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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: addicted on September 27, 2007, 02:39:45 PM
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:P so is anyone else counting down. talkin with there buddies. makin plans. saving gas money and hoping their hard work scouting pays off. i am. i cant wait. is anyone else enthusiastic about puting meat in the freezer. ive got backstrap fever. how bout you guys.
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I'm ready, I've spent about 40 days scouting and I hope it pays off. I killed a spike bull in archery season so a nice buck will hopefully overflow the freezer.
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good luck to you.
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I know I am ready and excited. I havent scouted for deer yet, but no matter, I am going the whole season anyway. My little bro got a spike elk this year too (i missed one..stupid branch, but boy did I kill that branch!.. ;) so if we get a few deer in camp, should be a good freezer year...so far this year the fam has bagged 1 bear, 1 spike (and I have had to help pack them both out..with a serving of humble pie, lousy younger siblings!)...I have hopes to fill some more tags. Good luck to all, of course.
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I am stoked, although it will be atough year for me. i have 3 days to hunt and will hunt like it's the last 3 days i have of my life, which may end up being the case as my daughter was born 2 weeks ago. :chuckle: i have had no ability to scout, no time, but know the area we will be hunting like the back of my hand. i didn't kill a deer last year because i was holding out for a big one i found pre-season, and he never surfaced, so it may be meat-buck or bust for me, cuz i miss the lack of venison in the freezer...we shall see. come the afternoon of day 2, i think i'll be shooting the first legal deer i see, but i will wait for the first day and a half looking for a nice one, whitetail or muley, i'm not picky.
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i'm not picky.
Me either. Gimme a legal one :hunter:
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there was a couple of big bodied young two poin muleys in my area last ther that i stalked for 2 hours hoping they'd grow that third point :'(. but i expect theyll be back this year as 3 and 4 pointers. we've got time and driving arrangements already set up and we're gonnna try and stop by rufus woods to do a lil fishin along the way.
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im ready to get the hell out of here and go deer hunting. I cant wait. Have the whole week off and man i need it.
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i like that t-shirt that says hunting costs less than therapy.
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I'm hoping the "potential" buck is still around.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,1789.0.html
he didn't get shot last year as far as i know, and there is no late mule deer season where he was. :dunno:
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Yup! I get to take a week off of school to go hunt deer over in the Columbian Basin with my black powder and hopefully get to take a doe out of the Waluke unit! Can't Wait!!
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second the 'whole week off' fever! i can't wait to get the hell outa dodge for a 10 days.... i'll be lookin for that 22" 2 year old 3 point i saw twice last year, im hoping my good karma for letting him grow up will pay off! i hunt up around 5500-6000 feet so im watchin this crazy early wintery weather very closely! an early migration means money for me! i haven't hunted snow in the general season for years.... last time we got a big early snow i shot a 170 class buck and saw at least 50 other bucks in 3 or 4 days. (snow level is down to 4000k for most of next week with lots o' precip. in the forcast) good luck to everyone not going crazy, im off to joes to go buy more random items i don't need. :IBCOOL:
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This years opener is like a bonus. I will get to go out without any pressure on me and just enjoy the time in the field.
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i am never excited to hunt the late whitey season because that would mean i missed out on a muley buck.... but after the last sunday of the general muley season im the biggest fan of that last white tail hunt! funny how that works...
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i passed on the opener this year as my brother (bcrawford) drew a idaho moose tag. we have been talking since we were little about hunting moose together and now we get that chance and we are bringing dad along with us. i am looking forward to the camp time with them as much as i am with the hunting part. best of luck to you all and save me one for the last weekend of muley season.
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Man I'm counting down, but its looking like I will be moving into our new place on teh opener instead of being in the hills. :bash: >:( I've got the whole week off so perhaps by the end I'll be making it out there, with some weather it could be a great hunt.
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I took an evening shift at work for the 2nd part of October. That will give me some trolling time in the mornings. I just need my truck to get fixed ASAP.
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The engine is going to get replaced... And maybe the clutch too. It's going to the shop tomorrow morning pronto. :DOH:
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if the $$ is not a huge issue...replace the clutch stuff while the motor is out...you'll thank yourself later. if you're dropping all the coin to do the motor, do the clutch.
my .02
it's kind of what i do.
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I think that is what I will do.
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Went to the Kenmore range this afternoon to shoot the .300. Tried some new ammo that the gun didn't like...there goes $50 down the drain, and now my shoulder feels nice after 30 rounds. So now I'm either gonna grab the .270 from my dad's house this weekend, or drop more money on another box of ammo to try and get the .300 dialed in. Either way, I can't wait for the opener. I gotta go retrieve my trail cam out of the woods this weekend, so hopefully I will have some good pics on it, so I know where to hunt opening morning. :IBCOOL:
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Antlershed have you tried the federal fusion ammo??? My 300 likes it.
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No I haven't. I used to shoot the Remington Express, and now I'm trying to find something to switch to. I shot a box of the Federal Vital Shok in Barnes Triple Shock X-Bullet, and that is what the gun didn't like. You just have a .300 win-mag?
