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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Hunterman on December 21, 2014, 11:12:47 AM

Title: Teanaway
Post by: Hunterman on December 21, 2014, 11:12:47 AM: I use to hunt this unit back in the day when we could hunt mule deer, and miss it. Lets see some of those bucks that y'all killed this year.

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: PolarBear on December 21, 2014, 11:20:07 AM: We use to hunt it on foot and horseback back in the 80's. Tag.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Hunterman on December 21, 2014, 11:33:29 AM: We use to hunt it in the late '70s until my dad passed away in 1987. I have only hunted it a couple of times since then. He killed his largest buck up there, and so did I about 8 years after he died with the same rifle, in the same canyon. Both on the wall. Quick Draw killed her first mule deer a solid 2X4 (NO EYE GUARDS COUNTED) she calls it her stud deer :chuckle: I sure would like to hunt that area in the snow again.

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: NWBREW on December 21, 2014, 11:37:18 AM: I'd like to see pics of the bucks you killed back then if you have any.
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Post by: boneaddict on December 21, 2014, 11:48:19 AM: Every once in awhile I see a freak crazy big deer come out of there. I am disappointed the wolves have taken to it so well
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Hunterman on December 21, 2014, 12:07:57 PM: Quote from: NWBREW on December 21, 2014, 11:37:18 AM
I'd like to see pics of the bucks you killed back then if you have any.

I'll try to get some pics of them on the wall. I might have to call the girls to post them :bash:

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Marcoramius on December 21, 2014, 12:30:27 PM: Here's mine from last year...didn't see a legal buck this year.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Hunterman on December 21, 2014, 12:45:17 PM: Good looking buck right there :tup:

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Bean Counter on December 21, 2014, 01:33:04 PM: I ventured through Teanaway my first deer hunt. I still had a few years to figure out that there's a difference between going for a walk in the woods with a gun and actually hunting :rolleyes:
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Post by: Ridgerunner on December 21, 2014, 02:05:13 PM: Good looking buck, Teanaway has some cool country in it for sure, its too bad the wolves moved in up there. Keep posting those photos of the big teanaway bucks.
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Post by: teanawayslayer on December 21, 2014, 03:19:00 PM: I don't hunt much in the teanaway these days. Spend a lot of time in the hills in the spring and summer. see fewer and fewer animals each year. I spend most of my time hunting other areas. You can really start to see the impact that the wolves are having.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: wheels on December 21, 2014, 04:47:04 PM: i've hunted it almost every year for about 8-10 years only pulled two general leagal bucks in that time. My dad and i were lucky enough to draw late buck tag dad got nice buck and i got a 2x3 that i dont know if i would take during general
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Post by: PolarBear on December 21, 2014, 04:52:28 PM: We quit hunting Teanaway the year that 2 hunters were shot. One was mistaken for a bear and the other was shot by someone shooting at movement in the brush from the road. There use to be quite a few upper 20" and lower 30" bucks taken out of there.
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Post by: wheels on December 21, 2014, 05:01:34 PM: oh wow not heard that
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Post by: PolarBear on December 21, 2014, 05:14:46 PM: Mid to late 80's. Can't remember exactly. We drove by as they were hauling the "bear" guy off of the hill. He was about 500 yards uphill from the road wearing all dark clothes and bent halfway over crossing a rockslide when the guy from the road mistook him for a bear and killed him. The Sheriff had to keep the guy form shooting himself because he was so distraught over what he had done. 2 days later the other guy was shot. We left that night and vowed to never come back during hunting season. I LOVED hunting that country once we got over the top.

