Big game season proposals

[CarbonHunter]

If they go through with making east side permit only it’s going to make the already overcrowded westside even worse. Lots more open public ground on the east side to disperse hunters. Not to mention all the farmers with family that hunt their own land.

[MADMAX]

If they go through with making east side permit only it’s going to make the already overcrowded westside even worse. Lots more open public ground on the east side to disperse hunters. Not to mention all the farmers with family that hunt their own land.

Follow the money

Westside , lots of the areas are now pay to play
I’m sure there’s plenty of “special interest” $ at stake

[bobcat]

West side blacktail got cut down by a week.

Only because of the change in the calendar. It's the same as it's been in decades. If you look back, in 2020 opening day of deer season was also October 17. They actually gave us an extra day at the end- November 1st. Normally blacktail season always closes on October 31.

[B4noon]

Whoops didn’t even take 2 days

[Longfield1]

Theres one problem with this proposal making elk and mule deer permit only. Who controls how many tags are allocated? If any of the quality elk hunt tag numbers are a indication i wouldnt trust them to make reasonable tags and they will keep cutting tags. Since theres no trust for them to do the right thing then i would not want it.

[swanderek]

Last year was Oct 11-31- 20ish days
This year is Oct 17- 1st - 14 ish days.
I'm I thinking this right?

West side blacktail got cut down by a week.

Only because of the change in the calendar. It's the same as it's been in decades. If you look back, in 2020 opening day of deer season was also October 17. They actually gave us an extra day at the end- November 1st. Normally blacktail season always closes on October 31.

[Alan K]

He was saying relative to the last time opening day was the 17th we get an extra day.  Not last year.

[bobcat]

Last year was Oct 11-31- 20ish days
This year is Oct 17- 1st - 14 ish days.
I'm I thinking this right?

Yes it's less days this year but the point I was trying to make is the season wasn't "cut." It's always the first Saturday after October 10th. It's been this way forever.

[Bullkllr]

Last year was Oct 11-31- 20ish days
This year is Oct 17- 1st - 14 ish days.
I'm I thinking this right?

Yes it's less days this year but the point I was trying to make is the season wasn't "cut." It's always the first Saturday after October 10th. It's been this way forever.

It cycles every year. Next year it will open on the 16th, next the 15th and so on. This was the 'reset' year when it went from as long as possible by the calendar to as short as possible by the calendar.

[swanderek]

Gotcha

[Ridgerunner]

Going to permit only for mule deer and elk could be a positive change depending on how it’s done.   Devil is always in the details on these things.  I’m withholding my opinion till the details come out.  If it means hunting once every 3/4 years I would not be in favor.  On the other had hunting every other year with much less pressure and potentially better season dates I could probably get behind. 


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[HillHound]

There will be no more deer or elk. Special user group who doesn’t follow our rules will just take more and bigger ones. Don’t make a difference if you keep the coyote out of the chicken pen when the wolf has open access.

[NOCK NOCK]

Less opportunity = less enforcement….which currently is not enough.
Poaching will drastically increase. Combine that with “un-enforceable” hunters….. easy to see where this ends. 

Just another step toward NO HUNTING.

1. Super simple to manage people and critters, …easy start, no more multi season permits. Take pressure off the critters.

2. Drastically reduce (or do away with) late “trophy” hunts, again take pressure off ungulates. More breeders/ing= more animals.

[ghosthunter]

Less opportunity = less enforcement….which currently is not enough.
Poaching will drastically increase. Combine that with “un-enforceable” hunters….. easy to see where this ends. 

Just another step toward NO HUNTING.

1. Super simple to manage people and critters, …easy start, no more multi season permits. Take pressure off the critters.

2. Drastically reduce (or do away with) late “trophy” hunts, again take pressure off ungulates. More breeders/ing= more animals.

Yes sir,

And

A end to group camps, which reduce hunter numbers, which will in power anti hunters . Less hunter numbers means less opposition. Less need for guns, less gun sales.

If you think you will draw every other year, you are smoking some good stuff. They will reduce the hunts as they already have. You might get to hunt 4-5 times in your life. For old guys maybe not that.

I would rather see an end to all doe tags , all cow tags, all multi season, all quality hunts and pick east or west for deer. Wildlife lands shut down November to April were big game winter.

Stricter restrictions on new bike or hiking trails with in the National Forest. The use of atv strictly enforced of main roads. Increased penalties for poaching or party hunting.

[Mtnwalker]

In theory its exactly what WA needs. In practice it will be agenda driven, pro-predator anti-hunters setting the quotas and it will fast track the demise of deer and elk hunting in WA state for non-tribal sportsmen.

WDFW is starting to admit that our deer herds are in trouble. If they refuse to acknowledge or mitigate any of the other factors killing deer besides license-buying hunters, then hunter quota reductions will be the only tool at their disposal to try to offset all of the other forces at play. Pretty easy to see how that's gonna go.