If You Had 4 Days In A Row To Hunt Mule Deer Buck?

[Jelvis]

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[Caveman]

F. That week would be when I have the best chances at my biggest bucks. Hot on the tail or at least in company of the ladies

[mark]

B or C no question, mid nov. is always the best!!!!! Dont believe me, check my gallery! most of my bigguns were downed in mid nov. :smile:

[416]

Another vote for B or C .........at least in my neck of the woods, this is the best time to be out and about, for a chance at a bigger animal.

[Gilmore]

I'll go with C or D, unless you have a great isolated spot Rememberance Day long weekend (B) is a zoo! If I have to pick just one it's D. I like E&F though, G is good too... ah hell I'll go anywhere, anytime in November.
Chad

[one-shot-wonder]

I usually like the last posible dates to chase mulies which in my area is early/mid November. However if it was my choice I would go with D or E as the big boys are down with the rut and the later in the year is a better chance that more snow has fallen and further piled more deer down.

[mainland hunter]

alpine- september can be productive too

[Wildman]

B&C would be my bet!!! I am personaly going after one Nov3-11th

[BlacktailStalker]

D or E. Forget the rut, go to where the deer winter. Regardless of rut activity, they will be there. Earlier, risks the chance they dont show up because of a mild winter. You'll also find bucks chasing the odd doe that wasnt bred and maybe a few that are coming into their second estrous cycle for the same reason. The rut is just a bonus. The real big boys come down to their winter range dead last.

[PGKris]

A or E (A) because, well, look at how many guys want to hunt the rut :D and (E) because the biggest damn bucks don't rut hard until the last few days of november.
Kris

[BCrams]

PGkris -

You really mean - the biggest damn hybrids ....... don't you.:mrgreen:

[dana]

Sept 1-4. Preseason scout in the summer. Find the big boys while they are fat and sassy in their summer modes. Glass them when they are in the reds. Locate which mountain, which basin the baddest of the bunch lives. The go in opening day and whack him.

The rut is a crap shoot. No snow and you ain't killing jackshit. Need the snow to hit the highcountry hard in Oct so that they are ballsdeep to push them lower. With this modern age of global warming, that ain't been happening. A lot of the big boys don't head low to well after the season is over.

[PGKris]

PGkris -

You really mean - the biggest damn hybrids ....... don't you.:mrgreen:

You got me ;-)

[willyqbc]

Sept 1-4. Preseason scout in the summer. Find the big boys while they are fat and sassy in their summer modes.

I agree with this.... its really nice to try em with the archery gear before anyone else gets em all stirred up and the big guys get reclusive after the first gunshots. I haven't put down a real hog with my bow yet but the heart pounding action is definately more frequent in the early bow season than it is later in the year!.....easier to pattern them when they are undisturbed too.

Chris

[dana]

Exactly,
This is the only time of year that a big ol' mossback can be patterned. You want to talk pattern breakers, the rut has to be the biggest. You get a glimpse of a monster one day, there are no guarentees he'll be there the next. The smell of estrus in the air can lead him many many miles away. Whereas they will live unconcerned in their summer hidey holes and bed in the same bed everyday all summer. The pattern breaker is frost and snow. The earlier you can get out the better as the highcountry is very unpredicable at that time of year. That is why I would say Sept 1-4 if you only had 4 days, as this would be your best bet at hammering a True TOAD!!!

[Kirby]

Sept 1-4. Preseason scout in the summer. Find the big boys while they are fat and sassy in their summer modes. Glass them when they are in the reds. Locate which mountain, which basin the baddest of the bunch lives. The go in opening day and whack him.

The rut is a crap shoot. No snow and you ain't killing jackshit. Need the snow to hit the highcountry hard in Oct so that they are ballsdeep to push them lower. With this modern age of global warming, that ain't been happening. A lot of the big boys don't head low to well after the season is over.

I'll go with this too. Specially for bowhunters. Love hunting the rut but its much harder with a bow than the early season.

Kirby

[Sikanni Stalker]

I shoot my mulies pre-rut, i think themeat is better but, I guess it depends where you live too. We are spoiled up here for mulies, sort of like the folks south of PG are for whiteys. Definitely if you are trophy hunting wait.....but meaters can get a big mulie anytime up here.

