New Regs Biggest Disappointment

[X-Force]

Im just curious what your thoughts are.

[Special T]

i said no wolf hunt, but no elk in 3911 is defiantly close.    running the game dept!

[Smokepole]

My biggest disappointment in the game dept. is having us keep track of harvest, and they use our data to make all these decisions.  If we fail to report the data, we get fined.  We're doing most of the work, yet our license fees keep going up.  When you call them, you get some college uneducated putz that doesn't have any experience, and doesn't have any passion for his/her job.  I'm not much for bureaucracies.  It's just a big ass waste of taxpayer money.  All of the paper work and other b.s. just takes any spiritual meaning out of our hunts.  Just bogs us down with baggage.

The wdfw isn't about managing wildlife.  It's all about managing you, the sportsman.  That's what sticks in my craw.

Tell me who in the wdfw really gives a rat's ass about habitat and sustaining huntable populations of game animals?  They're just milking a job.    

[carpsniperg2]

i said other, i am still pissed off with all the bull crap with the preditors period! be it wolf introduction, changing the seasons when you can and can't shoot them what weapons you have to use. dog tags boot tags milking more money out of our pockets dam fish and wildlife washington the new preditor capitol of the use

[lokidog]

Change in permits because it screws those of us that have settled for applying for meat hunts and not trophy hunts.  You should only be able to apply your current points to ONE category of your choice.

[boneaddict]

I picked other........"The Cover".    

Though you have a couple other major disappointments listed there.

[dreamingbig]

I selected "other" but no wolf hunt was my second choice.  Other for archery anterless opportunities being taken away while still available for other user groups.

[NWWABOWHNTR]

I selected "other" but no wolf hunt was my second choice.  Other for archery anterless opportunities being taken away while still available for other user groups.

I agree with this even though I selected no wolf hunt.  There are no archery antlerless deer permits in the GMU's I will be hunting for archery yet there are for everyone else.

[Curly]

Change in permits because it screws those of us that have settled for applying for meat hunts and not trophy hunts.  You should only be able to apply your current points to ONE category of your choice.

+1

No surprise about not having a wolf season.  I do wish there was a season and a bounty on them.

I also think there should be a general spring bear season across the whole state, year round cougar season, and more limitted antlerless harvest for deer and elk.  Oh......and more opportunity for the hound guys.

[BrushChimp]

The ability for moose special permits applicants 65+ and 16- to apply for up to 8 hunts and not lose any points in the other categories in which they don't draw.  If you're disabled, you get 9 choices. Did my odds go up? NO! WDFW says that was one of the reasons for going to this system. To please all the 'hunters' that are bitchin' about having terrible odds for hunts. Garbage.

[jelo45110]

I am not liking the new permit hunt layout at all.

[WDFW-SUX]

Other:  The game department suggesting that global warming is the reason that hunting in washington is in such decline not there own poor management for the last two decades.

[Bob33]

Number 1: permits.  Number 2: providing link to global warming myth.

[NRA4LIFE]

Other.  Opening up Unit 346 to early bow for elk.

[jelo45110]

Ok I have to go and read the regs again because I completely missed the whole global warming BS.
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