Post by: Transka on November 09, 2019, 02:22:32 PM
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Post by: jrebel on November 09, 2019, 06:30:29 PM
No weather this year, and deer pop. is way down. Guessing it will be a tougher year up there. I hiked 12 miles in a diff area today, glassed a multitude of private land, total deer seen 7
I saw that many on my way to chelan the other morning. Clearly we need to hunt the highway.
Post by: Sutherland on November 09, 2019, 06:55:32 PM
Post by: MountainTracker on November 09, 2019, 07:01:13 PM
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Post by: huntnnw on November 10, 2019, 12:20:39 AM
No weather this year, and deer pop. is way down. Guessing it will be a tougher year up there. I hiked 12 miles in a diff area today, glassed a multitude of private land, total deer seen 7
I use to hunt these areas almost 30 years ago so I know the deer population is down, but people make these areas out to be like you are walking on the moon with a vast expanse of nothing . I’ve chased mule deer in NE WA and SE WA the last 7 years . If you wanna see no Muleys then look into those parts. I headed into my hunt after reading people’s dismal accounts on the area thinking this might be tough to turn up a buck. To my surprises I haven’t seen so many mule deer in WA since I hunted over that way almost 30 years ago. Every hillside every where I went had deer littered across them. Every morning and evening sit I couldn’t keep count how many deer I saw. Some areas I never even could finish glassing it before light ran out due to how many deer turned up. This was all National Forest areas.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on November 10, 2019, 05:41:06 PM
No weather this year, and deer pop. is way down. Guessing it will be a tougher year up there. I hiked 12 miles in a diff area today, glassed a multitude of private land, total deer seen 7
I use to hunt these areas almost 30 years ago so I know the deer population is down, but people make these areas out to be like you are walking on the moon with a vast expanse of nothing . I’ve chased mule deer in NE WA and SE WA the last 7 years . If you wanna see no Muleys then look into those parts. I headed into my hunt after reading people’s dismal accounts on the area thinking this might be tough to turn up a buck. To my surprises I haven’t seen so many mule deer in WA since I hunted over that way almost 30 years ago. Every hillside every where I went had deer littered across them. Every morning and evening sit I couldn’t keep count how many deer I saw. Some areas I never even could finish glassing it before light ran out due to how many deer turned up. This was all National Forest areas.
I hunted these areas 30 years ago...….and every year for the last 30 years. I know them very very well. Deer population is way down. :dunno:
Post by: huntnnw on November 10, 2019, 05:54:52 PM
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Post by: bobcat on November 10, 2019, 06:46:09 PM
Post by: bigmacc on November 10, 2019, 07:29:11 PM
No weather this year, and deer pop. is way down. Guessing it will be a tougher year up there. I hiked 12 miles in a diff area today, glassed a multitude of private land, total deer seen 7
I use to hunt these areas almost 30 years ago so I know the deer population is down, but people make these areas out to be like you are walking on the moon with a vast expanse of nothing . I’ve chased mule deer in NE WA and SE WA the last 7 years . If you wanna see no Muleys then look into those parts. I headed into my hunt after reading people’s dismal accounts on the area thinking this might be tough to turn up a buck. To my surprises I haven’t seen so many mule deer in WA since I hunted over that way almost 30 years ago. Every hillside every where I went had deer littered across them. Every morning and evening sit I couldn’t keep count how many deer I saw. Some areas I never even could finish glassing it before light ran out due to how many deer turned up. This was all National Forest areas.
With all due respect huntnnw, I don't think people who know the Methow are saying its "like you are walking on the moon with a vast expanse of nothing", there are deer there but numbers are slipping and have been for the last 20-25 years. Ive hunted the Methow for 55 plus years and my family has hunted it since 1917. My great grandparents did counts every year and we have continued that, some of the old journal pages are un-readable now, some are lost and some are still being searched for but one thing is for certain, this herd numbers WAY less than half of what it was in its hay-days when it ranged between 35,000 to 40,000. We just got back from our first count trip of the fall and will be doing another in a couple weeks, the results are in the "Muley reports Chelan and Okanogan counties" thread........beautiful buck you got huntnnw :tup:
Post by: MLBowhunting on November 20, 2019, 08:31:46 PM
Post by: Romulus1297 on November 20, 2019, 09:04:21 PM
Any updates?Not the tag I want anymore.
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