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Out Of State Hunting / Re: Idaho Moose Tag Area 1-1 Hunt 3001
« Last post by dewandgin on Today at 08:04:39 PM »
On the day to head over we found our first choice for camp spot occupied but the second was open so we set up camp and did some exploring and found this old concrete structure next to Big Creek
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Out Of State Hunting / Re: Idaho Moose Tag Area 1-1 Hunt 3001
« Last post by dewandgin on Today at 08:01:37 PM »
We marked some areas to examine and ate some awesome food and we did answer the age old question..
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Out Of State Hunting / Re: Idaho Moose Tag Area 1-1 Hunt 3001
« Last post by dewandgin on Today at 07:59:41 PM »
So after making it home and getting caught up with work and then leaving for Maui for ten days I am finally getting a chance to write the story of my Idaho moose hunt.

 I made it over two times to scout and get the lay of the land and overall I really enjoyed the area and the people I did get a chance to speak with all were very friendly.

First time we went over it was very wet and overcast but identified some areas and seen some animals
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Waterfowl / Re: 3 pintails
« Last post by metlhead on Today at 07:54:28 PM »
Bettin man myself. I wager that I'm gonna hammer the birds this weekend to yer zero! Man I love bad choices
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Other Big Game / Re: King of the mountain caught sleeping
« Last post by Rufous on Today at 07:52:52 PM »
I just watched the video. Great cat! Beautiful country. I sure miss hunting there.
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Scopes and Optics / Re: Real world feedback needed: Rangefinder Binos
« Last post by jeffro on Today at 07:52:05 PM »
I didn’t reed all the reply’s
But if I can see it, it’s dead
No rangefinders needed
No clicks no adjustments
Just common sense hold over
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Elk Hunting / Re: Willipa Hills Antlerless tag
« Last post by b0bbyg on Today at 07:42:48 PM »
Lots of elk seen in three days. Filled my cow tag yesterday and can point someone with a cow tag to an area that has 40 or so roaming around.  Times are tough for folks and a freezer full can sometimes bring a bit of relief.  Shoot me a message.
Great offer,  :tup:
If you could chase them one unit over I would be all ears.  :chuckle:
Going out tomorrow to try some new 530 areas
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Deer Hunting / Re: Blue Tongue and EHD outbreak in NE Washington
« Last post by HUNTIN4SIX on Today at 07:33:53 PM »
https://idfg.idaho.gov/article/what-ehd-means-clearwater-region-white-tailed-deer-hunters


My property and the thousands of acres we have access to are mostly in 8.
Daily visible deer numbers are down.
We haven't started busting brush yet to see how bad it is... almost don't want to..had some good bucks running around this year.

I wish our fish and wildlife would publish something similar.

They haven’t even addressed blue tongue....kinda weird.  They are more worried about getting the gps coordinates on where you killed your buck.  Losing an entire population and partial year class of deer in the NE due to blue tongue and here we are freaking out over 6 cases of cwd.  Not minimizing cwd, I just think they could have used proactive management instead of now reactive management with the blue tongue crisis.  I don’t think they really give a rip.

And yes a 3rd grader could have seen blue tongue coming well before it started.... :bash: :twocents:

Not sure what they can do to address ehd or blue tongue. They are spread by midge bites and unlike cwd they are not spread by contact with other animals. CWD they can attempt to minimize contact between animals, but not much they can do to reduce contact with midges.  Fortunately the midges die with the first frost and also ehd and blue are not 100 percent fatal. CWD is 100 percent fatal and spreads and kills year around.

Totally agree with the physical midge aspect of controlling some of this.  Not much can be done.  I guess I’m thinking a little deeper on it?  That’s why I bring up the management aspect.  We can almost predict these droughty years in the NE where blue tongue is almost predictable.  I personally saw it come and saw it first hand on all of our property beginning in July.  So the no brainer is start managing immediately.  Example would be shut down doe seasons or go to some sort of antler restriction...take your pick?  I watched my neighbor the last six years hammering the heck out of every doe or buck that walked by taking new hunter to his property everyday.  This years lack of deer didn’t slow him.  If it walk it was dead.  With restrictions we could have preserved what was left.  Am I the only goofball that thinks like this?  We were just starting to recover from the last blue tongue epidemic. :dunno:
After working with wdfw for years I saw how everything was mismanaged by reaction.
Many states deal with both of these issues and still have healthy populations, there is nothing new under the sun on these subjects.  After hunting in many other states over the years, I’m always perplexed NE Wa can’t hold better deer numbers.

The first step in managing are deer herds is managing predators.  If you have a robust deer herd and you have a disease outbreak......they will fare better and recover faster.  The fact that our state refused to manage predators should tell you everthing you need to know.....  They don't care if we have deer to hunt.
:yeah:
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Guns and Ammo / Re: Seekins PH3
« Last post by HUNT JR on Today at 07:31:55 PM »
I have one in 6mm creed. I really like the rifle I have with the 20 inch barrel as I am going to get a suppressor for it. The rifle shoots well with the factory Berger ammo I am using (a little under 1 MOA) and I am reloading for it once I am through the factory ammo. The rifle isn't light but overall is a pretty solid weight. It shoots and feeds well out of the magazine. Mine doesn't feed perfectly if I just drop a round in the action as it catches before it gets to the chamber and I have to put my finger on it to get it to hit the ramp right.

I haven't shot mine on targets at any distance past 100 but I did kill 3 deer with it out to 350 this year and it was great and accurate. Overall I think it is a really nice rifle. The radial brake on it would need replaced if you shoot prone at all as it is a dust kicker.
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Totally agree. Why don’t we ask the people what the drinking age should be? Or speed limit? Or have people vote on what they Want building codes to be?
The people don’t always know best about topics they are not experts on!

They tried that when $30 vehicle tabs was on the ballot. Even tho the state voted Yes, King county just said “that doesn’t work for us” and poof, it was gone.
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