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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Caseyd on October 14, 2008, 05:43:22 PM

Title: Blue Tongue
Post by: Caseyd on October 14, 2008, 05:43:22 PM: Man this weekend sucked...

On my familys ranch you usually see about 50/50 whitetails/muleys. I saw 2 whitetails all weekend(not counting the dead ones)

Normally see a couple hundred head throughout the weekend...think i saw 50 maybe!! And half was from a heard of muleys(23) with no legal bucks in the bunch.

Was thinking about heading back for the rest of the week/end but not sure if its worth it.

Anyone else run into Blue Tongue problems?
Title: Re: Blue Tongue
Post by: huntnphool on October 14, 2008, 05:50:29 PM: Where are you hunting, we saw whitetail eveyrwhere we went, they were like rabbits.
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Post by: bowsandhose on October 14, 2008, 06:25:16 PM: sad to hear
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Post by: washingtonmuley on October 14, 2008, 06:52:33 PM: The whitey population around spokane is healthy. I passed on 21 legal bucks in the first 2 days alone.
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Post by: PA BEN on October 14, 2008, 07:40:00 PM: The full moon has them feeding at night. :bash:
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Post by: jackelope on October 14, 2008, 07:43:37 PM: Quote
Where are you hunting, we saw whitetail eveyrwhere we went, they were like rabbits.

the blue tongue problem area is currently around dayton, phool...hasn't gotten into the foothills of the blues yet as i have heard yet.

there's a few other threads on here re: this topic and the specific areas direct from the bio's in the area. i can't remember specifics.
Title: Re: Blue Tongue
Post by: Caseyd on October 15, 2008, 02:53:45 AM: Yup...near Dayton...Waitsburg.

They were finding about 10 a day during harvest :(
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Post by: TeacherMan on October 15, 2008, 08:57:35 AM: I have a friend that lives out in Hunters along the river that said that blue tongue is back and bad around his farm :bash:
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Post by: EastWaViking on October 15, 2008, 08:59:17 AM: It should be ending very soon, the parasite that causes it is killed after the first hard frost, and we've had plenty of those.