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cant wait been doing a little scouting seen some really nice bucks the area i hunt is a 3 point or better i can tell you it really works. the pics i sent in are mostly of the bucks in my area. well good luck to every one shoot straight.
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Well i went scouting already. Im going again. Took two weeks payed vacation off of work well over two months ago for the mifddle of October. Hummm, Excited? Not sure if thats the right word ? OVERLY EXCITED ? ? ? ? ? ? ..................................
.................YES :chuckle:
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Excited? I've been packed and ready to go since Labor day! :P
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I'm hunting the 1st 3 days, then back to work for 4 days. Got saturday and sunday to tag one and then I have the next 2 weeks off to find a big bull for my Peaches permit. Can't wait, I'm already having a hard time sleeping at night. Good luck to you all!
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I'm heading over to my honey hole for the last weekend of regular rifle season. Going to hunt 101 unit whities with my 12 gauge side by side after the crowds peter out. I probably will not hunt until then. I have 4 little bucks teasing me in my yard every day and I am trying to keep them here and away from the (shoot anything) city boys that invade this place every fall. The deer are having a hay day on all the acorns that are hitting the ground on my land right now.
Someone mentioned Federal Fusion rounds. I bought a couple of boxes and they (165 gr.) shoot great in my old leftie 30-06, Plus they have a $5 a box rebate going on now for all Fusion rifle ammo.
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Can't hardly wait for the muzzle opener. Never been to the NE part of Wash for hunting. We are all packed and ready to leave Wed evening for the whole season. Hope to harvest a whitetail and anElk. Private land so odds go up. EXCEPT it is my first year with a muzzleloader after over 40 years with a rifle. Put the 308 and the 340mag away until Elk hunting in Oregon later in the month :)
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Looking for a 170. This will be the first year to not take all of the season off for vacation. I decided I usually get it early anyway, I might as well take it all off for Dads November hunt. I am taking a couple days this week to go photograph moose, and maybe make a mental note of any big bucks in the Panhandle in case I get to go over there.
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thanks for reminding me.
>:(
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Took my small truck in on saturday to a place down in Buckley to have a rebuilt engine put in. It's supposed to be done around the opening day of mod firearm deer. I know the guy doing the work is competent and capable but I don't know if he is prompt. If it comes in time I will be hunting on the east side of the mountains for modern firearm. Otherwise I will have to keep trying for blacktails over here or wait until November if I still have a tag then. I've been really limited with the distance and places I can travel this year so I am hoping this will fix that problem. It's kind of hard to get around when your engine is spewing out oil everywhere and has no power. :chuckle:
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If you want to share any of your big bucks in teh pan hanle area Im all ears... ;D
Leaving staurday with the old man to set-up Camp. Will be all over the pan handle. Any tips for a Mulie? I dont care if he is just a nice fork, Ive always shot whitetails.
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1 week 5 days left. last chance to sight in rifles buy trail mix, ready the huntin camper, and drop our paychecks into several camo items.
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First post here, got sent over from Wa. Fly Fishing board.
I'm so excited and ready, can't wait to get out. This'll be my second season for deer. Looks like I might be alone for the opening weekend. Hopefully everyone that's supposed to go the following week will be down. If anyone sees a late 20 something up around Ephrata hunting alone and sporting a white Sube say hey.
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there are much more usefull items to drop your paycheck on than camo.... but good luck to ya!
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I still don't know what the hell I'm going to do. The blacktail forecast is so *censored*ty, I don't know if I want to waste my time. I found a fat two point muley in a decent EWa spot last year that should be there and legal this year If I can get the jump on him. Other than that it's cooling my heels until Thanksgiving week in Montana for bucks and bulls.
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D...as i've said before...a bad day hunting is still much better thana good day at work...
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D...as i've said before...a bad day hunting is still much better thana good day at work...
I hear ya, but the venison freezer went empty last year, I wouldn't even mind banking two deer this year for any future "dry spells". ;)
I was hoping that if I harvested a 'meat' buck in Wa. this year, that it would also help me be more patient in Montana in November....
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Im deff ready. Did alottttttttttttt of scouting...and pre-season work for opening morning. cantttttttttt waittt
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1 week and 3 days.
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went and sighted in a rifle yesterday. 5 days left. last chance to buy your new toys
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have never saw the point of wearing camo with orange over the top. My granda parents lived on prince of whales island for 15 years, and that is how they knew if you were local or a cityiot.
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have never saw the point of wearing camo with orange over the top. My granda parents lived on prince of whales island for 15 years, and that is how they knew if you were local or a cityiot.
i've thought about this in the past...and i do it because my hunting clothes(camo) are the best quality clothes i have suited for the occasion. i don't think blue jeans are the best clothes to be out in a rainstorm in,
but i'm a citiot too...what do i know... :bash:
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have never saw the point of wearing camo with orange over the top. .
