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Big Game Hunting => Out Of State Hunting => Topic started by: HillHound on November 05, 2019, 05:45:02 AM

Title: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: HillHound on November 05, 2019, 05:45:02 AM: We will be headed to Idaho the 20th to chase whitetail. We will be staying just south of Bonner’s ferry. We have no private access. I was just wondering if there is a specific direction or road that might be better to start on? We have onx so we will be able to identify huntable property. Just looking for any ideas on a direction to head and or access if someone has too many deer hanging around their property. We also have wolf tags. I will be bringing my quad due to the high amount of atv trails but really am not used to hunting off it so hopefully just using to get in somewhere or pack an animal out. Thanks in advance for any advise you want to give my brother and I to improve our first trip to Idaho
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: huntnnw on November 05, 2019, 05:56:06 AM: with whitetails they are spread everywhere from fields to 5,000'. Pick areas if you are not around ag fields that have some logged out areas. The deer use these as feed. Bring a grunt tube I have lost count how many bucks I have called in with a grunt tube.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: elkboy on November 05, 2019, 08:10:22 AM: Lots of whitetail on USFS land north of Moyie Springs, and southeast of Bonner's Ferry in the Clifty/Iron Mt. area.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: nwmein199 on November 05, 2019, 08:22:48 AM: Quote from: huntnnw on November 05, 2019, 05:56:06 AM
with whitetails they are spread everywhere from fields to 5,000'. Pick areas if you are not around ag fields that have some logged out areas. The deer use these as feed. Bring a grunt tube I have lost count how many bucks I have called in with a grunt tube.

Any recommendation on a grunt tube? Going to be in the panhandle hunting whitetail in a couple weeks for the first time as well.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: hard hunter on November 05, 2019, 07:27:02 PM: Most of my experience has been south and southwest of your location but from what I have seen in the past what has been said is so true. I have found whitetails from farmland to hill tops. I have had best luck slowly walking logging roads and glassing. If you can find some forest land above ag fields then just slowly cruz the roads or just inside the timber and the deer seem to cross back and forth all day long.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: huntnnw on November 05, 2019, 11:39:52 PM: Quote from: nwmein199 on November 05, 2019, 08:22:48 AM
Quote from: huntnnw on November 05, 2019, 05:56:06 AM
with whitetails they are spread everywhere from fields to 5,000'. Pick areas if you are not around ag fields that have some logged out areas. The deer use these as feed. Bring a grunt tube I have lost count how many bucks I have called in with a grunt tube.

Any recommendation on a grunt tube? Going to be in the panhandle hunting whitetail in a couple weeks for the first time as well.

no almost all of them will do the job. Ive had the one I own now for over 10 years its a Drury MAD call has a snort wheeze on it also.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: Machias on November 06, 2019, 08:08:08 AM: I've had a lot of success with a grunt tube that can do the hyperventilate grunts. Knight and Hale made my favorite one, not sure if it is still in production.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: 10thmountainarcher on November 06, 2019, 08:33:50 AM: Quote from: Machias on November 06, 2019, 08:08:08 AM
I've had a lot of success with a grunt tube that can do the hyperventilate grunts. Knight and Hale made my favorite one, not sure if it is still in production.

The snort wheeze?
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: Machias on November 06, 2019, 09:18:01 AM: Quote from: 10thmountainarcher on November 06, 2019, 08:33:50 AM
Quote from: Machias on November 06, 2019, 08:08:08 AM
I've had a lot of success with a grunt tube that can do the hyperventilate grunts. Knight and Hale made my favorite one, not sure if it is still in production.

The snort wheeze?

No, the grunting sound a buck makes while he's running, grunt sounds inhaling and exhaling.
Title: Re: Idaho pan handle advise
Post by: huntnnw on November 06, 2019, 11:32:04 PM: my favorite call to make is the tending grunt its series of short grunts with a second in between each grunt. I start calling in one direction and slowly turning head across and using hands to deflect sound to sound like a buck walking and following a doe.