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    High country or Low Country for Big Bucks?

    REVIVE! This is a great poll folks. Thank you! I wasn't raised chasing mountain mulies so I can't way in on this without bias. However I must add that for someone who has just been infected with the mule bug, I find this conversation of elevational cohorts fascinating!!! Trying to dissect my...
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    Full Moon and mature bucks?

    I know what you are saying here and I have had this happen from everything to whitetail, mules, cow elk and of course, turkeys. However, I really think it is the timing as much as anything. Critters during any rut or breeding cycle go a little "nuts" and through their evolution every other...
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    What does everyone do for a living?

    I am contracted to live snare and collar grizzly bears as part of a federally directed recovery program in the lower 48. I then monitor species like lynx, fisher and wolverine in the winter. Healthy critters equates to healthy ecosystems; and healthy food in all of our bellies.
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    Thick, high country

    It seems ideas are slowing down, so I will throw this out there. This area does hold very nice mule deer. Not that many and in a very big country that is very crowded with flora. Since this is the case, how dispersed from any high elevation peaks and cliff areas will these mature bucks...
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    Thick, high country

    Bar, Totally with you on this and we are adding and taking from the same book and chapter. I often joke that I harvest my animals the same way as usual, just walked up to it. So let me throw this out there for you... With so much vegetation scratching and pulling and catching and poking and...
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    Thick, high country

    I hear and agree with all of you. You have enlightened this dark question (pun intended) with many great tactics. Sometimes country IS too much for a circumstance but with brute force and ignorance I believe it can be done; although that brute force and ignorance must be combined with subtle...
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    Thick, high country

    All, you guys are killing it, thank you for these awesome comments. The ave chutes are indeed tree free areas. I call them bear elevators as they work up and down based on season and food source; same as our deer friend. However, I cannot stress the difference in habitat type from typical CO...
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    Thick, high country

    Muledeerfanatic, Thank you for your very good point. Amazingly this area has been greatly neglected by recent fires for decades. Interestingly enough though, this area's history is deeply seedly within the Great Burn of 1910 and the HD is amongst essentially a non-designated wilderness. I...
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    Thick, high country

    Bubblehide, Thank you for the great response. For clarification, this is most of the landscape. Menziesia, or false huckleberry, is my prime competition as it is everywhere. It permeates into the spruce-fir stands and climbs the steep mountain sides. It is a food source and cover. I have...
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    Thick, high country

    I have graduated in my life to hunting mule deer; specifically in far, western Montana. I have also been fortunate enough to draw the 2016, 202-50 deer tag. This means I am set on a location that is steep and thick. My concern and reason for outreach is this: This country is so thick that...

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