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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: MarkyMark on June 18, 2014, 08:35:26 PM

Title: West to East tag exchange
Post by: MarkyMark on June 18, 2014, 08:35:26 PM: I have a westside elk muzzleloader tag. Will WDFW allow me to change this to a east tag if I surrender my west tag before August 15 or some date like that?
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: bobcat on June 18, 2014, 08:37:42 PM: Yes they will, as long as you didn't apply for any special permits.
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: MarkyMark on June 18, 2014, 08:40:09 PM: Oh. Well I did but not selected. So there goes that idea.
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: Bob33 on June 18, 2014, 08:44:55 PM: WDFW Help: http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/ (http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/)

Hunting help: http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/categories/Hunting/ (http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/categories/Hunting/)

Special permits hunting help: http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/categories/Hunting/Special+Hunt+Permits/ (http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/categories/Hunting/Special+Hunt+Permits/)

Your question answered:
http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/questions/40/I+bought+an+eastern+Washington+archery+elk+license+and+applied+for+an+elk+Special+Permit.+Since+I+was+not+drawn%2C+can+I+change+from+archery+to+muzzleloader+or+from+eastern+to+western+Washington%3F (http://wdfw.wa.gov/help/questions/40/I+bought+an+eastern+Washington+archery+elk+license+and+applied+for+an+elk+Special+Permit.+Since+I+was+not+drawn%2C+can+I+change+from+archery+to+muzzleloader+or+from+eastern+to+western+Washington%3F)
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: trophyhunt on June 18, 2014, 08:45:52 PM: I would love to swap my east muzzy tag for your west!!! Once you apply your stuck with it, at least now you can hunt big bulls and not just spikes!
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: MarkyMark on June 18, 2014, 09:00:53 PM: Hopefully I'm one of the 8,000 lucky contestants in the Aberdeen Tree Farm permit bonanza tomorrow night. On duty tomorrow night so hard to say. I honestly would be shocked if 8000 people popped for those. But who knows?
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: bobcat on June 18, 2014, 09:03:55 PM: Well, all the people who didn't get Vail or Pe Ell will be needing a permit for somewhere. It's either that one or St Helens. (Goes on sale Monday)
Title: Re: West to East tag exchange
Post by: MarkyMark on June 18, 2014, 09:06:51 PM: The Olympic NF permit is cheap. So are the animals.