Free Gear and Preseason scouting

[Alpineelk]

Elk 3 days
Pronghorn. Escout

 

[nobody]

General season muzzleloader deer - At least 3-5 days
Brother's Limited Entry Rifle Elk - 7-10 Days

Plus lots and lots of lunch hours pouring over maps and google earth

 

[dylanvb]

Scouting for OTC elk and Bear. Every day I can from here till season. Been going out about once a week and plan on camping out there so hopefully 10 days at the very minimum

 

[MuleyFever]

Elk, maybe a couple weekends.

 

[WBrim]

OTC elk this year. I plan 5 days, and possibly a couple more, depending on looking into a new area.

I was somewhat confident on drawing a tag that would mean a lot more time scouting. But, it didn’t happen.

 

[FairWeatherFisher]

I will be scouting for blacktail deer in Western Oregon 14+ days. I’ll have two tags this year, so I’m going to be putting in double the work in the preseason.

 

[Roger17]

Elk- Lots of escouting and 1 on the ground day this summer just checking some access
Deer- 5 days of scouting only this December prior to Jan. 1st hunt start.(Provided I secure a tag)

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[stephane]

OTC elk, taking a month off work to hunt this year

 

[signing off]

Whitetail deer is only expected hunting. Super low odds of an elk draw.
E-scout weekly, and live within 1 hour of tons of public.
Actual scouting trips will be a dozen or more.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Deer 5 days
Elk 4 days

 

[Hondo0925]

Buddy drew a Colorado bighorn tag.
He doesn’t live here currently so I’m going to do a lot of scouting for him.
5-6 trips
1-2 days at a time

 

[gman82001]

Not sure 100% yet (should know in the morning) but hopefully a special deer or elk tag if not a general elk and a couple weekends in our stomping grounds to scout. If I draw a good tag though all the weekends I can before season.

 

[deerhunt1988]

Got an Iowa whitetail tag, so will spend a 3 day weekend scouting and hanging cameras in late July/August. Will return the last week of October to start my hunt.

Locally, I'll scout a day or two for deer. And probably at new spots.

 

[BigDog00]

I won't know for sure until results are posted tomorrow, but optimistically. elk deer and antelope (probably just general elk though in the end). If just general elk, 4-5 days to check on my usual areas.

 

[mtnrunner260]

Elk in ID.
5 days and hopefully more.
Already have cameras up in a couple spots.

 

[backyardbandit]

NM deer and elk. 7 days

 

[ColoradoV]

Already been out 4 days.. Snow, snow, and high creeks still will keep most areas inaccessible for another 3 weeks at least but some areas are accessible. My place at 12,1k’ is still snowed in for at least another week.

My realistic wish list =

25+ for my archery mule deer license maybe more
8ish helping a buddy w archery elk
4 or so rifle elk for the father
5-6 helping another buddy w rifle deer

I guess that seems like a lot but I will never be more than maybe a 2-3 hr drive of my house.. Many nights we take the girls after work.

 

[Rich M]

Whitetails - 10-12 days
Will time the scouting to fall within 6-8 weeks of the 3 to 5-day quota hunts I draw, should get ML and rifle this year - if that's the case, then will scout Sept & October for the 2 end of Oct beginning of Nov weekend hunts.

 

[Crusader]

Whitetails. 2-3 days of scouting.

 

[ZDR]

3 days for Jan muleys
5 for Colorado elk, no tag for me but going with a friend.