On our recent goat/deer hunt we did not see all that many big deer. In years past the same area was crawling with big bucks. This year I saw more big bucks on a road system hunt than I did on our alpine fly out hunt. We also found another party's dead deer, and noticed signs of recent camping. It seems our lake has been discovered.
It does not take much hunting pressure to make a difference and we found that there were very few big boys near the lake we landed on. We did find one bachelor group of very big bucks - including a HUGE 4 by 4 - but they were a long ways from camp and ran away before we got close.
But less deer was not all bad - it meant we got to do more hiking and exploring. In years past we never got all that far from camp before we had a deer down. And it was not like there were no deer - just not very many big deer. Every day we knew that we would eventually find deer and we could still afford to be picky. In the mornings we would pass on small bucks, but by late afternoon it was 'forks or better'.
Still in the end we hunted deer for just 2 days and brought back 3 deer. That's not so bad. We brought home the meat!
Also I made a video of the hunt - check it out on Youtube click here
Patrick
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