mule deer in the 70 units?

egradyfire

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Hey fellas,

was wondering how the terrain in the diamond creek and palisades units compare to the sawtooth units. Any major vegetation differences, more water vs less water, were the mule deer crushed by the winter kill of 2016 like they were in central idaho? I understand this is a broad question but i wanted to start huntin a new unit and im looking for a starting point.
 
Palisades is in unit 67 not the 70s. That first pic looks like up at the head of little elk at waterfall Canyon
 
>You are correct! Scouting for a
>goat tag in 2012.
I killed a big buck right there back in the mid 90s. That year there was a big snowstorm two days before the season ended and I made it up to that pass just as it was lifting. I spotted him bedded about 3/4 mile east of the pass I thought he was a bull elk when I first saw him. He was all alone and the only animal I saw. Just one black speck in all that snow covered landscape. I climbed up to that High Point to the north to get a better look. After I was sure he was a buck I made the stalk in the deep snow and finally killed him late in the day. He was an absolute pig. The biggest body deer I have ever killed and a huge rack also. I Quartered him up and Hung them in a spruce tree and tied the head on my pack and took off for camp at the trail head. The next day a guy with mules came in and packed out the quarters for me and that was a real lifesaver. I've tried to hunt that country several more times but never have had any luck since
 
Buckhorn, one of my favorite places to be. Not a high density of deer up there but the possibility of giants is there for sure.
 

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