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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: butcsw1 on October 22, 2018, 04:55:36 PM

Title: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: butcsw1 on October 22, 2018, 04:55:36 PM: Looking for any advice to successfully fill this Quality tag. Appreciate any feedback back on a good location. I was thinking Horns mountain or Hope mountain. Hunting dates I will be going is 11/5 - 11/9 and again 11/17 - 11/21. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: bobcat on October 22, 2018, 05:07:45 PM: Do you have the mule deer permit or the whitetail permit?
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: butcsw1 on October 22, 2018, 05:09:33 PM: White tail
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: Ridgeratt on October 22, 2018, 05:23:24 PM: Realize that there was a fire on Horn's Mountain started the 11 of August.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6138/
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: butcsw1 on October 23, 2018, 06:49:07 AM: Thanks! Looks like hope mountain will be my first area to hike into.
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: huntnnw on October 24, 2018, 06:36:12 AM: I’d look at onX maps and hunt lower around agriculture fields you will see way more deer.
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: Ridgeratt on October 25, 2018, 02:02:58 PM: Here's the info for last year. Perhaps the hunters just didn't report.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/2017/reports/deer_hunt_name.php

Here's 2016

https://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/2016/reports/deer_hunt_name.php
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: whtbuck on October 25, 2018, 02:58:24 PM: We just hunted 6 days of the opener modern season.Apparently Blue tounge went through the area this summer local reports say.Seen more bear and cougar.
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: Ridgeratt on November 04, 2018, 07:35:46 PM: Quote from: whtbuck on October 25, 2018, 02:58:24 PM
We just hunted 6 days of the opener modern season.Apparently Blue tounge went through the area this summer local reports say.Seen more bear and cougar.

So did you shoot any of the bear's or cougar's?
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: huntnnw on November 04, 2018, 10:57:58 PM: pretty sad to see unit 105 where its at today compared to 25 years ago. I grew up and started hunting that unit when I was 10 years old. I went up over the weekend to scout and get ready for late buck and ventured into a area I hadnt been in 20 years and it was sad to see. I remember the days where seeing does about everywhere was the norm, you would see muleys almost everywhere you went. Yesterday I was there from light till 4 pm hanging cams and saw nothing. My favorite area I never saw a track, crap, a rub old or new or a trail!
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: Skyvalhunter on November 05, 2018, 05:09:41 AM: That's the way Wa is trending to these days
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: huntnnw on November 05, 2018, 06:23:46 AM: :bash: all hail to predators in this state
Title: Re: Quality Deer 105 GMU
Post by: CAMPMEAT on November 05, 2018, 06:33:14 AM: Reverse tactics. Hunt bear and cougar as a priority, then you'll see deer... :tup: