Mulies in timbered mountainous areas

[peterk123]

What features are you guys looking for in the mountains that are heavily wooded? Is it water, junipers, hardwood, drainages? Something completely different? Whitetails in the woods I get. But mulies in the woods are a mystery to me.

Thx

Pete

 

[RockAndSage]

Breaks in the treeline, burns, cuts, and similar breaks in the dense forest.

The thing about dense forest is that it's not very good for growing deer food underneath all that shade. So, walk along tree-lines to find the game trails, and cut buck sign on those trails - which are their commuter lanes between food and bed. Investigate the food-source side of that equation during pre-season scouting, and locate some spots for ambush-hunting along those trails.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

Yep....mule deer don't eat trees.