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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2010, 02:20:01 PM »
Last year I had a snow goose start to sail across the field we were hunting.  An eagle swooped down and drilled it.  I ran over to it and the eagle already had one breast about half eaten in about 2 minutes.
Cut em!
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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2010, 05:31:15 PM »
i'm with you dustin, absolutely. jk gone wrong.

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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2010, 06:11:23 PM »
I'm happy to feed the eagles. lol, jk, seems they now depend on cripples over there. the comment might have come from the wdfw's own site. on there site, look up snow goose. you will see that they encourage you not to attempt to recover cripples if they are on the wrong side of a dike, fence or crop line. this includes dogs. they advise that the eagles will take care of all cripples. besides, aren't these geese Comies.  ;) they are contributing to global warming in their habitat up north, so i tell the bird watchers, i'm simply doing my part, and consider it a green hunt. 8)

If hunters aren't able to ethically harvest their birds than the environmentalist will get involved and hunts will shut down like the skagit elk hunt last year. They will euthanize birds if hunters are unable to do the population control. At the end of the day it is a priviledge for us to be able to hunt them and do our part, they are willing to do it without us and it's important for hunters to remember that because once we take it for granted they will take it away.
A few anti's that live on fir Island have offered to pay WDFW to distroy nests on Wrangle Island

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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2010, 07:00:50 PM »
It is an interesting mix of opposites out there. just my opinion, but i believe the flooding is simply to appeeze (spell?) the bird watchers. hunters and birders passing eachother. one thing i have observed hunters seem to be more polite, while the birders are normally not, and even attempt to interfere with hunting. watched a guy go from blind to blind once a while back, and just hangingout by them in his lime green coat. it is also an interesting mix of hunters near the dykes, from tweaker dirtbags, to the guys following the rules. i make it a point to say hallo to the birders when passing and not fire when they are near. i think my gift of sunshine just rains on their paraade.

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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2010, 07:20:29 PM »
There are some bird activist from down south that show up when there are a lot of hunters, called by some on the island.
I've seen them in action.

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Re: what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes
« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2010, 08:07:25 PM »
what the rules on hunting the skagit dikes ?

Take a hot chick and some red wine    you might lure some in.
Hard to look at tho. I think it is illegal to shoot them for sport.
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