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6.5swede:
I think it sucks! Why is it that modern firearm hunting seasons are statewide and longer than the muzzleloader which is in limited areas. It used to be great back when I started hunting muzzleloader in the early 90's when it was a lot of areas and either sex in most.

bobcat:

--- Quote from: robodad on February 04, 2008, 02:15:42 PM ---having to cram all your hunting (Deer and Elk) into 7 days ??

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I don't understand. Why do you only have 7 days?

There is the 7 day early muzzleloader season, and then the 3 week late muzzleloader season. That's 4 weeks.

It really works out good if you only hunt either deer OR elk with muzzleloader, and hunt rifle or archery for the other.

You are right in that eastside elk muzzleloader is only 7 days and there is no late season. But that's the tradeoff a guy makes if he decides to hunt elk with a muzzleloader on the eastside. The upside is you get to hunt before the crowds of rifle hunters, AND you get to hunt while the elk are (hopefully) still at the tail end of the rut.

So do you really only hunt the 7 day early season for both deer and elk?

robodad:
No but I wish I could hunt both deer and elk separately with a ML, I take off to Wisconsin for the late ML here so I miss that all together. Right now I hunt modern for deer and basically gave up on elk with ML, I have a friend who is a DH and he does archery so I go with him as his companion hunter and usually play caller for him, this year I may not even be able to do that cause I'll be chasing moose in Bristol Bay with my cousin for the middle of September and the way gas and diesel prices are going I'll be lucky to see much hunting time at all being on a fixed income and a family to support.

tmike:
If you hunt the East Side for deer. Yes you get 3 weeks. Here's what you get, some white tail units, East Kilckitat and Ringold (that must have been the Esquatel? before)not a lot of options. Another reason to keep all the weapon choices on the table. The West side looks like a different story.

SHANE(WA):
u only get the late in the selkirk unit, all the other traditional hot spots in NE WA are the first week of Oct which has to be the worst time to kill a big whitetail.

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