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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: jmoyer2 on June 09, 2009, 04:25:57 PM

Title: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: jmoyer2 on June 09, 2009, 04:25:57 PM: What do you guys think of this unit? Not looking for honey holes, just some general information. I just moved to the Spokane area so I am trying to figure out where I want to go this fall. :dunno:I heard 121 can be decent but it is mostly private land. How hunter friendly are the landowners up there. Also anybody have any property up that way that they would be willing to swap some work for hunting access? Thanks
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on June 09, 2009, 04:42:24 PM: There's some public land off of Springdale-Hunters Rd. I've hunted up there a couple seasons, only because I didn't know where else to go. Are you rifle hunting or archery? Gets hit hard during rifle but hardly saw anyone in September while grouse hunting.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: walt on June 09, 2009, 05:07:25 PM: That's the story for 121, mostly private but a good population of deer and turkeys. Most of the land owners I've met are nice people but already have enough friends and family that hunt their land. If you really want to hunt that unit I would start spending time there now meeting people and getting to know the land. There is a bunch of public land in the surrounding units.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: jmoyer2 on June 09, 2009, 05:11:45 PM: i will be rifle hunting this year.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: rudedawg1085 on June 09, 2009, 08:12:06 PM: I was in that unit 2 years ago, spent most of the time looking for places to hunt then actually hunting. Tons of deer though if you find a spot. I was up north in the kettal falls area, i heard that is public land south of the unit
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: SHANE(WA) on June 09, 2009, 11:19:20 PM: this past winter was bad in the area, kettle falls and up north towards canada didnt get as much snow. The hucklberry mt range is decent for deer
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: Sneaky on June 10, 2009, 11:31:24 AM: There are a lot of gates where you can hike/bike/horse waaaaaayyyy back in. In the rifle season, that's how I would do it. Get away from the guys and you will find bucks. I hunted huckleberry last year in archery and modern and what a difference, everywhere i had been in archery was totally lifeless due to the intense hunting pressure. The deer move either up into the nasty stuff or down into the private ground when the rifles start going off.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: Gutpile on June 13, 2009, 04:57:14 AM: Quote from: jmoyer2 on June 09, 2009, 04:25:57 PM
What do you guys think of this unit? Not looking for honey holes, just some general information. I just moved to the Spokane area so I am trying to figure out where I want to go this fall. :dunno:I heard 121 can be decent but it is mostly private land. How hunter friendly are the landowners up there. Also anybody have any property up that way that they would be willing to swap some work for hunting access? Thanks

That unit is crawling with hunters during modern season. I'd stay away unless you have private land. I've been going up there for turkeys, grouse, and bear for 25 years but during deer season I stay away.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 13, 2009, 07:04:32 AM: Quote from: Gutpile on June 13, 2009, 04:57:14 AM
Quote from: jmoyer2 on June 09, 2009, 04:25:57 PM
What do you guys think of this unit? Not looking for honey holes, just some general information. I just moved to the Spokane area so I am trying to figure out where I want to go this fall. :dunno:I heard 121 can be decent but it is mostly private land. How hunter friendly are the landowners up there. Also anybody have any property up that way that they would be willing to swap some work for hunting access? Thanks

That unit is crawling with hunters during modern season. I'd stay away unless you have private land. I've been going up there for turkeys, grouse, and bear for 25 years but during deer season I stay away.

:yeah:

ditto. General season is a circus. Late buck isn't too bad. I generally hunt elsewhere for the Gen season, then if I haven't tagged up, I head north for the late season. Still hunters in the woods, but not nearly as bad.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: PA BEN on June 13, 2009, 07:05:14 AM: A lot of nice people up there who if you knock on the door and ask to hunt will let you hunt. Your profile doesn't show where you live but if you have salmon and halibut to give out to land owners will help too.
Title: Re: UNIT 121 Huckleberry
Post by: TeacherMan on June 13, 2009, 07:30:11 AM: Quote from: SpokaneSlayer on June 09, 2009, 04:42:24 PM
There's some public land off of Springdale-Hunters Rd.

That is one really good spot to access it. :yeah:

When I was growing up my dad and I hunted that unit a lot, look at coming in from the backside of Waitts Lake up toward the marble quarry. You can actually get into some nice mule deer hunting up high on Stansgar (Stranger) Mt depends on the map. They clear cut this Mt. about 10 years ago so there are lots of really good cuts to look at and kelley humped rds to hike. I bear hunted in there last August (saw a couple bears) and they where logging off the Waitts lake side but above that area is good, saw a nice heavy velvet buck that day toward the bottom on the otherside that you come out on on the Springdale-hunters Rd.