Guessing there will be a drop in whitatail archers

[tracksoup]

 
Im with you.

[lewy]

I hate this rule, not so much for me, but for the old and the young. It will affect the way my ol man and kids enjoy hunting and watching game. The f&g are absolutely using cwd as an excuse to cover their deceitful ways of taking hunting away from us.

[huntnnw]

So they took away the bread and butter of the archery season years ago for whitetails for some measly 5 tags for a dumb quality hunt. When we had twice the deer population and we could bait.  Now no baiting and still no season dates back. That late archery hunt is almost garbage anymore for whitetails. Rut is beginning to dwindle on opening day Nov 25th. You might get 2-4 days of some decent rutting activity then bucks begin to lose interest and begin to retreat into their holes. More reasons I’m done hunting here

[lewy]

Don’t blame ya. We are always losing opportunity and paying more. From sh!tty management of predators to worse seasons. Doesn’t help that our “group” doesn’t stick together, this thread even shows it. People forget it’s not all about just them and will screw their fellow sportsman

[trophyhunt]

Don’t blame ya. We are always losing opportunity and paying more. From sh!tty management of predators to worse seasons. Doesn’t help that our “group” doesn’t stick together, this thread even shows it. People forget it’s not all about just them and will screw their fellow sportsman

100%!

[Limhangerslayer]

The thing that kills me is......the deer are still going to eat in their family groups.  Whitetail especially all eat the same feed, regardless of bait or natural forage.  We have 5-6 groups of does / fawns that all eat live in the same area.  The eat off the same bushes, grasses, ect.  You can watch one group eat and walk off....just to see another group in that same area eating and drinking out of the same exact spot.  This isn't going to stop the spread of anything in my humble opinion, but is otherwise one more controlling factor WDFW and the Commission have on hunters. 

If anything.....it is going to harm these deer during the winter when they benefit from supplemental feed.   

and who is going to tell the 1000 elk that will mingle together on the winter range to stay spread out.  Or the herds of 30-400 running around during hunting season to stay in groups of 10 or less 😂. These people are idiots.  And watch the chaos when they want to cut the herd objective in half and quit feeding.  Probably let the sharp shooters and Indians kill then in the feed stations that winter they decide to

[hunter399]

It will effect all user groups.
Bow hunting the end game , should be the title of the law.
Practice the long shot I guess.

[dilleytech]

Yesterday people who bait are just normal hunters. Today they are poachers lol. I gave up on baiting years ago. Bears just eat anything I put out for deer and deer don’t care about alfalfa.

I haven’t seen yet. Does this include salt blocks?

Yes minerals are included

Well I’m definitely not going to continue doing that in blacktail country. I can’t stand those horrible poachers.

[huntnnw]

The thing that kills me is......the deer are still going to eat in their family groups.  Whitetail especially all eat the same feed, regardless of bait or natural forage.  We have 5-6 groups of does / fawns that all eat live in the same area.  The eat off the same bushes, grasses, ect.  You can watch one group eat and walk off....just to see another group in that same area eating and drinking out of the same exact spot.  This isn't going to stop the spread of anything in my humble opinion, but is otherwise one more controlling factor WDFW and the Commission have on hunters. 

If anything.....it is going to harm these deer during the winter when they benefit from supplemental feed.   

and who is going to tell the 1000 elk that will mingle together on the winter range to stay spread out.  Or the herds of 30-400 running around during hunting season to stay in groups of 10 or less 😂. These people are idiots.  And watch the chaos when they want to cut the herd objective in half and quit feeding.  Probably let the sharp shooters and Indians kill then in the feed stations that winter they decide to

baiting or no baiting will change exactly nothing with cwd going forward its going to do what its going to do. Deer and elk are very sociable animals. They going to go and cut down the several hundred thousand fruit trees that dot the landscape in E WA? you ever just watched how deer eat apples ? I do as I have 5 within 100 yards of my house that I watch all summer and fall as a group of 6-9 does come in together and eat the apples they dont just eat 1 apple to completion they will chew to get a chunk off and drop it and move to another then another deer will grab that apple and do the same thing. This is happening all over the place by the thousands. What about pumpkin patches , other vegetable crops where deer gnaw on these things to only have another deer and another etc eat off the same thing.Corn fields are another as I have corn down the road from me and it gets hammered with deer and elk all chewing on the same corn cob till its gone. What about ranchers and livestock owners and their hay piles ? I have alfalfa stacked at my house and the deer pound it every fall and winter. Up to 15-20 deer chewing on the same bales. Deer use licking branches 365 days a year to communicate and its not just a rut thing. ranchers salt blocks all over the mountains in grazing allotments. I will bet in the next 10 years ehd will kill more deer than cwd by 50X

[kodiak06]

The thing that kills me is......the deer are still going to eat in their family groups.  Whitetail especially all eat the same feed, regardless of bait or natural forage.  We have 5-6 groups of does / fawns that all eat live in the same area.  The eat off the same bushes, grasses, ect.  You can watch one group eat and walk off....just to see another group in that same area eating and drinking out of the same exact spot.  This isn't going to stop the spread of anything in my humble opinion, but is otherwise one more controlling factor WDFW and the Commission have on hunters. 

