Steve Rinella's Quality WA Elk

[2MANY]

Don't forget your life jackets gents.

No promises the heavily loaded life boats will float on the stormy seas of WA .

[Timberstalker]

 

[LongBomb]

Sweet, now i know. Trophy bulls in the mt view unit, trophy rams in the swakane, trophy bucks in entiat/desert, mt goats in mt Baker!!!!!
I'm now ready to be in my conquest for wa. Trophies hunts!!!

  Plat just don't expose the moose unit or else my odds are gonna plummit!

[jackelope]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

[Rainier10]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

Sounds like as soon as he drew he moved to Montana.  I don't blame him at all for that.

[Holg3107]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

Not sure why you would throw the Celebrity conspiracy theory out there since there are also two guys on the Mt. View thread that have each drawn the tag twice within the last 4 years? Drawing that tag with 3-6 points doesnt sound like its all that uncommon. We hear people every year drawing a big tag with 1-3 points.

[2MANY]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

Not sure why you would throw the Celebrity conspiracy theory out there since there are also two guys on the Mt. View thread that have each drawn the tag twice within the last 4 years? Drawing that tag with 3-6 points doesnt sound like its all that uncommon. We hear people every year drawing a big tag with 1-3 points.

You forgot the turn in a poacher bonus point option.
Perhaps some pad their odds?

[full choke]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

Maybe he just got lucky with 2 or 3 pts? Could easily happen.
My son is 15- will be 16 in December.
He has 7 youth deer points and 7 youth elk points. Couldn't draw a ******* tag for a doe or cow. Yet I know guys with kids who draw every year. **it happens.

[2MANY]

Sweet, now i know. Trophy bulls in the mt view unit, trophy rams in the swakane, trophy bucks in entiat/desert, mt goats in mt Baker!!!!!
I'm now ready to be in my conquest for wa. Trophies hunts!!!

  Plat just don't expose the moose unit or else my odds are gonna plummit!

I heard the Pheasant hunting around White Swan is off the charts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PlateauNDN]

Sweet, now i know. Trophy bulls in the mt view unit, trophy rams in the swakane, trophy bucks in entiat/desert, mt goats in mt Baker!!!!!
I'm now ready to be in my conquest for wa. Trophies hunts!!!

  Plat just don't expose the moose unit or else my odds are gonna plummit!

Oh yeah, I forgot about moose, the n.e.

[SpurInSpokane]

A better question/concern/cause for uprising is that Rinella has been a resident for like 3? years? WAs he buying non-res licenses and applying all these years or was there a TV hunting celebrity conspiracy that allowed him to draw a tag with 3-ish points???

I believe in the podcast he said he drew w/ 6 points.

[trophyhunt]

Hey...just ask @trophyhunt

yeah, it’s all about luck

[Mtnwalker]

Those of you who think that the Rinella hunt podcast or the Shawn Ryan hunt thread on the forum here blew the odds of drawing a tag in the Blues seemingly have never applied for an elk hunt in the Blues. Those odds have been ridiculous forever.
 

Exactly.

You guys consider 126 apps for 15 tags ridiculous odds? That’s my whole point. This unit wasn’t the colockum or even the wenaha when talking draw odds, but it will be soon.

[jackelope]

Those of you who think that the Rinella hunt podcast or the Shawn Ryan hunt thread on the forum here blew the odds of drawing a tag in the Blues seemingly have never applied for an elk hunt in the Blues. Those odds have been ridiculous forever.
 

Exactly.

You guys consider 126 apps for 15 tags ridiculous odds? That’s my whole point. This unit wasn’t the colockum or even the wenaha when talking draw odds, but it will be soon.

My whole point was that a little talk about a specific unit isn't going to kill the already horrible odds of drawing an elk tag in the Blues. Rinella can talk all he wants on a podcast, but the majority of people listening to them 1-aren't from Washington and 2-99.9% of non-residents won't want to pay the non-refundable $607.50 just to be able to apply for the hunts with the bad odds.

[2MANY]

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