Didn't mean to jack the thread.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Alaska316 on December 21, 2014, 09:16:24 PM: This years buck.
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Post by: chad s. on December 22, 2014, 05:55:23 AM: I grew up hunting the Teanaway. Since my dad passed two years ago, I haven't been back. We harvested a lot of good deer out of their over many years up to 27". I spent this past weekend over at Suncadia "rental.....I'm not a yuppie", and I never did see a single deer. My dad built the Suncadia Lodge about 7 years ago, and there used to be deer crawling everywhere! I wonder if the wolves have made it that far west in the Teanaway?
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: chiefeng on December 22, 2014, 07:48:51 AM: I have hunted Teanaway for over 30 years, the last 8 years or so it has been pretty bad. I don't think it has anything to do with wolves, I've never seen or heard a wolf in their. I think it has a lot more to do with the earlier seasons and warmer weather. We always did better at the end of the season then we did on the opening. The bucks where starting the pre rut then and would leave the high country. It's pretty rough country and those big bucks don't leave the tree's when it's 70 out. Both these buck came out of Teananway their are some bruisers in their just need some weather to make them move.
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Post by: Gobble on December 22, 2014, 12:09:57 PM: I have hunted there many times, great genetics in the area, My uncle had acreage right above hidden valley ranch before it got all purchased in the early 90s and we would see 25 bucks at a time on his 14 acres in the Nov time frame, of those most would be 4-5 points or better, some real hogs
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Post by: huntnphool on December 22, 2014, 12:13:24 PM: Quote from: chiefeng on December 22, 2014, 07:48:51 AM
I have hunted Teanaway for over 30 years, the last 8 years or so it has been pretty bad. I don't think it has anything to do with wolves

Wonder what changed 8-10 years ago to have this effect? :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: chiefeng on December 22, 2014, 12:19:11 PM: The season dates and length let me hunt last week of Oct and I will score big bucks. :bash:
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Post by: Elkrunner on December 22, 2014, 12:40:38 PM: Wasn't there a louse infestation that wiped out the heard from that area down to the Columbia about 7 years ago? I know they are starting to rebound but that is what I would think.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: CarbonHunter on December 22, 2014, 12:41:59 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on December 22, 2014, 12:13:24 PM
Quote from: chiefeng on December 22, 2014, 07:48:51 AM
I have hunted Teanaway for over 30 years, the last 8 years or so it has been pretty bad. I don't think it has anything to do with wolves

Wonder what changed 8-10 years ago to have this effect? :rolleyes:

Same thing that happened to the mule deer herd to the south. Hair lice caused them to loose their hair and the winters are to cold east of cascades for them to survive.

I believe the lice hit the teanaway about 5 years ago. I talked to the deer biologist about it last year. It's well documented but there is nothing the state can do about it but let it run it's course.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: bobcat on December 22, 2014, 12:44:25 PM: I could be wrong but I thought the lice issue was a little further south. I never heard of it affecting Teanaway.
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Post by: bobcat on December 22, 2014, 12:49:49 PM: Never mind. I found some info that says hair loss caused by lice has been documented in Chelan County. So I guess there's no reason it wouldn't have also been in the Teanaway.

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Beginning in 2003, WDFW began to receive reports of deer from the Yakima area of south-central Washington with clinical signs similar to HLS. These reports were of deer occurring in the black-tailed/mule deer intergrade zone in the eastern foothills of Cascade Range, and were the first reports of apparent HLS in eastern Washington. Reports of more severely affected deer were received in 2004. In March 2005, lice were collected from four affected deer and identified as Bovicola tibialis, yet another exotic old world species with fallow deer as the normal host.

During the early spring of 2006, WDFW received numerous reports of dead deer, especially fawns, in the Yakima area with hair loss. The geographical extent of reports received in 2006 had expanded greatly compared to previous years and included occurrences of the condition in mule deer. Aerial surveys and harvest statistics suggest that the deer population in Yakima and Kittitas counties has declined by about 50% since the arrival of the lice. It is unknown if Bovicola tibialis infestations are the sole reason for the drop in deer numbers, but they are suspected to be a factor.

Bovicola tibialis is also associated with hair loss in deer in Klickitat County. In Chelan County, the occurrence of Bovicola tibialis was documented in 2009, and by April 2010, deer affected by hair loss were observed throughout the county's mule deer winter range.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: MtnMuley on December 22, 2014, 02:30:18 PM: Although there was lice reported in the Teanaway, I definitely don't feel like that was the cause of the decline in the herd. :twocents:
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: soccerftw123 on December 22, 2014, 04:29:14 PM: Thought he could turn into something interesting, but never found out what happened to him.
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Post by: BenC567 on December 22, 2014, 04:39:18 PM: I hunted the Teanaway early and late archery. Saw lots of does but no bucks. Found some bulls but no cows. Saw a wolf for the first time during the early season and saw fresh tracks during the late. Found two elk that appeared to be killed by wolves.

All the deer & elk I saw had full coats. I would not of guessed lice were hurting the herds.

