Hancock Kapowsin Deer?

[cowboycraig]

I am really curious, maybe I should start a poll, but I doubt to many would answer truthfully, but i am curious who here hunts just to hunt! Or who hunts for the " so called putting meat in the freezer" or who hunts to just enjoy the thrill of what might be hiding behind the next Bush or over the next bump? I see from alot of posts and responses that some , actually alot get all worked up if they don't get " THEIR" deer or "THEIR" elk. Everyone has their reasons for huntn, mine is I luckily was raised that way and its my favorite time of year and there is no better sport or quarry than a mature blacktail buck!! I really don't care if I notch a tag or not, I could have notched it a total of 6 times this season so far but didn't squeeze the trigger. My daughter gave a good go at crackn one but just couldn't get things lined up, I think it was buck fever, but she wont admit to that... I am curious as to why some people hunt though

I am a meat in the freezer type at the core. But a huge part is also "hunting" in itself. Meat in the freezer and hunting are so closely bound I don't know how to separate the two.

Hunting for me connect my body, mind, and spirit to life, god, universe. Even if I am hating it getting rained on and falling over crap as I walk through the woods, I feel alive.

Also it is the only "risk" many of us ever take. A person could get killed out there in a few different ways. Like once I ran into a Bull Elk during rut season and it wanted to kick my ass.

Hunting is how I shake off humanities over-domestication yearly all I possibly can.

[Thehowler]

I hunt because of the thrill of not knowing what I might find out there. That monster buck who's antlers have never even seen the daylight!
 looks like Kapowsin is closed right now. According to there website, it is opening back up Nov 3rd.
Road damage from the recent storms.

[Old Man Yager]

I got a lot of the same opinions as Jackmaster, maybe that's cause I've known him since he was a little snot nosed kid!! But ya, I just want to be in the woods, All the time, I don't give a crap if I shoot anything or not. I hunt all year long, not with my rifle, but with my desire to see what's over the next hill, find sheds, put up a camera and see what walks by. We all got so much garbage that this world throws at us, the further I get from town and the deeper into the woods I get, the better I feel. The hunt is the main thing for me, if I am blessed to tag an animal, that's good, but not my main reason. I could just walk through the woods and look at all of Gods creation all day, every day and never get tired of it.

[cowboycraig]

I got a lot of the same opinions as Jackmaster, maybe that's cause I've known him since he was a little snot nosed kid!! But ya, I just want to be in the woods, All the time, I don't give a crap if I shoot anything or not. I hunt all year long, not with my rifle, but with my desire to see what's over the next hill, find sheds, put up a camera and see what walks by. We all got so much garbage that this world throws at us, the further I get from town and the deeper into the woods I get, the better I feel. The hunt is the main thing for me, if I am blessed to tag an animal, that's good, but not my main reason. I could just walk through the woods and look at all of Gods creation all day, every day and never get tired of it.

Ditto for me. BUT am a little happier if I complete the circuit and get to use my skinning knife

[scottfrick]

I'm right there with most of you guys. I don't hunt to kill. I hunt because I was raised around it. I love the outdoors and everything that comes with it. One of the things I enjoy more than anything is taking a newbie out. I love taking kids out. And when that glorious time comes when they actually harvest their first animal I'm just excited as they are. This year when I harvested my bull I was shaking uncontrollably. My wife had to actually look at me and tell me to calm down 

[jackmaster]

I got a lot of the same opinions as Jackmaster, maybe that's cause I've known him since he was a little snot nosed kid!! But ya, I just want to be in the woods, All the time, I don't give a crap if I shoot anything or not. I hunt all year long, not with my rifle, but with my desire to see what's over the next hill, find sheds, put up a camera and see what walks by. We all got so much garbage that this world throws at us, the further I get from town and the deeper into the woods I get, the better I feel. The hunt is the main thing for me, if I am blessed to tag an animal, that's good, but not my main reason. I could just walk through the woods and look at all of Gods creation all day, every day and never get tired of it.

the perfect response except the snot nosed kid part..lol..

[Old Man Yager]

I've told you before, I speak the truth !! Bahahahaha

[jackmaster]

I'm right there with most of you guys. I don't hunt to kill. I hunt because I was raised around it. I love the outdoors and everything that comes with it. One of the things I enjoy more than anything is taking a newbie out. I love taking kids out. And when that glorious time comes when they actually harvest their first animal I'm just excited as they are. This year when I harvested my bull I was shaking uncontrollably. My wife had to actually look at me and tell me to calm down 

yours and old man yaegers response she be totalled together, they both some it up perfectly.. as for the op, sorry, I didn't realize I jacked your thread.. I apologize 

[Old Man Yager]

Back to the bucks, this one was taken by friends uncle on the 2nd day of reg season in Hancock Eatonville. 730am, on the road!!

[Old Man Yager]

Cowboy, do you hit the Kapowsin side or Eatonville?

[cowboycraig]

Cowboy, do you hit the Kapowsin side or Eatonville?

Kapowsin. I enter through the Buckley Gate.

This was my last time through. This is about 4 miles into Kapowsin from the Buckley gate. I park in the cut to the right and walk from there. The walk was like 8.2 miles. I just like walking...

[Ridgeratt]

If the blue lines are your track you shouldn't worry about getting lost! Looks like you never left the road.


http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,184398.0.html

[cowboycraig]

If the blue lines are your track you shouldn't worry about getting lost! Looks like you never left the road.


http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,184398.0.html

You are correct. BUT the roads to the left are hardly there anymore

[Ridgeratt]

Sorry I got nothin!!!!

[jackmaster]

Well Craig if you just keep walking those roads like you are you will get a chance, thats all it really takes, just walk roads, even if people are driving right on by, the trick is to not pay attention, blacktail bucks know when your not paying attention and presto, opportunity will knock.. Mark my words