures somewhere,  I'll try to dig them out. 4x3 plus eye guards.  Not massive like some you see, he was 4-5 years old, rack just at the ears in width
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2012, 04:12:50 PM »
Congrats on the tags guys. Your right, hope for snow.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2012, 07:28:14 PM »
Shoot me a PM and i can help you out. I am from Twisp and have hunted that unit every year for the last 25 years.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2012, 01:04:26 PM »
I am headed over after dinner on Thanksgiving...  :IBCOOL:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2012, 03:22:20 PM »
Nice. Ill be a couple hours behind you. For some reason the wife doesnt want me to leave before 3 am.... dont know why but thats how it goes.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2012, 03:43:01 PM »
Quote from: X-Force on November 19, 2012, 03:22:20 PM
Nice. Ill be a couple hours behind you. For some reason the wife doesnt want me to leave before 3 am.... dont know why but thats how it goes.
spoon  :dunno:  :chuckle: good luck guys  :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2012, 04:32:21 PM »
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,110016.0.html


This buck is from that unit :tup:  migration is definitly in progress.Seen some nicer bucks only that one really big guy so far. but all of them were chasing does so the rut is definitly going on. i'll post a few more pictures I have taken from that unit here in a bit.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2012, 04:42:22 PM »
3x3 is all he is ...not to exciting but looks like something from a distance with the big frame
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2012, 04:46:35 PM »
sometimes one look is all you get
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2012, 08:50:54 PM »
TOP ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #13 on: November 19, 2012, 09:54:52 PM »
Quote from: 400out on November 19, 2012, 03:43:01 PM
Quote from: X-Force on November 19, 2012, 03:22:20 PM
Nice. Ill be a couple hours behind you. For some reason the wife doesnt want me to leave before 3 am.... dont know why but thats how it goes.
spoon  :dunno:  :chuckle: good luck guys  :tup:
probably a spoon to my butt cause im taking off work.  :chuckle: :chuckle:

Great shots Wilson. I was in the unit at the beginning of the month and saw 30+ deer including 3 decent bucks in 6 hours. With an 8 almost 9 month old its hard to escape for weekends at a time.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2012, 09:22:44 AM »
Dang it... I am having a hard enough time sleeping... LOL  Those are some dandy bucks.  Hope to close within longbow range of a nice one. 
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2012, 09:20:21 PM »
Looks like a little longer drive than i was hoping for, at least for the drive over... man i wish i could be over there in the morning.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 10:33:45 PM »
Ya, I wont be able to sleep tonight... eat tomorrow... or get enough rest for my early friday morning drive the long way around.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2012, 11:18:00 AM »
This guy about ran me over today  :chuckle: hope you guys are out there doing good :tup: tough to sneak up on them I'll tell you I have a heck of a time with all the does keeping tabs on you. but eventually a guy like this runs through on the chase and makes your day.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2012, 11:27:33 AM »
Nice.  :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2012, 12:45:21 PM »
Couple of shooters there Wilson.  I think with an archery tag I would have put a stalk on that big framed 3x3 first day.  LOVE the 4 point you just posted though :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2012, 05:39:23 PM »
Quote from: X-Force on November 20, 2012, 09:20:21 PM
Looks like a little longer drive than i was hoping for, at least for the drive over... man i wish i could be over there in the morning.

Yep... looks like a 6.5 hour drive....
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2012, 05:55:19 PM »
snow level is getting lower ...best get there soon  :tup: good luck !
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2012, 08:23:56 PM »
5.5 hrs and counting
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2012, 01:40:26 PM »
I know I already posted the one buck but I am loving the way these bucks are all slightly similar. All from the right unit :tup: Just wish I was out there hunting it, not just taking pictures
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Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2012, 02:11:26 PM »
Good looking bucks there
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #25 on: November 23, 2012, 02:13:18 PM »
dam nice bucks all of them!!!!!    :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #26 on: November 23, 2012, 05:40:01 PM »
You are more than welcome to send me in the right direction.
.. saw 2 decent bucks... couldnt close the deal.   Does busted me on the one stalk.... 
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #27 on: December 03, 2012, 02:15:04 PM »
Unfortunately, I did not get to notch a tag on a big buck. Still, the trip was a blast. I had Saylean and my little brother with me most of the time and it always is fun being in the woods with the family.  We saw lots of bucks, tons of yotes and even some elk.

