2015 Harvest Reports

[fishnfur]

Hmmmm, I bitched about this report coming out late every year as I was sitting around the virtual campfire.  Three days later, I'm put to shame?  Thanks WDFW!

http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/harvest/2015/deer_general.html

[huntkah]

700 more bucks in unit 121 and they were probably all spikes. Shame.

[WildlifeAssassin]

Wow the mulies really did get hammered last year.

 BUCKS                   2014                 2015              Change
District 6                2,423                3,330               +907
District 7                1,585                2,159               +574
District 8                  711                  1,018              +307
Entiat                       197                   355                 +158
Chewuch                  303                   430                 +127
Pearrygin                  243                   562                +319

[Katmai Guy]

Yep, so now everybody complaining about the decline of the muley herds have to hunt blacktails this year.

[Gringo31]

Looks like the goat tags holders in Naches and Bumping averaged about a month of hunting per kill!

[fishnfur]

The one that got me was from San Juan Island (archery, if I remember correctly - and one of those islands anyways).  The hunter days per deer was something like 0.8.   I'm still trying to wrap my head around that number - Did someone harvest a deer without even hunting?

[Bango skank]

700 more bucks in unit 121 and they were probably all spikes. Shame.

No, nobody just shoots a spike.  Its always a "nice fat" spike.  Dont forget that qualifier, that makes it legit.

[Bango skank]

700 more bucks in unit 121 and they were probably all spikes. Shame.

Those 700 were all dinks im sure, but dont forget about all the guys who grudgingly held out for a little basket rack 4x during the apr.  Most of them likely shot the first peckerhead they saw this year too.

[Nv02cummins]

The one that got me was from San Juan Island (archery, if I remember correctly - and one of those islands anyways).  The hunter days per deer was something like 0.8.   I'm still trying to wrap my head around that number - Did someone harvest a deer without even hunting?

You can get second deer permits up there pretty easy for archery. Someone probably killed 2 in a day

[bobcat]

The one that got me was from San Juan Island (archery, if I remember correctly - and one of those islands anyways).  The hunter days per deer was something like 0.8.   I'm still trying to wrap my head around that number - Did someone harvest a deer without even hunting?

You can get second deer permits up there pretty easy for archery. Someone probably killed 2 in a day

But that additional deer wouldn't be counted in the general season harvest.

[Nv02cummins]

The one that got me was from San Juan Island (archery, if I remember correctly - and one of those islands anyways).  The hunter days per deer was something like 0.8.   I'm still trying to wrap my head around that number - Did someone harvest a deer without even hunting?

You can get second deer permits up there pretty easy for archery. Someone probably killed 2 in a day

But that additional deer wouldn't be counted in the general season harvest.

True.  They probably have something screwed up.  I know a couple of the elk units I was looking at are 3 pt. min. Units and they show all cows and spikes being harvested in the units last year.