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UNIT 102 Ruby Mountains To be auctioned at the March 8th, 2012, Livermore-Pleasanton Mule Deer Foundation Annual Banquet.  The first tag will be auctioned and the high bidder will have the opportunity to buy the second tag at the same price.  To bid by phone contact Randy Morrison at (707) 592 9998, prior to the [...]

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Mountain lions are an essential element of California ecosystems. Unfortunately they are not currently managed in any form. Although the most important cougar prey species, blacktail and mule deer, are managed, a failure to manage the main species that eats deer makes deer management less predictable.   Other states have progressive, scientific methods of managing wildlife and consider mountain lions [...]

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Got this email message from Paul Cardoza regarding the post, “The Good Old Days.” Rich, here’s the pic of me holding the buck I came across at the Sports show in Frisco, 1981. Stan Escover had the 9×12 photo that we compared Rowells buck with the buck one I’m holding in this pic. The picture that [...]

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During the BC hunt, I was able to video bucks chasing does on two occasions. Watch these videos and you’ll see for your own eyes that whitetail bucks are more aggressive breeders. The first clip is a good-sized muley buck and the second clip a smaller whitetail buck. These deer were filmed within a mile of each other. [...]

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The middle of November is both frustrating and exhilarating. Duck season is always ebbing as pheasant season begins. Yesterday morning was classic. After three hours of working at bagging  a mallard, a stiff late-morning wind brought a flock of mallards within range and I managed to bring one down. The final approach duck boat is [...]

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Saturday morning Aug 17, 2000 the opening morning of the CA x-12 deer season. Rob and I had drawn archery tags for the unit and planned to hunt just west of the Nevada border near Lobdale Reservoir, known for it’s population of grayling trout. We set up camp about two miles east of the reservoir [...]

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Whether hunting public lands in an X zone, D zone or B zone, your best bet is to find a camp site that is remote enough that other hunters won’t be in your face. Once you locate such a site, the next key is to set up your camp early enough to give yourself a [...]

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  When dreaming mule deer bucks,  you may picture themselves in the Colorado/ Wyoming mountains or the Utah/Arizona canyon country. But if you’ve hunted California’s eastern-slope mule deer, you know that our State can provide excellent hunting for respectable mule deer in a remote and picturesque setting.  With a variety of habitat types and bioregions, California [...]

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Last year’s Nevada buck. We’ll be looking to do better this year.Next week it will be back to Nevada. I’ve got my Nevada landowner tag again and this year I’ve saved it all for the last ten days of the season. If you followed my blog last year, you know that I hunted both the [...]

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Fernando was one of our two packers. Randy was the other. They work for Kennedy Meadows Pack Station. The owner, Matt Bloom, is very accommodating. This was a very large bear and we saw him two days in a row. We observed about six bears in all. One bruin left his track near camp, but we [...]

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