Archery blacktail hunters act now!!!

[archery288]

As for the blacktail season I don't really have a side in which I prefer over another... I don't really hunt blacktails as I like hunting whitetails because I can hunt them in the rut!  If you want to hunt an animal in the rut, figure out when and where you can - and do it!  

As for the season dates we have here in WA... Some of them may not be the best dates or the most ideal times to hunt with a given weapon - however, I will continue to take what the state gives us and I will try my hardest to be successful in that time frame!  I don't go out in the woods with the mindset, "Oh well, these aren't the ideal dates to be out here or the ideal time of the year, I sure hope I kill something because the state screwed us once again..."  

When I set foot in the woods my mindset is to enjoy the time we are given out there, and put in the effort that I worked so hard on during the off-season training for, and I am going to notch my tag if it's the last thing I do no matter the cirucmstances!  Not saying that anyone else on here isn't motivated to notch their tag each and every year, but I truly believe that the highly motivated one's such as myself, will figure out a way to be successful each and every year no matter what is thrown at them...  Sure it may be tough at times, but that's why it is called "hunting" and not "killing."  Just my   on the subject at hand...

[archery288]

I've seen post after post from bowhunters saying we all need to stick together. Threads like this cause a lot of hate and discontent between the groups. I think the whole idea should just go away.

Agreed!  All this thread is doing is getting everyone worked up on a subject that wont probably happen no matter the arguement's or complaints to the state...

[Dmanmastertracker]

 I only read the opening post on this, nothing in between but I might be able to save you some grief as a guy that hunts rifle and bow. Pull up the harvest data on the WDFW website and compare the archery harvest for each area, compared with rifle. With very few exceptions, the archery harvest success rates are very similar to the rifle success rates and the number of animals harvested each year stays about the same. Big changes such as you are proposing can shift those numbers dramatically in one season to a point where season's have to be cut way back for years after to recover the number of deer.

[M_ray]

I've seen post after post from bowhunters saying we all need to stick together. Threads like this cause a lot of hate and discontent between the groups. I think the whole idea should just go away.

I couldn't agree more Wea300mag! look at the muzzleloaders season  ... if anything changes that is where more opportunity should be placed! Well said Archery288  IMO there are plenty of other places and methods to hunt bucks in the rut! ... do your research and put yourself in front of them! sanjuankelso you are dreaming just leave it alone!

[Wea300mag]

We don't have to stick together only the one's who want to hunt bt in early november.

You have missed the boat.

[archery288]

We don't have to stick together only the one's who want to hunt bt in early november.

You have missed the boat.

  

[M_ray]

sanjuankelso There is a bigger picture than just your little backyard Blacktails ...so that is the boat you are missing! Archers across WA have the Elk rut, are you really that niave that you want the Blacktail rut too? You arent going to get both and you are going to divide the methods against one another so what people are saying is archers have it good now leave well enough alone! Do you think you are the first person that has thought of this? well I got news for you your not! and to get something you'll have to give something and you are crazy if you think all other archers want to give up the Elk rutt for Blacktails! This isn't our first Rodeo dude most of us have seen this before and more often than not the changes that are made do not turn out for the better, I think most really mean to say think about the bigger picture!

[M_ray]

Besides if you want to hunt them during the rut then do what I did this year buy a modern tag and hunt it with a bow! well OK lets say that was my intention at least before I knew I would spend 16 days hunting for moose with Huntnphool, but you get the point!

[Ray]

I hope nobody would be offended by my remarks. Actually I could care less.

I pretty much would like the archery season to stay the same on the blacktails in general. If there was a minor change to a couple of GMUS I wouldn't promote it or really be against it. Having said that - what we have today is fine by me. I did not get my dear this year yet. However I can live with the amount of time which is provided for archery hunters on blacktail deer today and the dates we are currently getting.

[Shedseeker]

I hope nobody would be offended by my remarks. Actually I could care less.

So which is it?

[M_ray]

I hope nobody would be offended by my remarks. Actually I could care less.

I pretty much would like the archery season to stay the same on the blacktails in general. If there was a minor change to a couple of GMUS I wouldn't promote it or really be against it. Having said that - what we have today is fine by me. I did not get my dear this year yet. However I can live with the amount of time which is provided for archery hunters on blacktail deer today and the dates we are currently getting.

I think this is what most are saying here too 

[Shedseeker]

I could care less if they shut down the whole archery blacktail season.

Hope nobody is offended

[blessed]

 
Sorry Shed, We, many of us have been working for 30 yrs. to get the seasons we have , You want to hunt the rut?
As the boy's have been saying, get a riffle tag and huntit with your bow. It's simple

[Shedseeker]

Sorry Shed, We, many of us have been working for 30 yrs. to get the seasons we have , You want to hunt the rut?
As the boy's have been saying, get a riffle tag and huntit with your bow. It's simple

I was just being an idiot .  I don't hunt blacktails, I'm strictly a whitetail and splittail kind of guy.

[PA BEN]

Gun hunters do not like bow hunters That's a fact!! We should all come together and have one voice. But it well never happen. Let sleeping dogs lay.