So I finally drew a tag. An eastern Washington archery any bull tag. After much debate, I've decided to start a thread to document what could be for me, a once in a lifetime tag.
I'm sure your wondering why this is an OIL tag. It's no goat, sheep or moose. You see, I'll be moving east once the season is over. That's right, tree stand whitetails from here on. As a matter of fact, I waited until 10pm the night of the deadline to apply. I decided that if I drew, I'd just beg my wife to stay for my last hurrah.
Fast forward a few weeks, and a few thousand " draw not run" checks. I'm sitting at work and I get a text that says, results out, but site issue, call this number and give them your wild ID. I excitedly dial the number and the nice WDFW employee asks for my number. I give it to him and he says " the bad news is you didn't draw your second choice, the good news is you drew your first!" . I couldn't believe it.
I almost immediately started obsessing over google earth and topo maps looking for areas to check out. I found a few and off I went to put in a couple cameras.
I figured I would have to move them around a little to find some elk but turns out, I scored right away. I waited about 3 weeks and returned to find 750 pics between the 2 cameras. One spot loaded with cows and calves, the other.....bulls.
Of course this wouldn't be a hunt thread without pics, so here are some samples of the trail cam pics. I'll leave out the cows and calves cause everyone knows what they look like.
Some small, some pretty good, and then there's this guy. I'll show a couple of this guy cause if you are like me you'll want to see a couple angles.
I almost fell over when I saw this one. I've got about 50 pics of him. If you care to guess the score, fire away. There are 3 decent bulls and one big one. I couldn't find pics of the 4th 6x6.
So there you have it. The beginning of my Washington swan song. Follow along if you like. I'll update as I scout more and will try to update during the hunt too. Wish me luck.
