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(2) webcam captures of mule deer I thought were interesting. One recently. The webcam captures courtesy of https://www.gbuapcd.org/cgi-bin/reviewVideo. A couple of does in one and a buck in the other! This site is the sage flats cam but looking in the canyon to the North of Sage Flats

@willfrye027 Thanks for info and Fresno is basically the same latitude as Independence! Meant latitude in my original post I see I put longitudinally. Meant the spot in the Sierras rain map showing 20 to 70 percent rain accumalation is basically due West of Indpendence? As is Fresno? By the...

Well folks about to think about hunting next Fall? Follow-up on my rain fall in the Owens Valley / Eastern Sierra hunt areas this past winter primary focus on G3 zone area(s). On March 5 of this year, I listed the percentage of normal yearly rainfall received for Independence, California, at 45...

@HS Do you think your deer harvested this year might be in that area all year? Or migrated into the area?

HS tweaking me up for a hike now.

@HS thanks for detailed hunt description....know a couple of times glassing I said I know they are there....but never materialized LOL One thing I have done is snap pictures with your best camera on different hillsides when out. I review the pics when home again. Not much luck there either...

@HS Yes the mine road. To the top a 3000 foot climb I think. I made it past the bulldozer. Done a 3000 feet climb in a day but not that day. Knew guys that purposely climbed to 11k from 5K in a day for the thrill but not me LOL.

Not that exciting, but once this year I could see a buck in the picture from the Sage Flat camera... from the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District website. Any camera known to be able to do such a thing in G3 area?

Hope you can get out next December! Amazed at how many deer have been in my video or pics that I never noticed when the media was captured till post review! A buddy of mine and I tried to hike to the top of the mine road and we petered out. Anyone gone that far? HS's deer was top...

A time after an early Fall snow in the G3 zone. Click on link below: 4 By having Lunch

For those interested. Most of the storms this winter dropped low snow amounts and it was relatively in higher altitudes in the slopes West of Independence than in years past in my observation? There have been years past more rain in Independence in one week than the amount of rain for this...

over barbed wire

thanks for messages

Noone has any experinces to offer on the subject?

I have sited many Mule Deer over the years in areas with wire fences in California. Mostly barbed wire. Doubt I have not had the opportunity to observe the deer jumping over or through the fences which seems strange since fences are everywhere save once. However, viewing an old video of mine I...

Thanks for posts mulebuck and willfrye027. Interesting dialog. Never personnaly have seen mule deer hunting all that great in the Sierras since they had doe hunts in the early 60s from X-12 to X-10. Always wondered about that management decision? And those as old as I am remember one deer tags...

Really enjoyed this year’s G3 hunter reports. Wish a half dozen more would report? But my pondering post 2023 G3 zone hunt: During discussions of the 2023 G3 hunts, we saw posts with requests for better or different herd management. One member suggested “2 point only” hunts and some wanted “3...

My reading shows temperature dropping but snow ify near term in G3 anyway? Still hunting....why I get out several times a year without a rifle. Got within 8 feet of a 4 x 4, and when he took off, scared the crap out of both of us. LOL

Gutnskin.....Did the two guys you know do any better and or figure out something that works for them for their G3 hunt?

Has anyone actually hunted the Gooddale creek drainage....hardest to get too? One road full of rocks and one road crosses Gooddale creek from Taboose Creek and crossing fairly deep last time I was there? Or hunted the Taboose Creek dainage for that matter?

A couple of questions, but super you have shared with us and others this year for sure. The G3 mule deer behaviors always changing it seems to me. Seen Inyo County 4 pointers at 7500 to 4000 feet around December first. Some 100 feet from the road. Why one might consider G3 a kill zone? I did...

Yes, I enjoy all documented hunts for sure. Of note if I read the harvest reports correctly from last year, there were 10 four point deer taken and 4 bucks taken with five points or better? We could have had 14 reports? But we did not. And harvest reports tell little about spreads and other...

Did get out minimally in G6 last weekend, without a tag. Although there was rain / snow for a majority of the weekend it seems some areas Kernville to Bishop and encompassing G3 and G6 are zero to roughly 50 percent of historical averages for precipitation for the rain year Oct to present in my...

Will visit this G6 area this weekend.

Any pics of deer sighted must have taken pictures? A way for others that did not draw and can not make the treck to enjoy or experience the season with others?

Rain predicted in Kernville next week I see.

Well good luck to all hunters in G3 in 2022. Some different pics here and a thought about mountain lions? Deerfriendly.com shows california deer herds down since roughly 1960 with the steepest decline in deer numbers from 1960 to about 1975. Appears this is data that includes all deer not...

Made a swing up Division Creek and Independence Creek today. Comapered to past years for such a swing at this time of the year the deer track numbers were down guessing ten fold! Just one data point! Anyone else scout the area? No bucks were sighted. For an identical typical swing 2...

In this picture one can see what I beleive is new growth in the fore ground. The burnt braches sticking up I assume the old growth before the 2021 fire. The lower in elevation browse areas below the pine areas (not in picture) appeared to have been mostly untouched?

2018 shot of Sentinal

Sentinal peak (I think) from the south in G6.....west side of kern river Oct 2022

39 incher what year taken?

Maybe I missed it but what specific zone number was "here's one for you" taken? Not the only one wondering I suppose? yalo

Wiszard Well said except wonder about the score? Sort of like fishing initially. One wants to fish. Then one desires catching as many fish as they can. Then the drive is to catch a really big fish and later what matters is the quality of the outing. But love to see animals in the outdoors...

Just for fun. I beleive this was at division creek the friday or tuesday after thanksgiving years ago. We were parked and I was chatting with another person around lunch time when this guy walked between our thrucks! LOL

Been waiting of course like others for some sharing news. Stopped by the zone in late October and zero sign high or low. Stopped in late November but plan fell through and only there an hour at midday. Deer trails visible in the usual spots on the sides of the hills. Found one small 2 x 3...

Sure seems like it!