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Clumber:
I have a hellofatime sloshing my way through WDFW rules and regs, I am sure it is just me and my still being new to all this...  I have a friend who has been getting some expensive deer damage to her property and to her neighbors' as well.  Unfortunately the GMU her property lives in does not have a late season archery option.  She wants to know if she has the option of requesting a nuisance tag sort of thing that would open her land to archers during late season.  She would like to have a few of them killed - the other day several got into her alfalfa hay tent eating several hundreds of $ worth of hay.  The tent was less than 3 feet from her back door, and directly adjacent to her horses' stalls.  The things are pretty brazen, eh? Neighbors have had them start to bust open greenhouses - and these are not little plastic greenhouses, these are true outbuildings and the deer are breaking into them. (Smart deer - the plants in there do, indeed, look yummy!)

During early season I was able to scare the beejeezus out of several deer, and another friend of ours has a tag for modern season and is likely to kill one for her, but she'd really like to have me come back for late season as well... and damn str8 do I want to!   :)  The only problem I ran into (aside from my novice-issue of determining range... I tickled the belly of one deer with the fletching of my arrow... dangit...) was that they are WAY nocturnal during early season.  Am thinking they might be more willing to be moving around during hunting hours closer to the rut... when her GMU is closed to archery.

Can someone direct me where to look for this info for her?  I found where she can apply to be reimbursed, and I have found mention of applying for a kill permit... but not where that kill permit is located or anything about how it applies.  She doesn't really want to be reimbursed as she thinks that is a stupid way to spend state dollars.  She'd rather have a hunter pay for a tag and then get to kill them.

Much thanks!  (And I will tell the belly-tickling story later on with a couple other close call stories I have.  Hoping to have more after late-season so will tell all in one posting)

~ Tracy

Bob33:
I would suggest contacting the local WDFW enforcement officer. He should be able to direct her.

villageidiot:
Several yrs. ago I counted 67 deer run out of my hay barn when I opened the door.  They had walked up the snow berm from the outside and jumped over the 10 foot tall walls and couldn't get out because I had the doors closed to keep them out. This went on for many days.   Contacted the local game agent and he had to go through his superior Sargent to get permission.  They wouldn't give me any tags to takecare of the deer in the barn but gave me 5 depredation t ags to pass out the next season.  The deer were in the barn in December and I got tags for the next Sept.    They wouldn't give me any deer food or any money for my hay.  That leaves one to either become a meek whimp and take their answer and lose many tons of hay to the deer or take the matter in your own hands and if you get caught then you are a worthless poacher, skumbag.  I have noticed many on this board condem poachers to no end without knowing the facts.    If you have a good game warden he might help you out but if he's looking to put another strip on his suit he won't help you and will watch you like a hawk so he can score another stripe when you deal with the problem.     Good Luck.

bobcat:
If it's the unit that's open for late muzzleloader I might be able to help.   :)

Hangfire:
There are lots of ways to keep deer out of things. I spray my large garden and fruit trees about 1 time a month with 6 eggs per gallon of water. They do not like the smell of eggs. It is not a soaking spray just a mist. A fence around a hay stack works.

 Call the regional office and talk to them. There are lots of options.

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