Post by: highside74 on June 11, 2025, 12:17:31 PM
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Post by: highside74 on June 13, 2025, 10:06:31 AM
100 % deet does not keep those mosquitoes away just be ware they are no joke.
Is there 200% deet?😂
Post by: avidnwoutdoorsman on June 13, 2025, 10:24:47 AM
Still probably not enough.... but an idea
Post by: highside74 on June 13, 2025, 10:32:26 AM
Post by: Karl Blanchard on June 13, 2025, 10:58:40 AM
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Post by: highside74 on June 13, 2025, 03:47:30 PM
I was just trying to figure out a funny way of saying I drew the same tag as Karl did.
I'll definitely be scouting a few times and already plan a 7-9 or so day hunt with as many extra 3 day weekends as I need to get the tag filled. I plan on hunting the 1st week and the last 4 days of the season and both 3 day weekends in between. 180 plus or bust...ish
Post by: BULLBLASTER on June 13, 2025, 03:53:35 PM
I heard if you bite the bullet and embrace it eventually you'll become immune. Get out there and do some scouting in yer skivvies, you'll be skeeter proof by the opener :chuckle:Only a perfect few are immune to mosquitos!
The rest are just weenies!
Post by: andrew_in_idaho on July 08, 2025, 09:18:45 AM
I usually just bring my wife or kids along, mosquitos always go for them, must be something wrong with the way my blood tastesI heard if you bite the bullet and embrace it eventually you'll become immune. Get out there and do some scouting in yer skivvies, you'll be skeeter proof by the opener :chuckle:Only a perfect few are immune to mosquitos!
The rest are just weenies!
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Post by: Call em in on July 08, 2025, 11:00:40 AM
Post by: highside74 on July 08, 2025, 11:07:49 AM
There are bug spray/sunscreen combos out there. Have been for years. It’s nothing new. Good luck on your hunt.
Nothing like bringing down the chat with facts🤣🤣🤣
Post by: Karl Blanchard on July 08, 2025, 01:12:28 PM
:chuckle: we need one that works during full mosquito saturation though. Thats the kicker :chuckle:There are bug spray/sunscreen combos out there. Have been for years. It’s nothing new. Good luck on your hunt.
Nothing like bringing down the chat with facts🤣🤣🤣
Hoping you've been able to get some sand in your optics sir :tup:
Post by: highside74 on July 08, 2025, 01:27:51 PM
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Post by: Klickitatsteelie on July 14, 2025, 03:41:19 PM
Oh, forgot, been some elk about recently, do not be surprised.Those were cattle there are none on the E word in that unit. 🤐
Post by: nwwanderer on July 14, 2025, 05:32:44 PM
Post by: dvolmer on July 14, 2025, 10:32:27 PM
Nice!!! What kind of snake is it???Its a Great Basin Gopher snake (official name). A lot of people call them Bull snakes. Great to have around and great rodent eaters. If you kill them, I hope your dog, cat, or wife gets run over! (not really but please let them be)
Post by: highside74 on July 14, 2025, 10:43:42 PM
Nice!!! What kind of snake is it???Its a Great Basin Gopher snake (official name). A lot of people call them Bull snakes. Great to have around and great rodent eaters. If you kill them, I hope your dog, cat, or wife gets run over! (not really but please let them be)
It is alive and well
Post by: KNOPHISH on July 15, 2025, 08:35:46 PM
Post by: highside74 on July 15, 2025, 08:47:15 PM
I assume the bug infestation will ebb by November? Although scouting trips will probably suck.
No bugs in Nov
Post by: riflehunter on July 16, 2025, 08:03:26 AM
Should be a great hunt keep the photos coming and show the continuous growth of those bucks.
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Post by: dvolmer on July 16, 2025, 06:30:50 PM
Man you are going to have a great hunt and a great time!!!!! Good luck!Nice!!! What kind of snake is it???Its a Great Basin Gopher snake (official name). A lot of people call them Bull snakes. Great to have around and great rodent eaters. If you kill them, I hope your dog, cat, or wife gets run over! (not really but please let them be)
It is alive and well
Post by: blindluck on July 24, 2025, 05:58:14 AM
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Post by: blindluck on October 23, 2025, 05:55:19 PM
Tagging in to see what you come up with. Good luck! :tup:Thought he drew the early permit? September
Post by: teanawayslayer on October 24, 2025, 07:11:10 AM
Post by: Rainier10 on October 24, 2025, 07:33:14 AM
:yeah:Tagging in to see what you come up with. Good luck! :tup:Thought he drew the early permit? September
Post by: deerlick on October 24, 2025, 08:09:03 AM
Post by: highside74 on October 24, 2025, 12:42:15 PM
Spent the last 8 days of the season hunting. Chased a couple nice bucks. Passed a decent 3x at 44 yards on day 3 because I was going for better than decent or I was eating the tag. The last day was my most fun even though it didn't work out I wouldn't have had that day if I shot that 3x3. The 3x3 actually came closer than 44 but he got so close to the dune I was in I couldn't see him over the brush.