[Jelvis]

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[dana]

Some bucks don't go high. Some chose to stay low and hang out on private and along river bottoms. Catching those bucks early in the season on Crown is tough but doeable. Just need to pattern them, watch where and when they move off of private and then ambush them opening day. The biggest hurdle would be moving in the timber quietly during that time of year. Normally it is very snap, crackle and pop especially after a hot dry summer like this year. If Sept shows signs of an Indian Summer, you'd be way better off going high.

[Jelvis]

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[Jelvis]

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[todbartell]

make mine a C

[~T-BONE~]

I'm with b or c hoping that there is a huge dump of snow somewhere on that time line. Really if a deer gets pushed out of the high country it don't take to long if their in a hurry. Deer got century old game trails which i'm sure many of you have seen not to mention the endless amount of logging roads that take you directly to the alpine. Look back at some of your personal treks a guy could travel 14km a day no problem... Thats easy for a deer. I've personally seen em get pushed down overnight!!!! One day no sign in fresh stuff, the next sign everywhere. Just my opinion!

[JMac]

One 10 day trip to the interior and two 7 day trips up Island. Stinky bucks beware!

[Fisher-Dude]

I agree with Firebird...C

November 17 has been a lucky day for me, and I've seen lots of rut-drunk mulies around that date.

[dana]

They are talking about El Nino hitting us hard this year and I'm willing to bet there ain't going to be any snow any of those days. El Nino means very few big bucks will be getting whacked in the late season. Chances are if you had your heart set on killing a whopper, you probably missed the best time.

[stanway]

I hate to agree with Tod (on anything :tongue:) ;-), but I would choose C also.


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[Jelvis]

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[Islandeer]

The later the better, we hunt the East Kootenay, so we hope for lots of snow before Nov 15 which is the season finale. In the last 30 years we have been going there I think the weather has only cooperated 6 or 7 times. But the hunts are always memorable snow,bucks, or not...

[oldtimer]

You didn't list a bow season so for up here I go with C , second choice D Mike

[Jagermeister]

Jelvis must be writing a book with all the info he's been phishing lately.

[Jelvis]

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[Tinney]

Jellydonut, I would definitely pick E for the best mule deer hunting anywhere in BC. I learned a valuable lesson this year hunting deer at the end of Nov, when you see a doe, get your dam gun up!

[frenchbar]

B . would be my choice if i were to look for a bigger buck.i dont hunt a lot at that time of the yr and would rather hunt the mossy bucks at the beginning of sept.

[dana]

Jelly,
I still stick to my orginal timeframe. Look at 07 as an example. The late season was a washout. No snow and all rutting activity was nocturnal as it was just too warm during the days. It was a very hard hunt. Many days with zero deer sightings. Felt like it would be more productive to run head long into a brick wall. On the other side of the coin, you take a look at the early season. Man, that was flippin awesome. The big boys were fat and sassy and they were very easy to find. My boy and I had some absolutely awesome stalks on some true monsters. Was the best hunting I've ever had.

[hunter1947]

November 27 to the 30 would be my time to hunt them.:wink:.

[ruttinbuck]

I would choose A.
Most of my big mulies have been shot during Oct.
The bucks tend to still be patterned in their every day existance.Once the rut starts they can and will be where ever their nose takes them.I find Nov to be more of a crap shootRB

[tomahawk]

November 27 to the 30 would be my time to hunt them.:wink:.

This would be my choice as well.

[Jelvis]

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[Beardy]

From spending two years in the bush working on my research, at least in the Peace, I would pick A. Close to Halloween, I saw sometimes groups of 5-6 individuals with at least one HUGE bull... I mean HUGE, trophy size, they're so stupid too, I could walk up to like 75 yards and they would run, I would whistle and they would all stop and stare, perfect shot!!! PM me if you need info on some good spots.

[Shed Hunter]

The beginning of the season to the end. You never now when the big one will be standing their :eek:

[Jelvis]

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[ThinAir]

I'd choose early Sept in the peace country (archery). Love stalking those big boys in their bachelor groups.

[Deerwhacker]

G in December you can enjoy a bow only hunt and without all the gong shows of the regular season that is when i believe you have your best chance, plus with a good possibility of snow your tracking and finding of animals becomes much easier.

