Re: Clinton tips, suggestions and cautions
Well lads and lassies it was a good hunt. Much time was spent on foot and in the stand, we climbed two mountains and in the evening good food was eaten, drink was drunk and lies were told around the fire.
Clinton and area guarantee you deer however they did not cooperate with where we needed them to be to hunt. We saw over 300 Mule deer in our 4 days along with 15 bucks. However, they were all on private lad with in 400 meters off the road. We had three clear nights where they did not come off the private land until after shootable light. We know this because we were waiting for them up on the bench and power line. The real big boys were nocturnal, and we caught only one of them in shootable light crossing the tracks to go back up the hill very early in the morning.
We went looking for up the Elephant Hill fire area doing the loon Lake circle. We found three shootable rams smiling at us happily from just the other side of the 3-31/3-30 border: They were on the side with no opening.
Although there was lots of bear and cougar sign we did not see any animals. We did see a wolverine and a bob cat. We also saw lots of fresh moose sign too.
In the end we did shoot a few grouse and had a chance at a hare too.
I hope to learn more in this area because there is definitely an opportunity to hunt good size bucks up there (I found possibly the biggest 2 point shed I have ever seen) but not with out a good study of conditions, habits and finding the crossing points.
One thing we did not see a lot of is wolf and coyote sign. We found only one lone wolf track.
We also hope to mentor the landowner where we stayed in becoming a hunter too.
I would like to write more but am pressed for time
Every day in the bush is a day you get back from the Reaper!
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