How to glass and hunt muleys in thick timber?

[alpinebuck]

How did the rest of your scouting an huunt go?

 

[ForwardFlight]

How did the rest of your scouting an huunt go?

Hit the spots I scouted that I deemed the best terrain. Found some new spots while we were out there and got 2 spots from some generous people. We put some miles on the boots and set up at first and last light. Unfortunately we only saw 1 doe the second day and 3 does the third day, no bucks turned up.

 

[Pony Soldier]

I can't help you with Colorado. In western Montana (west of the sagebrush), much like northern Idaho there is no spot and stalk. A typical strategy was do verticle scans to determine primary wind direction and the zone the deer were in (usually 150-200 ft) once that was accomplished then you looked for trails. They are often about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the ridge. About where the finger ridges start. Hunting amounts to long traverses into the wind.

And yes there is food in the trees. Alders, vine maple, huckleberry, grouse whortleberry (elk like this too), forbs and an assortment of plants on both the north and the south sides of the ridges. Kind whatever they like for the season. Before the wolves chewed them up they were the easy meat for the kids.

The fun part was you found whitetail and muleys in the same areas. Usually at the same elevation but on differant ridges. Late in the season you might find the mulies a little higher.

The fun part was most of the bucks of both species were nontypical. I have a mulie that is 6x9 with a 29 inch spread and I have a whitetail that is a 6x9 with a 29 " spread that I killed about 2 miles apart at the same elevation. However the wolve solved those options.

 

[Nicaburns]

All VERY helpful info to a noob!

 

[cweaver9]

following.