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Title: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 09, 2015, 06:18:53 PM: I'm just curious how many of you see them and how many big bucks you've seen. I've never seen a mule deer buck in this corner of the state.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Ballance1 on December 09, 2015, 06:55:14 PM: Go by the drive in theater between colville and kettle and their standing in the field across the road
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: baldopepper on December 09, 2015, 07:15:26 PM: Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs) Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Bango skank on December 09, 2015, 07:19:51 PM: Quote from: baldopepper on December 09, 2015, 07:15:26 PM
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs) Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

Theyre always running around buck canyon lodge. Came close to bagging a couple muley bucks with my truck right in front of his driveway on a couple occasions
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Seabass on December 09, 2015, 08:45:24 PM: I see them all the time!
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: 724wd on December 09, 2015, 09:10:54 PM: Quote from: baldopepper on December 09, 2015, 07:15:26 PM
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs) Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

:yeah: hunted hawk creek for the early archery opener again this year. Deer numbers were WAY down and they were SUPER skittish. Last couple years there were lots of mulie does, up to 40. This year, only 14. :dunno: But there are some great deer around Seven Bays (and yes, they've ALL been right on the road behind no trespassing signs! :bash: :bash:)
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 08:54:33 AM: There are no mulies in this general area

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Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jonathan_S on December 10, 2015, 08:59:50 AM: There are less and less it seems - over time - but I still see mule deer all they way to Canada throughout the year. Actually I saw more mule deer this year than I've seen in a while in units 117 and 121.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: JLS on December 10, 2015, 09:11:03 AM: Quote from: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 08:54:33 AM
There are no mulies in this general area

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There's actually a decent number in this area. Some pockets with pretty good numbers.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 09:29:34 AM: I know there are mule deer in alot of places up there I just haven't spent any time hunting them. Usually I'm on the trail of a big whitetail and run into mulie doe's but don't recall ever seeing a buck.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: nwwanderer on December 10, 2015, 09:34:50 AM: See them all the time, tend to get out of Dodge while the whitetail scurry about their haughts
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jonathan_S on December 10, 2015, 09:35:02 AM: They are pretty sneaky during seasons. I see most of them in spring/summer. Mostly narrow, heavy, non-typical characteristics on the older bucks. I can never stay on them after August 15th though.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:39:17 AM: Pay attention to some of the photos I take. Like that might be in my calender this year. ;)
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: baldopepper on December 10, 2015, 09:41:54 AM: On any given morning I can see between 50-100 without leaving the deck around my house in 121. They eat everything around the house except the lavender plants and the ponderosa pines. Really intermixing with the whitetails in the area and I'm pretty sure some of the deer around us are in fact mixes of the two. Had a little spike running around breeding anything that would hold still and saw him chasing the whitetail does as well as the mulie does. Bigger bucks didn't seem to be nearly as "spunky" as that little guy.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on December 10, 2015, 09:44:12 AM: Quote from: Bango skank on December 09, 2015, 07:19:51 PM
Quote from: baldopepper on December 09, 2015, 07:15:26 PM
Start at about Hawk Creek campground on Lake Roosevelt and drive north to Kettle Falls. You'll see a ton of mulies including a a lot of very nice bucks. (Granted, a lot of them will be standing behind "no trespassing" signs) Mule deer herds have done very well thru that area over the last few years. Along hwy 25 you'll see more mulies than you will whitetails.

Theyre always running around buck canyon lodge. Came close to bagging a couple muley bucks with my truck right in front of his driveway on a couple occasions

Here are the buck you missed with your truck. I could feed them apples out of my hand.. The nimrod part time neighbors shot three of them....or they just held an apple out and slit their throats with a knife. We don't shoot neighborhood pets. Four other neighbors enjoyed feeding them also.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:47:38 AM: Don't tell the gov tag holder. Apparently he likes Apple fed animals. Tamer the better so he can sneak up on em. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:53:03 AM: Quote from: cbond3318 on December 10, 2015, 09:50:59 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:47:38 AM
Don't tell the gov tag holder. Apparently he likes Apple fed animals. Tamer the better so he can ~~sneak~~ up on em. :chuckle:
Strut

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Fixed it Bone
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Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: cbond3318 on December 10, 2015, 09:54:06 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:53:03 AM
Quote from: cbond3318 on December 10, 2015, 09:50:59 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 09:47:38 AM
Don't tell the gov tag holder. Apparently he likes Apple fed animals. Tamer the better so he can ~~sneak~~ up on em. :chuckle:
Strut

:chuckle:

Fixed it Bone

:chuckle: I thought I posted it that but didn't see it. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 09:55:46 AM: Quote from: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 08:54:33 AM
There are no mulies in this general area

