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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: wastickslinger on August 29, 2009, 09:06:40 AM

Title: Why Desert unit is tough to hunt
Post by: wastickslinger on August 29, 2009, 09:06:40 AM: You practically have to hit the bucks in the head with a rock to get them out of the cattails until rut. They are very good at layin low. This guy wouldnt budge, I was 20 yards.
Title: Re: Why Desert unit is tough to hunt
Post by: boneaddict on August 29, 2009, 09:10:00 AM: Its that 10-12 feet high swamp grass thats a pain too with the myriad of paths through it.
Title: Re: Why Desert unit is tough to hunt
Post by: wastickslinger on August 29, 2009, 09:14:26 AM: Ya that too. And to find a shed in that crap it has to stick through your boot. :chuckle:
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Post by: Guy on August 30, 2009, 04:33:44 PM: Ticks.... thousands of them...
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Post by: bucklucky on August 30, 2009, 04:46:40 PM: My budy literally had to step on a buck that he watched bed down in that stuff to kill him. Anyone ever shoot a buck from the hip? Seriouse as a heart attack, damn thing didnt even get up, 32 inches wide at bout 3 yards :o Muzzy buck BTW. He about crapped himself, never in all the years of Muley hunting did he ever expect to kill a big old buck like that. He has a wall of Mulies even bone would drool over. Should see his 36 incher, scored like 220 :yike:
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Post by: bowhunterforever on August 30, 2009, 05:01:42 PM: bucklucky, I bet he tells that story of that buck all the time.Sounds like it would be a good story.Is he a member on here?
Title: Re: Why Desert unit is tough to hunt
Post by: wildwood on August 30, 2009, 05:26:47 PM: I drew a desert A tag this year i've never hunted mulies before only blacktails went over there last week and seen a couple deer all does im not used to hunting terrian like that what do they eat im going to go back over there in a couple of weeks and put on a few more miles
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Post by: Bighorse on August 30, 2009, 05:41:16 PM: I was raised in Moses Lake. I recall one time walking in some big sagebrush adjacent to a spillway and having a buck burst out of the brush just in front of me like a flushing pheasant. They will hold tight. Thats for sure.

In fact I asked my wife to marry me while on a canoe trip down the Winchester Wasteway. I know that country some and while I lived in WA I always tried for that permit but never got it.

Thanks for sharing that photo.
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Post by: wilsongideon on August 30, 2009, 06:56:35 PM: looks like a nice deer
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Post by: SHANE(WA) on August 30, 2009, 07:44:02 PM: I still see nicer bucks coming out of high hunt than desert
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Post by: fishunt247 on August 30, 2009, 08:43:42 PM: That's what scares me about putting in for that muzzleloader hunt. It's too bad the state caters to rifle hunters and gives them the rut when muzzleloaders get late October. I wish they'd switch the muzzleloader hunt to the first week of November. I might have to seek out another muzzleloader tag to put in for. Hate to blow ten points.
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Post by: sjhgraysage on August 30, 2009, 09:16:10 PM: If you apply for and draw the later (rut) hunt you could still use your muzzleloader!
Title: Re: Why Desert unit is tough to hunt
Post by: teal101 on August 31, 2009, 08:49:57 AM: When they get in the russian olives and cattails they are gone. Its crazy. I duck hunted a lot of that unit and the deer move at first light then are gone for the rest of the day.