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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: PA BEN on June 10, 2009, 07:35:48 AM

Title: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: PA BEN on June 10, 2009, 07:35:48 AM: I didn't make it out turkey hunting this year. So the best way to find out about the winter kill is asking the turkey hunters who were out this spring. Did any of you guys find a lot of dead deer this year?
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: turkey slayer on June 10, 2009, 08:00:20 AM: I didn't find 1 winter kill in my area
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: tmike on June 10, 2009, 08:00:53 AM: The few times I made it out there I didn't see any dead ones, but I have a few on my camera that looked like they were lucky to make it. That's in the Loon Lake area.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: PA BEN on June 10, 2009, 08:12:37 AM: I'm from Chewelah and in the spring of 93 there were dead deer every where. Blue toung in the fall and a hard winter to boot.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: boneaddict on June 10, 2009, 08:14:22 AM: It was sporadic. I found lots of winterkill in some areas and none in others. They had a rough winter. Not sure how many fawns got absorbed. We shall see.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: Machias on June 10, 2009, 08:44:03 AM: I have a friend who lives on the Springdale-Hunters Road and they normally see 80 to 100 deer on the drive into Springdale. They said they are seeing 30 to 40 deer during the same drive.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: PA BEN on June 10, 2009, 11:51:30 AM: I was over to blue creek in FEB. and the deer looked very thinn. The north side of the HWY 395 where the ground was open the deer looked very thinn. And local farmers who were still feeding them had thinn deer also.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: Phantom Gobbler on June 10, 2009, 02:15:31 PM: We found one dead mature buck in Stevens County this spring. Got caught in a ravine with drifted snow.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: EastWaViking on June 10, 2009, 02:18:55 PM: numbers are down, and some of the deer still don't look good.
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: lewy on June 10, 2009, 03:03:42 PM: We have got property above addy near the summit valley school, and by what i have seen i would say that they took a pretty hard hit this winter....
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: SHANE(WA) on August 13, 2009, 06:28:35 AM: 4 1/2 yr old bucks and older are not easy to find this year, lots of 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 yr olds. they got pounded the last 2 yrs in some areas
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: bearpaw on August 13, 2009, 06:40:02 AM: mountain areas have been hit hard....the most deer are in farm areas where they survived the winter on farmers feeding operations, etc....areas with lots of lowland southern exposure did not get hit as hard either....
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: SHANE(WA) on August 13, 2009, 09:43:19 PM: Thats not holding true for the older bucks in those areas, I have cams and friends with cams out in the spokane area, lots of farms and people feeding deer in winter, the older bucks are not exisistent. Lots of young bucks tho
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: yelp on August 14, 2009, 07:19:54 AM: Why is this under the turkey topic?
Title: Re: Winter Deer Kill (Stevens County)?
Post by: ICEMAN on August 14, 2009, 07:59:43 AM: Quote from: PA BEN on June 10, 2009, 07:35:48 AM
I didn't make it out turkey hunting this year. So the best way to find out about the winter kill is asking the turkey hunters who were out this spring. Did any of you guys find a lot of dead deer this year?

He is asking guys who frequent the turkey woods if they saw deer winter kill.... sort of "hedging his bet"?

You knew that.... :chuckle: