Historical herd numbers are declining every year. Roughly half of the state seen a major winter kill.
Your assumption is correct, that typically during archery deer season hunting pressure isn’t as heavy as long as you aren’t in good elk country.
Although I don’t think I’m in the same class of hunters as you mentioned. These guys should be the professors instead of the students. I do fit your description.
I primarily hunt OTC and 0-1 point units every year. Very rarely do I hunt anything that takes 2 or more points.
Habitat-It’s no...
If you cleaned the barrel before shooting, did you shoot a couple “foul rounds” before going out to 400 or did you shoot the clean barrel at 400? I know my Ridgeline shoots a bit different right after I clean it. Just a thought..
This was a track from an area I hunted last year. That’s a 6.5 prc with a coal of 2.95. Definitely another mature buck. I killed a buck on this hunt, in the same general area that lab aged at 5 years old.
Tracks don’t lie!!
Cool subject and definitely something I enjoy doing that helps me find/hunt big bucks. This past scouting season I went out looking for tracks after a good rain storm. I came across this one. You can see where his front/heavy shoulders stepped first and then the smaller back foot stepped into...
I started doing it a few years ago, I keep a notebook wedged in between the seat and console of the truck and then record the days events when I get done.
I try to log everything pertinent to the scout/hunt. Where I hunted, morning/evening/all day, temps, wind, clear or cloudy. Then I go on to...
Nope-Trash gets thrown any when I get fuel and the floor mats gets dumped when enough gravel starts to pile up.
Outside gets washed once maybe twice a year.
I went through the same decision last spring with my 6.5prc. I primarily hunt thick country mule deer with places that will occasionally offer a 600 yard shot. I really looked for something that had a good magnification range. With the type of country I like to hunt dialing isn’t a very good...