Post by: Longbow 58 on January 01, 2019, 08:54:41 AM
Post by: Naches Sportsman on January 01, 2019, 08:59:09 AM
Post by: bowhunterforever on January 03, 2019, 01:55:06 AM
Post by: Moose Master on January 03, 2019, 06:21:20 AM
Post by: boneaddict on January 03, 2019, 06:33:23 AM
Post by: Special T on January 03, 2019, 07:03:40 AM
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Post by: JBar on January 03, 2019, 02:20:34 PM
Post by: Ridgerunner on January 03, 2019, 02:21:57 PM
Post by: Naches Sportsman on January 03, 2019, 03:18:02 PM
If you have a utv with a winch, can get into most places that are still open to vehicle traffic in the winter.
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on January 04, 2019, 09:05:06 PM
It's all good till the tag quotas drop due to the low survey numbers......
Funny how that works out...... NOT!
Post by: Moose Master on January 05, 2019, 06:25:18 AM
Post by: thegeneral on January 29, 2019, 01:36:39 PM
Post by: D-Rock425 on January 31, 2019, 11:03:31 AM
Could make the airial survey work difficult. Isnt that the same issue as last year for no no numbers? Ironically 2 easy winters back to back should help the elk bounce back from that hard winter a few years back.was it really a hard winter or wdfw giving out tons of cow permits for a few years in a row in most of the 300 gmus
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Post by: Special T on January 31, 2019, 11:45:43 AM
Could make the airial survey work difficult. Isnt that the same issue as last year for no no numbers? Ironically 2 easy winters back to back should help the elk bounce back from that hard winter a few years back.was it really a hard winter or wdfw giving out tons of cow permits for a few years in a row in most of the 300 gmus
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If you look back at the WDFW reports there was a lot of winter kill then a mild winter. this winter was mild as well. I think with no available survey work it is hard to determine if the permits were the issue. :twocents:
Post by: jstone on January 31, 2019, 12:58:06 PM
Post by: D-Rock425 on January 31, 2019, 01:25:01 PM
Too many cow permits. They like to hand out lots and lots of permits. Then when the numbers are way low panic and say we have to many killed. No method to there madnessalmost 3,000 cow tags went out in 2016 for just the Yakima heard. Add the open season on cows for archery hunters and it leaves us exactly where we are today.
Post by: full choke on January 31, 2019, 02:12:23 PM
Too many cow permits. They like to hand out lots and lots of permits. Then when the numbers are way low panic and say we have to many killed. No method to there madnessalmost 3,000 cow tags went out in 2016 for just the Yakima heard. Add the open season on cows for archery hunters and it leaves us exactly where we are today.
How many cows were actually killed? I remember seeing 400 muzzy cow tags one year, but only something like 11 tags actually being filled in the unit I hunt. That was just muzzy though.
Post by: Special T on January 31, 2019, 03:05:09 PM
They used this formulate to divide up everything from # permits to season lengths point and sex limitations and time period.
Bad blood was always created because MF hunters had a higher success rate than ML or Archery. on the surface it looks bad because archers get a disproportionate amount of permits because their success rate was so much lower. Id heard that part of the reason why they didnt issue permit only for cows is 1 the constant complaint of juicing folks for permit money. 2 most folks that couldnt hunt cows would head to the Colocum herd and there would be a huge concentration of hunters throwing that herd out of balance. Supposedly allowing cow hunting the second half of the season in the Yakima units for archer had the same projected harvest as permits with out concentrating hunters in one area.
Post by: boneaddict on February 10, 2019, 01:34:27 PM
Post by: Moose Master on February 14, 2019, 06:10:15 AM
Post by: Elkslayer on February 15, 2019, 04:49:54 PM
Post by: eastfork on February 15, 2019, 05:13:52 PM
Post by: Naches Sportsman on February 15, 2019, 06:29:38 PM
Seen a few below the elk fence a bit ago.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on February 16, 2019, 11:40:37 AM
Post by: huntnfmly on February 16, 2019, 12:26:00 PM
Last time we were there you could see them coming over the hill heading down
Post by: boneaddict on February 16, 2019, 01:02:04 PM
Post by: Lucky Eric on February 17, 2019, 02:29:17 PM
Post by: boneaddict on February 17, 2019, 06:33:14 PM
Post by: Naches Sportsman on February 17, 2019, 06:41:12 PM
Stopped by Wednesday at 3pm and there were lots of decent bulls. Largest looked to be a nice 6x6 hanging out towards the back. I’d guess he was in the 380” range.Need a pic next time as there are not many if any 380" bulls that are alive near any feeding stations or pics would have been posted on the internet.
Post by: jdb on February 17, 2019, 07:10:09 PM
Post by: boneaddict on February 18, 2019, 07:06:18 AM
Post by: Rimrock hunter on February 18, 2019, 09:19:43 AM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on February 18, 2019, 08:30:40 PM
The first pic cracks me up, looks like the young calf has a huge rack.
Post by: Timberstalker on February 18, 2019, 08:47:19 PM
Post by: bowhunterforever on February 18, 2019, 08:51:14 PM
Post by: Magnum_Willys on February 23, 2019, 09:03:46 AM
Post by: huntnfmly on February 23, 2019, 09:06:43 AM
Post by: KillerBeee on February 25, 2019, 08:35:57 AM