My little brother and I headed over to the unit on Friday after Thanksgiving.  We ran to the property dropped off our gear and headed into the lower open country of the unit.  Within 3 hrs of been there I had one 4 pt in a stockable location and another 4 pt walk right by me at 46 yrds.  I told myself that I was going to hold out for a big deer and I couldn’t notch a tag on just any buck.

The next morning we drove to a new location and within 2 hrs I had a 3x4 and a 2x3 within 50 yrds. My little brother started joking that I was on the hunt for a mythical creature and that I would only shoot a buck that was glowing green or was sprinkled with magical pixy dust.

Between my two brothers I had a lot of good natured crap thrown my direction.  Maybe they were right but even without a buck to show for it the hunt was definitely the best of my life so far.

Day 4 I found the buck I wanted.  He wasn’t a monster and by some peoples standards may not have been a shooter but he had good mass, good spread and some cool scares.  The first time I saw him was at 50 yards but through the timber I couldn’t tell if he was what I was looking for.  When he finally winded me and busted into the open country below I felt my heart sink.  He was a great deer and I just lost my chance.

I hunted for him for 3 days and the closest I ever got to him after day one was 100 yrds.  He always seemed to have 7 to 13 does around him and a couple other small bucks.  The only time he was alone was after he busted me on day 6.  He left all of the does and went into a small ravine in the middle of open country.  Saylean watched him from a distance for 2 hrs in a very stockable location with no way to contact me.

It was a great hunt. I hope to draw it again someday in the not so distant future.  I did talk to some locals that also had the tag and they said the day before Thanksgiving there were 20 or so people up in the area we were hunting trying to poach a couple of the bigger deer out of the unit.  One person they knew even admitted he was up there chasing a curtain buck.

Anyhow enjoy the pics.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2012, 02:54:14 PM »
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2012, 03:24:34 PM »
Sounds like a great trip even without notchin the tag  :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #30 on: December 03, 2012, 08:10:04 PM »
I forgot to mention thanks guys for the help. I hunted 1 afternoon in the area I originally meant to hunt and it didnt even come close to the areas HW members directed me in.  :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #31 on: December 03, 2012, 09:40:38 PM »
Sorry to hear you didn't fill that tag , I had the last year they gave out a muzzleloader tag in 2009 and known what a great hunt that can be . I shot a descent 4x3 on the last day but saw some nice bucks . Fog was pretty bad for my season and ruined the first 3 days of my hunt . Looks like there will be some nice sheds to find come April .
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #32 on: December 03, 2012, 10:42:23 PM »
looks like a great hunting trip! Glad you found a deer worth going after, some hunts you dont get that. Nice pics  :tup:
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #33 on: December 03, 2012, 11:20:49 PM »
@scotta - fog was an issue. virtually every day there was fog the rolled in or stuck around. The worst days were the rain/snow days.

It was a great trip. I dont get to watch rutting mule deer very often and it was fun watching every buck run around like a teenager. I couldnt believe all of the BIG 2 pts that were running around in that unit. I dont think i got pictures of any but every hill seemed to have at least 2 or 3 that were wily old bucks that either regressed or never grew a third point.
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #34 on: December 04, 2012, 04:47:34 AM »
Sorry you didn't conenct but glad you had a great hunt.   
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Re: Chiliwist Quality Tag
« Reply #35 on: December 04, 2012, 09:12:08 AM »
Love it! I had a blast watching those bucks run around all stupid. Plus, I missed my chances at three coyotes which was fun too (no shots fired, 1 was a bit far off, the 2nd one, my sling caught on my pack and I couldnt get it off fast enough to put a bead on him and the third, xforce saw but I couldnt find him fast enough).

Awesome time, would love to go again just with my camera...I dont care! Thanks for posting some of the pics...wheres that big two point?!
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