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15 Years - Chiwawa 2024
hunter_sean08:
--- Quote from: Rainier10 on July 12, 2024, 02:26:30 PM ---My first deer was 29 years ago in the west side of that unit. A few years ago I had a tag for Chiwawa and entiat late rifle. We saw a nice bull moose in that hunt. Looking forward to your write up. The initial post is great. Best of luck to you. Enjoy the ride.
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Pretty cool. I saw a cow with a calf on the road up to French Corral from Ardenvoir probably 8 years ago. The year before we had a mating bull and a cow on the west end of the unit along the border with the Mission GMU. Pretty sure the bull got poached right after deer season which was a huge bummer. So cool seeing them up close.
I’ve read your thread on that hunt a few times. Always enjoy reading your stories. Hopefully I can have a good story of my own on this hunt.
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hunter_sean08:
--- Quote from: CamoDup on July 12, 2024, 02:58:38 PM ---Congrats on the tag. I drew it back in 2013 and had an awesome hunt. It is a fun tag to have if you get the weather, which I did in '13. It snowed about a foot where I was hunting and there were new bucks to look at everyday. I think I killed mine on the 8th day. I couldn't hold out anymore.
At the time I never thought I'd be able to pass up a legal buck in Washington but on that hunt I got to do it multiple times. Good luck!!
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This is what I’m hoping for. To be honest, a foot of snow makes me nervous on some of those roads, but I’ll make it work . Already have 4 sets of icebreakers ready to go.
hunter_sean08:
Update - my scouting has been minimal this summer with 2 toddlers, wife to keep happy, new house, work, Rotary presidency, and a full throttle salmon season (didn't mention this before, but of course luck would have me draw in one of the busiest years of my life). I'm not too concerned as I know the unit well and know it will be quite a bit different come November than what I'm used to in October. I've got a couple of spots nailed down that I'll be frequenting for sure and a few more I want to check out before everything gets going. I was over there a couple of weekends ago, but it was mostly a family trip with just a little bit of road running around the lake.
My plan right now is to hopefully get over there one more weekend in September, maybe pick up a couple grouse, and just add a couple more good glassing vantage points to my hitlist before hunting season kicks into high gear. Come October, I'll be hunting muzzy elk out west. Sadly, the season butts right up against the general deer season, and with days off piling up, I need to save the bulk of them for November. I'll probably hunt the second weekend of modern plus the last two days of the season and use those days as an excuse to scout with a rifle in my hands more than anything else. On 11/1 I'm planning to head over to Wenatchee with my family as my wife's sister has her baby shower on the 2nd. That's a great excuse for me to hunt the first weekend and get a good feel for road conditions at least on the east side of the unit. And if I see a good buck, well I guess that might have to be the end of it! If my tag is unpunched, I'll head home, work the 4th-8th, and then race back over for the second weekend and hunt the season out through the 20th.
These are just my plans on paper right now. There's a lot that could change between now and then, but I'm getting excited nonetheless. Feels good to be putting a plan together.
actionshooter:
Congrats on that tag!
I killed my 1st buck in that unit when I was 19... back in the early 90s there was an early November Muzzleloader hunt that landed right about the rut.... I was insane and to this day, not sure why WDFW did it.
hunter_sean08:
--- Quote from: actionshooter on August 28, 2024, 05:26:42 PM --- Congrats on that tag!
I killed my 1st buck in that unit when I was 19... back in the early 90s there was an early November Muzzleloader hunt that landed right about the rut.... I was insane and to this day, not sure why WDFW did it.
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I know. My parents used to go over there in the 90’s and stay at our cabin at the lake after the water had been turned off for the season. Dad used to say it was like “shooting fish in a barrel.” All he had to do was find a trail in the snow and wait and it wouldn’t take long for one to come trotting through. Correct me if I’m wrong but I think they allowed antlerless harvest during that season as well? Talk about insanity.
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