Post by: Bru14 on February 25, 2009, 05:27:20 PM
Post by: Red Dawg on February 25, 2009, 05:29:05 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on February 25, 2009, 05:30:49 PM
Anyone have pics of a buck that was taken in the Nile unit this year, I guess it was at the sportsman show in Yakima, scored 226 and some change. My dad saw it and didnt get a picture wondering if anyone knew anything about it, guess it had 2 droptines??????Pretty sure that the buck with 2 droppers was shot in alberta.
Could be wrong though :yike:
Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 25, 2009, 05:32:36 PM
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Post by: boneaddict on February 25, 2009, 05:59:33 PM
Post by: huntnphool on February 25, 2009, 06:41:23 PM
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I look at that deer and all I see is weak back.
You mean g3's don't you Bone? :dunno:
Post by: colockumelk on February 25, 2009, 06:49:01 PM
I look at that deer and all I see is weak back. BWAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA j/k
Oh my God you sound like Guy Eastman. ;) That was the most informative yet boring video I have ever seen on field judging mule deer.
Post by: fishunt247 on February 25, 2009, 07:26:59 PM
Post by: colockumelk on February 25, 2009, 08:52:30 PM
I have a comment on why you will never see a 200 class buck in the Nile but it isn't very PC so I'll just leave it at that.
Post by: boneaddict on February 26, 2009, 06:34:55 AM
Post by: PacificNWhunter on February 26, 2009, 08:11:40 AM
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Post by: buckmaster_wa on February 26, 2009, 09:14:24 AM
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Post by: @RCHER on February 28, 2009, 09:33:31 PM
Not 226 but this 200 is a great WA deer.
Post by: Bru14 on February 28, 2009, 10:09:03 PM
Post by: jake on March 01, 2009, 04:20:39 PM
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Post by: Karl Blanchard on March 01, 2009, 05:13:02 PM
Post by: huntnphool on March 01, 2009, 05:21:35 PM
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a 4x4 shed that we scored 96 2/8 inches.
WOW!!! with a match and a easy 18" spread credit that would be a 210" buck
Post by: jake on March 01, 2009, 09:45:10 PM
Post by: fishunt247 on March 02, 2009, 09:39:51 AM
Post by: jdb on March 02, 2009, 09:42:45 AM
Post by: fishunt247 on March 02, 2009, 12:24:42 PM
Post by: jdb on March 02, 2009, 01:47:35 PM
Just saw a fresh shed that one of my good friends picked up in that unit that would gross in the low 170's. Its a perfect typical, backs and fronts are even and deep, and mass typical of a benchleg. He usually picks up one horn a year that would go around 160" to 170" in the last five years. There is usually one or two really nice bucks killed in that unit every year, and non-typicals every so often. That unit has potential. I'd love to see it go draw only, like they did with Mud Lake years ago.amen to that brother.
Post by: colockumelk on March 02, 2009, 01:48:17 PM
You spoke about mud lake. That was awsome when 342 was permit only for deer. There was some really nice bucks that ran around there. If only ......
Post by: fishunt247 on March 02, 2009, 05:31:42 PM
Post by: jake on March 02, 2009, 07:26:11 PM
i got drawn for the tag "mud lake" the year it re opened after the bad winter of 1996, to put it lightly i was amazed at the deer numbers in the area, i hunted hard for the entire season doing nothing but breaking arrows and watching deer run away from me, had a blast......BUT what sense does it make now to have that unit open modern general season and muzzleloader, but closed to archery?
Post by: fishunt247 on March 02, 2009, 07:37:48 PM
Post by: colockumelk on March 02, 2009, 09:04:21 PM
I wish they would have never opened it up but left it draw only, as most probably do. It was a closer option for hunters in the Yakima Valley that produced some really nice deer. Typical game dept though. Tag sales, tag sales, tag sales.
TAG SALES, TAG SALES, TAG SALES >:( >:( >:(
Couldn't have said it better myself. Course if you ask them it has nothing to do with tag sales. They are simply doing what the hunters in this state want. Since when do they ever truly listen to us? :bash: :bash:
Post by: Red Dawg on March 02, 2009, 09:07:14 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on March 02, 2009, 09:21:52 PM
They opened up the area because of pressures from sportsman like you and I. They also thought that the deer were mostly migratory. If you were there that year they opened it up it was a complete massacre. Dead deer hanging in every tree. They were wrong.Was it 04 when they re opened it? I hunted that, it was my first year. And yes it was crazy.
