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Author Topic: WDFW potentially looking at limiting bear hunting during Deer and Elk seasons.  (Read 11300 times)

Offline DOUBLELUNG

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Another argument I'd make against this: way back in the dark ages when WDFW offices still sold hunting licenses, it was not uncommon for retired folks on limited incomes to purchase just a bear tag because it was the cheapest way they could legally hunt grouse.  Having only a bear tag during deer or elk season does NOT make a hunter a poacher.  However, if they have hard data showing it is enough of a problem that it is negatively affecting deer or elk populations, I'm open to reconsidering my opinion.
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Double Lung just another example  of citizens following the law and being assumed guilty... and then a new law/rule that impairs hunters to solves this perceived problem with no science to back it up... 

I wonder where sportsmen get the idea that they are only a piggy bank?
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. 

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It's time to tear down the offensive Department called the WDFW!
Politicians like Jay Inslee are the reason we have the 2nd Amendment

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I am so sick of these pre-emptive rules that turn legal sportsmen into outlaws.  If party hunting is a problem - emphasize patrols/investigations into the areas of concern and make some busts...don't pass a law making it easy to write a hundred tickets...probably 99 of them to well intentioned sportsmen who don't hear/know about this new stupid rule.

This is my feeling on any law that penalizes law abiding sportsmen so the corrupt, inept LE of WDFW has a little easier job. Having a gun during archery deer seasons that overlaps bear comes to mind.  :bash: :bash:
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This kind of thinking is why more hunters are looking out of state.

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I am so sick of these pre-emptive rules that turn legal sportsmen into outlaws.  If party hunting is a problem - emphasize patrols/investigations into the areas of concern and make some busts...don't pass a law making it easy to write a hundred tickets...probably 99 of them to well intentioned sportsmen who don't hear/know about this new stupid rule.

This is my feeling on any law that penalizes law abiding sportsmen so the corrupt, inept LE of WDFW has a little easier job. Having a gun during archery deer seasons that overlaps bear comes to mind.  :bash: :bash:

Exactly!

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I am so sick of these pre-emptive rules that turn legal sportsmen into outlaws.  If party hunting is a problem - emphasize patrols/investigations into the areas of concern and make some busts...don't pass a law making it easy to write a hundred tickets...probably 99 of them to well intentioned sportsmen who don't hear/know about this new stupid rule.

This is my feeling on any law that penalizes law abiding sportsmen so the corrupt, inept LE of WDFW has a little easier job. Having a gun during archery deer seasons that overlaps bear comes to mind.  :bash: :bash:

 :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

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Leave it alone!!!! My experiences of the ones that I have dealt with in the last few years was pathetic at best......... Did not INVESIGATE  worth ________ and looking for the easiest mark (mattered NOT to them if they were right or wrong)
« Last Edit: September 16, 2017, 09:57:04 AM by Elkaholic daWg »
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