Big bull

[JDHasty]

I don't understand why so many are ok with being able to hunt pretty much whenever? Yeah it's an awesome bull but I'm sure a lot of us could kill some huge animals if we followed native rules. It's just hard for me to care when a native shoots an animal.

I hunt island blacktails where there are a LOT of big bucks. 

Most hunters take a doe or a mediocre two point.  A few more will take a decent buck.  Some stumble onto a whammer buck once in their lifetime.  Then there are the few who know how to outsmart the big ones and get them frequently... or get skunked about a third of the time.  All on private property.

It's just hard to care when about your situation when I have access to properties that make it possible for us to get opportunities on island blacktails that most people are denied the opportunity to hunt. 

To bad, so sad.  You didn't develop the relationships with property owners, who know other property owners that seek us out to get our crew to come over and hunt property they have not trusted anyone to hunt on in twenty years.  Gee my heart bleeds for you.

Guess what?  Mature bucks trash fruit stock and topiary unmercifully and that is what really PO's people.  Small bucks just rub them and does just nibble them.  I had a lady tell me that it cost her more to high fence her property than she paid for it!  If she knew that someone would target and kill the mature bucks, she could have lived with the rest of the destruction.  Hint, hint.     

My friends I hunt with and I made that happen and it burns your butt to a crisp that we have opportunities you don't get.  Doesn't it? 

Guess what sore looser, if you put forth the effort these four guys do, to develop the resources that are available to you by building relationships with the poor slobs who not only pay the taxes on the land, they are working like a slave on that land 24/7/365 to keep the tradition alive - you too would have opportunities that others are envious of and are off limits to those who are just sitting there complaining about their lack of opportunity to advantage of. 

These Tribal members have a small piece of Washington State that could be just another half-way decent place to pursue their passion for hunting on.  But, guess what smart guy?  They are the ones that have made it a priority for the Tribe to recognize the value of that resource and jealously protect what little land they have left of what their forefathers once had. 

[gonehuntin68]

:did I hurt your feelings?

[jackelope]

I don't understand why so many are ok with being able to hunt pretty much whenever? Yeah it's an awesome bull but I'm sure a lot of us could kill some huge animals if we followed native rules. It's just hard for me to care when a native shoots an animal.

It's an elk killed in September with a bow.

[Jonathan_S]

:did I hurt your feelings?

Troll

[gonehuntin68]

:did I hurt your feelings?

Troll

Lol. Whatever.

[JDHasty]

I don't understand why so many are ok with being able to hunt pretty much whenever? Yeah it's an awesome bull but I'm sure a lot of us could kill some huge animals if we followed native rules. It's just hard for me to care when a native shoots an animal.

It's an elk killed in September with a bow.

And they wait patiently for the season to open.  They are not free to hunt pretty much whenever.  Some Colville poach (just like some people everywhere poach) pretty much whenever, and if you think that the Tribal sportsmen don't have a problem with that then there is no intelligent conversation to be had on this topic with you.  You have yourself convinced that what is demonstrably false is fact and there is nothing to be had with having a conversation with a closed minded .....
(Please keep the name calling out of this)

That young man who no longer posts here because of the unwarranted abuse that some here heap on Tribal members is right not to post here, and ya' know what?  That is our loss.  I am friends with Tribal members and I can tell you straight up that these guys have a lot that they could share that would help our members, but they have their own forum now and none of them come here much at all any longer and none of them share anything here.  And it is because of people like you that they don't.

[gonehuntin68]

Where are the moderators? Big man name calling on the forum. I'm just posting my opinion. Everyone should follow same rules.

[JDHasty]

Where are the moderators? Big man name calling on the forum. I'm just posting my opinion. Everyone should follow same rules.

Your opinion regarding the hunting opportunity the Colville Tribal members enjoy is demonstrably false.  It was posted in an attempt to belittle the achievement of this young man who worked his tail off for over two years to get the bull he was after.  I guarantee you that if you had put forth the effort he did, you could locate a trophy bull on public land and have a shot at taking him before anyone else got to him.  It happens all the time and I admire those who have shared their success right here on this forum doing just that.  No one worked harder than that young man to make this happen for him and he most certainly doesn't deserve to have his achievement belittled.   

[gonehuntin68]

Shot out of season in my option.

[JDHasty]

Shot out of season in my option.

That is a damnable lie.  That bull was shot during the Tribal Archery Season and that means it was shot in season.  And, for your information, their Archery Season and many, if not most of the State of Washington's Archery Season, is open the same dates. 

[jackelope]

Shot out of season in my option.

You do understand the bull was killed within the colville reservation and within the boundaries of their set season, right? It wasn't killed on "ceded" land etc in February on the winter range.

[jackelope]

Shot out of season in my option.

You're essentially saying that all the Bulls killed in Oregon and WA since September 1st are all killed out of season. This makes literally no sense. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion I guess, but try and keep it logical.

[JDHasty]

"He's been hunting this bull for 3 yrs now and he has a ton of trail cam pics.. a great story!! It's also his 1st archery kill."

Got it?  Two years in a row he got shut out by this bull.  But he kept at it.  When the season ended he waited until it opened again the following year. 

[JDHasty]

I found this scan of a Polaroid of a big Colville whitetail.  Hopefully I can get that old machine to give up the rest of the scans of old pictures that are on the hard drive.   

[Cascade]

I could be wrong, but I want to say the two younger guys were members on here back in the early days.