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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: cwebsterdeerhunter on April 10, 2012, 09:30:18 PM

Title: Deer summer range
Post by: cwebsterdeerhunter on April 10, 2012, 09:30:18 PM: What elevation do mule deer usually spend their summer and fall in. I know in the end of the fall the begin to migrate. Any ideas???????
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: HighCountryHunter88 on April 10, 2012, 09:31:15 PM: around here, oh id say around 2200 feet :P
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: huntnnw on April 10, 2012, 10:02:41 PM: thats open eneded question... this can vary greatly on where your hunting...low land mulies spend their whole life at the same elevation...u have above timberline mulies in the mountains and so on...a better anwser to your question would be where are u hunting?
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: mazama on April 11, 2012, 09:39:43 AM: Here in wa. i have seen in upto7000ft and that is does and fawns-up where i have seen goats-have seen does in areas where you would want rope to get down.
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: muleracks2 on April 18, 2012, 11:04:51 AM: In Chelan County almost 90% of the mule deer are migratory but some only move up valley 20 miles and stop in burns or anywhere where there is good browse (often in a burns) at 3 to 5 thousand feet. The High Hunt herd is scattered through out the upper parts of the wilderness areas up to the mountain peaks at over 8000 feet.
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: 400out on April 19, 2012, 05:40:05 PM: IT DEPENDS plain and simple
Title: Re: Deer summer range
Post by: Co on April 20, 2012, 08:53:19 AM: 1000 ft- 7000 ft.... LOL

Depend on what tribe they came from....

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