Post by: bobcat on March 02, 2009, 09:28:47 PM
Post by: bowhuntin on March 02, 2009, 09:36:28 PM
I heard the Umtanum went back to a general season because the tribal members were shooting many of the big bucks on their winter range. They figured why keep it permit only if the deer are going to be slaughtered anyway. I don't know if that's true. If there's any truth to it, pressure from the public to open it back up was also another big factor for opening it back up.
I had also heard that they opened it back up because the tribes were in there shooting the deer on their winter range.
Post by: buckmaster_wa on March 03, 2009, 08:04:16 AM
Post by: luvtohnt on March 03, 2009, 08:28:20 AM
Brandon
Post by: fishunt247 on March 03, 2009, 09:22:26 AM
Post by: colockumelk on March 03, 2009, 08:26:05 PM
I heard the Umtanum went back to a general season because the tribal members were shooting many of the big bucks on their winter range. They figured why keep it permit only if the deer are going to be slaughtered anyway. I don't know if that's true. If there's any truth to it, pressure from the public to open it back up was also another big factor for opening it back up.
I had also heard that they opened it back up because the tribes were in there shooting the deer on their winter range.
+1. Of course the WDFW would never officially admit to that being the reason. The official reason was from public pressure to reopen it. I think that the WDFW should grow a sack and do what's right for once and sometimes that involves telling the general opinion of hunters to shove it.
Post by: Yak-NDN on March 03, 2009, 09:16:54 PM
I would have to disagree 100% with the above statement, not about the picture because I haven't seen it, but the idea that anywhere around Yakima doesn't have the genetics to produce that big of deer. What about that 219" buck killed on the Rez like 3 or 4 years ago? In my understanding that buck was killed north of glenwood, close to Klickitat Meadows. If you hunt in the uppermost part of the Cowiche Unit, you are on the other side of the Meadows. That buck wasn't a pure muley, not even close. The genetics are there, somewhere, not in great amounts but there is the possibility, but they don't get the age required to get that big.
Rez buck
Post by: buckmaster_wa on March 03, 2009, 09:48:04 PM
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Post by: MuleySniper on March 03, 2009, 10:39:54 PM
MS
Post by: colockumelk on March 04, 2009, 10:25:10 AM
I would have to disagree 100% with the above statement, not about the picture because I haven't seen it, but the idea that anywhere around Yakima doesn't have the genetics to produce that big of deer. What about that 219" buck killed on the Rez like 3 or 4 years ago? In my understanding that buck was killed north of glenwood, close to Klickitat Meadows. If you hunt in the uppermost part of the Cowiche Unit, you are on the other side of the Meadows. That buck wasn't a pure muley, not even close. The genetics are there, somewhere, not in great amounts but there is the possibility, but they don't get the age required to get that big.
Rez buck
Holy :yike: That thing is massive. Wow. OMG I did not think that there was anything like that running around in our state. They should have taken that to the sportsmans show.
Post by: huntnphool on March 04, 2009, 10:33:13 AM
Post by: Yak-NDN on March 04, 2009, 12:10:51 PM
I would have to disagree 100% with the above statement, not about the picture because I haven't seen it, but the idea that anywhere around Yakima doesn't have the genetics to produce that big of deer. What about that 219" buck killed on the Rez like 3 or 4 years ago? In my understanding that buck was killed north of glenwood, close to Klickitat Meadows. If you hunt in the uppermost part of the Cowiche Unit, you are on the other side of the Meadows. That buck wasn't a pure muley, not even close. The genetics are there, somewhere, not in great amounts but there is the possibility, but they don't get the age required to get that big.
Rez buck
Holy :yike: That thing is massive. Wow. OMG I did not think that there was anything like that running around in our state. They should have taken that to the sportsmans show.
With the publicity and shame that the Whitefoot's bring to the tribe most tribal members don't bring any antlers to the show most don't care what they score I don't I have never taken anything to the show I have never had anything scored, (I have and would kill a trophy again if I had a chance it would be bigger than the low 300s) I have seen some big boys come off the rez. The big rez buck was at the show last year just not at the antler display.
