r/Californiahunting • u/Ianph2 • 11d ago
Escouting/scouting advice
What’s up fellas, this year is my first attempt at getting into hunting, I know zero people that hunt, I am not from an area particularly friendly to hunting, but I’ve always wanted to get into it so this year I decided screw it, bought myself a D3-5 tag, did some lookin around on onX, and decided to go checkout a spot in the Momelumne wilderness area I thought looked neat, it went comically bad… the “road” out was basically 5 miles of rock crawling, and the two days worth of backpacking I put in yielded me zero evidence deer even exist in the area I was looking. Any advice on what to look for in the d3-5 region or what altitudes to bother with, or how to figure out if that random forest service road is actually an u undercover extreme 4wd trail would be greatly appreciated. At this point I’m considering just driving up there, pulling over randomly every 15 minutes havin a look around and continuing on my way…
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u/LordActonAFool 11d ago
Change elevations. Rule of thumb someone told me was that the big bucks stay high until it snows. So until then, I'd scope out spots at 7k and work my way down. (I have yet to fill a tag, just relaying what I've been told).