With your mule deer tag filled, you are limited to whitetails and that area is not the greatest for whitetails. Im sure there are few around hanging down low by the farmers fields or in very small pockets of them. You will need even more luck for whitetails then for mule deer.
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if your MD tag is filled, you might be better off on the hat cr side looking for WT or elsewhere
there were WT around CC at one point, but not seeing them as much anymore.
As for hunting CC, its an absolute shit show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last year was pathetic.
Since R5 closed, it got busier by a long shot, but the last 2 years have been stupid.
the deer that are there are pushed big time.
the numbers are ok, but you wont see many bruisers hitting the ground because they dont make it much past the age of 3.
too open, too much logged up top, and not as much snow to push deer into migrating as it once was many years ago.
Better area in Oct to find a meat buck.
Just expect to bump into folks all day long, and yes, even well away from the roads!
People are getting out of their trucks, and putting miles on, but still you cant get away from people anymore up there.
Watched 3 different groups of hunters one morning, all going up the same mountain, all at different stages of their hikes up in
altitude on that hill, and none knew there were groups coming up below them or already up above them.
I had a good chuckle and then drove elsewhere for the day.
And with the closures in the new burns for vehicles, expect it to be just plain ridiculous this time.
More hunters than deer up there now.