Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: demontang on October 17, 2011, 06:27:03 PM
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So I ran up Rimrock this am to try my luck up high for deer. Well on the way up I almost had three doe's in my grill :yike: I get up to where I'm walking in at 5am and take off for a 5mile walk all up hill. I took my bike and cart in just in case I get one so I can get it out easy. Well after two miles I hear some thing close so I stop. They 20yds away a bull cutt's loose and screams then proceeds to destroy a tree. :tup: I take off and as I go my cart makes a rattle sound on the rocks and bulls are coming to me to see who is making the noise screaming at me as they do, It was awesome! I finally get in to where I want to hunt lock the cart and bike up and head out. Well all I can say is it was a waste of time for deer. But I saw lots of elk and a few mouton goats which ive never seen up there. I headed out and on the drive home a little 2or3 point jumps up and runs on to the woods with two doe's but I wasn't going after him. It was a great day and the view was cool too
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Seems like i remember reading something about deer numbers down 60-70% in that unit.
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I've never seen to many deer in there but I have seen some big bucks up high. It seems like a bad year for deer.
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Great story...Always fun have elk close.
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I've never seen to many deer in there but I have seen some big bucks up high. It seems like a bad year for deer.
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That's been my experience as well.
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Still over here at fish lake. Seen four doe's today. Getting closer. Sounds like you had fun keep after them. Rick
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Yea it was a fun day even without seeing deer.
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I havent seen very many deer up there in my time up there. I am still sure they are around :tup:
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Rimrock has always been more of a deer areas then a elk area. I have never seen any deer numbers to impress me enough to hunt up there.
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Heard some of the roads in that area were blocked off. Do you know anything about that. We have elk hunted there for years. Not many deer, but the ones I have seen have been good ones...
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Yea it's not packed with deer but there are some very nice bucks up there if you can find them. I noticed they closed off 1203 why I don't know?
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Yea it's not packed with deer but there are some very nice bucks up there if you can find them. I noticed they closed off 1203 why I don't know?
Wash out and the road dropped 4 feet :yike:
Rode through on the bike this summer to take a look :4w:
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1202 has dropped about 4 foot too in the one spot. That whole area is slide prone
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I love the high country up there! I have seen more bucks up there this summer than I have since I start hunting up there (11 years) but where they are is not for the faint of heart! Just ask colockumelk! :chuckle:
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Lol trust me I was in some nasty terrain looking for them. Wish I had time to stay up there and look more.
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Oh I believe you! I think I know about right where you were hunting just by your first post. Man do I love that country!
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Yeah its flat beautiful up there and quite too tell the elk go off at you :chuckle:
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I hunted that unit for 8 days during archery elk. I saw a total of 2 deer the whole. I saw a yearling doe and a wallhanger 4 point. I almost got that guy too!
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I love that country. Used to be so good deer hunting back in the day.
Only 6 deer were killed in the Rimrock Unit last year according to WDFW.
Truly sad. :(
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Yea I think there is a problem. Ive noticed a lot of predators up there in the last few years too.
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The dist bio cites hairloss as the reason for the Rimrock/Bethel , etc deer-pocalypse. As for the blocked roads it's true. Was over on Oct 1 for grouse and they had big thousand pounders blocking a couple of the roads we used to take up Fish Cr. Rd to lower Jump Off Joe areas.
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I'd like to see all these nice bucks guys are seeing in there, I've spent alot of time but haven't ever seen anything very impressive deer wise, now elk that's a different story.
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Will dig in my pics. I have one of a monster blacktail up there
