Archery high buck

[Troutpounder]

Burrows, again it is to expand opportunity. And the rut hunt should be a month long also for archery guys😉

[Troutpounder]

Jackelope nope need more. At least a week or two in August

[jackelope]

Burrows, again it is to expand opportunity. And the rut hunt should be a month long also for archery guys😉

You can only expand opportunity so much before there's too much opportunity.

[jackelope]

Jackelope nope need more. At least a week or two in August

Plenty of time to find a deer to shoot. There's some responsibility for game management in all of this too.

[Troutpounder]

I’m mainly joking about expanding rut hunt, but the high archery hunt mid August is only fair

[BULLBLASTER]

Archery hunters are lucky that wdfw doesn’t shut down the bow season for the 10 days of high buck gun season. They seem to have an aversion to more than one season open at a time.
Archers get 30 days to hunt in sept and share 10 of those days with guns there is still 3 weeks of archery season with no gun hunters. If you don’t want to hunt with the gun hunters pick days that aren’t when rifles are out there.

[headshot5]

I’m mainly joking about expanding rut hunt, but the high archery hunt mid August is only fair

Fair to the bear hunters?

[Troutpounder]

I’ve got no problem with sharing with bear hunters as I will be looking for bears also...

[Troutpounder]

Bull the season in the particular unit I hunt is only 27 days.... and they would never shut down archery. Rifle hunter numbers are shrinking while archery numbers are growing... soooooooo

[duckmen1]

High buck is wilderness only. If a bow hunter wants first crack hunt the first 2 weeks of the season before high buck opens. Then while high buck is going on hunt ouside the wilderness or another wilderness that's not open to high buck. Then after high buck go back if you like that area. Archery gets first crack for 2 weeks in those areas. just my thoughts. Seems fair and seems to be exactly what your asking for. Its already happening.

[Troutpounder]

Duck nope still not fair enough...

[jstone]

Just remember when you pack in there that it is bear season to.
I packed into the wilderness above lake Wenatchee last year for the archery opener and there was already 3-4 guys camping in my area hunting bears. This year I will try to get in a few miles deeper if they are in there again, they shot a bear opening day of archery deer so I didn’t see many deer

[bobcat]

High buck is wilderness only. If a bow hunter wants first crack hunt the first 2 weeks of the season before high buck opens. Then while high buck is going on hunt ouside the wilderness or another wilderness that's not open to high buck. Then after high buck go back if you like that area. Archery gets first crack for 2 weeks in those areas. just my thoughts. Seems fair and seems to be exactly what your asking for. Its already happening.

  Just what I was going to post. The early modern firearm hunt is September 15-25. You have two weeks to hunt prior to that. That very first week of September is going to be the best time to hunt anyway. You get to hunt while they're still in their summer feeding patterns, right out in the open. Archers don't need more time in August to hunt.

[Troutpounder]

Jstone I know bear is open. Like I’ve said I got no problem with the bear guys, I’ll be keeping my eyes open for a bear also. In fact I’ll be bear hunting opening weekend where I intend on being for deer opener. My problem is the reckless rifle guys who want to shoot first and ask questions later and who think it’s ethical to be dropping long bombs because “they can’t get any closer” 😂😂🤣🤣😉😉

[Troutpounder]

Bobcat couldn’t disagree more. August 15-25 early high ARCHERY ONLY hunt