bweese
12-01-2016, 06:40 PM
My brother will be joining me for the third week of Nov 2017--from Iowa on a permit to accompany--for muleys. We're whitetail guys from Ontario originally, and I'm not super knowledgeable about muleys.
Long story short, I've found a few areas that have produced the last few years--I got a nice 3x3 in October this year (see below)--but the few 4x4s I've seen harvested in those areas have all been very small, barely legal 4x4s. Still really nice deer, obviously, but I figured with my brother coming up for his 40th birthday, we'd make a week of it and try a new area.
I'm wondering where we should go.
We have one problem, which also precludes us from hunting the few areas I do know, which is I don't have 4wd. Only an AWD SUV with chains. It gets tough going even in October. November would be impossible and crazy cross-ditched FSR are out of the question, unfortunately.
We're more than prepared to hike and we're in pretty good shape. We're probably not up for spike camping it, though.
I was thinking about Churn Creek. Set up at the calving barn, and then just start walking away from the roads and trails every morning. Doable? If so, should we hike towards the Fraser, or west towards Black Dome? Or should we camp below Black Dome?
I've also been eyeing a spot in 4-4, but getting there might be tough in mid-November without 4WD. Is it good muley hunting in 4-4 in November? If it's dynamite, I could maybe rent a 4WD for the week.
Thoughts?
Any and all advice about how I should be planning this monumental (for us, anyway) easy-drive-start-hiking hunt are welcome. A 10 hour drive from Vancouver is probably all I can consider.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6125&stc=1
Long story short, I've found a few areas that have produced the last few years--I got a nice 3x3 in October this year (see below)--but the few 4x4s I've seen harvested in those areas have all been very small, barely legal 4x4s. Still really nice deer, obviously, but I figured with my brother coming up for his 40th birthday, we'd make a week of it and try a new area.
I'm wondering where we should go.
We have one problem, which also precludes us from hunting the few areas I do know, which is I don't have 4wd. Only an AWD SUV with chains. It gets tough going even in October. November would be impossible and crazy cross-ditched FSR are out of the question, unfortunately.
We're more than prepared to hike and we're in pretty good shape. We're probably not up for spike camping it, though.
I was thinking about Churn Creek. Set up at the calving barn, and then just start walking away from the roads and trails every morning. Doable? If so, should we hike towards the Fraser, or west towards Black Dome? Or should we camp below Black Dome?
I've also been eyeing a spot in 4-4, but getting there might be tough in mid-November without 4WD. Is it good muley hunting in 4-4 in November? If it's dynamite, I could maybe rent a 4WD for the week.
Thoughts?
Any and all advice about how I should be planning this monumental (for us, anyway) easy-drive-start-hiking hunt are welcome. A 10 hour drive from Vancouver is probably all I can consider.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=6125&stc=1