mule deer raffle

[ELKBURGER]

Those raffles sound like a poor mans govenors tag!

[bowtech721]

  long shot but hey ya never know 

[jackelope]

Those raffles sound like a poor mans govenors tag!

That is exactly what it is. As far as I can come up with, there is no difference except the price tag. You can hunt the Entiat with a rifle from Sept 1 till Dec. 31 if you wanted to.
Literally.

[Thenewguy]

Those raffles sound like a poor mans govenors tag!

That is exactly what it is. As far as I can come up with, there is no difference except the price tag. You can hunt the Entiat with a rifle from Sept 1 till Dec. 31 if you wanted to.
Literally.

It's all kinds of fun

[jackelope]

I bet.

[belkaholic]

wow! that is alot of info. the tag cant be used in permit only units and there is only one tag given. and it is like a gov. tag except i cant pay 5 guys to find my animal a week ahead of time, tell me whare it is and then fly in for the shot(not hunt). plus i have to work for a living, so i only get 4 days to make the most of it. that is if i get drawn.   thanks for all your help,  i think.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Those raffles sound like a poor mans govenors tag!

That is exactly what it is. As far as I can come up with, there is no difference except the price tag. You can hunt the Entiat with a rifle from Sept 1 till Dec. 31 if you wanted to.
Literally.

That is correct!  Mule_Deer_Crazy won the raffle several years ago and kindly abstained from smoking a buck in the Entiat during the late archery season - but had he done so, he would have been entirely within his rights.  Something for archers to consider when bashing on rifle hunters ...

[jackelope]

wow! that is alot of info. the tag cant be used in permit only units ........

yes it can.

[bobcat]

The only permit only units are Desert, Quilomene, and Alkali and I don't see anything that says a guy can't hunt those units with the mule deer raffle tag. It says "GMU's open to mule deer hunting."

Of course the only one worth trying with that tag would be Desert. You could get in there the day after the Desert rifle permit season ends on November 7th. Hunt that for about a week, and then head up to Chelan or Okanogan, and hunt some of the units that don't have a late archery season, like Pearrygin and Chewuch.

Man that would be great to hunt a unit that has absolutely nobody else hunting it, AND while the deer are rutting. Shoot, I think I just talked myself into buying a few raffle tickets.

And I was going to try to give the WDFW as little money as possible this year.  

[buckmaster_wa]

A buddy of mine got one of the incentive tags a few years ago. The ones that you get if you call in your hunter reports. He got to choose between the elk tag and the deer tag. He chose the elk tag and ended up shooting a rag head 5pt. Him and I both wish we would have know each other back when he got that tag because I think the outcome would have been a liitle different. It was only his second year hunting and he shot the first bull he saw.

[buckmaster_wa]

I am pretty sure if I drew that tag I would probably lose my job because I would be gone Nov 1st-Dec 31st. 

[Dustin07]

I am pretty sure if I drew that tag I would probably lose my job because I would be gone Nov 1st-Dec 31st. 

you think it would take that long?

[jackelope]

The only permit only units are Desert, Quilomene, and Alkali and I don't see anything that says a guy can't hunt those units with the mule deer raffle tag. It says "GMU's open to mule deer hunting."

Of course the only one worth trying with that tag would be Desert. You could get in there the day after the Desert rifle permit season ends on November 7th. Hunt that for about a week, and then head up to Chelan or Okanogan, and hunt some of the units that don't have a late archery season, like Pearrygin and Chewuch.

Man that would be great to hunt a unit that has absolutely nobody else hunting it, AND while the deer are rutting. Shoot, I think I just talked myself into buying a few raffle tickets.

And I was going to try to give the WDFW as little money as possible this year.  

You could hunt the Desert 9/1 if you wanted to. You could also hunt the units with a late archery season during the late archery season if you wanted to.

 

[bobcat]

You could hunt the Desert 9/1 if you wanted to. You could also hunt the units with a late archery season during the late archery season if you wanted to.

My reasoning was that with that tag I would try to hunt units at times when there is no other season going on. To me that would be the best way to take full advantage of that opportunity.