If anything.....it is going to harm these deer during the winter when they benefit from supplemental feed.   

and who is going to tell the 1000 elk that will mingle together on the winter range to stay spread out.  Or the herds of 30-400 running around during hunting season to stay in groups of 10 or less 😂. These people are idiots.  And watch the chaos when they want to cut the herd objective in half and quit feeding.  Probably let the sharp shooters and Indians kill then in the feed stations that winter they decide to

baiting or no baiting will change exactly nothing with cwd going forward its going to do what its going to do. Deer and elk are very sociable animals. They going to go and cut down the several hundred thousand fruit trees that dot the landscape in E WA? you ever just watched how deer eat apples ? I do as I have 5 within 100 yards of my house that I watch all summer and fall as a group of 6-9 does come in together and eat the apples they dont just eat 1 apple to completion they will chew to get a chunk off and drop it and move to another then another deer will grab that apple and do the same thing. This is happening all over the place by the thousands. What about pumpkin patches , other vegetable crops where deer gnaw on these things to only have another deer and another etc eat off the same thing.Corn fields are another as I have corn down the road from me and it gets hammered with deer and elk all chewing on the same corn cob till its gone. What about ranchers and livestock owners and their hay piles ? I have alfalfa stacked at my house and the deer pound it every fall and winter. Up to 15-20 deer chewing on the same bales. Deer use licking branches 365 days a year to communicate and its not just a rut thing. ranchers salt blocks all over the mountains in grazing allotments. I will bet in the next 10 years ehd will kill more deer than cwd by 50X

[hunter399]

The thing that kills me is......the deer are still going to eat in their family groups.  Whitetail especially all eat the same feed, regardless of bait or natural forage.  We have 5-6 groups of does / fawns that all eat live in the same area.  The eat off the same bushes, grasses, ect.  You can watch one group eat and walk off....just to see another group in that same area eating and drinking out of the same exact spot.  This isn't going to stop the spread of anything in my humble opinion, but is otherwise one more controlling factor WDFW and the Commission have on hunters. 

If anything.....it is going to harm these deer during the winter when they benefit from supplemental feed.   

and who is going to tell the 1000 elk that will mingle together on the winter range to stay spread out.  Or the herds of 30-400 running around during hunting season to stay in groups of 10 or less 😂. These people are idiots.  And watch the chaos when they want to cut the herd objective in half and quit feeding.  Probably let the sharp shooters and Indians kill then in the feed stations that winter they decide to

baiting or no baiting will change exactly nothing with cwd going forward its going to do what its going to do. Deer and elk are very sociable animals. They going to go and cut down the several hundred thousand fruit trees that dot the landscape in E WA? you ever just watched how deer eat apples ? I do as I have 5 within 100 yards of my house that I watch all summer and fall as a group of 6-9 does come in together and eat the apples they dont just eat 1 apple to completion they will chew to get a chunk off and drop it and move to another then another deer will grab that apple and do the same thing. This is happening all over the place by the thousands. What about pumpkin patches , other vegetable crops where deer gnaw on these things to only have another deer and another etc eat off the same thing.Corn fields are another as I have corn down the road from me and it gets hammered with deer and elk all chewing on the same corn cob till its gone. What about ranchers and livestock owners and their hay piles ? I have alfalfa stacked at my house and the deer pound it every fall and winter. Up to 15-20 deer chewing on the same bales. Deer use licking branches 365 days a year to communicate and its not just a rut thing. ranchers salt blocks all over the mountains in grazing allotments. I will bet in the next 10 years ehd will kill more deer than cwd by 50X

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WDFW would rather have the deer starved, deprived of mineral/supplement feeding going into CWD.
Definitely pro/cons to supplement feeding.
One bad winter without supplements,plus CWD ,Our deer will hurting. I'd rather keep deer that don't get CWD as healthy as possible. Just my opinion,I don't believe that the bait ban will help anything. Above posts I agree with.

It's been a few easy winters past few seasons ,a bad one is gonna hit eventually.

Bow hunting.....
I can't imagine setting up a tree stand,just overall doing all that hard work . Then sitting there for hours and hours praying that some random buck wanders through. I even have a pile of trail cams that I have no use for now. Trail cams just don't seem fun ,if I can't put a bait down. Just ruined it for everyone. I was even gonna give bow hunting a try,changed my mind on that.

[Ghost Hunter]

Don’t blame ya. We are always losing opportunity and paying more. From sh!tty management of predators to worse seasons. Doesn’t help that our “group” doesn’t stick together, this thread even shows it. People forget it’s not all about just them and will screw their fellow sportsman

This is what bothers me the most.  "Divided we fall." 
I'm too old, too tired, too late to move to greener pastures if they are greener, too bullheaded to quit.  Figure I'm vested at this point, I will continue sitting for hours/days for weeks waiting for whatever comes by.  Is a picture, or a basket full of wax or wooden fruit bait? 

[LDennis24]

Everybody calm down. This is going to work out perfectly. In a few years CWD will be gone and we will have a booming population of deer just like all the other states with CWD that don't allow baiting etc. They found deer with CWD but since they don't allow baiting the CWD didn't spread. The commission knows what it's doing.

[trophyhunt]

 

[hunter399]

Everybody calm down. This is going to work out perfectly. In a few years CWD will be gone and we will have a booming population of deer just like all the other states with CWD that don't allow baiting etc. They found deer with CWD but since they don't allow baiting the CWD didn't spread. The commission knows what it's doing.

Ohh ya freaking shamwow I swear.
Bait restrictions will be lifted in no time!!!
Lol ....... 😂

What pisses me the most,is mandatory testing should apply to all NE units. CWD Spread map should be completed,before statewide restrictions apply.
We want to make laws ,turn all you guys into poachers.
But hay let's skip out on the testing,another shamwow.
Only thing they want to do to "stop the spread" is the one thing that doesn't cost a dime. If you make CWD a BIG deal,then it's gonna come with a big cost. That is testing and figuring out the hot spots .
Our spread map is what 4 or five dots.

SWAMWOW across the board .