Margaret Unit

[HntnFsh]

I believe that 12,000 acres are now privately owned up there. I recently talked to a guy that works up there and he told me they took 5 million pounds of noble fir bows out of there last year. Have you seen what noble fir bows go for. Its big bucks.

This state dropped the ball big time when this land was up for sale.They had many millions of dollars in a fund to purchase just this typw of property.

[Huntbear]

I believe that 12,000 acres are now privately owned up there. I recently talked to a guy that works up there and he told me they took 5 million pounds of noble fir bows out of there last year. Have you seen what noble fir bows go for. Its big bucks.

This state dropped the ball big time when this land was up for sale.They had many millions of dollars in a fund to purchase just this typw of property.

The RMEF knew about this sale... I emailed them about it, got an email back saying they were working with all parties involved.  Next thing I hear, the sale went through, RMEF did nothing, because it is Roosie elk?  or because Agnew and friends donated a chit pot load of money to them to keep them out of the game, since RMEF is a money whore as well... they buy land they figure will give them the most press.. .make it hunting land for rich people, and then applaud how they saved all this critical habitat....  I quit them years ago for just that attitude...

[Bluesdude]

And, just so we are clear...

Agnew has spent how much money buying Governors tags?  I am sure he gets whatever the F&%$% he wants with WDFW, they are MONEY WHORES after all and can be bought...

Huntbear, I think you are confusing Dan Agnew from Vancouver and Sam Agnew from Centralia, who owns the Noble Tree Farm.  Dan is the guy who has purchased the elk tags you refer to. I'm not saying Sam and Dan aren't related, they very well could be, but they are two different people.

[buckhorn2]

I am with you huntbear anyone who can hire guides for months to look over a bull then fly in and be driven to where they are watching it sure knows how to tie up prime hunting area.  Theres way more to this than is being told he might be a nice guy like they portray but he also likes big elk and by gaiting everything and posting it is the way for him and other rich friends to be the only ones to hunt it. Yes there are other areas there that have elk there but if you think you can hike in that far go for it. This is going to be a wait and see but if a pole were made I think more would say private hunting grounds.

[mpetersen]

Is this guy the same one that had the gall to send his governors tag bull picture in to the paper. Heard he spent alot of money and resources to shoot that elk. I would be embarrassed to brag up an animal I spent thousands to "hunt". I don't claim to be the worlds best hunter but it sounds pretty easy when you have other guys keeping track of a bull and then lead you by the hand to its location,  good target practice though ! 

[Huntbear]

And, just so we are clear...

Agnew has spent how much money buying Governors tags?  I am sure he gets whatever the F&%$% he wants with WDFW, they are MONEY WHORES after all and can be bought...

Huntbear, I think you are confusing Dan Agnew from Vancouver and Sam Agnew from Centralia, who owns the Noble Tree Farm.  Dan is the guy who has purchased the elk tags you refer to. I'm not saying Sam and Dan aren't related, they very well could be, but they are two different people.

IF they are different people and different money then I apologize.... 

HOWEVER money is money.....  *censored* is *censored*...  and this whole mess smells like a skunk just walked in the door of the Margaret unit and started spraying every hunter it could find... 

No way this whole thing happens unless the state got a whole lot of "look the other way while elk hunters are screwed" money...

[madmack76]

this thread is as stupid as a womens soap opera

[Branden]

this thread is as stupid as a womens soap opera

 

A lot of complaining and speculation

[buckhorn2]

52 posts and your already an authority if you don;t like the post hop on another. For me I have put in for margret for 13 years so when they change things I want to know why. If you don;t want margret try doe deer or something you probley have more knowledge of and for another Huntbear has lived and hunted around that area a lot and knows a lot of people around there and they all feel something is not right. Tell me how many years you have put in and waited to draw a quality tag then get it dropped.

[Branden]

52 posts and your already an authority if you don;t like the post hop on another. For me I have put in for margret for 13 years so when they change things I want to know why. If you don;t want margret try doe deer or something you probley have more knowledge of and for another Huntbear has lived and hunted around that area a lot and knows a lot of people around there and they all feel something is not right. Tell me how many years you have put in and waited to draw a quality tag then get it dropped.

Lol because the number of posts a person has means you do/don't know what you are talking about? This whole thread is speculation and conspiracy theory. Not one person has reported seeing any elk come off the private in the back of a pickup or anything like that.

I see a lot of complaining that rmef did nothing. That Agnew is going to turn this into his private hunting resort. You think a guy that can afford to spend 100k a year on elk tags bought a couple thousand acres to shoot little bulls? Oh I forgot, its not the same Agnew that bought it. My bad 

Yea it sucks that wdfw changed it to a regular bull hunt after having it in the quality category for 2 years. But it also sucked when they put all the yakima units in the bull category. There were over 5k hunters that applied for peaches rifle last year. The odds to draw in this state suck, and always will until hunters demand a change to the current system.

[Huntbear]

Branden

It has been rumored since DAY 1 that the plan of the new property owners was to build a lodge on the high lakes and make it a pay to hunt area...

If you know this Agnew (and either one has the money to bribe and buy the WDFW for what they want), or have privy information with the WDFW , bring them on here, let them put it in writing that they have no plans to do this, that it is just for the noble boughs.... and let them face the hunters they are SCREWING AGAIN.

If you do not like reading this thread because those of us that actually put in for this Unit, and hunt the area year in and year out are speaking our minds... do not click on it...   I will not stop posting how I feel because you think it is not worth your time.     Been on this forum way to long and been hunting way to long to stop expressing how I feel about things...


Del, you and I are in the same boat...  and yes, I think we should DEMAND answers.. we pay good money for licenses and tags and these *censored*ES in Olympia to keep f&cking us in the ass.....

[Branden]

Branden

It has been rumored since DAY 1 that the plan of the new property owners was to build a lodge on the high lakes and make it a pay to hunt area...

If you know this Agnew (and either one has the money to bribe and buy the WDFW for what they want), or have privy information with the WDFW , bring them on here, let them put it in writing that they have no plans to do this, that it is just for the noble boughs.... and let them face the hunters they are SCREWING AGAIN.

"It has been rumored" "They are screwing us again" More speculation and conspiracy theory. How is Agnew screwing hunters by buying Private Property? Please answer this question.

Does anyone even know if Sam Agnew hunts? He might just be an investor that saw an opportunity to make even more money. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? There is no evidence whatsoever to any of the speculation in this thread, yet guys are roasting him over the coals because what? Oh yea he bought a farm and doesn't want public on it. 

[ELKBURGER]

The worst part about this is that the state had an opportunity to purchase this land as well as the RMEF and they both bowed out leaving this open to anyone with the money. Too bad I didnt have the money or it would have been my private resort.

[Huntbear]

Branden,

You obviously do not care about the state letting our prime hunting lands be sold and access denied to OUR WILDLIFE.     

[Branden]

Thanks for the reply to my question