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ShedHead20:
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--- Quote from: brokentrail on May 20, 2025, 03:53:15 PM ---Just back from a week over in the Northeast corner with my oldest son. We were able to fill two tags a piece but it definitely took a lot of time/work/effort to do so. Was still a great trip, even if we hadn't been successful, I just love to hear those birds gobble... If I found a pocket of birds on the west side, I wouldn't even hunt them, I would just go there to drink coffee in the morning and listen to them do their thing.
Ok well I'll show one more pic of another that we called Easterns. Tips are not white like other birds I brought over a buddy from Missouri that has killed them for 40 years and was convinced mine were easterns copared to the others we killed. This is why I brought it up tho. I want to be informed. Thanks for the input.
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100% a rio or a Merriam/rio hybrid. No Easterns around North Central WA for 150 miles and high country in the middle of that. Easterns are dark. No white, no cream coloring at all. Just black and brown.
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ZagHunter:
Weren't there easterns released in Idaho near the Dworshak Reservoir years ago that made their way into WA? I read rumors of that on another forum.
baldopepper:
--- Quote from: ZagHunter on May 21, 2025, 06:56:06 PM ---Weren't there easterns released in Idaho near the Dworshak Reservoir years ago that made their way into WA? I read rumors of that on another forum.
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It's my understanding that easterns were released in that Area in 2012 or 2013. Supposedly they didn't do well and there are no verified harvest reports on them for a number of years. I suspect they inner breed like Merriams and Rios and there are probably very few, if any at all, true easterns left. It seems to me every year we harvest fewer and fewer true Merriams or Rios with most being hybrids. Of the over 30 birds our group harvested last year only 4 or 5 appeared to be pure rio or merriam.The rio traits seem to be the dominant.
ZagHunter:
--- Quote from: baldopepper on May 21, 2025, 07:32:14 PM ---
--- Quote from: ZagHunter on May 21, 2025, 06:56:06 PM ---Weren't there easterns released in Idaho near the Dworshak Reservoir years ago that made their way into WA? I read rumors of that on another forum.
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It's my understanding that easterns were released in that Area in 2012 or 2013. Supposedly they didn't do well and there are no verified harvest reports on them for a number of years. I suspect they inner breed like Merriams and Rios and there are probably very few, if any at all, true easterns left. It seems to me every year we harvest fewer and fewer true Merriams or Rios with most being hybrids. Of the over 30 birds our group harvested last year only 4 or 5 appeared to be pure rio or merriam.The rio traits seem to be the dominant.
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Interesting. I appreciate the context!
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