[tooley]

Shed hunter is right, but I have shot 3 four point mulies on Nov 3. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not!

[Jelvis]

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[bad arrow]

I like the 1st 2 weeks of oct, if I only had 4 days I'd go then, because then the days are getting cooler by then. Also the meat is still good and I dont have to sausage the whole thing, cause I just dont like the rutting mulie taste, and I dont have much trouble getting one at that time of the year, they sure dont move like they do in later november though.
bad arrow

[Jelvis]

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[frenchbar]

Another of my fav weeks to hunt is the last week in oct. Hunting the tree covererd ridges at about 4500 ft can be pretty produtive. Oct 29th has been a good day for me over the yrs:smile:

[wsm]

would pick b

[Jelvis]

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[showtimebc]

I personally like hunting end of october... but to find a monster muley, I can't answer that because I haven't got one yet. My dad is a taxidermist and I have seen monster bucks taken throughout the season. To get that monster, I'd say it mostly comes down to luck and persistence. Get yourself out there and see what happens.

[srupp]

4 days to hunt Mule deer?? Hmmmm 3 feet on the right hand side of Mr Steve Dana..couldnt get any better, ever.

Steven

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[ROEBUCK]

moving to my new house in a month in upper mud so every days gona b a huntin day

[Jelvis]

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[Islandeer]

Seriously, I would go with Da Dana, banned or not.

[Jelvis]

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[dana]

Confusious asks why you so confused? You've been told which 4 days and yet you don't like the answer?

[Jelvis]

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[dana]

Jelvis,
When you were on holidays in the tropics last November you wasted your money didn't ya? We had the same weather here. You want to hunt fresh snow, hit the highcountry for the Sept 10th rifle opener. You'll see snow within those 4 days. I do every year.

[horshur]

Every one who hunts deer especially mule deer want to hunt in snow that fell only the day before. Started at 4 o'clock the day before to snow a good amount about two and a half inches than stopped about midnight last night. Now you have the cold white truth telling you many stories that went on the night before. When that snow hits I hope you got the right four days to take advantage of the tracks in the cold white truth. Which four days do you think the fresh snow will fall and stay for a few more. How about November 16th thru the Nov 19th for snow and rut crazed. Jelcraze

Jelly I was in denial this year about when the rut happened....watched a big...really big three point in October testing a doe...this was the last weekend of october..
a decent 4 point was already really run down by the long weekend and it pretty much shut off after that.....except for the little buggers who just didn't know.... the very last day of season the bucks were already back to being good friends.
I think your bio dude actually is more to the truth....latest I have ever seen real good rutting action would be the weekend after the long weekend...but it has always been hit and miss.
No matter how you look at it if there is only four days of hunting it's a crapshoot...even early when the high country weather can chase you out.

[Shed Hunter]

Jelvis. Mules rut peek 15 Nov. Studies they did some years back. Hmmm 4 days. THINKING

[Jelvis]

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[Shed Hunter]

Jelvis.
New moon 28 Oct. 2008. New moon Nov. 9. 2007. Cloudy days new moon Got my muley Nov. 9.2007 . Thinking 2008 Rut starting early. every year deferent. 4 days HMMMMM

[Jelvis]

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[M.Dean]

If you hunt around Nov 11th you will improve your odds, take a week off and you will greatly improve your odds. My son and I passed up close to 20 bucks last fall. In Nov. we seen more big 4x4s than the early season. Fresh snow is great, but if there is none i don't stay home, i go out and freeze my ass off and look for bucks! In the early season i seen 4 pnts, but nothing with any mass, nice bucks by all means, but the big ones are still wary and coming out at dark, if you can wait until they start to rut around Nov. 1st you should see some wall hangers. It's real hard to pass on a 4x4 thats got high tines and some width, but it's all in what kind of buck you want to take home.It depends on how much time you can spend in the brush a lot also. If you have only 2 or 3 weekends to hunt your not going to pass on to many 4x4s. I showed my son a few that were real nice bucks and tried to get him to fire, he asked me if they were so dam nice why didn't i shoot them! He held out and got a nice one Nov. 11th. I got mine on Nov. 25th. I don't hunt the alpine, so i'll stick with late season hunting for big bucks.