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Just curious if that buck you posted on the heated mule deer buck debate page was up there or in the panhandle? It was a nice timber mulie!
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: baldopepper on December 10, 2015, 09:56:04 AM: Here are the buck you missed with your truck. I could feed them apples out of my hand.. The nimrod part time neighbors shot three of them....or they just held an apple out and slit their throats with a knife. We don't shoot neighborhood pets. Four other neighbors enjoyed feeding them also.
[/quote] Geeze-cant believe they shot 3 of them. We always enjoy driving past your place-that was a nice little bunch of bucks you had hanging out there with the turkeys. We don't shoot any of them right around our house either, just doesn't seem sporting and I think my wife has names for most of them anyway. (we have one doe hanging around that has very obvious scars on her hindquarters from a lion or bear encounter-see her quite often and wish we new the whole story)
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 10:01:38 AM: I like the buck and fawn photo! That's pretty cool! I couldn't hunt a deer out of my front yard either. I was hunting down above Carson one time and the biggest blacktail... er benchleg :chuckle:. It was a blacktail buck, was standing in a guy's yard eating his apple tree and he was standing on the porch taking pic's of it. I think he enjoyed watching that buck and I'm sure it didn't last too long. it was only 40ft off the road and some $%@*& probably shot it on the day he was at work. I don't like hand fed meat anyway. It taste's like someone didn't wash their hands...
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 10:10:43 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Fbrickkouse.jpg&hash=4febfdcef081d18f8224b6f7e1e8c6b63b0316d0)
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: 92xj on December 10, 2015, 10:16:02 AM: The Mulie that was poached a year or more ago during the late whitetail hunt in the Selkirk was a freaking beast. But clearly it was the last single mule deer in the area and there is zero need to hunt them in that unit anymore, there are none there at all, gone for good.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jonathan_S on December 10, 2015, 10:16:59 AM: Quote from: Jonathan_S on December 10, 2015, 09:35:02 AM
Mostly narrow, heavy, non-typical characteristics on the older bucks.

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Would you agree with that? Overall?
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 11:54:49 AM: Yeah that's a cool buck Bone! I like the one's with trash on them! I'll show you guy's a pic of my cousin's buck from this year. It was a nice palmated mulie buck from down here in the pine tree's. I was gonna ask about the area from Molybdenite mt and those high area's too. I know of an older gentleman who shot some nice one's up there but it was 20yrs ago.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 12:03:35 PM: Yes Jonathan, perfect description.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: boneaddict on December 10, 2015, 12:06:22 PM: Wolves have mostly decimated what was left of moly and monu. Lack of logging started it, then wolves finished it. Wolves are devastating to mule deer. If you have ever been to Yellowstone, you'd be like hmmmmm, where are the deer.

Huckelberry wolves will dine well for a year or two.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 12:24:16 PM: I can't see Johnathon's post about Molly? :dunno:
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on December 10, 2015, 01:10:42 PM: Huckelberry wolves will dine well for a year or two.

So true..I heard some wolves last night across the lake on the reservation side. Right down on the lake shore. Also heard them up off the Addy/Gifford Rd. Anderson road area in Nov. Cougar are a big problem in my area. They are after my tame deer almost every day. Tracks confirm why they are so skittish.
Here are a couple bucks from this year. The gal had a special permit and took a weird 3x2 the last day. Big guys seemed to have disappeared after the first rut. Saw one big guy where we couldn't hunt . Also saw about 200 mulie does and small bucks. We got the big buck Oct. 18th. They were rutting pretty good then.
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 01:40:18 PM: Sorry I spelled your name wrong Jonathan. :bash: Not like it's on here to reference huh :chuckle: I enjoy that you guy's are willing to share pic's of these bucks! After having a baby this upcoming spring and just buying a new house it'll be a while before I can go hunt away from home now so like I told Bone before I enjoy seeing the buck's that other people were able to tag or take photo's of. It keep's my enthusiasm up after thing's like the chopper issue I had this last weekend and the fact that around here anyone with a 4x4 can blaze through someone's field and run the animal's all over hell and I can't ever get time to go on a decent hunting experience anymore. I was so mad the other day I couldn't think straight and I had to sit and think about why hunting was a lot more enjoyable before and it's because I can't seem to get away from all the BS that's ruined my hunt's the last 3-4 yrs. Next year I think my wife and I are gonna try some hunting away from home again. Even if it's for one weekend. Did I mention her family own's a cabin in the NF that's tucked down into the Wenaha? Well we haven't been able to go for a few yrs now and we were stressing out all summer that the fire was going to burn it too. Well luckily the fire crews decided to setup camp there and kept a watchful eye on all the cabin's. Now if I could only draw a branch antler tag! Thank's for hearing my rant guy's! :tup:
Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 02:41:15 PM: Quote from: LDennis24 on December 10, 2015, 09:55:46 AM
Quote from: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 08:54:33 AM
There are no mulies in this general area

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Just curious if that buck you posted on the heated mule deer buck debate page was up there or in the panhandle? It was a nice timber mulie!
I would never say...

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Title: Re: Mule deer north of Spokane, east of the Columbia river
Post by: Jimmy33 on December 10, 2015, 02:58:02 PM: That buck was a washington buck...in all honesty...i love to hunt the ne corner for mulies. I dont see very many people but i also dont see a ton of deer. I have grown up hunting there and we have shot some pigs out of there. My uncle shot a deer up there 30 years ago that is still the standard by which all other deer are measured in my family. I believe it was right at 230 nontypical

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