8 different special apps pools!

[75johndeere]

REPORT A
VIOLATION/POACHER
1-877-933-9847

we should all call the violation hotline

[bobcat]

Yes I guess you are missing the obvious. Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU. With no general seasons you could still potentially hunt every year, you just might have to apply for the less popular units. Or you could plan on hunting deer one year and elk the next. With the system Oregon has many of the units can still be drawn every year, or at least every other year.

[denali]

I may be wrong (likely) the only people that can like this are the people with a lot of points, until they get drawn for their dream tag, THEN they will be like the rest of us sending $ to WDFW to put in for many hunts hoping to get drawn for some obscure GMU we've never hunted in ?

[Woodchuck]

every time i look at this thread the madder i get, how in the name of John Wayne's ass does this increase ANYBODYS odds?

[TheHunt]

I think if you are interested in a meat cow you will have opportunities.  The bull permits will be like other states and will be hard to come by.

[SkookumHntr]

Yes I guess you are missing the obvious. Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU. With no general seasons you could still potentially hunt every year, you just might have to apply for the less popular units. Or you could plan on hunting deer one year and elk the next. With the system Oregon has many of the units can still be drawn every year, or at least every other year.

Sorry bud but I like hunting my units every single year!

[bobcat]

Yes I guess you are missing the obvious. Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU. With no general seasons you could still potentially hunt every year, you just might have to apply for the less popular units. Or you could plan on hunting deer one year and elk the next. With the system Oregon has many of the units can still be drawn every year, or at least every other year.

Sorry bud but I like hunting my units every single year!

What units would those be?

[bobcat]

I think if you are interested in a meat cow you will have opportunities.  The bull permits will be like other states and will be hard to come by.

Better opportunities for a cow permit IF you have a lot of points. If you only have 1 or 2 points, like me, then the chances of drawing a cow permit just got drastically reduced.

[SkookumHntr]

Yes I guess you are missing the obvious. Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU. With no general seasons you could still potentially hunt every year, you just might have to apply for the less popular units. Or you could plan on hunting deer one year and elk the next. With the system Oregon has many of the units can still be drawn every year, or at least every other year.

Sorry bud but I like hunting my units every single year!

The Good ones 

What units would those be?

[Woodchuck]

it wont help the folks that put in for big bull or late buck either, now the meat hunters can put in for the big stuff and not touch their meat points, more apps = lower odds period, where did these people learn math?

[SkookumHntr]

Yep, Bad day for washington hunters

[huntnphool]

Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU.

 Thats perfect Bobcat, you have bought into the thinking that since they are so inept at management of the resource the real solution is to simply remove some of the participants. Oh brother

[sako223]

This could in effect change game patterns with pressure shifts.

[bobcat]

Which is with hunting by permit only the number of hunters can be limited, unlike the general seasons we have where the WDFW has no control on the number of deer and elk killed in each GMU.

 Thats perfect Bobcat, you have bought into the thinking that since they are so inept at management of the resource the real solution is to simply remove some of the participants. Oh brother

But, that IS how wildlife is usually managed, by limiting the number of animals killed by hunters in each unit each year. To manage numbers of wildlife you have to manage PEOPLE! Not just have it open to all with unlimited numbers of tags. Not saying I don't like having the option of hunting anywhere in the state I like, but I don't understand how Washington is so special that we can have unlimited over-the-counter tags while other western states that have lots of people like California and Oregon cannot

[huntnphool]

You need to take the blinders off and look at the whole picture Bobcat, its much bigger than that.