Hunting Washington Forum

I’ve only boiled/simmered two skulls in my life, so I’m no professional, but I put some Dawn dish soap, and some laundry detergent with Oxiclean in while they simmered. After two years, they are still whiter than the ones that I paid to have bugs/maceration do, and I didn’t have to worry about the antlers coming back missing all their natural color.

Strategy question for ID non-res elk draw:

This is from the ID Fish & Game: "All first choices will be evaluated first, and tags will be issued if there is still quota available for that hunt choice. After all first choices are evaluated, the draw returns to the lowest random number application and evaluates second choices – skipping those that have already won from the first choice or where no quota is available for their second hunt choice, and issuing tags to those that have quota available for that hunt choice. That process is then repeated for the third, fourth, and fifth choices."

That is a different process from: when my number gets to the front of the line, all my choices are reviewed and I get my lowest numbered choice for a zone that still has tags available. This type of draw encourages me to rank my choices from best hunt to fifth worst, with some incentive to include a zone that is more likely to have tags available later in the draw.

The Idaho process makes a difference in how a guy chooses which hunts to apply for. It discourages me from choosing my favorite/best units as choices 1,2,3, etc. because those zones are likely to all be drawn as someone else's first choice. Thus, I think I should rank a mid-range hunt fairly high in my choices, so that when my number is called, I have a better chance of drawing a tag.

Put my first choice as a hard-to-draw hunt with my second choice as a mid-range hunt or put the mid-range as my first choice or choose all great zones for all my choices?

Thoughts, opinions, or comments? Not asking for which zone you'd choose, just asking if anyone is willing to share their basic strategy.

Quote from: buglebuster on Yesterday at 01:33:21 PM

If you boiled it, you may never get it all out

Did not boil it.  I did simmer for about 1/2hr while I was cleaning the meat off it.

Gotcha. Same method, same results.

Quote from: Barehunter on Yesterday at 01:28:02 PM

Quote from: Tbar on Yesterday at 01:18:22 PM

No.  Very common in the leo world to use outside the agency contracts.

It just does not seem right for a state agency to be funded by the state. to be focusing resources on a private companys property and
not state property. I dont have problem with game wardens checking the private companies property once in awhile but focusing on property
is not fare for the rest of the state.

It's my understanding that the private land companies (timber companies mostly) will fund entire FTE positions.  These positions don't dedicate 100% of their time to the private, therefore the public is getting some services for free.  Obviously the amount of free services would be dictated by how much time is left over after meeting the obligations of the private company. 

Maybe I'm wrong....but that is my understanding.  It's not like they are taking the limited resource and dedicating it the private.  The private is supplimenting the already limited resource.

100% correct. Public and private landowners can and do pay WDFW for enhanced patrol services. This often results in OT pay to the officer so you are actually getting even more coverage then if the contract didn't exist.

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When a single hunter is checked multiple times by at least 3 different warden in a span of 3 weeks i think the limited resources are being focused on one small unit and not the rest of the region.