Post by: rezboy on March 04, 2009, 12:26:23 PM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on March 04, 2009, 05:47:23 PM
I would have to disagree 100% with the above statement, not about the picture because I haven't seen it, but the idea that anywhere around Yakima doesn't have the genetics to produce that big of deer. What about that 219" buck killed on the Rez like 3 or 4 years ago? In my understanding that buck was killed north of glenwood, close to Klickitat Meadows. If you hunt in the uppermost part of the Cowiche Unit, you are on the other side of the Meadows. That buck wasn't a pure muley, not even close. The genetics are there, somewhere, not in great amounts but there is the possibility, but they don't get the age required to get that big.
There's actually a lesson here for the rest of us (or at least for WDFW). The rez produces some big bucks because they can shoot either does or bucks and the buck/doe ratio is very good. I remember my stepdad killing some bruisers on the Spokane Rez. He used to say that they got that big because most people were driving the roads and killing the does and yearlings. If a deer is smart enough to find a hole he can survive almost unharrassed for years.
Rez buck
Holy :yike: That thing is massive. Wow. OMG I did not think that there was anything like that running around in our state. They should have taken that to the sportsmans show.
With the publicity and shame that the Whitefoot's bring to the tribe most tribal members don't bring any antlers to the show most don't care what they score I don't I have never taken anything to the show I have never had anything scored, (I have and would kill a trophy again if I had a chance it would be bigger than the low 300s) I have seen some big boys come off the rez. The big rez buck was at the show last year just not at the antler display.
Post by: colockumelk on March 04, 2009, 05:51:29 PM
:kneel:
Post by: Red Dawg on March 04, 2009, 06:03:08 PM
Post by: WAmuleyHunter on March 04, 2009, 06:10:40 PM
thanks
Post by: Yak-NDN on March 04, 2009, 06:20:04 PM
YAK you shot that thing. Wow if so. (note instead of kneel suckers it should say We're not worthy)
:kneel:
I can not put claim to that monster a good friend of mine with all the luck got him. People were just talking about the buck so I thought I would show them.
Post by: fishunt247 on March 04, 2009, 07:07:58 PM
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I like that, Yak. Great perspective. Tribal member or non-tribal member, I think not caring about the score is one of the best philosophies to have. Granted I can get caught up in the score talk too. Like most though, I don't hunt for the score. Oh and the Whitefoot bulls this year at the show, classic, hair burned off the skulls. But I don't want to talk about that because on this site it always gets negative. Still cannot get over that buck. Tell your buddy congrats x 1000.
Post by: jake on March 04, 2009, 08:05:21 PM
Post by: Yak-NDN on March 04, 2009, 08:40:28 PM
i tell you what im not holding my breath for a 300" deer off the rez, if tribal members dont care the scores of the deer they shoot then why kill bucks? why not hunt for meat and shoot does or young bucks that would taste much better?
Most tribal members would be happy harvesting anything doe or buck same with non tribal but there are many that have read all the hype of big horns and big scores I read many hunting magazines and I don't see much that talk about doe's being harvested people are competitive it is natural, the way all the articles read bigger is better you cant help but to fall into the circle, I am also at fault for this I would not pass a true trophy. It may not be morally correct but sadly hunting and fishing has turned into some what of a egotistical sport.
Post by: fishunt247 on March 04, 2009, 09:10:47 PM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on March 04, 2009, 09:43:47 PM
I know the rez has a lot of big bucks, and there is a reason for that. A lot of it has to do with the high buck to doe ratios on the rez. My stepdad was a Spokane and he killed some real bruisers there because he got off the roads and hunted hard. He said that there were such big bucks there because most people hunted the roads and killed a lot of does and yearlings. Basically more opportunity for deer to get into the older age classes if they were smart enough to find a hidey-hole off the roads. I think there is some unintentional trophy management of the rez herds. Killing all those does leaves healthy buck-to-doe ratios...
Post by: jake on March 04, 2009, 10:20:33 PM
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Post by: Goldeneye on April 04, 2009, 09:17:49 PM
THATS A REALLY GREAT BUCK
SORRY GUYS, JUST WANNA UP MY POST COUNT UNTIL I HIT THE 50 MARK. :hello:
:yeah: Darn fine buck as well!