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Originally Posted by new albertan
Where abouts in the Brazeau area were you? We went out Elk River road saw nothing but wt cpl nice ones too.
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Just noticed your handle. As a guy that hunted many years without much success, you're in the right area. Mind you, if you're looking for deer, as soon as you hit bush after Lodge Pole, you are in the right area, deer are everywhere.
I'm one that usually rushes to get some hunting in, this year being a bit of an exception. In as much as I would love to brag with a huge buck, so far the bucks I have taken are puny. When time is short, first thing you see, you have to make sure you hit. I don't shoot unless I will eat it, and my family loves Deer and Moose. Of Course, Wolves, and Yotees are fair game.
On Monday, the idea was to stick around the three leases where the Mulies were a few weekends ago. It was evident that there wasn't much, so we ended up roading 200 cliks. What we found aside from the big buck, is a few similar areas that had deer a few weeks ago and Monday, so these are ones to key in, even saw a pair of Moose. I was starting to wonder if Moose even existed in there.
My buddy kept on telling me, just go there, the deer are everywhere. Well, it took a while to gain some confidence and liking some particular areas. These areas are miles apart, some 30 cliks from each other, but at least we have a few keys to go by in the search for the bucks.
How we found some areas this year is by checking the maps and Google Earth. Look for out of the way places and see what you end up with. In some cases, we ended up in heavily logged areas and retreated, but one place, connected to the three leases, it not very accessible by road. The one cutline we crossed to get there, the creek crossing was at 45 degrees both sides. If we were to have connected with an Elk as we were hoping, the pack out would have been very memorable. When we camped there three weekends ago, we only saw one other set of hunters.
Whites and Mulies range??
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