Post by: tony04 on May 08, 2009, 10:19:35 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on May 08, 2009, 10:26:51 PM
Post by: bobcat on May 08, 2009, 10:27:47 PM
Post by: tony04 on May 08, 2009, 10:43:56 PM
Post by: gasman on May 09, 2009, 05:25:07 AM
Coweche holds deer (more then Rimrock) but the numbers still are not high.
Post by: rasbo on May 09, 2009, 05:30:17 AM
Post by: Dean44 on May 09, 2009, 04:54:31 AM
Post by: 400out on May 09, 2009, 01:21:52 PM
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Post by: Ridgerunner on May 09, 2009, 02:21:56 PM
Post by: tony04 on May 09, 2009, 09:45:29 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on May 09, 2009, 09:48:37 PM
thanks for the help everyone. im not sure what im gonna do this season.. so do muleys behave like blacktail? do they hide out in the thick stuff? with blacktail, i just walk through the woods at a snails pace, sitting here and there for an hour or 2.There are many ways to hunt them, you can get on a vantage point and glass, which is tough to do because of how thick this area is...I would find a good game trail that funnels down into a draw and watch that, of course some scouting before season will help here. I see more bucks and bulls on the north facing slopes so I would look there, in the thick stuff.
Post by: kirkl on May 10, 2009, 10:39:46 AM
Post by: Red Dawg on May 10, 2009, 12:03:54 PM
Post by: jdb on May 10, 2009, 12:23:56 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on May 10, 2009, 04:00:06 PM
i'd hunt up behind lost lake.:peep: :peep: :peep:
Post by: jackelope on May 10, 2009, 08:53:58 PM
Post by: backwoods_boy on May 10, 2009, 08:56:18 PM
just look my topics from last elk season. i have enough for a few hours of reading.
Post by: fishunt247 on May 14, 2009, 05:32:05 PM
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Post by: Craig on May 15, 2009, 02:19:30 PM
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Post by: 270Shooter on May 15, 2009, 03:22:53 PM
Post by: Red Dawg on May 15, 2009, 03:59:14 PM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 20, 2009, 09:42:31 PM
Good luck.
Post by: tony04 on May 21, 2009, 06:09:53 PM
Post by: sparksbr on May 21, 2009, 08:31:12 PM
You're best bet...As someone previously mentioned, get out and hike! There's no substitute for being out in the woods.
As everyone else has said...Rimrock has deer but they are few and far between.
I'd be up scouting right now! There's lots of places for the critters to hide up in Rimrock!
Good luck!
Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 22, 2009, 08:25:31 AM
I've hunted the Yakima G.M.U.'s my whole life...Pre-season scouting is necessary to find the general areas the deer are inhabiting, yet once the first shots begin to ring out on opening morning, it all goes out the window! With the amount of hunting pressure those deer receive, they are pretty much impossible to pattern. Once this happens, all the mature bucks usually go totally nocturnal and hole up in the nasty *censored*! At that point, it's basically a crap shoot.
You're best bet...As someone previously mentioned, get out and hike! There's no substitute for being out in the woods.
As everyone else has said...Rimrock has deer but they are few and far between.
I'd be up scouting right now! There's lots of places for the critters to hide up in Rimrock!
Good luck!
Good advice. I have found the same thing with the mule deer down here. I got some advice from an old mule deer hunter a few years back that has seemed to work for me the past couple of years.
He said that as soon as the shooting starts the mule deer bucks WILL change their patterns and habits, but when the first shots go off on opening morning they will run along a set "escape route" to their nearest hiding place. What he suggested was to try to pinpoint that escape route by intentionally spooking the deer a few weeks before the season starts. Then come back on opening morning and sit along that escape route. It took me a couple of years to figure out how to make this work, but it does. I killed 2 of my last 4 bucks this way and my son killed his first last fall doing the same thing. In fact the deer I shot in 07 and my son's deer in 08 died about 200 yards from each other in the same draw.
Like I said though, this technique involves finding the deer you want to shoot WELL BEFORE the season starts.
Post by: 270Shooter on May 22, 2009, 03:10:44 PM
Post by: Red Dawg on May 22, 2009, 05:05:26 PM
Post by: 270Shooter on May 22, 2009, 07:38:30 PM
:yeah: that is what I was thinkin myself. Not much shootin up there during deer season.Yea my dad was like "Are you sure its deer season????" :chuckle: Cause no one is up here. :chuckle:
Post by: sparksbr on May 22, 2009, 08:04:33 PM
I've hunted the Yakima G.M.U.'s my whole life...Pre-season scouting is necessary to find the general areas the deer are inhabiting, yet once the first shots begin to ring out on opening morning, it all goes out the window! With the amount of hunting pressure those deer receive, they are pretty much impossible to pattern. Once this happens, all the mature bucks usually go totally nocturnal and hole up in the nasty *censored*! At that point, it's basically a crap shoot.
You're best bet...As someone previously mentioned, get out and hike! There's no substitute for being out in the woods.
As everyone else has said...Rimrock has deer but they are few and far between.
I'd be up scouting right now! There's lots of places for the critters to hide up in Rimrock!
Good luck!
Good advice. I have found the same thing with the mule deer down here. I got some advice from an old mule deer hunter a few years back that has seemed to work for me the past couple of years.
He said that as soon as the shooting starts the mule deer bucks WILL change their patterns and habits, but when the first shots go off on opening morning they will run along a set "escape route" to their nearest hiding place. What he suggested was to try to pinpoint that escape route by intentionally spooking the deer a few weeks before the season starts. Then come back on opening morning and sit along that escape route. It took me a couple of years to figure out how to make this work, but it does. I killed 2 of my last 4 bucks this way and my son killed his first last fall doing the same thing. In fact the deer I shot in 07 and my son's deer in 08 died about 200 yards from each other in the same draw.
Like I said though, this technique involves finding the deer you want to shoot WELL BEFORE the season starts.
Also good advice! The more tricks you can add to the bag, the better!