Post by: stickman999 on July 25, 2017, 11:53:05 AM
But I'm hooked on the experience so I start buying 2 or 3 raffle tickets a year hoping to draw.
Then in 2009 i hurt my back and the Dr sends me in for an MRI and the radiologist sees a 2 inch growth on my kidney which turned out to be cancer. Thank goodness the tumor was encapsulated and they only removed the kidney no radiation or chemo. It was at the time I realized how blessed I really am and how short our lives are so I began to cross things off my bucket list tuna fishing, travel, sky diving etc etc but the one thing I really wanted to do was hunt moose again. So I continued playing the raffle 2 to 4 tickets and nothing. Well one day reading the forum I see a post from Iceman (rip Iceman) saying he was sick and it kicked me in the gut. (I never met the man but I enjoyed his posts.) His story up to the end really hit home nd reminded me about my own brush with the c word. So after his last post I told myself if I don't draw any permits I would focus on the raffle. I just had a feeling this year so I worked a bunch of OT and saved my money and after not drawing a permit I startedwatching the numbers and when it got to 400 I started buying just enough to have a 1 in 5 chance. When I did draw the math works out to 18%. Anyways Lucky me I have the winning ticket and then the pressure really starts, what 3 species, which unit, time off work, finding animals worthy of the tag etc.. Its actually overwhelming. At first my 3 picks were going to be moose, deer, and bear.(just to hunt in the spring and remove a predator). I wish wolf was a choice. But ive decided to go moose, elk, and deer. I think the elk is going to be the hardest to fill.
Anyways sorry if I rambled on I just wanted you guys to know a little about me and my reasons for doing what I did. I will do my best to share the journey with pictures. And if anybody has Intel they would like to share PM me. Thanks again Brian
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Congrats and thanks for bringing us along!:yeah: :tup:
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Also if we have not seen your OIL bull we need to see pics :chuckle:
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Let's see a pic of the last bull.
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I'd wager his silence is due to the fact that his hunt resulted in a trophy like this.:chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: Bango skank on August 05, 2018, 12:25:59 AM
cant believe nothing was taken
I believe it. Having a pocket full of tags like that, you're going to feel a lot of pressure to do them justice with big trophy animals. Especially the deer and elk, as you can hunt both of those otc, so why waste the raffle tags on average animals? Just having the tags is no guarantee that you're going to find a big wall hanger buck or bull. Add to that, this guy is from King county. I think most of our NE spring bear permits go to west siders, and well, look at the success rate for those.
I think having moose, elk and deer raffle tags, plus general deer, elk, bear and cougar tags would be too much of a good thing for anybody who isn't both retired and local. If it were me, I would choose moose, deer and bear, since the bear could be used the following spring. Focus on getting a big moose and 2 big bucks. That would be enough to deal with for the fall season.
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Post by: bearpaw on August 05, 2018, 12:19:04 PM
If I had those tags first I would concentrate on finding a good moose and maybe shoot a decent buck or bull elk if seen while looking for the moose, then use any leftover time to hunt remaining deer and elk tags late season on winter range! Shoot a bear along the way while hunting the moose, if no bear is taken no big deal, you can shoot bear easily every year with general tags.