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Butchering, Cooking, Recipes / Re: Pork belly burnt ends
« Last post by Fidelk on Today at 10:51:15 AM »
This inspires me to run my smoker for two days next time I fire it up, Day 1......pork belly.......Day 2, pork butt.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Hunting by Republic/Ferry county
« Last post by Rutnbuxnbulls on Today at 10:45:10 AM »
Quote from: jstickel on Yesterday at 11:22:45 PM
Have never been hunting there. We live a couple hours south of there and really never had to go to far from home. Kids sports schedule is usually tight when rifle season comes along but we still get a day or so for my son to hunt. That is why I muzzleload. My 15 year old son filled his doe tag. He still has his regular tag. We actually have a weekend off and we are going to just take off to a unit open for late buck. Spur of the moment kind of thing, whatever. Going to pack a tent but prepared to stay at a hotel if one is near by wherever we end up, don't matter mom is not with us so we go wherever we feel like. Thought I'd start by republic area and go from there. Not asking for secret spots but a general idea of where to start. We are experienced hunters and looking at areas that are new to us. WE ARE NOT WESTSIDERS!
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Does he bow hunt? 101 is archery only for late buck, opens today.

The late rifle units are 105, 108, 111, 113, 117, 121, and 124.

That might change your plans a bit but lots of public lands to hunt anywhere. Good luck guys!
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Upland Birds / Newbie quail hunter
« Last post by Bob33 on Today at 10:42:21 AM »
I’ve focused on hunting big game most of my life and would like to explore upland bird hunting. I’m dogless so my aspirations aren’t high. I expect to do lots of walking and hopefully happen on some birds occasionally.

It seems that quail might be a good specie to start with.

The hunting would need to take place on public land or one of the Private Land opportunities listed on the WDFW website: https://privatelands.wdfw.wa.gov/private_lands/. Perhaps over time I could obtain individual private land permission but that’s not something I would count on.

I’m interested in hearing thoughts on what part of the state to focus us. In looking at the private land opportunities it seems most are in the Sprague/Colfax/Pullman/Lewiston parts of the state.

If nothing else I will get to know some parts of the state better, and get lots of exercise.

Thank you.

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Butchering, Cooking, Recipes / Re: Pork belly burnt ends
« Last post by pianoman9701 on Today at 10:35:23 AM »
Looks great. I love pork belly in ma belly.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Sure glad cougars are solitary animals.
« Last post by pianoman9701 on Today at 10:33:47 AM »
Cubs will stay with their mother for up to two years until she kicks them out. After that, the juveniles will often stay together for a bit. Adult Toms don't tolerate other Toms, females, or juveniles, unless the female is in heat. @bearpaw Maybe Dale will chime in.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Shooting someone else's injured buck - etiquette question
« Last post by pianoman9701 on Today at 10:19:22 AM »
Quote from: CamoDup on Today at 07:31:15 AM
People who shoot a deer that has already been shot by another hunter then claim it for themselves are not morally correct in my opinion. Whatever happened to helping out another hunter and having some morals?

If someone else shoots a deer and you decide to "put it down" before they can deliver the final blow or just wait for the first shot to do its work just doesn't sit right with me. Legal? Yes. But in my opinion it's chicken $hit.

I know there's a million different situations but what I'm saying if the original shooter was on his tail and has a chance to kill it then it's their animal.

I've seen and heard of a ton of different instances where people's bucks have been "stolen". It's happened to me ON A QUALITY DRAW TAG! It happened to my boss last season, it happened to my bosses son this year.

Every situation is different I get that, but I'm saying where the original shooter knows where the animal is and has already put one in him... that's his deer.

 :twocents:

But the original shooter gave up and left, with the animal wounded. Not putting it out of its misery would've been "Chicken chit". The OP did exactly the right thing. And I bet if the original shooter had shown up, he'd have let him have the animal, too. That's the kind of ethics he showed in the first place by putting a suffering animal down.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Sure glad cougars are solitary animals.
« Last post by dreadi on Today at 10:18:29 AM »
Definitely never happens.





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Deer Hunting / Re: Shooting someone else's injured buck - etiquette question
« Last post by HillHound on Today at 09:44:43 AM »
If you can’t find the other hunter and exhaust all resources available to do so then I would keep it. I had an elk stolen from me, but a much different situation.
 I made a long shot across a draw and hit the elk high. Dropped it and he slid down the hill. Tried to get up and his back half was paralyzed. I sent another at him and missed as he was struggling to get up but just sliding on the steep hillside since he had no use of his back legs. Instead of continuing to shoot from that distance I dropped down out of sight and crossed the draw. On my way up I hear two more shots. Weird I thought, all the elk took off. I get up there as another guy is tagging my elk and his entourage of 5 other dudes and a kid are coming down the hill. I asked why he killed and tagged my paralyzed elk? He said exactly what some have said “doesn’t matter who shoots it, it’s who kills it.” About that time his party showed up and made sure I knew I was outnumbered and their word against mine. I proceeded to tell them what pieces of *censored* they were and glad to know their kid was going to grow up to be a big piece of *censored* just like them since that was what they were teaching him.
Some people aren’t worth the air they breathe.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Shooting someone else's injured buck - etiquette question
« Last post by Bullkllr on Today at 09:37:09 AM »
Granted it is hard to say without actually being there. With the facts available this seems far from a "taking someone's deer" scenario. The guys who winged it took off. Sounds like they may have been clear across a drainage with no way to contact them anyway.  What we don't know is how much much time passed. OP seemed to think the original shooter had cleared out.

And I don't think the days of helping others out are over. This includes putting an injured animal down for a hunter who is still actively looking for it. I've done it twice for strangers. Both times they were grateful the animals weren't lost.
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Deer Hunting / Re: Shooting someone else's injured buck - etiquette question
« Last post by HUNTIN4SIX on Today at 09:26:58 AM »
These stories always have two sides....OP said after 15min shooter appeared then walk away.  Does that mean he was done?  Depending on the circumstances, the worst thing you can do is shoot a deer and run right up on it.  I think of being in that situation as the hunter who shot the buck.  So I shoot the deer, it runs up over a ridge to another area...I immediately go to ridge to look for running deer.....nothing.  I would disappear too, because I went back to check the spot the deer took the hit and i know the deer will bed and get stoved up at this point I have time on my side. I might call my hunting partner.  As I investigate the scene i would pick apart the spot like a detective, while I wait for the deer to calm down.  So in the hour time (which i commonly wait) my deer gets gutted and taken out from underneath me by the "responsible hunter".  Nothing against the poster, just wanted to throw out a plausible scenario.  I have actually knee capped a deer just like that.  Deer dropped in the tall grass so I couldn't get another shot.  My 1 hour rule of thumb came in handy as i impatiently waited (hardest thing to do).  Hour later i crept up on the deer and it was literally so stoved up it couldn't hardly walk.  The shot grazed the knee cap. 
Two problems I've seen countless times..... Hunters get to excited after the shot and push their deer to the abyss or hunters do a quick search for blood and find very little to none so they give up.  I have always viewed blood as a bonus.  That mindset has allowed me to recover many injured deer i otherwise might not have found. :twocents:
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