Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: huntnphool on August 27, 2008, 07:03:12 PM
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After seeing more and more whitetail pics in the "random photo" section I was wondering how many members actually target whitetail in this state. I would have thought it a very low number but there are a load of great whitetail bucks showing up.
Please leave a post after voting so I can see who actually hunts for what, just curious is all.
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Mule deer to start the season, then pound the brush for blacktails.
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I prefer mule deer I just have a thing for nice muley bucks but hunting where I hunt the bag is mixed and I will never pass on a shot at a nice whitetail.
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Muley.
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I will be sitting in a huge open field opening day, In whitetail country.
Here is the view.
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10203/IMG_5288e.jpg)
Dave
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Blacktail for me!
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I usually prefer to go for muleys, just because I like where they live.
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Nothing like hunting whitetails......doesn't get any better. :chuckle:
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:cue: yummy yummy whitetails
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I prefer the open country style of muley hunting. I love hunting coues whities, but that's in large part because they hang out in the wide open like muleys do. Nothing better than finding a deer at long range and spending the next hour or two figuring out how to get close without getting busted. Just don't get that same experience in tight whitey or blacktail country.
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Blacktail for Wa, Idaho for whities, Montana, Ore, and Wyoming for muleys..
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MD first. WT late if option 1 doesn't work. BT third locally if option 2 doesn't work either. :chuckle:
MS
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After working my whole life outside in Western WA, I got real tired of the brush! To me there is nothing better than hunting mulies in the wide open spaces of Eastern WA and OR. Next if it works out would be Whietails then BT.
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:) Blacktails
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I will be sitting in a huge open field opening day, In whitetail country.
Here is the view.
(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10203/IMG_5288e.jpg)
Dave
I'll be sitting right there next to my dad in whitetail country.
The husband bought me a plane ticket to come back to Washington for deer season. He will still be stuck here in Germany but hopefully he can come next year. And hopefully i actually shoot something this year. :)
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mule deer, then late whitetail sometimes if i dont tag out on muleys
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Hmmm, Sitting in a treestand waiting for a whitetail or glassing and stalking a mulie. I'll pick the mulie as my favorite, even though I probably spend equal time for both. Usually I'm out elk hunting as my primary species in Sept.
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Sept.- High country muley. Oct.- Montana Antelope then maybe if we get done early we can hit general season muleys back in the high country. Late Oct.- AZ coues. Come home for late whitetail. It used to be blacktail, blacktail and more blacktail. I had to venture outside of my cocoon.
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I’ve never taken a blacktail but I’m not having muck luck finding them and the wet side is thicker than I like to hunt in. So mule deer it is
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I'll be concentrating on white-tail. There are mule deer where I hunt so I wouldn't pass one up. Hopefully my buddy drills the monster muley during rifle season that we've seen.
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Whitetails to start with and if I don't tag out, come home and hunt Blacktails.
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I marked Blacktails but am going to start paying more attention to Mulies
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having never taken a mulie or a blacktail I chase those first and can always take a whitetail later if I need. I live in prime whitetail country (GMU 113) so taking a whitey isn't too difficult.
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Mule deer in the early hunt and Whiteail nand BT in the late hunt
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Mule deer always first. Then it used to be blacktails around the Skagit and San Juans before I moved. Now I go east for whities.
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mule deer...only the second year though. Before that blacktails
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i love to hunt muleys but the best tasting deer i ever had was a whitetail that i shot just off of an alfalfa field i can still remember the taste of the straps mmmm!
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whities!!
late season i would stick to the wet side and go after a black tail. only because i dont have enough vacation time to make another trip to the east side.
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I prefer Mule deer hunting, but have access to private Ranch in are 109 and it is full of whitetail, so will be hunting them with a muzzleloader. Half of ranch in 108 and other half in 111, so a cow elk not out of the question, unless i get close to a bull on the other side of the road :chuckle:
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Muleys to start off, and If I dont tag out then its Wt in the late season.
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It's all about the muleys!!!
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i high hunt blacktails opening general, then second weekend hunt mulies, then third weekend usually ends up taking someone out or taggin with someone in timbercompany some where. then late season is blacktails again, every buck i've shot has been late buck
might give up early elk hunting this year to go them high mulie hunts, not big on hunting elk by myself so i'll probably tag along with the ol'man to get some mulies
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I feel it is funner hunting mule deer in the open country, but I do believe that the mature whitetail bucks are a lot smarter then the mature mule deer bucks.
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I feel it is funner hunting mule deer in the open country, but I do believe that the mature whitetail bucks are a lot smarter then the mature mule deer bucks.
I agree, the really big WT bucks go nocturnal in the blink of a eye when hunting pressure starts. At least that's what my game cameras show. There's a few bucks that I never see except at 1 am on the cameras. I expect that they are mostly nocturnal all year. But I have seen quite a few MD bucks just disappear in wide open country too. 1 more day!!!!!
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Its a mix for me..see about 50/50 nowadays where i hunt. Use to be mostly Mulies but the whitetails have started to run the show.
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Blacktails all season long. I might be making a trip east with a buddy of mine this year though.
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I love muley country and look forward every year to hunting muleys with my buddies.
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Miles the wife is letting you fly back fro early season huh.... Ill tie a little guy to a tree for you.
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I hunt elk :archer: and that is why I start with Mule deer, Blacktail around home, head east during late season for whitetail if I haven't got one yet because they are easy.