I'm actually moving out of the state so if there are any new hunters that are looking at the Teanaway contact me.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: wheels on December 24, 2014, 11:08:02 AM: my dads buck from late buck this year
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Post by: DeerMan on December 25, 2014, 09:30:10 PM: I've been hunting the Teanaway since the mid 90's. Over the past 5 years we've only taken 3 legal bucks out of the valley with 3 hunters going hard at it for several days each season. The area has great genetics and the bucks that you do end up seeing/killing usually are worth talking about. That may make up for the lack of overall success but I'm the type that would rather put meat in the freezer. I've had a few different game trail cameras up throughout the Tearaway in several different spots and I've seen in increase in predators and a decline in deer/elk. There of plenty of big cats and wolves that I've caught on camera over the years and I've also got a few shots of some deer without hair, so YES the lice has been a problem at least for the past 4 years since I've been putting up cameras.

I love hunting in the Teanaway because the country is beautiful and you can find so many different types of terrain but the success ratio stinks. I'm probably moving to a different part of the state just to see what else is out there. I know of some great spots but I just can't stand hunting for 4-5 days straight and seeing single digit deer/elk numbers with no shooters. It's a real shame because I know it hasn't been this way but since the wolves have come back we've absolutely seen a decline. I don't care what any state official, warden, biologist, or wolf advocate says in trying to defend those killers.......I know first hand based upon experience that they have 100% adversely affected the deer/elk herds.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Skyvalhunter on December 25, 2014, 09:35:01 PM: I say stick with your hunting area. You seem to know how and where to hunt it.
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: wheels on December 26, 2014, 04:55:55 PM: i know same here been about 4-5 since legal buck one of 3 othe deer i got was a doe only stick around cause cant use my gator many other places plus pivate ground
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: gman on December 31, 2014, 01:36:18 PM: 2014
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Post by: Watimberghost on December 31, 2014, 01:51:31 PM: Great buck Gman! :tup:
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: fishunt247 on January 04, 2015, 10:37:57 AM: Quote
Both these buck came out of Teananway their are some bruisers in their just need some weather to make them move.

Chief, this horn was dropped in the Teanaway about 2008 or 2007. What was the timeframe on the 5 pt that you killed? Could be the same buck, or at least the same genetics. I tried to send this in a PM but couldn't figure out how to insert a picture.
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Post by: muleyslayer on January 09, 2015, 06:14:28 AM: Quote from: gman on December 31, 2014, 01:36:18 PM
2014

congrats thats a solid buck.!
Title: Re: Teanaway
Post by: Hankbest17 on February 04, 2015, 11:08:51 AM: This is the buck I got in the Teanaway this last season it is the second buck ive got there in about 8 yrs of hunting there its not a monster but It was an awesome hunt! we have about 8 guys in our camp and we have taken about a dozen bucks out of the teanaway since we have been there, 3 or 4 being some pretty big bucks
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Post by: lewy on February 04, 2015, 01:52:53 PM: If you think the wolves haven't had an effect in the Teanaway your crazy!
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Post by: Hankbest17 on February 06, 2015, 09:37:44 AM: Dads 2013 buck
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Post by: Buck Rub Jr on February 06, 2015, 03:22:29 PM: Quote from: Hankbest17 on February 06, 2015, 09:37:44 AM
Dads 2013 buck
That's a sweet buck!!
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Post by: Watimberghost on February 07, 2015, 07:31:15 AM: That's a really cool buck hank! Congrats to your dad :tup:
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Post by: DeerMan on February 27, 2015, 10:12:11 AM: This is my brothers 2014 Teanaway Deer. Really old buck who had regressed antlers but still was really wide rack and FAT body. He hardly had any teeth left so I'm glad that we got him before the winter hit.
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Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on March 06, 2015, 12:42:26 PM: Quote from: fishunt247 on January 04, 2015, 10:37:57 AM
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Both these buck came out of Teananway their are some bruisers in their just need some weather to make them move.

Chief, this horn was dropped in the Teanaway about 2008 or 2007. What was the timeframe on the 5 pt that you killed? Could be the same buck, or at least the same genetics. I tried to send this in a PM but couldn't figure out how to insert a picture.

I swear I watched you pick that shed up. There were two younger guys just getting to the road and had an antler simpler to that one. Big ol grins on there faces. I could pm you where?