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Offline matt345

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2 points around every corner!
« on: October 25, 2011, 04:31:52 PM »
I hunted a private piece of ground in Grand Coulee with a friend and 3 other guys for 4 days and we hunted it hard every day sun up to sun down. We only took home a doe, one guy had a doe tag. We saw probably 15 different 2 points, nothing that was legal, someone on the neighboring piece of property got a big 4 point 25 inch spread. We had a great time, weather was perfect, shot at a few coyotes on the run. Just never connected with a legal buck. There's always a late hunt to try and solve the tag soup issue! Next year should be better on that property with all those two points lets hope a few of them make it through the winter  ;)

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2011, 04:40:29 PM »
Heard that more than once this year  :bash: I found one with eye guards and smoked him  :chuckle:
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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2011, 04:43:10 PM »
They are like rats up here right now :bash: Bad gentics being passed on this year. I have seen more 3-5 year old slick 2 points this year then any other :bash:
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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2011, 04:48:22 PM »
We had a similar issue this year we seen 2pts on a daily basis, and really only seen two legal shooters all week one on which was a 2pt with eyeguards.  Good thing we have the kids to fill the freezer with doe tags.

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2011, 05:40:24 PM »
This is happening at foster creek too.  This is why I started the thread asking how the wdfw could go about washing out those genes.  They are everywhere up there.

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2011, 05:59:20 PM »
It's kind of an interesting problem, because really when you put a 3-point minimum rule in place you create an evolutionary selective pressure that *favors* mature 2-point bucks!

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 06:00:54 PM »
thats how it was in the place i hunted last year, saw a ton of twos but nothing legal, and only saw a few threes that had been shot. went back this year and by 8:30 opening morning my dad and i both had nice threes, and we saw a ton pulled out that weekend. so have fun next year! and good luck with the late hunt.

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2011, 07:20:25 PM »
You would think after years of complaining about so many mature 2pts in areas. The wdfw would actually realize there is a problem with genetics and do something about it.

It seems to me more and more every year the wdfw doesn't want our money. As they keep giving Washington hunters a reason to go out of state.......

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2011, 08:55:45 PM »
Had the same experience in the Blue Mountains . . . lots of two points and spikes.  So frustrating

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2011, 10:32:29 PM »
We were hunting over by Keller Ferry on Lake Roosevelt, and noticed a ton on big forks. I was able to take a nice three point out of there though.
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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2011, 07:04:31 AM »
It's kind of an interesting problem, because really when you put a 3-point minimum rule in place you create an evolutionary selective pressure that *favors* mature 2-point bucks!

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2011, 07:25:32 AM »
They are like rats up here right now :bash: Bad gentics being passed on this year. I have seen more 3-5 year old slick 2 points this year then any other :bash:

its not bad genes its what we select for on this side...its all part of the theory of evolution and natural selection....we have been rigorously culling the 3 point and better leaving the 2 point to survive...its really basic animal management/breeding at work....this state hires people who havent got a clue and we end up with these messes

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2 points around every corner!
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2011, 07:49:10 AM »
I believe they should give out 500 youth permits for 2 points in Douglas county.

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2011, 10:56:04 AM »
Sad thing over there is that bulk of the 2 points are all mature deer. every day we would get on a buck and when it turned its head it would be a huge 2. We saw a couple that would be easy 21" - 24" wide 2 X 2's with NO eye guards. get enough of them breeding and we will have nothing but a county full 2 points.  :bdid:

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Re: 2 points around every corner!
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2011, 11:19:38 AM »
Saw same thing in the Almota unit of the Snake River breaks....we saw big 2's every day.   

They actually had a permit only black powder hunt for 2pts in that unit, to try to address some of this problem.  But I don't know how many they took...very open country and tough to get in BP range. 

 


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