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Title: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: teegansdad on June 24, 2016, 02:12:00 PM
How far do you have to be from the park boundary?
Title: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: bobcat on June 24, 2016, 02:15:03 PM
No distance, just be on the right side of the boundary.

Or maybe I'm not understanding the question correctly.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: Bob33 on June 24, 2016, 02:19:45 PM
You're in the park, or you're out. If you're in, you're not legal.

Also remember that even if you shoot your animal outside the park, it may run into the park in which you will have no ability to retrieve it. I'd hunt far enough away from the boundary that a wounded animal would have little chance of getting into the park before dying. :twocents:
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: Falcon on June 24, 2016, 02:19:56 PM
Far enough that when you make a lethal shot, it doesn't die in the hard park.
  In the old days, you would have some cooperation with the park ranger with a mortally wounded animal who wandered into the park.
From what I understand now, if the animal dies in the park, that where it stays, right, wrong or indifferent.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: Falcon on June 24, 2016, 02:24:23 PM
You're in the park, or you're out. If you're in, you're not legal.

Also remember that even if you shoot your animal outside the park, it may run into the park in which you will have no ability to retrieve it. I'd hunt far enough away from the boundary that a wounded animal would have little chance of getting into the park before dying. :twocents:

 :yeah:  I will add this.   The park ranger patrol the park boundary like a hawk....   Get a good map, and pre scout the area and look for the park boundary signs on the trees.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: outfishu2 on June 24, 2016, 02:29:37 PM
have you hunted this area before?  The signs in the trees are really overgrown.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: Falcon on June 24, 2016, 02:52:26 PM
have you hunted this area before?  The signs in the trees are really overgrown.

I have been there the last few years tagging along with my hunting partner.  The signs are white and sometimes hard to see.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: teegansdad on June 24, 2016, 03:21:36 PM
My first time there will a good gps keep you clear of boundary ?
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: JimmyHoffa on June 24, 2016, 03:34:24 PM
My first time there will a good gps keep you clear of boundary ?
If it's a really good GPS (strong antenna).  The park marks its boundary fairly well, maintenance of it is so-so.  They have metal ID plates tacked on the trees about 8 ft up.  Where there's a gap in the trees, tends to be metal T-posts with signs and white paint.  They usually do the maintenance on the boundary about once a decade, so there are a few spots where the wind blows down a few trees and it can be tough to stay on the boundary line.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: Harbor_hunter on June 24, 2016, 04:39:51 PM
Pick up some maps and take a few scouting trips up there to help get an idea of the boundary.  That will be a fun tag!
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: PWN Kurt on June 29, 2016, 08:54:57 PM
Awesome tag!  I've been wanting that one for a while.

I'd touch base with the rangers before I went to check by their maps and let them know where/when I'd be hunting.  I always thought driving up that road with an elk in the back of pick up so close to the park there might be some questions to answer.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 30, 2016, 07:08:22 AM
Get the OnX maps chip or phone app, as well as the maps.
Title: Re: Quinault quality bull tag question
Post by: PWN Kurt on July 07, 2016, 11:00:37 PM
BTW:  If you don't mind me asking, how many points did you have to draw that tag?

Again, I've wanted to draw that tag for a while...even though I have some of the same concerns you have regarding where the boundaries are.  Not only do you need to think about the Park, but there's reservation land around there too which would have similar implications if you accidentally hunted on.

Best of luck.  Please share your results with us! 
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