Late Palouse Tag Holders

[Jimmer]

What couldn’t you secure?  Thinking of heading up there for a day or two next week.

I have no access to private and tried to secure a couple hunt by reservations and wasn't able to (one reservation available? seriously?) and I am coming from Tacoma so it's a journey. Honestly I shouldn't have put in for the hunt, or any other special hunt for that matter, without knowing 100% where I could go to hunt it. Dumb mistake, won't make it again.

Or how about and suck it up and come over and hunt public land? The “private” lands with reservations get the piss knocked out of them just like public. West siders that draw a permit on the east side expect to harvest a deer, the Palouse tag is not as easy as you think, but you can put on your big boy pants, come over and give it your best. A couple buddies and I know public and private property very well and do extremely well because we put in our time. I drew this year, they didn’t…. Sorry you’re crying about that you did draw.. wow

Time to throttle back a little, @Jimmer
Maybe familiarize yourself with the forum rules.  Here's a link if needed, but they start with "Forum Rules & Policies
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Apologies if anyone got their feelings hurt, my bad.

[huntnnw]

with all of this EHD hitting palouse hard Id be willing to bet WDFW does not a single thing to help the deer recover. 1 would be to eliminate next years late tag permits or cut them way down. It only took them 4 years to do something this year about the EHD outbreak 4 years ago. Always a day late and dollar short.

[BAR C3]

with all of this EHD hitting palouse hard Id be willing to bet WDFW does not a single thing to help the deer recover. 1 would be to eliminate next years late tag permits or cut them way down. It only took them 4 years to do something this year about the EHD outbreak 4 years ago. Always a day late and dollar short.

This started in 2017 in some areas of this hunt and nothing has changed!
Haven’t seen a whitetail in my area since then and tags have not been modified.
As with the moose populations, tags are still at same quotas. Guess they will wait till they are all gone!
That’s what they did with the Mountain Caribou herd we had in Northeast Washington. Waited till there was a few left the wolves didn’t kill and re-located them.
Our game department is just getting those funds for tags and permits to go into the general fund to support our socialist state we live in!

[D-Rock425]

We killed a couple whitetail bucks during modern season that we normally don't find whitetail in. 

[ljsommer]

I think I figured out a way to make this work, so I am going to drive over mid-week next week and plan on hunting Thurs/Fri. I'll let you know how it goes. If I don't bring something down I'll drive home and hunt hard Sat and Sun for blacktail.

[buckfvr]

with all of this EHD hitting palouse hard Id be willing to bet WDFW does not a single thing to help the deer recover. 1 would be to eliminate next years late tag permits or cut them way down. It only took them 4 years to do something this year about the EHD outbreak 4 years ago. Always a day late and dollar short.

Ya know, help can be administered in many different ways.  One easy way to do it without taking away "opportunity to hunt", is to restrict what can be killed.  Ya I know, the ever unpopular AP restrictions.  They work, dont have to apply to youths, but if we want to keep our opportunity to hunt, we should be happy to hunt but be selective in our kills.  Keep in mind, a good deal of wt can be 4pt at 18 months old.  I think we need to go to a 3pt rule for wt and mules, 3pts, NOT COUNTING BROW TINES, since that is probably the biggest complaint, not being able to see them.  Lets be open to entertaining ideas because change is going to happen, it just has to....wdfw cant continue the dumb down and lying they do so well.

[ljsommer]

This feels like a really stupid question, but do I have to worry about ticks this time of year? I am always careful during turkey season but I've never hunted over there this time of year.

[buckfvr]

Deer are a major host animal.  Where theres deer, theres ticks.

[bobcat]

It's cold enough now ticks shouldn't be too much of a problem. Yeah could be on the deer but it won't be as much of an issue as it might have been two months ago.

[jrebel]

Never had a problem with ticks this time of year.  Matter of fact, only time I have ever had a problem is spring / early summer. 

[salt n sage90]

I shot a buck outside pullman in October that was covered in ticks, but none of them were attached.

[ljsommer]

I shot a buck outside pullman in October that was covered in ticks, but none of them were attached.

Somehow that actually sounds grosser to me - imagining them just crawling all over the place while you process the deer! Gross! My (single) blacktail had a bunch but they were all attached and quite large.

[andersonjk4]

I shot a buck outside pullman in October that was covered in ticks, but none of them were attached.

The deer over here commonly have Deer Ked or Deer Lice (Lipoptena depressa) during the fall and winter.  The little bugs kind of look like ticks, but are a little bigger, only have 6 legs, have softer bodies and have wings depending on life stage.  I don't know that I have ever seen a tick on any of the 100+ Palouse whitetails I have been involved with gutting, skinning, and processing. 
 

[steeleywhopper]

I shot a buck outside pullman in October that was covered in ticks, but none of them were attached.

The deer over here commonly have Deer Ked or Deer Lice (Lipoptena depressa) during the fall and winter.  The little bugs kind of look like ticks, but are a little bigger, only have 6 legs, have softer bodies and have wings depending on life stage.  I don't know that I have ever seen a tick on any of the 100+ Palouse whitetails I have been involved with gutting, skinning, and processing.

I think that these bugs are what a majority of hunters think are ticks.

[Rutnbuxnbulls]

I killed a buck late archery, so just after thanksgiving, it was loaded with ticks but the bugs were only located under the brisket. I think it was a spot where some eggs hatched on the deer and they found a spot the deer couldn’t get to them. When I noticed a crawling chunk of fur at closer examination I realized what I was seeing and promptly cut that piece of hide right off!! This was north Palouse nearer to Spokane Valley area. More timber and hills country.