Post by: D_morg on March 10, 2009, 07:24:18 AM
Post by: jackelope on March 10, 2009, 07:27:56 AM
in most of the areas you can use your bow if you want...as long as you comply with the regs for the area...in other words you might have to wear orange or bow season might be open in a unit, and also there's no bow season in the pasayten.
what area of the state do you want to go? north/central/etc.
Post by: boneaddict on March 10, 2009, 08:28:26 AM
Post by: jackelope on March 10, 2009, 08:30:07 AM
Post by: D_morg on March 10, 2009, 09:25:54 AM
Post by: boneaddict on March 11, 2009, 05:59:32 AM
Post by: huntncoug on March 11, 2009, 08:27:04 PM
Post by: jackelope on March 12, 2009, 07:58:44 AM
i agree if you want to do some easy trips to wilderness and hunt you can, and i will, but for the true high hunt experience, you've got to lace your boots up and hit the trail with a load on your back.
Post by: Machias on March 12, 2009, 10:54:36 AM
part of the draw of the high hunt should be the hiking.
i agree if you want to do some easy trips to wilderness and hunt you can, and i will, but for the true high hunt experience, you've got to lace your boots up and hit the trail with a load on your back.
Very respectfully disagree, if God would have wanted us to carry backpacks he wouldn't have invented Decker Pack Saddles and Mules. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: BONE COLLECTOR on March 12, 2009, 02:09:35 PM
Post by: Vek on March 12, 2009, 02:27:56 PM
If you hunt from the trail, any distance from a road-accessed trailhead, and expect to see a shooter buck, you cripple your odds of success.
If you can see your hunt area easily from a trail, you limit your odds of success.
If you have to bushwhack a bit every day to get into your hunt area, you enhance your odds of success.
If you backpack into somewhere that isn't normally accessible by a trail, and that spot happens to be good habitat, fun times await.
These aren't hard and fast rules, but the simple fact is that you need to get off the beaten path to have a chance. If you backpack in 5 miles from the trailhead and dayhike/hunt from there, rotsa ruck, you'll need it. There are places in the wilderness that hold bucks year in/year out. Go find one.
Post by: jackelope on March 12, 2009, 02:30:21 PM
part of the draw of the high hunt should be the hiking.
i agree if you want to do some easy trips to wilderness and hunt you can, and i will, but for the true high hunt experience, you've got to lace your boots up and hit the trail with a load on your back.
Very respectfully disagree, if God would have wanted us to carry backpacks he wouldn't have invented Decker Pack Saddles and Mules. :chuckle: :chuckle:
i very respectfully agree....if i had a decker and a mule, i wouldn't be hemming and hawwing all the time about a new bigger better pack.
Post by: MichaelJ on March 12, 2009, 02:38:06 PM
Michael
Post by: colockumelk on March 12, 2009, 08:07:24 PM
Thanks guys IL check the other threads I'm not planing on bringing the wall tent probably going to be all by my self on this hunt just wondering what to expect when i get up there.
If I was you I would not go by myself. As remote as those places are if you hurt yourself you are majorly screwed. I would find someone to go with you. Anyone at all.
Post by: Branden on March 12, 2009, 08:57:09 PM
Post by: Skyvalhunter on March 12, 2009, 09:00:51 PM
Post by: klikboom on March 20, 2009, 09:25:02 AM
Post by: Machias on March 20, 2009, 09:35:41 AM
Post by: bowhunter1972 on March 22, 2009, 05:08:35 PM
Post by: MichaelJ on March 23, 2009, 07:08:12 PM
Looking back to last Sept's hunt I 'know' exactly where all the bucks went that I scouted in August, but it never occurred to me during the hunt that the area had dried out. I was SURE the bucks were there when really they'd moved into a different section of the huge basin we were in.
Good luck! I'm already scouting out new areas on maps and have spent the better part of 2 hours today researching which areas are likely possibilities...
Michael
Post by: ACCUBOND on April 11, 2009, 01:45:54 PM