9-14 SS Mulie Hunting

 Dale Denney is an outfitter and guide who owns Bear Paw Outfitters in Colville, WA.With the mule deer season coming up, you might want to pay close attention, given that you’re a mule deer hunter, to the techniques that Dale explains in a conversation that I recently had with him.  Let me confess, before you listen to this, that I have never hunted a mule deer. I have rattled for Whitetail, bugled for elk but am clueless about mulies. My dad always said there’s no such thing as a dumb question, hope you agree. “How you get them to come in? Mule deer are not like white tails or elk where they do as many mating or rutting calls. it is not as proven of a method to hunt them. We do a lot of glassing and spotting. We get in the country where they like to live and we do a lot of glassing. It’s a matter of knowing what areas are good mule deer areas and then using optics to their fullest potential. That is how you are consistently successful. So you do some glassing, then spot and stalk? If they are out of range. Sometimes they are within range when you spot them. If you position yourself in good areas lots of times when you see a deer he will be within range so you don’t always have to stalk. Basically that is the scenario. You spot and then you stalk or spot and then you shoot.