hancock land

[trophyhunt]

just discovered my trail cam gone (stolen) up patterson road in orting > what has happened to the hunting community? if you here of one for sale cheap in the orting area let me know please. i can describe it. realize i risked my money by puttin a cam out butn thought maybe i would get lucky. damn thiefs

that sucks, and the worst part is, your prob right about it being other hunters!

[high voltage]

no. un fortunately i didnt consider the risk well enough. guess i figured every one was as honest as i was. plus thoughrt i was the only one in there

[MLhunter1]

People seem fairly honest up in the tree farm.  I've had at least a dozen guys look at one of my cams as they walk by and not mess with em.

[high voltage]

That's how it should be right. If you see somebody else's stuff just give a wave and walk on by

[Crunchy]

Buddy lost a cam on Hancock and would swear it was Clyde that took it lol.  As he was headed out of the timber from checking the came he ran into Clyde on the trail. Told him that he had a cam in and pointed to the timber.  Next week went up and it was gone.

[rasbo]

penty of folk go in there without passes,patterson area is real bad for it...

[JustinC]

The deer hunting has been going down hill since they opened it back up for late buck. We used to have a draw only late season and the deer quality was better.

[jackmaster]

the qaulity of the deer, well i should say the quanity of the deer have gone down, while the elk numbers have soared, the biggest problem is cats and yotes and the lovely yogi. it should go back to permit only for deer during extended buck, it was that way years ago before you could buy the yearly pass. my family, have all bought permits for years in there, kapowsin and eatonville, yes its pretty simple to get a two point, but a great big hog of a buck, well your gonna have to work for them, unless your one of the lucky guys to be bombing down the road and an absolute hog is standing in the middle of the day in a brandnew clearcut, and you put the smack to him. its pretty sad how many land access permits they give out now. i know its all about the money, but if they cut it down to 500 permits for all of hancock property and made it permit only for late buck, in 3 or 4 years it would be a blacktail huntn haven, they could even do a permit draw for access permits, so everyone has a crack at one. it would be nice if they would allow some true predator control programs out there, hounds, trapping and baiting perhaps....... i didnt renew this year, enjoy the rat race  and a word of advice, you dont have to drive a thousand miles behind the gates to find good huntn  sometimes closer is better......

[JustinC]

Jackmaster,
They have been doing annual passes for a really long time in there. When my grandpa (Vern) was still there, you could also buy 1, 3 and 10 day passes.

Hunting was much better up there back then imo.

[jackmaster]

Jackmaster,
They have been doing annual passes for a really long time in there. When my grandpa (Vern) was still there, you could also buy 1, 3 and 10 day passes.

Hunting was much better up there back then imo.

I remember those days, yes it defiantly has went down hill since then. The elk numbers and of course the predator numbers have went up though, did you grandpa Vern use to work the gate?

[Igottanewknee]

Vern helped me get a buck out that was about 6 miles back in on a gated road. He just happen to come up that road. I also found a stick of plastic explosive (in a sausage type container that said "high explosive") where they were putting in a spur and told Vern about it. Vern said somebody is losing a job!!!

[high voltage]

Like the idea of the predator hunts up there. Though I think that's along way away. Can you imagine how much fun a bear bait would be up there. And that's not the only place in this state that needs to rethink the no baiting laws.

[gotshot]

They used to put out bait in blue barrels and then tell you where they were.