Everybody's late archery success

[bowhunterforever]

How did everbody who Bowhunted during the late hunts do? I ended up getting two whitetail doe's, i had a second deer tag. I got one on the 12/11 and the other on 12/15 right at last light. I just couldnt connect on the bucks i was after.OH well theres always next year.

[SpokaneSlayer]

I only got to go out 2 days.  Day one only deer I saw I bumped before shooting hours walking out.  Day 2 sat in a tree stand up near Mt Spokane on a buddy's property.  Nothing.  Tag soup for me this year.

[Antlershed]

Headed out friday to try and fill my tag. Still have a couple weeks left.

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Well I called in two different BT bucks and screwed up on both those shots. Got trail cam picks last night of the smaller buck. Ended up taking a doe on the 6th of Dec.

[BULLBLASTER]

got a 4xbroke whitetail... he picked a fight and lost i think. his ears were ripped and he had a softball sized absess on hos jaw with a stab wound.
got my doe in the early season.

[PolarBear]

Spent 4 days last week in Ferry County hunting in the cold.  (-1 in my ground blind on Sunday morning)  I saw more nice bucks (150"+) than I ever have.  I was at full draw, waiting for a clean shot, with a 175"+ 6x6 for over 5 minutes when he decided to back out the way he came.  I saw great bucks every day but they were all moving through so fast that I couldn't slow them down or get a clean shot on them.  I could have easily taken a bunch of 3 points and spikes, but why when there were so many good ones running around.  Oh well, I still have until the end of the month for blackies.  If I don't get with the program, this might be the first time in 25 or so years that I haven't shot a buck. 

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

Shot a doe on a landowner tag and shot my buck opening morning

[huntnphool]

I was at full draw, waiting for a clean shot, with a 175"+ 6x6 for over 5 minutes

Holy crap PB, I am lucky to hold mine for a minute and a half.

[hunt4]

Shot a doe on a landowner tag

WTF is this like farmer season how do you get land owner tags?  This state wants me to use my points to get an extra doe tag in areas with high doe to buck ratio but you can get a land owner tag and kill an extra deer just because you know someone who owns some land but sure the hell does not own the deer.... now isn't that special.  Sorry that just torks me.

I hunted as hard as ever for tag soup but sure seen some dandy whitetail bucks. There is allways something that can go wrong when hunting mature whitetailed bucks..this year seemed to be the wind it was always bad either the lack of it or swirling or just plain in the wrong direction.

[PolarBear]

I was at full draw, waiting for a clean shot, with a 175"+ 6x6 for over 5 minutes

Holy crap PB, I am lucky to hold mine for a minute and a half.

Well, it seemed like 5 minutes, it may have only been a couple but it seemed like an eternity.  It was everything I could do to keep at draw that long.

[boneaddict]

You should try Trad bow PB. 

[backyard bucks]

still passing on does but as it gets closer they are looking better each day.
had two does 15 yards away yesterday and drew back 3 different times wanting to but at the same time not wanting to hoping the bucks were right there too..their sign was all over the ground in the fresh snow. the snow made it easy to find them. ( the does at least)      today may bring a total different mind set..
going back out today with all the fresh snow.. 

[Dmanmastertracker]

 I passed on a doe that gave me a gift 18 yd broadside shot first day of late archery, missed an opportunity last week at a forky I tripped over not being slow/ quiet enough in the reprod. Snowing like hell here right now, I plan on getting out a lot the last two weeks, I won't pass on a doe again this year, unless she has a yearling with her, freezer is now down to just a few packages of venison.

[MagKarl]

Shot a doe on a landowner tag and shot my buck opening morning

Did you draw a special permit for that second deer you shot?    Landowners with crop damage can obtain permits that allow hunters with permission to take X number of animals off that property in a given timeframe determined by WDFW.  According to WDFW rep that I talked to, nobody can legally shoot two deer unless they draw a second deer tag.  It is not a tag for an additional animal.  You have to use your general tag should you harvest an animal.  Landowner permits just allow additional hunting opportunity (time) to assure the right number of deer get taken on that particular property.  This info is straight from the Spokane WDFW office, I talked with them last month before I hunted a private land section on a doe damage permit.   

[Elkstuffer]

Hunted hard for 7 days in the Entiat. Hardley any mature bucks. Tons of spikes and forked horns. Tag soup.