Newbie to the forum and relatively new to hunting deer in D7. I have been hunting the lower Kaiser pass area, wishon, courtright, mushroom rock, dinkey creek area with no success. I have seen spikes and two possible legal bucks but they wouldn't pull their heads out of the trees before it was too late? Anyhow, with the semi-recent storm will the deer have started their migration to lower elevation or with the temps going back up do you feel 6000ft + is still ideal vas 3000ft or so?Not asking for "secret spots" just best guesses on general elevation and if they might be on the migration routes.Thanks!
D7 Migration
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d7destroyer
, Oct 13 2011 11:08 AM
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 11:08 AM
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 12:02 PM
I don't believe the "Big Boys" will come down until they are forced to by the weather, and I don't think we have had weather that bad yet to do any forcinig. Just my opinion. Sure, some of the little ones, and maybe the does, may be moving down, but those aren't the ones you want to shoot anyway. In my opinion, if you are seeing lots of does. you aren't going to be seeing the "Big Boys" as they just aren't running with the does yet.
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 12:30 PM
awahnee, my buddy whacked a 175lb buck in his drive nice 6pt. Only problem I have with 7 is the amount of cats in that area. They are there just gotta get after them plenty of places to go around top of chowchilla river basin
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 01:58 PM
Cats? Like mountain lion cats?
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 02:13 PM
Or these cats. They are much more destructive than mountain lions.............. 
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Posted 13 October 2011 - 11:17 PM
Yes lions . But nothing is moving yet. But you can't get one on the sofa eating chips and watching tv . Keep trying.
You can hop but you can't hide. Yahi Bowmen. Its not how far you can shoot but how close to the game you get when you shoot. Sights we don't need any sights. Why waist time reloading when I can be making arrows.
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Posted 14 October 2011 - 03:01 AM
It was in the mid '80's that I discovered the migration route for the deer in Zone D7. One trail (and only 1 trail) that leads from the entire area surrounding Lake Thomas Edison down to the Hoffman Meadows area. Next week I'll finally be able to return and try my luck. I hunted that area for several years in the 80's and what I found was simple. Any type of rain brings down the does & yearlings. Once the weather clears up, they'll head back to the high country. The big boys won't come down unless they have long sever weather. The procession goes like this....First the does & yearlings. A day, or two, later the forks & 3 pointers come down. If the storm continues, it might take a week before the really big bucks come down from the high country. And they'll all head back up with extended good weather.
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