[showtimebc]

That Bio guy studied Barriere area for twenty years straight out of Kamloops he's retired now. I was told to phone him up by another bio and ask him stuff on Mule deer. So I phoned and sure enough he was retiring and I said well before you go fill me in. He told me those dates October 23rd the mature does in estrus then all bred pretty well by Nov 2nd, then to Nov 12th the younger does then the missed ones after that every 28 days. Ya he was serious too! He shot all of his four points no more than one-hundred yards from the hard red dirt road. He would get firewood and clear an area over the years inside the bush away from the road. Then go there and bango. He would cross the Nor river in a boat sometimes to hunt and would see 80 deer a day. He told me after I begged him where the biologists saw that big humunges mule deer buck ever seen by the bios and he told me. He said the bios saw it at a distance and two of them saw glimpses the buck had antlers like a Rocky Mountain Elk Not far from where you are a little this way tho. Jel shhhh Humongous Buck. He told me hunt when theres a new fresh snow of 2 inches at 2500 ft elevation in that particular area. You'll see Mr Big, roman nosed, brush buster, breakin the bejeezuz out of the bushes brutally bending till broken and bare, battered bonked and bashed, so thats what I'm going to do. Jelromannoze


Hey Jelvis, I was out October 23 this past fall. I saw 4 bucks chasing behind 2 does. I think they are ruttin just a little then haha...

[Jelvis]

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[CanuckShooter]

All times are good if your in touch with your creator Jel...does your door face the east? do you burn the tobacco? When your mind and body are pure, and in sync, you emit electrical waves that attract the animals. Have you never watched a deer moving in the distance change direction and come past you? Most hunters with evil in their hearts will never see the animals in a calm state as will the hunter in touch with himself as a human being. A big four pt will stand and turn broadside to the man who is one with nature.offering himself to be taken, never forget to sacrifice the tobacco..to release his spirit to the creator..to give thanks for his sacrifice..when you follow these ancient teachings you will never go hungry.

[Shed Hunter]

M. Dean.
You are right. More buck dye Nov 11. week end then any week end.

[dana]

All times are good if your in touch with your creator Jel...does your door face the east? do you burn the tobacco? When your mind and body are pure, and in sync, you emit electrical waves that attract the animals. Have you never watched a deer moving in the distance change direction and come past you? Most hunters with evil in their hearts will never see the animals in a calm state as will the hunter in touch with himself as a human being. A big four pt will stand and turn broadside to the man who is one with nature.offering himself to be taken, never forget to sacrifice the tobacco..to release his spirit to the creator..to give thanks for his sacrifice..when you follow these ancient teachings you will never go hungry.


Guess I must be living right. :)

[Islandeer]

Change your name to Dana Lama. :eek:

[CanuckShooter]

The facts support themselves Dana....so you must be doing a hunt in the proper way. If your a real hunter then you will know of what I speak, never miss a chance to absorb learning from your elders....knowledge is power...power is success [4pt on the ground]...knowledge passed down is part of the circle of life...teach all who will listen.

[Jelvis]

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[Shed Hunter]

Jel-bio . I agree they are romancing Oct. 23 To-------- Bio Studies Muleys peaked Nov.15. White Tails Dec. 3. White Tails romance a little longer

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[island hunter]

I agree with Jelvis. You get them befor they sweat themselves into a frenzy.

[Jelvis]

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[rollingrock]

Change your name to Dana Lama. :eek:

:mrgreen: lmao

[oddsix]

C....in clintnon:)

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[wjh131]

B, I've always had luck on the remembrance day week.

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[horshur]

jelly was in your favorite neck of the woods today...109 muley's without getting the glasses out.. couple hours of lookin.