I agree! I dont get these dudes who dress head to toe in camo and then put on a solid dayglow orange jacket and hat. I use a fleece vest that is dayglow but with a broken-up branch pattern on it. Just remember that deer cannot see color but they can plainly see unbroken fields of any solid color. Orange that is broken up blends into what is around it in a deer's eye. I also get a kick out of these "cityiots" (I'm gonna steal that one from ya for my own use. thanks!) who dress head to toe in solid fields of orange. To the deer they must stick out like a sore thumb!
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I know they stand out like lighthouses from 6 ridges over.
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have never saw the point of wearing camo with orange over the top. My granda parents lived on prince of whales island for 15 years, and that is how they knew if you were local or a cityiot.
I started wearing camo with my hunter orange after I ruined a ton of "regular" clothes. The dirt and stains don't show on camo. Not only that but I also used to take off my orange and hang it on a tree above me. In camo I was hidden but most of the "hunting herd" could see the orange.
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I'm with you billy, we wear our camo because it is our best all weather clothing. The blaze is on because it's the law when there are Cityiots running all over the hills with rifles.
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Started going through the gear tonight. Time to change from 80 degree hunting to subzero. I'll be spending one long ungly night in one of the most in-hospitable places on earth. That fly will be no Montana Canvas wall tent..thats for sure. All of you guys begging for snow are killing me.
170 or bust!
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Finally got my eyeballs on one of the blacktail bucks cruisin his strip this morning. Damn they are like ghosts, but I knew they were there as I hit the buck rubs and saw sign... As someone said though "does don't live in vacuums" :chuckle: Otherwise I wouldn't have believed they existed. :dunno:
I think my truck will be ready within the next 7-10 days. I might be able to go over the big hill and find me some venison if all goes well - or if I don't nail one of the blacktails in the local neighborhood.
:hunter: :EAT:
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I use a fleece vest that is dayglow but with a broken-up branch pattern on it.
this is what i use also.
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I wear Carhearts camo jeans while hunting. Not so much for the camo as much as durability. They seem to last forever.
Everything I buy that is orange, I take a black magic marker to it for breakup. Deer and elk may not see color but like Bear, Bone, and Billy said, they can see contrast and movement real well, and a big piece of day glow against something dark is like waving a white flag.
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I use a fleece vest that is dayglow but with a broken-up branch pattern on it.
this is what i use also.
me too
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I also wear my camo clothes that I archery hunt in during rifle season. For one I don't want to spend a bunch of dough on clothes I already have. Also my camo gear is comfortable, quiet and water proof, nothing like wearing wet wranglers and micro fleece and being 2 miles from the truck! I do have a reversable fleece jacket that is camo on one side then orange on the other, but with my day pack and my crooked horn bino harness on my chest its broke up anyway! If a buck sees me moving first, it don't matter what you are wearing he will bust! If you keep the wind in your favor and wear quiet clothes(not denim of any kind!) and hunt smart like a predator, your going to be ok! Denim is okay for road hunting and birds, but not deer or elk, IMHO.
Looking for a 3 pt. or better in Republic,
Finnman
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Denim is okay for road hunting and birds, but not deer or elk, IMHO.
haha fin, i must not have gotten the memo. i hunt in jeans or carharts and whatever shirts and jacket and i throw in my bag for the week. if it's super wet i wear grey wool pants or thow my gortex shell pants on over my jeans. doesn't seem to bother the deer i hunt, i regularly pass over a half dozen bucks each season waitin for ol' mossyback to step out. i always get a good laugh when i see the jokers dressed head to tow in thier camo getup with thier faces painted up and all.... SOME people take that stuff way to seriously imo, it's not gurilla warfare here. iv also noticed that the dudes i see a couple miles back in are rarely wearing any sort of camo, contrary to what fin said it seems to be the road hunters that feel the need to be invisible while crusin along glassin stumps. to each his own i guess.
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everybody's entitled to an opinion, and i really don't think wearing camo makes anyone a joker or less of a hunter...
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Usually the folks that give me crap about being head to toe in camo (archery season only) are the ones who havent harvested a decent buck or bull at less than 50 yards. Camo and scent elimination DOES help, especially when bowhunting. I've gots the critters to prove it. I will agree that it does not matter what you wear if you are taking 200+ yard shots. I do get a kick out of the roadhunters who are all decked out in the latest that Cabela's has to offer and never step into the woods except to pee or dump garbage.
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I am a supporter of camo, but can honestly say I have killed A LOT of bucks wearing blue jeans. I have also called in a pile of animals while wearing blue jeans. Wet conditions however is another thing. Thank god for other materials.
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sorry for all the question.want to find a nice area to hunt. Teanaway and blewitt pass. do these place's get hit hard. i'll be in my wall tent. dont care if i get a deer just want pretty country. Rick
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LOL, nothing more uncomfortable then wet jeans or cotton.
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3 days left. just got some chairs for sittin in the blind.
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Just got my new cabelas chair yesterday...my old one died on me in elk camp..a new headlamp and a game scale...now all i need is to get out there...;)
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driving out tommorow night. i think we are stopping at rufus woods to satisfy some fishing needs of the group. 8)
