Where you headed this fall??

Have been poring over the maps lately. The big adventure this year is likely to be the September High Buck Hunt. Up in the wilderness areas of the Cascades for mule deer. Always an outstanding trip - although rarely productive for me.

One of these days I'm going to give up backpacking my gear in there, and hire somebody with horses to haul my camp in. I keep telling myself that... Ten years ago at 45 it seemed like a good idea, but here I am, still backpacking it in... Noticed I'm a little slower getting into camp anymore. Doggone it! :grin: New pack this year. Maybe that will help a bit.

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Someday I'm going to call these guys and pay 'em to haul me and my camp in and out!
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Thanks. I like the area. Am getting really fired up about a return trip there in September. No doubt.

Bucks? Yes... Scattered, but some nice ones. Last time I was in there another party wounded and lost what they described as a "big" 4x4 buck. Doggone it. I passed on a smallish 3x3, just wasn't going to go to the effort of carrying a buck off that mountain for a small rack. Or maybe I just got lazy!

Sometimes I think there's more bear up in the Cascades than mule deer.

Guy
 
Can you buy a bear tag over the counter like we do here? I hate to see someone lose something, but it can happen unfortunately........ Our bear here don't get real big. 200-350 would be pretty nice bear. I have taken one sow that was 5' from nose to tail and I bet she weighed over 200 pounds. She's as wide as she is long and made a very pretty rug.
 
Yes, bear is over the counter. Some parts of the state a hunter can get two tags. Season opens August 1st for most of the state, September 1st in other areas and runs pretty late.

Spring bear is permit only, by a draw system. We're all spot and stalk here, no baiting except on the reservations.

Pretty decent bear hunting in Washington by and large, with a fair number of color-phase bears.
 
No baiting here as well Guy. I made a neat stalk on a nice bear on a winterkilled elk one spring and wanted to try and get within 25 yards and shoot him with my .357 magnum. I had a buddy with me carrying a 300 H&H. We got within about 35 yards and I had a little obstruction so I did not shoot. He finally heard or winded us and took off, my was it fun. We were close enough we could hear him crunching the leg bones as he was chewing on them. He was holding a leg in his paw like a dog would just going to town.

I've tried but have not had any luck calling one in. I would like to spot one first and then start calling, but I haven't had the right set-up yet so I've just called blind, and that can be pretty exciting too. I always wonder when and if one is going to show up! I'd like to get another bear this spring as they sure are good eating. Can you say smoked bear roast :?: :grin:
 
Guy,

As always, you've posted some stunning photography of a most beautiful area. Thanks.
 
Great pictures again Guy. Be careful, someone may start calling you a photographer instead of a rifleman! Scotty
 
This should be good year to fill freezer , between me, my wife, my youngest daughter, and my old man we are all due up for a moose tag. That mean some horn hunting and some grocery shopping . Will be hunting north central Alberta along the athabasca river not to far from the Berland river. Has the perfect mix of elk, moose, and deer to keep one interested. Then once the november season starts in farm country we will try to end the season with a large White tail for braging rights if not done earlier. Still looking for that 50" plus moose to stand in front of my arrow so I can mount one worthy of the wall above the staircase. :wink:
 
That is lovely country over there near the Athabasca and Berland. I lived in Jasper for awhile and hunted along the Athabasca. Good luck to you.
 
Dr Mike thanks, looking forward to it, the hunting will be enough, but connecting on the right animal will icing the cake. :grin:
 
Heading back to Colorado this fall, 1st season Elk. Found a New Motel to stay in thats a lot closer to our hunting area. After Elk I'll be heading up to my Hunting buddies place in Maine for Deer, then back to florida for Duck season. Found a nice spot in a swamp just outside of town thats accessible by airboat and the shooting has been phenomenal. Saw a great shirt in Bugle Magazine with the saying "you don't stop hunting because you get old, you get old because you stop hunting" I think that fits most of us on this forum.
 
With the winter draggin on I have been waiting for spring and dreaming about hunting.GM weatherby, My OL'man has been doing alot of work up near the berland , for the last 2 years, I hope you have some good luck, sounds like you know the area well. He figures that the deep snow and the abundance of wolves that the moose pop took apretty bad hit this winter. If your out there shoot every wolf you see, he has seen 2 common packs one with 14 or so that he could count in the pack. Also if your packing make sure you have your bear spray, or a cal with enough juice to handle the Phantom Grizzlys that supposedly do not inhabit the area. They had a mid aged boar harrass camp alot last year, the F&W were not to keen on messing with him(trapping and moving) they just kept thier wits about them around camp.
I will hopefully get time for a spring bear hunt, then shoot gophers till sept., then it'll be waterfowl as much as time will allow until NOV. We do not apply for draws till june so I'm not sure what tags I'll get. Hopefully muley buck ,cow moose, and I doubt but am hopefull for Bull elk. I have a high priority, but maybe not high enough I know a guy that was a 9,and never got drawn last year. he should be a shoe in this year. Makes my P7 seem like a long shot.
 
I put in for a Colorado 2nd rifle season deer tag and elk preference point with a cow tag for my 2nd choice.If I don't get drawn I'll probably get a black bear tag for montana.
 
spring turkey with my youngest (16) son in Texas, fall dove with my brothers and again that youngest son, whitetails and hogs in Texas with my youngest son and middle son, and then again just after Christmas with my eldest son. Maybe the boys and i will go hunt my daughter's boyfriend. Heck, my wife might join that one. Also, going to try elk on the Umqua river area in oregon. That country will wear me out!
Hardpan
 
DrMike":2asaiigr said:
Maybe the boys and i will go hunt my daughter's boyfriend.
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That'll teach him. Do you intend on getting him mounted?
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Poor choice of words in regards to a daughter's boyfriend there Mike....... :lol:
 
Songdog":1ydlmk0e said:
DrMike":1ydlmk0e said:
Maybe the boys and i will go hunt my daughter's boyfriend.
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That'll teach him. Do you intend on getting him mounted?
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Poor choice of words in regards to a daughter's boyfriend there Mike....... :lol:
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I think maybe a european mount... Seriously, he does not have want it takes to last in the wild. If only my daughter could see that.

Hardpan
 
Lol , I'm always cleaning a gun when the girls bring a new boy in the house, not planned , just good luck in the timing. :lol:
 
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