Live Hunts - Washington Whitetail Deer & Black Bear Hunt

September 2, 2002
Washington Whitetail Deer &
Black Bear Bowhunt

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Day 5

Monday A.M.

This morning I still-hunted the same logging road I hunted yesterday, and like yesterday, I didn't see anything. We're headed to a different area tomorrow that hasn't yet been hunted this season at all. There is bear sign in this area but we just haven't been at the right place at the right time yet.

Lance hunted his water hole again this morning and didn't see anything. We think that maybe the deer and bear are coming in either in the afternoon or after dark. We're hunting somewhere different tomorrow morning.

Elderberries - Bear food

Rose Hips - more Bear food

Serviceberries - a Favored bear food

dissolving Bear dung with some sort of seed in it

Hopefully we'll be having some more deer hunting action this afternoon.

Monday P.M.
This evening I hunted a new spot up on a mountain with some Alfalfa fields at the bottom. We found a good confluence of trails that crossed a powerline and set up my Double Bull pop-up blind. We didn't have a lot of time and didn't brush up the blind, although I had misgivings about how the deer would treat it. My misgivings turned out to be correct, unfortunately.

My blind set-up this evening

I saw 10 different does and fawns, and all of them noticed the blind. Most of them changed direction upon seeing it, although none really freaked out and started blowing or anything like that.

With about 30 minutes of shooting light, I saw a small 8-point buck coming down the trail, but then he saw me and stopped. It was then that I noticed a much bigger 8-point behind him a little ways, thrashing a small bush. I could never see his whole rack really clearly, but he was definitely a good buck, a shooter in my opinion. The little buck didn't like my blind and turned around and changed direction, taking the big buck with him. The big buck was only about 35 yards away but never came out from behind the brush. That was that.

This area is obviously getting a lot of deer activity so we're going to come back and hunt here again on Wednesday.

Lance had a very eventful evening as well. He sat in the ladder stand where I hunted the first evening, overlooking an Alfalfa field. He saw a number of does, and 6 different bucks, including several shooters. One 6-point with really tall tines came to about 30 yards, and Lance took a shot. He may have mis-estimated the distance, because he missed cleanly, about 6 inches under the buck's chest. The buck ran off a little ways and then a half hour later came back to 30 yards again. Lance took another shot and missed again, and chalked that one up to nerves. Shortly afterwards it got dark. He was pumped about the action that evening.

Check back for more action tomorrow!

Trip Notes
This hunt takes place in northeast Washington state Selkirk Mountains range. We are hunting with BearPaw Outfitters, owner Dale Denney. This is an archery hunt for Whitetail Deer and Black Bear. We will be hunting Bear most likely in the mornings and during the day, using a variety of techniques. The Bear should be eating berries and other soft and hard mast at this time of year, so we'll be trying to spot and stalk in on them. We may also hunt some waterholes for bear. This area has a pretty high occurence of color phase black bears.

For Whitetail we will be hunting the evenings and our primary method of hunting will be hunting from treestands overlooking trails heading to some of the many Alfalfa fields in this area. This area has some good bucks, probably a few of which will still be in velvet right now. One of the neat things about hunting this time period is that the bucks are still in their summer routines and somewhat predictable. We'll just how predictable they are!

If interested in hunting with this outfitter, contact:

- Longleaf Hunting Adventures Web Site -

Equipment
I'm shooting a Martin Jaguar bow, set at 67 lbs. Arrows are 29-inch Easton 3-60 ACC's, and I'm trying out Simmons LandShark 160 Grain 2-blade broadheads for the first time.

Joshua Flournoy owns and manages the Livehunts.com web site. He also arranges exciting hunts through his business Longleaf Hunting Adventures. Joshua resides in east Texas with his wife and four children.

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