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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: total_intent2kill on August 03, 2011, 11:45:51 AM

Title: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 03, 2011, 11:45:51 AM: So I drew my Unit 18 Big Bull tag this year. However, my husband was laid off last week and I cant get it now. :bash: So my blues are starting to sink in. Anyone draw this? I would like to hear the stories and the end results of what I am going to miss out on this year. Sounds like a punch to the gut kinda to hear the other stories but I would love to see GREAT pictures of the hunt you go on (scouting and such too!)! Let me know. . . Maybe I will get my first elk in WA this year. . .spike maybe? We will see. . . .Blues Suck!
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: pianoman9701 on August 03, 2011, 11:47:19 AM: Tough break, but it sounds like you're rolling with the punches. My hopes are for a quick end to his unemployment so you could still go. Good luck.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: DBZona on August 03, 2011, 11:48:10 AM: I will draw it in a couple weeks. :chuckle: Then I will let you know.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 03, 2011, 03:15:45 PM: Talking Idaho right?
Huntnnw and I drew muleys tags in 18 this year. That sucks that you can't put that tag to use. Can you apply next year if you don't buy the tag this year?
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 03, 2011, 03:29:08 PM: Nope I dont think I can put in for the tag next year. . .so I have to wait two years just to try and get it again. Wish I had a rich In-Law or Family member. . . .O So SO bad. . . :bash: BUT! The muley's they pull out of there are great! I drew my Unit 14 Muley tag last year and shot a beautiful 5X5 on the opener. Love hunting ID. Good luck and I would like to see what you get with that tag!
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 03, 2011, 03:50:54 PM: Bummer on your tag. We will post plenty of pics when the season is here.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 03, 2011, 03:51:45 PM: Guess you better make it a point to shoot that big 4 point Whitey then...
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 03, 2011, 04:05:03 PM: I know thats what I was trying to talk my hubby into today but he is not going for it. LOL! Wonder why. . . :dunno: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: time2hunt on August 03, 2011, 06:25:25 PM: If you bought the tag your S.O.L on applying next year but if you didn't buy it you can apply again.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 03, 2011, 08:41:06 PM: did you buy the tag? or did you let it go?
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: huntnnw on August 03, 2011, 08:59:02 PM: I will be hunting couple long weekends solo and then heading down for the final 8 days with Bullblaster... Id be willing to pay for fuel and share camp if ya guys wanna go down. I am camping in a spot that many said was great for elk. That is if you bought the tag.

PM me
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: backcountry55 on August 03, 2011, 11:52:54 PM: i dont get it its just money put it on a visa! great tag drew it last year we got 2 6pts! buy it i can tell you were to go!
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: huntnnw on August 03, 2011, 11:59:22 PM: If she hasnt bought it shes screwed.. deadline was Aug 1st
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: BULLBLASTER on August 04, 2011, 07:27:15 AM: Quote from: huntnnw on August 03, 2011, 08:59:02 PM
I will be hunting couple long weekends solo and then heading down for the final 8 days with Bullblaster... Id be willing to pay for fuel and share camp if ya guys wanna go down. I am camping in a spot that many said was great for elk. That is if you bought the tag.

PM me
you could probably even put Shane (huntnnw) to work packing elk... lol
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: huntnnw on August 04, 2011, 07:40:40 AM: Haha ...u saw That terrain ... atleast there is lots of people with horses down there That are willing to help for beer.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 11:17:45 AM: Quote from: backcountry55 on August 03, 2011, 11:52:54 PM
i dont get it its just money put it on a visa! great tag drew it last year we got 2 6pts! buy it i can tell you were to go!

My husband and I are on the "Dave Ramsey" plan. It is just money but we don't have credit cards. . .we pay with cash only. If we don't have the money then we don't/can't buy it.

I didn't buy the tag :'( I almost cried when we decided not to buy it. . .I know such a girl but that could have fulliled my biggest dream on bagging a huge bull. . . plus I have never heard them buggling in the wild. . . would love too. . .Maybe I will just go to go. . .hummmm. . . . But on the bright side someone was saying that I can still apply next year? :dunno: If so that is good! Maybe I can bag a nice White Tale this year and it will be all good. If anyone has a good spot for that I do have a tag for them! ;)
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: jackelope on August 04, 2011, 11:41:10 AM: Quote from: huntnnw on August 03, 2011, 08:59:02 PM
I will be hunting couple long weekends solo and then heading down for the final 8 days with Bullblaster... Id be willing to pay for fuel and share camp if ya guys wanna go down. I am camping in a spot that many said was great for elk. That is if you bought the tag.

PM me

Hell of an offer there, Shane.
:tup:
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 11:43:59 AM: :yeah: It really is! If we had the money to take the tag we probably would be going with ya!
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: pianoman9701 on August 04, 2011, 11:55:09 AM: Quote from: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 11:43:59 AM
:yeah: It really is! If we would have taken the tag we probably would be going with ya!

Bacon should be its own food group.
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 04, 2011, 12:01:00 PM: Ohh no lets not get going on the putting in for a tag then not buying it thing..
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 12:44:06 PM: Like I said if my husband had not lost his job we would have bought the tag. We had already set up scouting trips and such with a friend over there but because we lost the main source of income we had to not buy the tag. . . touchy group this is. . .
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: pianoman9701 on August 04, 2011, 03:11:49 PM: Quote from: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 12:44:06 PM
Like I said if my husband had not lost his job we would have bought the tag. We had already set up scouting trips and such with a friend over there but because we lost the main source of income we had to not buy the tag. . . touchy group this is. . .

Some people suck. Ignore the ones who do. The rest of us feel your pain. You're doing what you have to do. Rock on, lady!
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: jackmaster on August 04, 2011, 03:27:31 PM: exactly, people gotta chime in with there B.S, i wish you would have posted erlier i would have paid for the tag for ya, its a shame to have to give up somethn like that but to have to listen to people critisize is even bigger B.S, well next year then maybe you will get it again, hope your hubby gets his job back , good luck to ya
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: total_intent2kill on August 04, 2011, 04:03:14 PM: Quote from: jackmaster on August 04, 2011, 03:27:31 PM
exactly, people gotta chime in with there B.S, i wish you would have posted erlier i would have paid for the tag for ya, its a shame to have to give up somethn like that but to have to listen to people critisize is even bigger B.S, well next year then maybe you will get it again, hope your hubby gets his job back , good luck to ya

Thank you. My husband is actually not going back, we are very excited about that oddly enough. He is in school to be a lineman so if he gets a job out of school and I have the luck of the draw with me next year there should be no problem in me getting it!!! And if there is I think maybe I will see if anyone wants to sponser me next year. . .Its weird never really thought people to be willing to do that for another. It was heart breaking but that gives me more time to focus on a bear and deer (I drew my late rifle for deer too this year) in the good ol' state of Washington. And maybe with any luck my first elk will be a spike! Thank you for the good words boys. . .
Title: Re: Unit 18 Tag Blues
Post by: huntnnw on August 04, 2011, 05:33:38 PM: You will get the tag again.. pretty decent draw odds for That tag :tup: