Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: huntnphool on December 16, 2007, 09:51:15 PM
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Does anyone have any info on the gov. tag holder this year? Who he is, where hes hunting, what hes seen etc.
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Okanogan Valley Guide Service is assisting him. He is on call most of the time and then he will be coming over to look around the Wenatchee area and Desert unit for the next few weeks. He is looking for a 200" gross. I have not met him yet but hope to real soon.
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He's gonna have to hurry unless he wants the horns to come off in his hands when posing for trophy pics!
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is it jim cook again??
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Not Jim Cook this year.
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Got to give it to Jim for eating his tag last year. That takes nerve as far as I am concerned. He had to see some nice ones.
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Gold Tip- are you seriously seeing horns falling off already? Every year at this time I see a rare dop. I have been watching a lot of bucks and I have not seen a shedder yet.
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The desert boys hold onto theirs alot longer than the northern boys. They are just starting to drop, and as you know the bigger ones usually do first. Long ways to go though before the bell curve hits.
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Makes sense. I generally only get to watch the desert bucks. Man some of them suckers pack until the end of march. It kills me. That 200"+ buck we watched last year still had not dropped by March and I lost him for a few weeks. Showed back up and what do you know, no horns. No friggin clue where he lost em. I think he has a spot where he goes every year and knocks them into his pile. :chuckle: I am starting to wonder if he is alive still. He should have shown up by now.
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I can't tell you how many miles I have logged out there, and how few of bones I have found. I know they aren't all picked up as 300 just found a nice one I guess. Its just a spot in between where I normally go, and if there is late snows or something, I'll go out there, as you know it rains there more than snow up north. Then I find all the bucks packing still well nto March. I usually give up on them and go elk shedding then. I hear ya.
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good luck to the guy. Cant wait to see or hear how he does. I know last year at this time we started to see bucks dropping, young ones and older ones. Watched a nice 170 class 4x4 for about a week, one day he only had one antler and about two days after that none. Was not a good feeling at all. But then again i watched a group of nice bucks hold on to their horns until march last year too.
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wastickslinger, at least back home in Montana we will go shed hunting the morning Christmas eve and we have had anything from finding 3-4 drops between several us to finding 20+ drops in a morning, and thats mulies. I know my Dad has already noticed several deer back home that are no longer packing the bone. That certainly doesn't mean they all do, but it would sure suck to grab a horn and have it come off in your hand, or worse yet he has two when you hit him and when you get to him he only has one after he's ran through the brush.
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That happened on one of Zumbos shows. I believe he shot one and when he went to get it, one of the antelrs had shed. I know a guiy did it on a december hunt down in unit 45 as well in Idaho. He shot his deer then both sheds came off in his hand when he went to grab them for pictures. That would just bite.
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If it popped of in your hand is it still scorable. I would say not but just curious. That would suck. At least you would still have it to have mounted.
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Not scoreable. Could make for a very cool mount though. I've thought about doing it using natural sheds.
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Does anyone have any info on the gov. tag holder this year? Who he is, where hes hunting, what hes seen etc.
back to the subject sorta speaking. Is the Gov tag the Raffle tag or what?
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No. One is raffle tag (anyone can buy tickets for I think $5). Lucky winner gets a tag for any unit. The second one is a Gov. tag, it is bought by auction at the anual banquet. This year it went for $15K.
So, long story short, there are two very luck hunters still out and about.
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This year it went for $15K.
holy *censored*
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Ya can not be offically scored.
And the Gov tag is bought at an auction. last year i believe it went for 14,500 or 16,500. Its on the fish and wildlife site. The raffle tag is a drawing. You purchase raffle tickets as many as you want. for like 10 bucks a piece. So then your entered in a drawing and find out in august. can hunt Sept 1st to Dec. 31st any weapon, anytime in any unit that had a deer season in it that year.
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ah beat me to it.
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How much are the tickets by the way. Are they 5$ or 10$. Someone asked me the other day and i couldn't remember.
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$5 i thought. even before this topic. lol
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i cant remember maybe its 5 for deer, adn then i think for goat and sheep and moose its higher. and maybe elk is higher too maybe 10 or 15. i know its a lot cheaper than $15,000 for the same tag the other guy bought. Just think last year dad spent like 20 bucks on his tag and the other guy spent $16,500.
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i wonder how much the drawing brings in every year. wonder if it matches the gov.
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$16,500 would pay for quite a few nice hunts. But at least it goes to a good cause, I hope.
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At one time I had a list of all the people who bought the auction tags and what they paid for them. I am pretty sure Jim Cook did buy this years eastside deer tag. I know I saw his name on the list. Maybe it was the westside deer tag.
Anyway it's public knowledge and you can request the info from the WDFW.
Has anyone heard anything on the eastside elk tag? That one went for huge money this year.
-Lowedog
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I dont know about the east side gov tag but the east side raffle tag holder scored a huge bull!!!!!!!
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Jim Cook has the Westside Elk and I think Westside Deer.
This site should answer all questions except who has what tag.
http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/hunter/auction_summary.htm (http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/hunter/auction_summary.htm)
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According to my so called reliable sources Jim C notched his Westside Elk tag a few days ago. There has been a couple decent bulls running around behind his house lately but I'd be surprised if he tagged one of those being as picky as he is.
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The deer, elk, goat, and moose raffle tickets sell for about 5.70 a piece, and the sheep tickets are 10.40 i believe, i know the sheep is more expensive because i decided to spend a little on them this year and i bought 2 of everything except i only bought one on the sheep so it came out to right about 50 bucks anyway.
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How big of a bull did the eastside raffle hunter get do you know? nwhunter
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350 6x6.
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timke wasnt it 355 7/8
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355 7/8 To be exact! Gross, a little under that Net. My mind isn't as good as yours. There weren't many deductions. I guess if I shot it I would want full credit.
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Ya, I hate the deduction part >:(
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Me too, give the animal credit for growing it. The grosser the better :chuckle:
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Thats only $132.06 dollars per inch of antler :o
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"Thats only $132.06 dollars per inch of antler"
Actually he only purchased one raffle tag, $5.00. I think he got his moneys worth.
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My bad. I though we were talking about the Governors tag....Is that one filled yet??
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Passion,
That's ok we were talking about the Eastside Raffle elk tag holder, Not sure about the Gov. tag holder yet.