The last day I spotted 2 nice bucks sparring from my glassing dune. New spot that another hunter shared but e wasn't going to be able to hunt the last day. A nice young man that i believe is a memeber but i dont know his name here. I wish I had 2 or 2 more days because I probably would have made a few different decisions had I hunted that spot before.
I headed off the dune and worked my way towards getting in front of the bucks. They were right on the edge of where the pockets of water start. The bucks are working right to left. I worked my way through a nasty twig and branch cover ground of a pocket of trees after taking my boots off for stealth mode in the crap.and set up. Bucks are 90 is years to my right. I knock an arrow and range the far edge of the area. 75 yards is max so im expecting a decent shot opportunity. Minutes pass and no deer. I creep out inch by inch until I can see where the bucks were. No bucks. I'm like what the heck? I thought inwas in the chips. I start glassing farther out and around the brush pocket in front of me. I see a deer about 175 yards or so out. I move towards it thinking they must have taken a right and gone around the far side. I need to cover the 75 yards to the brush line but I have no boots and that whole opening is covered with these little plants with grape size sticker heads. The pain was real but I wasn't stopping the stalk to go back for my boots. That deer ended up being a doe. She continued on and a 2nd doe appears about 120 out. I'm working the edge step by step slow as I can. 1st doe disappeared over a low dune and I'm trying to find the bucks I'm still not sure they even went this way so I decide to sneak around the back side and try and find them. I back track a couple hundred yards around the thicket and see tines headed towards where the does came out. I tuen back around and back track to where I was. 2nd doe is now well in to my left and has no clue. I figure I'm still not close enough to the far edge of where the does came out so I'm trying to cut the distance. Unbeknownst to me the 2st doe had came back into view and picked me of. She's well over 150 yards to my left and starting to blow. The 2nd doe gets nervous and they all run back to where they came from taking the bucks with them. I was deflated but I also knew the bucks had never seen or smelled me so I decided to go back and get my boots and head back to the dune. Unfortunately having to walk through those stickers for a second time and it was just as painful. It took me 15 minutes to clear my socks of those stickers and get my boots on. Then I headed back to the dune. I was on the dune less than 5 minutes when I hear crashing in the brush behind me and to the right of where I originally saw the bucks. The noise sounds like elk going through the brush. I finally glass up a 3x clearly freaked out and picking his way through the crap ant about 250 yards. He pops out at about 200 and is looking around like what to do now. I see a second buck barely but it's directly behind him. Neither of those bucks are the 2 I originally was stalking. What i didn’t know and what I was about to find out was those 2 bigger bucks had already made their way ahead of the smaller bucks towards my dune while I was cleaning my socks and getting my boots. I had no idea because the dune was quite big and had pockets of brush trees that blocked my view. The 2 bucks went back into the brush and I'm thinking they are trying to go up and over my dune so I grab my bow and move forward from the brush I had on my right to a brush thicket ahead and left. I'm sitting on the left edge and still hearing the bucks in the brush that is in the flat about 80 yards from the base of the dune. I figured I should be on the right of the brush before they head across so I can have some cover to draw. I slowly and quietly move around to the right. It takes about 2 minutes maybe a bit more. As I am deciding where to setup up I catch something ahead of me and look up. Those 2 big bucks are already on my dune with the other 2 bucks coming up from the rear and they are looking directly at me. I think the 2 big bucks were there the whole time and the other 2 bucks were trying to get to them. It was over in a flash. They cover over a mile in less than 2 minutes and were still running the last glimpse I had. It was crazy. I ranged where they were when they blew out. 104 yards way to far for a shot but close enough to break my heart.
All in all I stocked 1 particular buck 3 plus days of the hunt. A real solid 160s ish 4x4. I never got closer than 125 yards. He was always with 3 or 4 other bucks and it always went sideways.
One night the mosquitoes were so bad they ran me back to the truck. It was insane. Other than that I managed to brave them the rest of the time. Deep woods off and 2 thermacells worked good enough. Not perfect but pretty good.
Here is the 3x3 I passed at 44 yards. He had no clue I was there.
Post by: highside74 on October 24, 2025, 12:44:07 PM
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Post by: highside74 on October 24, 2025, 12:50:38 PM
The bucks when i thought Iwas in the chips. Far left in the picture is 1 buck hard to see
The smaller bucks crashing out of the brush.
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