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Quote from: huntnnw on August 15, 2011, 06:17:10 AMI am an avid archer,but I could careless for the last week of archery deer IMHO..I dont like that they have taken days away and for nothing. The week I want back and is a big deal is the late archery whitetail season we lost that was a prime date for us..now we are chasing the tail end of the rut and post rut. The early dates to me are not as critical as the bucks are very hard to hunt in late sept and alot of archers dont chase them by then..most serious archers put in the time that first week. Then you have good cause to attend the meeting closest to you next week. Take along some friends. http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/regulations/seasonsetting/index.html I know a lot of archers (far more serious than some!) who hunted that last week of September and notched their tags then with regularity. Archery hunting is supposed to be hard.
I am an avid archer,but I could careless for the last week of archery deer IMHO..I dont like that they have taken days away and for nothing. The week I want back and is a big deal is the late archery whitetail season we lost that was a prime date for us..now we are chasing the tail end of the rut and post rut. The early dates to me are not as critical as the bucks are very hard to hunt in late sept and alot of archers dont chase them by then..most serious archers put in the time that first week.
Quote from: Snapshot on August 15, 2011, 08:33:16 AMQuote from: huntnnw on August 15, 2011, 06:17:10 AMI am an avid archer,but I could careless for the last week of archery deer IMHO..I dont like that they have taken days away and for nothing. The week I want back and is a big deal is the late archery whitetail season we lost that was a prime date for us..now we are chasing the tail end of the rut and post rut. The early dates to me are not as critical as the bucks are very hard to hunt in late sept and alot of archers dont chase them by then..most serious archers put in the time that first week. Then you have good cause to attend the meeting closest to you next week. Take along some friends. http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/regulations/seasonsetting/index.html I know a lot of archers (far more serious than some!) who hunted that last week of September and notched their tags then with regularity. Archery hunting is supposed to be hard.Id be interested on how many of those bucks were 5+? shooting 1-3 yr olds isnt hard then.Ive watched alot of mature whiteys over the last 20 years to know that first few days of Sept are prime for taking a mature buck..everyday after that it gets harder and harder... there a reason October is known as the "lull" bucks (mature) are hard to get if not impossible then.I am trying to wttend that meeting in SpokaneThanks for the information i will try to make it as well and pass the word along. Brian
12% is anti hunting, whereas a large majority are on the fence as don't hunt, but don't care. EASILY swayed by bambi pics and the like, a single video of dogs ripping apart a bear cub. We describe these folks as on the fence. The ones that are easily convinced one way or the other. Take bear baiting for instance. A very useful tool to sort out sows with cubs or boars etc. There is nothing easy about carrying on a successful bait. However, if you have ever come across a bad "bait" in the woods, its an aweful mess. or if you try to persuade an non hunting populace about wanting to not shoot a sow with cubs, their first thought is to SHUT IT DOWN.
Quote from: boneaddict on August 15, 2011, 10:26:29 AM12% is anti hunting, whereas a large majority are on the fence as don't hunt, but don't care. EASILY swayed by bambi pics and the like, a single video of dogs ripping apart a bear cub. We describe these folks as on the fence. The ones that are easily convinced one way or the other. Take bear baiting for instance. A very useful tool to sort out sows with cubs or boars etc. There is nothing easy about carrying on a successful bait. However, if you have ever come across a bad "bait" in the woods, its an aweful mess. or if you try to persuade an non hunting populace about wanting to not shoot a sow with cubs, their first thought is to SHUT IT DOWN. The 'straw that broke the camels back' in the trapping initiative was showing on TV about four days before the election a house kitty in an illegal steel, toothed, leg-hold trap. The anti-hunters won that initiative by less than 5%.Distasteful videos & photographs are among the anti-hunters' best weapons against those of us who hunt, trap or fish...
Quote from: Snapshot on August 16, 2011, 02:01:47 PMQuote from: boneaddict on August 15, 2011, 10:26:29 AM12% is anti hunting, whereas a large majority are on the fence as don't hunt, but don't care. EASILY swayed by bambi pics and the like, a single video of dogs ripping apart a bear cub. We describe these folks as on the fence. The ones that are easily convinced one way or the other. Take bear baiting for instance. A very useful tool to sort out sows with cubs or boars etc. There is nothing easy about carrying on a successful bait. However, if you have ever come across a bad "bait" in the woods, its an aweful mess. or if you try to persuade an non hunting populace about wanting to not shoot a sow with cubs, their first thought is to SHUT IT DOWN. The 'straw that broke the camels back' in the trapping initiative was showing on TV about four days before the election a house kitty in an illegal steel, toothed, leg-hold trap. The anti-hunters won that initiative by less than 5%.Distasteful videos & photographs are among the anti-hunters' best weapons against those of us who hunt, trap or fish...well said , you hit that right on the melon, even as hardcore huntn fool like so many others i dont like to see animals in traps or bad pictures of animals taken because of the way it makes us look. i am sure alot of you remember that bow huntn that happened up north on those elk that they put on the news, especially that one elk that was laying within spitn distance of the road why that guy was putn arrows in the poor thing. that made us all look like real fricken idiots
To change the subject (and further jack the thread), want to do something to protect your privilege to hunt? Do some fact checking about an effort to expand the North Cascades National Park boundaries. And then write an opposition letter to each of your congresswomen to ask them to please not support any congressional action that would change the boundaries. National Parks designation would end hunting on hundreds of thousands of acres that we can currently hunt on. An alternative might be wilderness designation which is at least foot-hunter and horseback-hunter friendly and at the same time offers some protections that "greenies" appreciate, too.
Quote from: jackmaster on August 16, 2011, 02:17:30 PMQuote from: Snapshot on August 16, 2011, 02:01:47 PMQuote from: boneaddict on August 15, 2011, 10:26:29 AM12% is anti hunting, whereas a large majority are on the fence as don't hunt, but don't care. EASILY swayed by bambi pics and the like, a single video of dogs ripping apart a bear cub. We describe these folks as on the fence. The ones that are easily convinced one way or the other. Take bear baiting for instance. A very useful tool to sort out sows with cubs or boars etc. There is nothing easy about carrying on a successful bait. However, if you have ever come across a bad "bait" in the woods, its an aweful mess. or if you try to persuade an non hunting populace about wanting to not shoot a sow with cubs, their first thought is to SHUT IT DOWN. The 'straw that broke the camels back' in the trapping initiative was showing on TV about four days before the election a house kitty in an illegal steel, toothed, leg-hold trap. The anti-hunters won that initiative by less than 5%.Distasteful videos & photographs are among the anti-hunters' best weapons against those of us who hunt, trap or fish...well said , you hit that right on the melon, even as hardcore huntn fool like so many others i dont like to see animals in traps or bad pictures of animals taken because of the way it makes us look. i am sure alot of you remember that bow huntn that happened up north on those elk that they put on the news, especially that one elk that was laying within spitn distance of the road why that guy was putn arrows in the poor thing. that made us all look like real fricken idiotsThat it did; we looked like horses' butts. And it was perfectly legal what the TV cameras captured! But being legal didn't make it look right.
