palouse late buck

[BULLBLASTER]

The last 3-4 days of this permit season should be amazing! Especially if we.get some good snow! I'm helping 2 close family friends with the permit and very excited!

[Chesapeake]

Both my Dad and I got the letters this year. He's got it a few years he's drawn. I've got those same letters for some of the cow elk tags I've drawn. Also had the Feds send me envilopes for duck and goose wings, sea duck wings, ect..... over the years. I just do what they ask, its never hard or time consuming. I mailed duck and goose wings for 2 years before they sent me a thank you letter and said that 2 years was all they could use a person for the program.

I dont see why a person would think the deer herd should be poor and suffering before they do any studies. I think studies on healthy herds would be just as, if not more, important than studies on poor herds.

[andersonjk4]

I have been drawn for this permit many times and have gotten the letter and the tooth envelope every time.  Like said before if you make the cuts in the gums as they say the teeth pull out fairly easily.  The whole permit area added a general late season (3 point or better) back about 2000 and that general late season lasted until 2008 when they went to a permit only late season.  With the general late season over those 8 or so years the buck population was hit really hard every year.  I've hunted 139 every year since 1995 and I noticed a significant decrease in the quantity and size of bucks in the areas I hunted when there was a general late season.  Since they Incorporated the late season by permit only the quantity and quality of bucks has improved in my opinion.  I'm all for the permit only late season.  The Palouse area is much more open and accessible than the units to the north with general late seasons.  So I don't think the buck population survived as well as they do up north with the general late season. 

[Jonathan_S]

That is a great tag.  I know a few people who have really capitalized on some mature bucks down there Late Season.  Good luck to the tag holders.