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She's eating these words right now, "If you let me get a puppy than I won't care if you fly back to go hunting once a year"
I hope you got her a puppy that will be an asset to your hunting ;)
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Yesterday morning, I just saw the biggest mulley I've ever seen in my life. Well, at least biggest I've ever seen in the flesh. 5x5 or possibly 6x6 running around east of Ellensburg. Several of the locals know about it on his little hill. I asked 5 landowners for permission and I got shot down all five times :'( I was all ready to alter the plans I've already made for opening morning just to get a shot at it.
Ready to alter plans after knowing where two good blacktails are (a 3x3 and a 4x4) and having private land for whitetails secured south of Spokane.
man.. that mule deer. Well I hope nobody else gets him and he has a chance to breed some does.
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I think whitetail this year
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Blacktail. WESTSIDE 8)
By far the hardest OF THE 3 IMO
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The area I hunt in Wa has those Blacktail/Muledeer hybrids. I'll probably just go on the weekends for those, but will head to Idaho in November for Whitetail.
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I'm a west side gut through and through. Hunted Black Tail my whole life. (except that year I went to Cle Elum for deer and Elk. Saw nothing but spike bulls during deer season and 2 nice Muleys during elk season. One was a 3 point and the other was one of the biggest 4 points I've ever seen.) :bash: Sorry had to vent a little.
Totally agree with above statement. Black Tail are difficult to hunt.
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I Hunt for Blacktail in Washington and Whitetail in Idaho, I would love to shoot a nice Mule Deer, but theirs not many left where i hunt in Idaho.
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I would love to shoot a nice Mule Deer, but theirs not many left where i hunt in Idaho.
Then change where you hunt :dunno: There are some real toads that come out of Idaho every year, no reason to limit your hunting.
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I can't go the first weekend, but i will try to make a few trips to a decent spot i found that is only about 15 miles from my house after school. Mule deer in the general and maybe whitetail on the late hunt.
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My screen name is blacktail luv so if I said anything other than blacktails, you guys would think I am a *censored*. I would like to kill one of those big mulies one day though. :) :) :)
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I grew up in Montana hunting whitetail and muley, mostly whitetail but my new found love in life is the coastal ghost (blacktail). Far and away the biggest challenge of any deer ive hunted! Make mine Blacktail!!!
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I like to hunt eastern Washington for the first two weeks for mule, then western for blacktail in late buck season.
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In years pest, I couldnt afford to travel to mule deer country so blacktails have been the deer of choice. Nowadays I spend the first 2 weekends in grayback hoping for a mulie. That country is a nice break from the wetside. No salal or devils club!
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Black Tails have always been under rated. I think primarily because their range is so small geographically. Because of that, their following is small also and their recognition is almost non-existant. Until you have the privilege of hunting one.
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Muley, then blackies.
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I love to hunt the NE for Late Season Whitetail because of the guys I camp with, but I start scouting Blacktail country in August (while bear hunting) and then I spend the regular season looking for a reason to miss the late hunt. I will only miss my whitetail hunt if I find a REALLY big blacktail. I will pass on any blacktail that doesn't look like a B&C buck, and then hope for meat in the freezer during late whitetail hunt.
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mule deer first in a highcountry camp. if not sucsessful I hunt the low land whitetails on the last weekend
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I don't really rifle hunt in WA much anymore so my focus now (in WA) is whitetails w/ a bow. Overall I prefer mule deer w/ a rifle but I do that out of state.
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Blacktails are my true love, but I head East with blacktail stalker to a buddies farm on the opener looking for big whitetails. Patterning big blacktails for the opener has led to too much frustration for me when the bucks I pattern get blown out by the hoards of quads that suddenly show up behind gates and digouts a day or two before season. If I don't score on a mature whitetail, then I know I can come back and hit it hard for blacktails when things heat up at the end of October. Whitetails are becoming addictive, but a dark-horned, salamander-neck blacktail really gets me excited. As for muleys, I've dreamed of living in good mule deer country since I was 12 years old, but, since I don't, I'll just keep waiting for the permit I want.
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Elk is my number one priority. Whatever deer are in the area I am hunting Elk during archery will get an arrow.
Although now that I live where I can hunt and if I was was only after one of the three deer listed I would have to choose Blacktails.
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Muleys are my home town boys but I have been having fun chasing whitetail around and have messed up every chance at getting one that I have had but it sure is fun!
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deer wise I prefer muleys... they live in the open and are a challenge to get with a bow, blackies are tough and I have yet to get bigger then a huge 2x2.. whitetails IMO are the easiest and most dense... ohio is crazy, so is idaho...
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I start out in sept archery hunting for elk. I'll hunt Mulies in the late season then head up NE for whitetail if I haven't filled my tag by Dec. 8th. I plan on targeting W/T this next late archery. I want to get one with my bow.
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"Big Jim" Muley for me. :P Then Blacktail on the late hunt if I don't get my tag filled.
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Muley's are my preferance, but Blacktail are my back up (when i can not afford the gas to go east), but i do like Whitetails, it's just so far to travel for me.
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I agree with finnman. Working as a timberfaller in the brush of the coast I like the wide open spaces of eastern wa. Where we hunt its mixed bag , so the first nice buck dies. :mgun: :mgun:
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:yeah: I do not like to hunt in my rubber corks.
