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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Alex4200 on August 07, 2021, 04:23:16 PM

Title: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Alex4200 on August 07, 2021, 04:23:16 PM: Went for a drive today up the Chiwawa River Road in Chelan County. Between Atkinson Flats and Nineteen Mile campgrounds I had a whitetail doe running down the road in front of me. Hard to miss that white flag waving at you.😁 I also saw a few mule deer does. Just surprised to see the whitetail there.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Hilltop123 on August 07, 2021, 05:32:00 PM: I will wait until others comment, before I open my big trap.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: jrebel on August 07, 2021, 05:34:54 PM: I have trail cam pictures of whitetail in that area. 8-10 years ago is when I started seeing them up there......not many, but some.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Southpole on August 07, 2021, 05:36:14 PM: I’m not surprised to see whitetail anywhere in eastern Washington, they’re everywhere.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Cougartail on August 07, 2021, 06:13:51 PM: Quote from: Southpole on August 07, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
I’m not surprised to see whitetail anywhere in eastern Washington, they’re everywhere.

:yeah: Found a rack at Rimrock Lake in Yakima County.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Mtnwalker on August 07, 2021, 06:34:14 PM: Quote from: Cougartail on August 07, 2021, 06:13:51 PM
Quote from: Southpole on August 07, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
I’m not surprised to see whitetail anywhere in eastern Washington, they’re everywhere.

:yeah: Found a rack at Rimrock Lake in Yakima County.

Was it a 3 pt or a 3pt with eye guards?
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: teanawayslayer on August 07, 2021, 07:06:48 PM: Yep there are a few white running around that country
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Cougartail on August 07, 2021, 07:36:15 PM: Quote from: Mtnwalker on August 07, 2021, 06:34:14 PM
Quote from: Cougartail on August 07, 2021, 06:13:51 PM
Quote from: Southpole on August 07, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
I’m not surprised to see whitetail anywhere in eastern Washington, they’re everywhere.

Can't remember exactly. It was back in the mid-90s. It was small. No long tines.

Back then nobody had seen one around here.

:yeah: Found a rack at Rimrock Lake in Yakima County.

Was it a 3 pt or a 3pt with eye guards?
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Broomd on August 07, 2021, 08:31:09 PM: About thirty years ago I was driving down the Dan Ryan Expressway near Chicago Ill. It's a nasty stretch of road with industry and junk everywhere. I looked down from the highway as I drove past a junk yard and in the rain I saw a soaked 100% albino buck sporting a nice 4x4 or 5x5 rack staring up at the road.....
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: NOCK NOCK on August 07, 2021, 08:32:13 PM: There are more whiteys in central WA than most think. Entiat, blewitt pass, chelan, columbia basin, wenatchee area, Levanworth, have seen whiteys in all these areas.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: mburrows on August 07, 2021, 09:36:22 PM: :yeah: some pockets of whitetail smack dab in prime mule deer country.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Southpole on August 08, 2021, 06:46:27 AM: Quote from: Broomd on August 07, 2021, 08:31:09 PM
About thirty years ago I was driving down the Dan Ryan Expressway near Chicago Ill. It's a nasty stretch of road with industry and junk everywhere. I looked down from the highway as I drove past a junk yard and in the rain I saw a soaked 100% albino buck sporting a nice 4x4 or 5x5 rack staring up at the road.....
Did you have good fortunes since?
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: OutHouse on August 09, 2021, 08:20:16 AM: Quote from: Cougartail on August 07, 2021, 06:13:51 PM
Quote from: Southpole on August 07, 2021, 05:36:14 PM
I’m not surprised to see whitetail anywhere in eastern Washington, they’re everywhere.

:yeah: Found a rack at Rimrock Lake in Yakima County.

Whoa that's way off the beatin' path for them. Do you have pics of the antlers??
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Angry Perch on August 09, 2021, 10:55:01 AM: Quote from: jrebel on August 07, 2021, 05:34:54 PM
I have trail cam pictures of whitetail in that area. 8-10 years ago is when I started seeing them up there......not many, but some.

Ditto. I had one on cam up towards Snowcone.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: Ironhead on August 19, 2021, 10:52:34 AM: Bad picture but, I saw these guys up the Entiat the other day.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: vandeman17 on August 19, 2021, 10:54:35 AM: Quote from: Ironhead on August 19, 2021, 10:52:34 AM
Bad picture but, I saw these guys up the Entiat the other day.

I see whitetails more and more in and around entiat
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Post by: Sutherland on August 19, 2021, 12:14:38 PM: Same here they are starting to get more and more common to see in both the Entiat and up in the Chiwawa...
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: NOCK NOCK on August 19, 2021, 05:57:21 PM: Quote from: Ironhead on August 19, 2021, 10:52:34 AM
Bad picture but, I saw these guys up the Entiat the other day.

LOL, I think ya caught him pooping.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: PolarBear on August 19, 2021, 06:00:25 PM: There were whitetails at Teanaway 35 years ago.
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: HillHound on August 19, 2021, 06:23:51 PM: Teanaway huh? I’ve always wondered why they haven’t moved further West.I’ve been going up that way for 25+ years and never saw a whitetail in person or on camera. I wonder why they would not have built a better population if they were there then. They sure seem to multiply like rabbits anywhere there isn’t a huge wolf population which there is now but wasn’t 35 years ago. Maybe the farmers in the valley didn’t like them
Title: Re: Odd place to see a whitetail doe
Post by: PolarBear on August 22, 2021, 12:10:08 AM: We ran into a farmer at that little store in the valley and he was begging hunters to shoot them all. I was after mule deer and took a pass on the whities but a guy in our group took him up on it and shot a little 3 point on his land. I’ve almost hit a whitetail doe on the way back to camp at night. I haven’t hunted that area since about 1988 so I have no idea if they are still around or not