2014 Colockum cow tags special permit

[stevemiller]

  Me too! 

[HoofsandWings]

Figuring that only 1 in 15 of the cow permit holders actually kill a cow and in years when the weather does not cooperate, 1 in 20, the number of hunters shooting a cow are not that high.

I haven't looked over recent statistics for Colockum but historically cow permit holders are way more successful than the numbers you're showing.  Am I missing something?

Someone else is. Harvest success for Colockum antlerless elk is much higher; around 75%.

75 percent? 30 years ago, I used to go up there and never saw a cow. Never saw a bull either.
The hunting must be improving there if people are actually shooting cows. I am going to let all of my buddies know, so they all put in for those permits.

Did I miss anyone in the list below?   

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
Colville Indian Reservation
Cowlitz
Hoh Indian Reservation
Jamestown S'Klallam Indian Reservation
Kalispel Indian Reservation
Lower Elwha Indian Reservation
Lummi Indian Reservation
Makah Indian Reservation
Muckleshoot Indian Reservation
Nisqually Indian Reservation
Nooksack Indian Reservation
Port Gamble Indian Reservation
Port Madison Reservation (Suquamish Indian Reservation)
Puyallup Indian Reservation
Quileute Indian Reservation
Quinault Indian Reservation
Samish Indian Reservation
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Reservation
Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation
Skokomish Indian Reservation
Snoqualmie Indian Reservation
Spokane Indian Reservation
Squaxin Island Indian Reservation
Stillaguamish Indian Reservation
Swinomish Indian Reservation
Tulalip Indian Reservation
Upper Skagit Indian Reservation
Yakama Indian Reservation

[jason stevens]

Best part about the hype is everyone and there friends will apply and it will be like rush hour traffic.

[Bob33]

Figuring that only 1 in 15 of the cow permit holders actually kill a cow and in years when the weather does not cooperate, 1 in 20, the number of hunters shooting a cow are not that high.

I haven't looked over recent statistics for Colockum but historically cow permit holders are way more successful than the numbers you're showing.  Am I missing something?

Someone else is. Harvest success for Colockum antlerless elk is much higher; around 75%.

75 percent? 30 years ago, I used to go up there and never saw a cow. Never saw a bull either.
The hunting must be improving there if people are actually shooting cows. I am going to let all of my buddies know, so they all put in for those permits.

Hunt 2220 in 2012: Colockum antlerless elk, Modern Firearm. October 31 through November 4. Forty permits. Thirty-seven hunters reported. Twenty-eight elk reported killed. 28/37 = 75.676%, which is pretty close to 75%.

[D-Rock425]

 

[Rainier10]

The archery guys are lower than that.  Hunt 2268 in 2012, 50 permits, 44 reported only 36 of those even hunted and 15 were successful for 41.7%.  I think that number is swayed though since not everyone reported and not everyone hunted, so for 50 permits given out on 15 cows were killed which is actually a success rate of 30%.

[bowhunterforever]

Anybody know the success rate for muzzleloader from the last couple years?

[Rainier10]

Anybody know the success rate for muzzleloader from the last couple years?

2012 it was hunt number 2296, gmu 328and 329, 30 permits, 29 reported, 23 cows taken, 79.3% success.