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I am returning to try my hand at mule deer this year on a backpack high country hunt the opening week of archery season (have been chasing bugles the last decade). I want to pick the brains of the hard core guys regarding their daily hunt routines and what they are doing at certain times of the day and how much ground are they covering vs. just sitting on one basin and waiting for the right opportunity? Do you glass all day from one vantage point or move along a spine and try to glass a couple basins in a morning or one in the morning and one in the afternoon? When I watch the EBJ guys on TV it seems like they glass for 3-5 days before they attempt their first stalk. I consider myself patient and I hunt hard all day (most of our elk kills have been during the middle part of the day so it has paid off big time with elk), but I'm not sure I can glass bucks for 4 days before attempting a single stalk and I know I am inexperienced at sorting the good opportunities from the bad ones. Also, what fine points do you hard core guys look for in a stalkable buck vs. one where you choose to sit back and try at a later time? I have David Long's Public Land Muleys book which touches on it, but on my previous mule deer hunt we would try to stalk every buck that had the right size head gear we were after.
Just trying to minimize the inevitable mistakes I know I will make.
Just trying to minimize the inevitable mistakes I know I will make.