You don't want to do this. The deer is all stinky and the meat is yucky. (At least that's what I always tell everybody. Keeps the woods less crowded.)hunting around the rut
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You don't want to do this. The deer is all stinky and the meat is yucky. (At least that's what I always tell everybody. Keeps the woods less crowded.)hunting around the rut
Nice buck!
I'd rather see this than punch my own tag. Taking my youngest this year for his first time. It will most likely be a spectator sport for me and I couldn't be more excited.Exactly. Can't eat the antlers and fuel is too expensive to pass up on the first good mature buck. Then the kid gets lucky..uses my years of knowledge.
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As much as I hate it, depending on the area you are hunting it might be a good idea to plop down the $125 for a Weyerhaeuser permit. It will open up a lot of land for you. That's about the only tresspass fee that will be worth it as most private landowners don't own enough land in the coast range to make it worth your time and money. Otherwise, start researching what timber companies own what land and what their access policy is. If nothing else, there is a lot state land that is accessible, but some it can get pretty crowded by the citiots looking to play redneck for a day. Not to discourage you, but for your sake I hope you have already started scouting. The coast range is a far different game than most mule deer countryI've hunted mule deer most of my time, however I'm switching it up to start hunting the coastal range.
Also open to people with LOP or have private land and except a tresspass fee to hunt, if you know anyone PM me.
My dad was a big fan of walking down into a hole and sitting there for hours.Didn't say it was impossible, you have to earn it… that meaning, you have to put in the work of scouting, get tuned into the particular environment you're stalking, etc. making mistakes while hunting blackies will cost you.
Pretty nice.
"Back in the old days" we would have a couple of guys on the stand and three or four guys driving deer out of the brush. We killed a lot of bucks that way too. My hunting party is too small to make drives these days as the older guys died off (natural causes - not due to deer drives ) and weren't replaced since most in the younger generations weren't interested in hunting. I can still visualize this one old buck that was lying in a fern patch when my uncle almost stepped on him before he got up. The buck blew out right from under his feet, cut back behind the other drivers, almost running over my dad in the process. Here's this monster buck with ferns stuck in his horns so that you couldn't even count points, passes my dad at near clubbing distance, and he never even got a shot off even though it would have been safe to shoot because the buck was behind everybody. He blamed the thumbhole stock on his rifle - much better for distance shooting than fast handling. Ah good times. Surely do miss those guys.Yep...Movement and Noise are not two hunting partners you want....
Andy
YES! I remember people doing that!"Back in the old days" we would have a couple of guys on the stand and three or four guys driving deer out of the brush. We killed a lot of bucks that way too. My hunting party is too small to make drives these days as the older guys died off (natural causes - not due to deer drives ) and weren't replaced since most in the younger generations weren't interested in hunting. I can still visualize this one old buck that was lying in a fern patch when my uncle almost stepped on him before he got up. The buck blew out right from under his feet, cut back behind the other drivers, almost running over my dad in the process. Here's this monster buck with ferns stuck in his horns so that you couldn't even count points, passes my dad at near clubbing distance, and he never even got a shot off even though it would have been safe to shoot because the buck was behind everybody. He blamed the thumbhole stock on his rifle - much better for distance shooting than fast handling. Ah good times. Surely do miss those guys.