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Author Topic: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon  (Read 32944 times)

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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2019, 07:43:07 PM »
I spend a lot of time up there horseback, and on the roads.   For the past two weeks I’ve seen rig after rig cruising up and down Hutchins Rd and Watt Canyon Rd. Today there were even more.  I see who is in the rigs as well. I understand there is a legal hunt going on but I also understand that these elk come out of the backcountry at the first decent snow and stage up on Hutchins toward Tamarack Springs and that whole upper area which is criss crossed with roads.  This is my back yard and I know what’s going on. No I don’t follow them around trying to take a picture.  The winter herd numbers were down last winter, per both bios who work this area. I’d like to see the gate locked because there are going to be a lot of elk standing near roads now.  It’s time. 
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2019, 07:44:05 PM »
It’s BS and we all know it
Someone turn the lights out when the last ones are killed
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2019, 07:53:00 PM »
Or hey, here’s an idea, make it spike only for everybody without a special permit.  What’s good enough for the goose ought to be good enough for the gander it seems to me.  Oh, I forgot, Washington wildlife management theory is management by special interests with the deepest pockets or the best attorneys and lobbyists.  We don’t let the biologists that we hire to be the scientists, trained experts, make policy decisions because they are neutral and unbiased.  That doesn’t work here.
And I think God must be a cowboy at heart
 He made wide open spaces from the start
 He made grass and trees and mountains and a horse to be a friend
 And trails to lead ol' cowboys home again

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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2019, 08:08:56 PM »
Someone with a 10 yd dump should "loose" a load of 4 man rock in a narrow spot... :twocents:

« Last Edit: December 01, 2019, 09:11:21 PM by fishngamereaper »

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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2019, 08:50:29 PM »
I don't know,Maybe some are bashing on the wrong user group.The tribes do a lot for the game in WA.No matter what most people think.they have the right,they were given that right by people that are not even alive any more and those rights are not gonna go anywhere while we that are alive still live period.

THIS GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE POST THAT JACKELOPE PUT UP THIS MORNING.IT DOES NO ONE ANY GOOD.   :twocents:
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2019, 05:07:03 AM »
They might have the right but they don't have to abuse the right and maybe they should consider what is RIGHT for the future of Game animals
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2019, 07:15:41 AM »
Sanford Pasture is close on 410 but open up on top.  Made the drive 45 minutes longer.

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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #22 on: December 02, 2019, 07:54:11 AM »
They might have the right but they don't have to abuse the right and maybe they should consider what is RIGHT for the future of Game animals
think before you type. yall may have the right to bare arms but that dont mean you need to abuse that right by poaching.

how do you like it when it gets turned around on ya?
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #23 on: December 02, 2019, 08:04:17 AM »
They might have the right but they don't have to abuse the right and maybe they should consider what is RIGHT for the future of Game animals
think before you type. yall may have the right to bare arms but that dont mean you need to abuse that right by poaching.

how do you like it when it gets turned around on ya?
Pictures of this poaching?  :dunno:
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #24 on: December 02, 2019, 08:15:07 AM »
Exactly  :yeah: GOES BOTH WAYS.  :bash:

Hunters that don't fill their tags have got to have an excuse.Must be someone else's fault not their own.
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #25 on: December 02, 2019, 08:54:41 AM »
If you need to kill a dozen deer to “feed” your family you have failed at a lot of things in life and probably shouldn’t be spreading your spawn
"family" The way you say this makes readers think you know how many there are in a "family" Do you?
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #26 on: December 02, 2019, 09:06:31 AM »
The Jerky business is going full bore!!!!  Need elk!!!  Lots of Elk!!!!!!
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #27 on: December 02, 2019, 09:15:06 AM »
If you need to kill a dozen deer to “feed” your family you have failed at a lot of things in life and probably shouldn’t be spreading your spawn
"family" The way you say this makes readers think you know how many there are in a "family" Do you?
When supporting 5 different households, 12 deer is reasonable.

There are some people on this forum who shoot 6+ deer a year and an elk or two in the west. How is that any different?
« Last Edit: December 02, 2019, 09:26:58 AM by Naches Sportsman »

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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #28 on: December 02, 2019, 09:30:08 AM »
 :tup:
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Re: Now that it snowed they need to lock up Watt Canyon
« Reply #29 on: December 02, 2019, 09:41:26 AM »
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Hunters that don't fill their tags have got to have an excuse.Must be someone else's fault not their own.

I chose not to shoot a deer or an elk this year because I think the herd could use a break. I am concerned with the future of the herd and feel its hypocritical to take more than I need.  Its well within my right, I bought tags.   Are you saying I dont have the skills to kill something?  I really dont see anything wrong with his statement.

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They might have the right but they don't have to abuse the right and maybe they should consider what is RIGHT for the future of Game animals


 


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