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[ruttinbuck]

jelly was in your favorite neck of the woods today...109 muley's without getting the glasses out.. couple hours of lookin.
I was there last sunday,4 moose together and 50+ mulies.1 chipmunk and zero bears.Good chance I wll be there this sunday as well.RB

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[ruttinbuck]

That bio you mentioned Jel.The one that told you the breeding happens in late Oct to the 10th of Nov.Was that Dave Low?or Ritchey?
I am a firm believer in the last week of Oct for big bucks that can be patterned.After that its a crap shoot as they start wandering following their noses.RB

[hunter1947]

Does are getting fairly heavy with fawn inside, and bucks will be getting new antler knobs soon. The leaves are coming out now and they are sticky with sap. Green-up and moist soil with longer day-light it's all good. The bucks out there will be big and healthy this season. I gotta get me a perfect non-typical with a spread of 30 inches. So get out there this season and scare one into me. What four days are you going to hunt there? Jelbigbuckcountrytohikeupandin4agoodone
Nov 7,8,9,10.

[dana]

Sept 1-4. Preseason scout in the summer. Find the big boys while they are fat and sassy in their summer modes. Glass them when they are in the reds. Locate which mountain, which basin the baddest of the bunch lives. The go in opening day and whack him.

The rut is a crap shoot. No snow and you ain't killing jackshit. Need the snow to hit the highcountry hard in Oct so that they are ballsdeep to push them lower. With this modern age of global warming, that ain't been happening. A lot of the big boys don't head low to well after the season is over.

Numerous units in the province open Sept 1st for 4 point or better. Other units are open to bowhunters or youth hunters. If you do your homework, opening day, you could be able to put a buck like this on the ground.
Sept 1st
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Muley%20Pics/IMG_0376_sm.jpg

For the Rifle hunter some units don't open till Sept 10th. Weather can be a bitch in the highcountry during that week, but if you manage to get good weather, the bucks still can be in their summer modes.
Here's a Sept 13th buck we got back in 2001. I was snowed out on the 10th that year. With the aftermath of the morning of the 11th, we weren't too motivated to really hunt that hard. Woke up late on the 13th, but we were able to kill this buck in his bed at about noon.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/BCBOY/Muley%20Pics/File0015.jpg

[dana]

While the question is if I had 4 days in a row to hunt, I will go further than than. If I had 3 months to hunt, I'd hunt from Sept - Dec. The longer you are out there, the more time you spend on the ground, the better your chances at killing a monster. If you truly want a wallhanger, 4 days don't cut it. You have be willing to put your time in the entire season. Willing to pass on buck after buck after buck. Trophy mule deer hunting is a headgame. The battle needs to be won in your head before you are going to win it on the ground.

[Jelvis]

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[Shed Hunter]

The beginning of the season to the end. You never now when the big one will be standing their :eek:
I agree with Dana Sept. to Dec. Four month is better then four days:-D

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[srupp]

hmmm my answer is the same as before...4 days with DANA...

cant get any better...

Steven

[frenchbar]

If i only had 4 days out of the whole hunting season Jelly.it would be sept 10th to the 14th in the high country .cant beat it imo.

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[frenchbar]

Jel. i dont try and save the velvet off the early bucks ,most of my antlers just end up on top of or inb my shed anyways. i like the early season for the nice sunny days ,seeing the groups of bucks in the alpine bowls,glassing the bowls when its nice warm and comfortable,among other things.Hunting muleys is more to me than just the antlers and size of them.

[dana]

Jelly,
I've found that by the 10th over 60% of the bucks have shed the velvet. By the 12th 85-90% of the bucks are shed. That 190 buck we killed on the 13th of 2001 was late. He probably would have shed that afternoon or the next day. The moment we touched the velvet it was coming off in our hands. After we stripped the rest, it was a cool looking Euro with a Bone White rack to go with his white skull. There are some real easy methods to make them dark if that is your liking, without using any chemical stain, all natural.
I myself love the velvet look and I'd love to get a buck mounted with the velvet intact.

[frenchbar]

Jelly,
I've found that by the 10th over 60% of the bucks have shed the velvet. By the 12th 85-90% of the bucks are shed. That 190 buck we killed on the 13th of 2001 was late. He probably would have shed that afternoon or the next day. The moment we touched the velvet it was coming off in our hands. After we stripped the rest, it was a cool looking Euro with a Bone White rack to go with his white skull. There are some real easy methods to make them dark if that is your liking, without using any chemical stain, all natural.
I myself love the velvet look and I'd love to get a buck mounted with the velvet intact.I love those velvet bucks also,just havent caught up with the buck of my dreams.when i finaly catch up with him ,i will get a wall mount done .maybe this is the :)yr

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[dana]

Jellyroll,
You keep on asking that question but we've already given ya the answer. Sept is the best time to kill a big buck if 4 days is all you got. Backpackin the highcountry means you are going to be deboning your meat. There is no need to hang a early season big buck to age him. There isn't another time of year where he'll tastes soooo good. If you are stuck on aging, then put it in the fridge to age prior to cutting it up. ;) If one likes excellant table fare and big racks combined, there is no better time of year. I would much rather eat a big ol' early season buck than a late season spike.

