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Quote from: boneaddict on October 22, 2018, 08:32:31 PMHairy poop I just got back last night and I was in the conconnully area among several others and the story is the same all over, I think Bone has hit it on the head. I drove a over thousand miles in a week covering 5 different units, saw two ports of entry, drove a barbed wire fence separating me from Canada, three forest fires still burning, hiked into the Pasayten Wilderness and only saw 25-30 doe’s and about a dozen small bucks the whole trip and nothing worth shooting. I should have seen hundreds of deer instead saw hundreds of camps with no deer hanging. It is a very sad situation this state is in at the moment. There are a lot of factors from the political stance of not putting the fires out to poor management of the WDFW. I know no one wants to hear it but we really need to think about going to a draw only and one species limit or except that what we have now is the new normal.
Quote from: M_ray on October 23, 2018, 09:35:29 AMQuote from: boneaddict on October 22, 2018, 08:32:31 PMHairy poop I just got back last night and I was in the conconnully area among several others and the story is the same all over, I think Bone has hit it on the head. I drove a over thousand miles in a week covering 5 different units, saw two ports of entry, drove a barbed wire fence separating me from Canada, three forest fires still burning, hiked into the Pasayten Wilderness and only saw 25-30 doe’s and about a dozen small bucks the whole trip and nothing worth shooting. I should have seen hundreds of deer instead saw hundreds of camps with no deer hanging. It is a very sad situation this state is in at the moment. There are a lot of factors from the political stance of not putting the fires out to poor management of the WDFW. I know no one wants to hear it but we really need to think about going to a draw only and one species limit or except that what we have now is the new normal. Personally, I am totally ok with going to some kind of draw or something until the herd rebounds. Every year I see less and less deer in the Wenatchee valley so I can only imagine what its like up that way.
Quote from: vandeman17 on October 23, 2018, 09:54:26 AMQuote from: M_ray on October 23, 2018, 09:35:29 AMQuote from: boneaddict on October 22, 2018, 08:32:31 PMHairy poop I just got back last night and I was in the conconnully area among several others and the story is the same all over, I think Bone has hit it on the head. I drove a over thousand miles in a week covering 5 different units, saw two ports of entry, drove a barbed wire fence separating me from Canada, three forest fires still burning, hiked into the Pasayten Wilderness and only saw 25-30 doe’s and about a dozen small bucks the whole trip and nothing worth shooting. I should have seen hundreds of deer instead saw hundreds of camps with no deer hanging. It is a very sad situation this state is in at the moment. There are a lot of factors from the political stance of not putting the fires out to poor management of the WDFW. I know no one wants to hear it but we really need to think about going to a draw only and one species limit or except that what we have now is the new normal. Personally, I am totally ok with going to some kind of draw or something until the herd rebounds. Every year I see less and less deer in the Wenatchee valley so I can only imagine what its like up that way.I agree with the drawing idea. Washington hunters just have to realize it is all or nothing. There would be no going back when the herd rebounds.... That is in no way how this state operates...
Quote from: full choke on October 23, 2018, 10:15:54 AMQuote from: vandeman17 on October 23, 2018, 09:54:26 AMQuote from: M_ray on October 23, 2018, 09:35:29 AMQuote from: boneaddict on October 22, 2018, 08:32:31 PMHairy poop I just got back last night and I was in the conconnully area among several others and the story is the same all over, I think Bone has hit it on the head. I drove a over thousand miles in a week covering 5 different units, saw two ports of entry, drove a barbed wire fence separating me from Canada, three forest fires still burning, hiked into the Pasayten Wilderness and only saw 25-30 doe’s and about a dozen small bucks the whole trip and nothing worth shooting. I should have seen hundreds of deer instead saw hundreds of camps with no deer hanging. It is a very sad situation this state is in at the moment. There are a lot of factors from the political stance of not putting the fires out to poor management of the WDFW. I know no one wants to hear it but we really need to think about going to a draw only and one species limit or except that what we have now is the new normal. Personally, I am totally ok with going to some kind of draw or something until the herd rebounds. Every year I see less and less deer in the Wenatchee valley so I can only imagine what its like up that way.I agree with the drawing idea. Washington hunters just have to realize it is all or nothing. There would be no going back when the herd rebounds.... That is in no way how this state operates...One can only hope but I agree that once they enact a rule, they RARELY take it away. Only one I can recall was the 4 point minimum in NE corner.
This would decrease their revenue. As it stands, they'd either have to jack up tag or license costs.