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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: splitshot on February 05, 2015, 08:44:15 PM

Title: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 05, 2015, 08:44:15 PM: in your opinion what are the 4 best draw deer units to apply for quality? for buck? mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 05, 2015, 10:28:49 PM: sorry, this is hitting close to home, so you don't have to give up your secret spot. mine are alta, mission, desert(a secret) and whisky dick or whatever they call the one north of vantage to the left. now remember to not tell anyone. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 05, 2015, 10:33:13 PM: forgot to mention I have not drawn any of these but have guided successfully at least one or more hunters in each and all these units. am not too lucky at the draw. this year will be a 3 draw moose. bull, cow and 65 moose. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Dhoey07 on February 06, 2015, 06:43:48 AM: In my opinion, the price and draw odds are not worth putting in for a quality deer draw :twocents:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: danderson on February 06, 2015, 07:12:31 AM: Thanks for letting everyone know were to put in for, your odds of drawing a quality permit just got worse. :chuckle:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 06, 2015, 01:19:59 PM: I also put in for areas close to home so I can sleep in my own bed.. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: RB on February 06, 2015, 02:06:08 PM: It really is no secret where the good units are just look at the regs under quality Deer :sry:

But seriously the Dessert (open Sage brush area) units seem to produce the biggest bucks by the pictures posted by people that have drawn the tags. :twocents:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: jackelope on February 06, 2015, 02:06:46 PM: Quote from: Dhoey07 on February 06, 2015, 06:43:48 AM
In my opinion, the price and draw odds are not worth putting in for a quality deer draw :twocents:

It's like $6 or so. Odds are odds, but have you ever been involved in a quality permit hunt?
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 06, 2015, 02:18:50 PM: Quote from: jackelope on February 06, 2015, 02:06:46 PM
Quote from: Dhoey07 on February 06, 2015, 06:43:48 AM
In my opinion, the price and draw odds are not worth putting in for a quality deer draw :twocents:

It's like $6 or so. Odds are odds, but have you ever been involved in a quality permit hunt?

:yeah: no offense DHoey but I doubt you have much experience to back that statement up. If the application for Desert cost $100 I might agree with you.
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: bobcat on February 06, 2015, 06:53:55 PM: Quality applications are $14.
Title: 4 best deer areas
Post by: jackelope on February 07, 2015, 06:28:52 AM: Quote from: bobcat on February 06, 2015, 06:53:55 PM
Quality applications are $14.
Close enough.
:chuckle:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 07, 2015, 07:13:26 AM: :chuckle: Still though for $14 a year you can put in for hunts that people would pay thousands for if available for sale.
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 07, 2015, 09:55:19 AM: some of the quality permit hunts are not really quality and a few buck permit hunts that should be quality. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 07, 2015, 09:57:03 AM: Quote from: splitshot on February 05, 2015, 08:44:15 PM
in your opinion what are the 4 best draw deer units to apply for quality? for buck? mike w

The four you choose! :tup:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: bobcat on February 07, 2015, 09:58:54 AM: There are so many good hunts available in the quality deer permits that I just can't narrow it down to only four. To me the best ones are the ones that I can draw, and that means the least popular hunts that still have a relatively large number of permits available. I generally apply for one with decent draw odds as my second choice, and for the first choice I'll just pick one with nearly impossible odds.
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: cem3434 on February 07, 2015, 10:15:03 AM: :yeah: Dont overlook the Okanagon, Chelan and Blewett area hunts. Any of the quality deer hunts are capable of producing one in a life time bucks. :twocents:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: huntnphool on February 07, 2015, 11:18:15 AM: Quote from: Dhoey07 on February 06, 2015, 06:43:48 AM
In my opinion, the price and draw odds are not worth putting in for a quality deer draw :twocents:

+1 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: elkaholic123 on February 07, 2015, 11:47:21 AM: Paunsaugunt, Henry Mountains, Kaibab plateau, eastern Colorado :dunno:
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Jonathan_S on February 07, 2015, 12:32:14 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on February 07, 2015, 11:18:15 AM
Quote from: Dhoey07 on February 06, 2015, 06:43:48 AM
In my opinion, the price and draw odds are not worth putting in for a quality deer draw :twocents:

+1 :rolleyes:

Oh wait, I mean :yeah: totally not worth it guys. I'll let you know if Entiat is any good.
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 07, 2015, 12:50:17 PM: there are some really big bucks in the blue mountains. whities and mules. I have seen some in the watershed pushing 30 inches , heavy and dark. have been some monsters come out of the are north of Spokane. and----. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: 400out on February 07, 2015, 02:31:36 PM: Quote from: splitshot on February 07, 2015, 12:50:17 PM
there are some really big bucks in the blue mountains. whities and mules. I have seen some in the watershed pushing 30 inches , heavy and dark. have been some monsters come out of the are north of Spokane. and----. mike w
:chuckle: :chuckle: nice try! :chuckle:

see previous post

Quote from: splitshot on February 06, 2015, 01:19:59 PM
I also put in for areas close to home so I can sleep in my own bed.. mike w

: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

If you seen 30s in the blues good luck finding them during the season!! and you forgot to share the genetics there kill scores! shallow forks!
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: moocher97 on February 22, 2015, 06:56:23 PM: 1. Desert
2. Entiat maybe 4 years ago
3. Swakane
4. Sinlaheikan
The buck below was my general season Sinlaheikan archery buck. Almost any unit in that area really.
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: splitshot on February 22, 2015, 07:24:12 PM: knowing where the big bucks are does no good if you are not selected, not selected. quality only has 2 choices. mike w
Title: Re: 4 best deer areas
Post by: Miles on February 23, 2015, 07:42:28 AM: Best for what? Filling a tag, getting a 180 plus, seeing lots of bucks
?