[Jelvis]

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[Shed Hunter]

Big muley bucks drives A man crazy. I like being crazy all season. Not just four days.:smile:

[srupp]

If you are planning on keeping the velvet intact for mounting check out HUNTSHOOT site a Taxidermist from Sugar Creek Taxidermy..Marco Pilon has kindly posted the CORRECT procedure and materials needed to save that velvet and preserved properly.

Frenchbar lives in THE MOST beautiful of locations and there is NO DOUBT a early high country horseback hunt would be one ion a lifetime!!! And there are some gronks STILL up in those thar mountains...

Steven

[dana]

71 Camaro,
That is a great early season buck your brother got. Tell him Congrats!8)8)

[one-shot-wonder]

Maro,

That is a beauty buck no doubt!
Was your bro suffering from a case of scope eye in that photo?

[71_camaro]

na just really dirty. he and my dad and other bro sat on him for two days untill opening day.

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[elkdom]

Living where I do, I usually suffer thru deer season the first 3 weeks of Nov, at this time of winter bucks are going hard, this 8x8 non typ muley, last Nov 2007,so late in season, quite often means pepperoni is what you get!

[Jelvis]

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[elkdom]

Thanks Jelvis,your right about that, pepperoni being the stuff you get so late in deer season, odd'ly though up north here,many muley's arn't barely into the rutt by Nov 1st when the GO season starts,some years the lazy big old buggers just get serious when the season ends about Nov 20,each year!,nothin makes you hang your head and cry like seeing a 200 incher 3 days after the season ends! Hey Jel' you like deer pics, here's my daughter and her first muley, a 6x6 typical , she was 15,wacked him 200yds with 308 Norma Mag,one shot plop!

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[1899]

A - in very high country. First snows have fallen, the bucks will slowly be moving out of their mountain-goat worthy spots.

[5 spike]

november 8,9,10,11 have always been great days, here on the island.

[grizzly_taker]

I'm a d,e,f......My big non-typ was taken on nov.28th 33inch neck, nose 4 inches off the ground on a hot trail. i have taken more big buck between the 20th to the 30th than the other dates.

[huntwriter]

Any time during November when the rut kicks into full swing. But then again, any day and time of season spent hunting is better than sitting at home and waiting for that “magical” time.:-)

[6616]

Grey Cup weekend, everyone else is at home watching football!

[bozzdrywall]

I would have to say a or b but the sooner the better i dont like the taste of deer to far into there rut but the big ones are more likley to be out into november.

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[hunter1947]

If you couldah picked different this eason wouldya or shouldah-have? couldah-woodaw-shouldah-or stayed with
Your First PICK-or-a-second-pick--no-snow-late-rut?
Second rut?-full moon-crispy crunch?
Jel-havin lunch-

You and your wording just blowies my mind Jel ,you are to funny ,LOL http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif.

[silvercreek20]

I choose November...lol.but for my neck of the woods, it is definetly F.

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[silvercreek20]

Just got back from my quick hike to the fir ridges I hunt late in the year. Nice when you don't have to leave town until just after 7 from your front door. Nice and close to town. Don't see a soul out there because they think they have to drive 1300 miles to go find the deer. Deer are in thick right now and I made the classic mistake of sticking my head in the track instead of looking ahead...........arrrrrrhhhhhhgggggggggggg......... from the flash i got to see he was a beauty..........only 3 days left............maybe tommorow???

