pasayten high buck hunters in closed areas of harts pass.

[pianoman9701]

Contact the local WDFW officer. With that number of violators he should take an interest.

Yes, and tell him that they're harvesting geoducks, too!

[bobcat]

It would at least be beneficial to have a game warden show up in that area regularly, talk to the hunters, and make sure they know where the boundary is, and if they're outside of it, let them know they are only to be hunting bears.

[3nails]

 An experience this year from another wilderness; I was packing out the buck I had killed opening morning when I came across 3 hunters hiking into the same area. It was an area where the wilderness boundary literally cut the ridge in half. We chatted as they admired the buck I had killed and I brought up the boundary to them. They got awful quiet then one of them says with a smile, "who really knows where the boundary is?" "Legal hunters do" I replied. They turned and left with that. I am convinced that they intended to hunt the whole ridge so there is no doubt in my mind this mentality exists in a lot of hunters in other areas as well, like the Pasayten.

[bassquatch]

Interesting thread but what's all the fuss? Heck just read ANY thread on the High Hunt in the Back Country section and you'll know that you have to hike in 20+ miles and sleep on near 90* hillsides to even HOPE of catching a glimpse of a legal buck! All these fellers by the roads must be doing is 'training' for the General Season in a month... 

[Methow Bowman]

It sounds like a couple people didn't catch that Phone calls etc. are being made and
Finding out after my calls yesterday that there were already calls made this weekend weekend.........

Yes I spoke with Olympia this afternoon, then with Ranger Mike in Winthrop who has put me through to
Warden Cal Treser.
This is nothing new to that area when the regs called out the pasayten unit it was the same way.
My brother and I were running into these guys in the Bowl across from Aaron Lees base camp 20+
years ago thinking they were in the pasayten.
This all has a long history and the wardens are aware of it but as one post said they are busy with the Vast area
and noted that the road hunting and hunting the face of the ridge has not yielded many deer for the ones that don't hunt the back side because of the climb they have.

Happy Hunting

[boneaddict]

Contact the local WDFW officer. With that number of violators he should take an interest.

Yes, and tell him that they're harvesting geoducks, too!

The irony of your statement is I have found fossilized clams in the area within thephoto that knocker has posted

[Methow Bowman]

It's the point of ethics,
I took my buck on the 4th.

[Knocker of rocks]

It sounds like a couple people didn't catch that Phone calls etc. are being made and
Finding out after my calls yesterday that there were already calls made this weekend weekend.........

Yes I spoke with Olympia this afternoon, then with Ranger Mike in Winthrop who has put me through to
Warden Cal Treser.
This is nothing new to that area when the regs called out the pasayten unit it was the same way.
My brother and I were running into these guys in the Bowl across from Aaron Lees base camp 20+
years ago thinking they were in the pasayten.
This all has a long history and the wardens are aware of it but as one post said they are busy with the Vast area
and noted that the road hunting and hunting the face of the ridge has not yielded many deer for the ones that don't hunt the back side because of the climb they have.

Happy Hunting

Really not getting the point you are making? You just like the guy that started this thread seem to think because you are bow hunting you should not see other hunters? Might be best for the sport if you just left the hills after a few weeks. Doesn't do any of us much good when the lib hikers have pics and are complaining about arrows stuck in the animals running around.

He doesn't like hunters hunting out of their legal area.

It's not complicated and it's the law

[Methow Bowman]

Exactly

[chris90]

It sounds like a couple people didn't catch that Phone calls etc. are being made and
Finding out after my calls yesterday that there were already calls made this weekend weekend.........

Yes I spoke with Olympia this afternoon, then with Ranger Mike in Winthrop who has put me through to
Warden Cal Treser.
This is nothing new to that area when the regs called out the pasayten unit it was the same way.
My brother and I were running into these guys in the Bowl across from Aaron Lees base camp 20+
years ago thinking they were in the pasayten.
This all has a long history and the wardens are aware of it but as one post said they are busy with the Vast area
and noted that the road hunting and hunting the face of the ridge has not yielded many deer for the ones that don't hunt the back side because of the climb they have.

Happy Hunting

Really not getting the point you are making? You just like the guy that started this thread seem to think because you are bow hunting you should not see other hunters? Might be best for the sport if you just left the hills after a few weeks. Doesn't do any of us much good when the lib hikers have pics and are complaining about arrows stuck in the animals running around.

No blood, no problem for you type..... You have more arrows and you have no problem sticking them in the hind end of more animals. End result all hunters get a bad name.......Thanks for that.

wow I can't say I have ever stuck an animal in the backside and just walked away cause of no blood. Every animal I have ever shot with a bow have blown clean through both lungs and the animal doesn't make it out of sight. You want to rip on bow hunters and think they are the only ones who could do wrong? Because clearly you could never make a bad shot with a rifle? Can't believe your ignorance. What about all the rifle guys we all hear about taking 10 600 yard shots just trying to hit an animal on the next ridge? You don't think people like that can wound an animal? Think about it! Don't just rip on one group and think you do no wrong! I hear more people say they have wounded and lost animals with a rifle than I hear bow hunters complain about the same. Just a fact. Either way any group can make a mistake so don't single one or the other out from the rest.

[boneaddict]

Cboom you are out of line with your comments. 

[boneaddict]

Thank you

[R2Rcoulee]

So were there guys deer hunting the hillside outside the Pasayten up at Harts Pass again this year for the High Hunt?

[Boss .300 winmag]

This will be a good recap from 2014.

[Eric M]

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