2nd deer Cypress

[lokidog]

I hope you are right about 40 pounds, maybe they are a LOT bigger on Cypress than here.  Our biggest doe has been 30 pounds of meat.  Not sure how you figure $60 tag?  Aren't they $73 including app? Guess I've never needed to look at the price of venison in the store... wouldn't even know where to look.      

Either way, hope you have a good time.  I've thought about heading over there sometime just to check things out.  When i first moved out here, I thought it would be neat to get a deer on every island

Bring those apples.   

I've heard about coyotes being sighted on Cypress, just an FYI.

[nocklehead]

I hope you are right about 40 pounds, maybe they are a LOT bigger on Cypress than here.  Our biggest doe has been 30 pounds of meat.  Not sure how you figure $60 tag?  Aren't they $73 including app?

dang quit reminding me of how much Ive already spent! Oh well, its alot more fun than going to costco!

[lokidog]

I hope you are right about 40 pounds, maybe they are a LOT bigger on Cypress than here.  Our biggest doe has been 30 pounds of meat.  Not sure how you figure $60 tag?  Aren't they $73 including app?

dang quit reminding me of how much Ive already spent! Oh well, its alot more fun than going to costco!

It's always fun checking out a new area.  And, it still costs less than therapy, though therapy is probably only a copay.   

[RB]

Ha ha, hope you guys that end up being successful like $2.50 a pound venison, and that's just for the tag.     We stopped applying for the second deer tag here since they went doe only for it and upped the cost to stupid level (imho).

Seriously though, if you are looking for an interesting hunt, I hope you have fun.  The weather can be a bear out here.  September isn't usually too bad (hot and dry), but be dang carefull in October and especially November as the wind/waves can be quite scary out there.  If Cypress is anything like Decatur food-wise, bring a gunny sack full of apples, smush a few of them near some game trails and you should have all the does you can shake a stick at coming by in a day or so.

Yes the price is fairly ridiculous, but compared to going to SE Alaska price wise it is cheaper. I have hunted up there several times and always come home with two Deer and alot of them are not much bigger than the island Deer here, so at $85 for license and $150 each for Deer tags plus flight (400-800), food (300), fuel (split with my brother and his friends 200). Paying $7.10 for application and $68 for the tag and $40 in fuel I can get a small Deer here for less than the price of one tag in SE and still have a fun adventure in my boat and be home the same night with the wife and kids 

[JackOfAllTrades]

I haven't lived in Anacortes for more than 12 years, but I've hunted Guemes in years past. A buddy has hunted Cypress and Guemes and taken 185# blacktails off both islands, (dressed). There should still be larger does and bucks. (at least there used to be)
 
This pair of garden fed bucks were spotted just last week on Fidalgo.
 
-Steve
 

[hillbillyhunting]

I don't like to do the math. We aren't hunting to save money on meat. I love eating deer meat, and would pay a premium price for meat of this quality, but do yourself a favor and don't calculate the cost of venison you harvested. Unless you don't practice shooting and shoot a deer in the back yard it's not going to pencil out to being a good deal. Think of how much we all pay for gas, ammo, tags, parking passes, etc. the cost of this tag was not a consideration for me. I'm doing it for the experience and a chance to put meat in the freezer while continuing to focus on a trophy with my regular ms tag. 

[bear hunter]

I don't like to do the math. We aren't hunting to save money on meat. I love eating deer meat, and would pay a premium price for meat of this quality, but do yourself a favor and don't calculate the cost of venison you harvested. Unless you don't practice shooting and shoot a deer in the back yard it's not going to pencil out to being a good deal. Think of how much we all pay for gas, ammo, tags, parking passes, etc. the cost of this tag was not a consideration for me. I'm doing it for the experience and a chance to put meat in the freezer while continuing to focus on a trophy with my regular ms tag. 

[RB]

I don't like to do the math. We aren't hunting to save money on meat. I love eating deer meat, and would pay a premium price for meat of this quality, but do yourself a favor and don't calculate the cost of venison you harvested. Unless you don't practice shooting and shoot a deer in the back yard it's not going to pencil out to being a good deal. Think of how much we all pay for gas, ammo, tags, parking passes, etc. the cost of this tag was not a consideration for me. I'm doing it for the experience and a chance to put meat in the freezer while continuing to focus on a trophy with my regular ms tag. 

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