[Jelvis]

Yah look down at the track wow it's huge you look up and WHAM out of the close bushes he drives hard into heavy cover--I hear yah lol---three days to OMG I got it! Jel-lol

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[browningboy]

Hey Jel, show us some pics of your trips and all the mulies, kind of curious as you seem to be quite knowlegable of the mulie deer areas?:razz:

[johnk]

Late November-early December for muleys...big muleys.
On the 26th took my stepson out to look for a buck and on our way to the muley hotspot we came across "Ol' Flat Top", a huge Whitey with a 26-28" spread but not very high tines and since it is my 30 yr. old son's first year hunting I held that 250 lb. bruiser at 60 yds. with my grunt tube for 5-6 seconds and my stepson fumbled with the rifle and getting out of the truck and lining up the buck and blah, blah, blah.

According to the kid he "almost" had him lined up when the buck booked it! When he got back in the truck all I could say was, "What the heck...." and told him he would never get 5 seconds on a buck of that class ever again. AAARRRRGGGGGGH!

[Jelvis]

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[curt]

2 years ago I did a bow hunt in region 8 Nov 26th it snowed 2-3 inches on the 24th and it was cold. I have never seen rutting muleys like I did on that day. 15 different bucks chasing does around with their noses burries up the does asses, all within about a 3-4 km stretch 3 very nice 4 pointers and 1 huge bugger drop tines the whole deal and lots of basket racks and 3 points. That was my best rut action as of yet, and just a side note it was totally luck on my part for being in the right place at the perfect time.

[Jelvis]

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[ghost]

If Iwanted a good eater first week ,arrow.Antlers Nov 20-24.

[Jelvis]

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[butthead]

B or C no question, mid nov. is always the best!!!!! Dont believe me, check my gallery! most of my bigguns were downed in mid nov. :smile:

how do i get to your gallery?

[MikeH]

B and C has always produced for me

[Jelvis]

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[Jelvis]

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[todbartell]

learn how to make a poll, noob

[Jelvis]

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[one-shot-wonder]

Stats R4 lah Who Zerz, and bah who zerz, not for Winners and Grinners 4 daze in a buck haze through the maze

That there is the gheyest post of all time......

Bartell is right, Jelly if you really want to know make a poll, and let the dinosaur threads be buried.

[urbanhermit]

Stats R4 lah Who Zerz, and bah who zerz, not for Winners and Grinners 4 daze in a buck haze through the maze
I was gonna say that!! then my head started up again...

[Jelvis]

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[one-shot-wonder]

That's the trouble with you people that use I-phones and twitter everything is so high tech .. no one would take the ancient books of wisdom and knowledge and toss them away like some unappreciate person with no brains.
Jelly Head Cheese -- Hit the road Jack Orf .. 1 tit whiner .. lol .. Your mom was calling for you lol ..

What the hell is a twitter and I-phone?

Must be speaking Jel Jiberish again!

[Super Matt]

How about Nov 8-11, based on an extensive compilation of trophy records from Canada and the US these four days seem to be the best. The contributing factors to these dates we're, having a barometer reading of 30 or above and rising. The moons perigee and the new moon phase occur close together, with overcast skies, light winds, and below normal temps. I think if you nail all these your golden.

Matt

[moose2]

F there is more chance of the snow forcing them out of the mountains and into the feeding areas in search of does. Very often this is when we see bucks on fields that we never saw all season. This is a long thread it will be interesting to see how many people harvest deer on the dates they picked.
Mike

[curt]

c or d for me

[oneheadshot]

I'm the b guy

[Jelvis]

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[Husky7mm]

Sept 1-4. Preseason scout in the summer. Find the big boys while they are fat and sassy in their summer modes. Glass them when they are in the reds. Locate which mountain, which basin the baddest of the bunch lives. The go in opening day and whack him.

The rut is a crap shoot. No snow and you ain't killing jackshit. Need the snow to hit the highcountry hard in Oct so that they are ballsdeep to push them lower. With this modern age of global warming, that ain't been happening. A lot of the big boys don't head low to well after the season is over.

The best hunting by far and the best eating. Ever had them leave before the season opened?:-(Sept 10 in my area that is.

[Jelvis]

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[RoscoeP]

B or C no question, mid nov. is always the best!!!!! Dont believe me, check my gallery! most of my bigguns were downed in mid nov. :smile:
I just dug out my old licience from 1983 when I got my biggest deer, I cut the tag on Nov,9th.

[afflicted 1]

b because mid nov is usually hot in our area

[Ghillie]

D! Hot on the heels of the does!