Good Info. A labyrinth is spot on. Dozens of trails in the same direction, and none of which are more used and obvious than the others. I'll try the camera rotation though. . . Or maybe I just need to put out 20 cameras 🤔
I'm mostly asking in general because I'm new to the coast, but I do know where a few bucks live in mostly wooded areas so wasnt sure where to put Cams. There is a dozen trails through the woods so hard to focus on where to put cameras out. I considered laying a few salt blocks, but wasnt sure...
What's the best way to find the bucks in the summer in areas you can't dump a pile of apples. Obviously cameras help, but any specific areas/habitat you focus on to go watch? still clear cuts? Bottoms? Blackberries?
Good. Close all off road vehicle access to anything thats not a maintained road. If you want to rip around, destroy habitat and get drunk, do that on private property that doesnt affect the rest of our use of public land.
I've had similar happen where my arrow clipped a branch on 2 whitetails. Fortunately I found both before meat went bad, but the feeling of knowing you wounded something is the absolute worst. Glad you got some closure though. That shot doesnt even look terrible unless he was quartering too...
Good post OP. Been wondering the same. I bumped some bucks 3 weeks ago and couldnt find them again until the last day of season. Got ohh so close the last day too and the does got me. I'm sure they just shifted to different food or route, but I couldnt find them in open sagebrush country for 3...
I archery hunted the sagebrush units just east of there 260/248/254 and even there the numbers were dismal from what I remember just a few years ago. Fires took out a lot of cover and food last fall. I think it took a toll on the deer. And made stalking even harder.
Haha, yeah I didnt mean for that to sound snarky or better than the rifle guys. I rifle hunt as well. It's just typically a much larger population of people out in the woods for rifle. I've never hunted BT, about to move to the coast range so that will change, but growing up in then midwest the...
Anything drastically different to the approach for blacktail on the units with a late bow season and after they've been harassed for a month by rifle season?
18 yards. Yes I called him in. I stopped him 1 step too short behind a big tree and thought it was all over/that he would spook. Luckily he took a few more steps.
First elk season for me, and solo with a bow in WA public OTC. I'm more than pumped. I killed this bull at 5:30pm on the last day of season. The last two days of the season I was on this satellite ((pictured below) and the herd bull. The last day I had the herd bull at 50-60 yards through a wall...
I was able to connect on the last day at 5:30pm on west cascades elk. . . I was ohh so close to the herd bull a few times, but I'm more than happy with this one. First ever elk.
I was out early last week, west of the cascades. Hunted 3 days, heard bugling only once while still pitch black in the morning. I even did several night hikes and road stops trying to get something to talk with no luck. Heading back out for the rest of the season tomorrow though, hopefully they...