Hunting Washington Forum

There's a picture on here somewhere of a moose crossing the Wynochee River allegedly.

The Stone Glacier Skyline (1st gen) is about as minimalistic as it gets for a fully enclosed harness. I personally strongly prefer forward opening over rearward.

On a side note I happen to have one brand new still in the package that I'd make you a great deal on if you're interested 

So what happened when you went to the shop?


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Sounds like you got a great rig that does what you want. But if your putting an 02 gasser up against any diesel it will be a loser every time. 200,000 miles on a set of plugs on one of those rigs is amazing.

I think the "spike only" management plan stems from three things; too many hunters, not enough elk, and WDFW wants to keep selling elk tags OTC to everyone who will buy one (because WA hunters kind of demand it). 
I don't think there is anything nefarious about it.  Like you said; there are more elk hunters than there are elk.  I don't think that is going to change.  The only way to sell that many tags, but limit the bull harvest so that it doesn't dip into the carrying capacity is to say "You can have a tag, but you can only shoot a spike". Spike elk are generally easy to identify (even for novice hunters), so it's not a hard policy to enforce (for the most part). 
The only other option would be to change all elk hunting to a draw system.  That would probably manage the elk herds better, but would ruin all those Elk Camp traditions that people have been partaking in for 100 years in WA. 
As for gobs of big bulls dying of old age... probably not.  Like was said earlier; I think the tribes take care of that "problem" for the most part.