Still Hunting Mule Deer in the Mountain West?
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ImBillT
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Cover a lot of ground on foot when hunting anything. I’m not sure it quite qualifies as still hunting, but it’s not pure spot and stalk. I like to glass morning and evening and move during the day when they’re bedding. I’m more likely to stick to glassing only if I have a target buck that I don’t want to bump, and more likely to move throughout the day if I’m just in the market for something decent and haven’t seen many deer.
FamilyMan
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Glass in the morning and evening. Explore new ridges in-between by slowly walking and intensely glassing as you go.
Never killed a deer still hunting. I have walked up on many little bucks moving slowly through the pines. From what I have observed of big bucks bedded down in the middle of the day I think it would be nearly impossible to still hunt them when they are bedded and you would have to move so slowly that it would be more boring than glassing. If I wanted to be on the move as much as possible during the hunt I would move along the edge of thick cover and open feeding areas during the prime hours. In reality I have found that hiking a long way in the dark with some painful elevation gain is a good motivator to sit still and glass for a while when it gets light out.
