Few WSU bucks

[Cougeyes]

Here are a few pictures of the WSU research deer.

[Red Dawg]

 

[searchnfor]

Whats the scoop with these deer, i never heard of research deer?

[gramps]

Hmmmm   no research deer there when I was there 40 +yrs ago.   Some nice ones on the Palouse river tho'

[jackelope]

Whats the scoop with these deer, i never heard of research deer?

i'm sure there's a whole lot more than just this, but if you google it, this is one of the things that comes up...

http://wdfw.wa.gov/science/articles/mule_deer/index-wsu.html

[Cougeyes]

Yeah that pretty much sums it up.  There are also Grizzly bears here that are studied.

[popeshawnpaul]

Grizzlys?  Yep, this one is named Patches I believe...

[popeshawnpaul]

Here's a bighorn from there as well...

Oh, my avatar is a WSU sheep...

[GOcougsHunter]

Cougeyes.. Great pics...  Do you know when they started housing Mulies?  When I was there in 85-90 they only had whitetails... Do they still have the elk there with the stomach plugs?

[popeshawnpaul]

They had elk, sheep, and grizzlys from 94-98 when I was there.  Not sure when or if they had deer during that time frame.  I don't remember seeing them...

[russ]

i just got back a couple hours ago from wsu orientation. didnt get a chance to see any of the animals.  ...maybe in the fall ill get a chance since im going into wildlife ecology. 

[popeshawnpaul]

You'll have fun Russ.  I'm very jeleous.  I had a great 5 years there...

Here's a list of must do activities:

Hang on dunes down at Snake while hot weather lasts...sorority chicks in bikinis...
Hike Kamiak and drive up Steptoe butte with a lady late at night...
Bike Moscow mountain and watch out for rutting moose
Get down past Lewiston and find huge bighorns
Drive to the top of a wheat field at night and drink a few cold ones with buddies
Chukur hunt on the Snake breaks after school
Turkey hunt the blues
Steelhead fish the Snake/Clearwater
Pheasant hunt the area around Pullman
Leave Seattle at 1 AM and drive 100mph to Pullman in 3 hours
Go skiing to Schweitzer
Go drinking at redneck bar in the middle of nowhere:  Slurp & Burp


There you go.  I'll think of a ton more.  I tried to focus on outdoor related activities...

[GOcougsHunter]

..Take PEACT rifle and archery courses. College Credit (I'm sure they still offer them?!)
..Bowfish for Carp at Wawawai.
.. Jump off Granite Point (at night)

 

The Animals are out Farm Way about half a mile on the right.

[Antlershed]

Nice bucks! Which one is Nemo?

[Cougeyes]

Pope you basically summed it all up.  A few things not to do:  Dont think just because you take two trucks to go drive around the primitive roads at night after a snow storm and snow drifts that you are safe....if one gets stuck the other can pull you out, right?  No one ever asked what happens if both trucks get stuck.  Watch out for the crazy guy in Albion by the gravel pit, eventhough there is feel free to hunt land there, he thinks he owns it, oh yeah and just because its feel free to hunt land I guess doesn't give you permission to just go shooting?? 

You forgot to put fish the ronde on your list, enterube behind the truck out in albion on the primitive roads, get wasted and dance in the "cage" at the bar (may not have had that when you were here).  I dont think they offer rifle or bow Peact classes, but they do offer fly-fishing.   There is a lot of land to gain access to so i suggest doing it when you get here and you'll be set for the duration of your time here.

[russ]

i cant wait. ive heard theres tons of stuff to do involving the outdoors...and other stuff     pope and cougeyes thanks for the tips on stuff to do. i plan to fit in as much as possible!

[popeshawnpaul]

Another one I forgot.  Don't take a Honda Accord on the top of a stubble field in August.  The stubble gets caught in the hot catalytic converter and starts a raging fire.

I forgot about fishing the Ronde cougeyes.  Take the fly rod down there and skate big bass flies across the surface and get a steely to hit a big dry fly.  Just don't get distracted by the huge rams across the river and go up after them like I did.

Oh and one more thing.  If you can't get a date by 8...tri delta.

[PacificNWhunter]

Nice pics

[Wea300mag]

Ahhhhh, the memories.

I'll have to dig out some old photos and get them on here.

[GOcougsHunter]

Cougeyes... I looked at the current course schedules and it appears that they do not offer the classes anymore.  The rifle range is in the top floor of the fieldhouse and the archery range was set up next to the indoor track.   I guess too many people freaked out with having guns on campus? 



One other thing to do... Sneak in to the tunnels that crisscross the campus.  there's some pretty cool old graffitti and a lot of history down there.

[wastickslinger]

Tunnels are cool. Just dont pop your head out of a manhole and be staring at a patrol car like 3 of us did. 
They threatened to boot us. We had to convince the dean as to why we should be allowed to continue to attend school there. Oh ya we had just got busted for launching paintballs out of sling shots up at CCN. We would shoot them off the balcony at the other aprtment windows at night.  We got away with it for like 3 months. Dont worry it was water soluable. Nothing was damaged. Except when I hit my cousin in the chest with a frozen one.    again. He beat the piss out of me for that one.

Hey I graduated though!!!

We need a WSU memories thread. I could tell WSU stories all day long.

[Cougeyes]

One other thing to do... Sneak in to the tunnels that crisscross the campus.  there's some pretty cool old graffitti and a lot of history down there.

I actually was just informed of this about a month ago, sounds like no one does it anymore, but from what i was informed was that it was a lot of fun and one big party down there. 

[ThePascoKid]

When I was there from 94-98 they had the moose that was on Northern Exposure and a pack of wolves it was pretty cool to watch the wolves it roadkill.  There is a ton of stuff to do for the outdoor enthusiast I recommend driving east of Moscow and checking out some of the killer fishing.  Whitman county is one of the last great places in Washington to hunt pheasants also.  My favorite thing was the huge Mule deer bucks down on the breaks of the snake near Almota.  One draw back though is the lack of access.  As for the memories some of those I will have to take to the grave.  Wild, Wild times at Wazzu.

[Wea300mag]

I remember the tunnels well. For two years they would always lead to a locked gate or door, then my roommate found a wad of keys down there. That opened up a whole new world. Sneaking up into the Rotunda at 1am for a midnight snack, as well as several other things that can't be mentioned here.

Here are a couple pics from way back then, the first is a chuckar harvest photo on the Chief Joe appt deck (I tried to find a photo without a beer in it but couldn't) the second is one of three times the authorities came to visit us at Campus Commons North apartment 312.