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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: sled on December 24, 2011, 12:25:40 PM

Title: wa antelope
Post by: sled on December 24, 2011, 12:25:40 PM: Anyone see any lately?
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Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2011, 12:29:15 PM: Not for a month or so
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Post by: passing-thru on December 24, 2011, 12:41:08 PM: I've looked several times over last couple months since I got pics, but found nothing either
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 24, 2011, 01:04:37 PM: I seen a few about 3 weeks ago.
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Post by: 400out on December 26, 2011, 10:38:45 AM: Last herd I saw was just outside the tri-cities, Not a good place for them to be :twocents:
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Post by: Maverick on December 26, 2011, 11:16:13 AM: been awhile since i heard anything about them. last i heard they were up in the horse heaven hills. i hope they pull through. would love to see them running around!
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Post by: HairTrigger on December 26, 2011, 12:16:30 PM: The Yakama nation is bringing more in this winter and next
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Post by: Maverick on December 26, 2011, 05:57:39 PM: The one good thing I ever heard of them doing :chuckle:
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Post by: HairTrigger on December 26, 2011, 06:04:47 PM: I think its a way of using the tribe to payback for putting the big horns back up on the closed area
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Post by: boneaddict on December 26, 2011, 07:53:31 PM: Thats good news hair trigger. They have a shot if folks keep at the coyotes and wolves don't end up there. I'm not sure what the wild horses are doing to them.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on December 26, 2011, 07:55:23 PM: :yeah: Glad to hear it. The last ones I saw were down along 14 by patterson area. Better stay off the train tracks :yike:
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Post by: no1waterdog on December 30, 2011, 09:02:55 AM: The tribe did not bring them in,Central wash. SCI did.
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Post by: bloodhound on December 30, 2011, 09:20:42 AM: i dont think they have to worry about wolfs, they are little to fast for them and can sprint a hell of a lot longer then one. plus i dont think its good habitat for wolfs down there. to open so it would be hard for them to get close to anything to kill it.
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Post by: Woodchuck on December 30, 2011, 09:22:43 AM: Quote from: no1waterdog on December 30, 2011, 09:02:55 AM
The tribe did not bring them in,Central wash. SCI did.
The tribe was at a minimum very instrumental in them getting here. :tup:
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Post by: Woodchuck on December 30, 2011, 09:31:17 AM: Quote from: HairTrigger on December 26, 2011, 12:16:30 PM
The Yakama nation is bringing more in this winter and next
I would volunteer to haul a load for them.
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Post by: Wazukie on December 30, 2011, 09:38:45 AM: three were seen just before Christmas SW of Goldendale.
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Post by: Gringo31 on December 30, 2011, 09:52:40 AM: Quote
three were seen just before Christmas SW of Goldendale.

May have seen those same three....
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Post by: ANDERWAGON on December 30, 2011, 09:55:28 AM: Quote from: Woodchuck on December 30, 2011, 09:22:43 AM
Quote from: no1waterdog on December 30, 2011, 09:02:55 AM
The tribe did not bring them in,Central wash. SCI did.
The tribe was at a minimum very instrumental in them getting here. :tup:

The Yakima Nations helped SCI cut threw the red tape.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014023674_apwayakamareservationantelope1stldwritethru.html
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Post by: HairTrigger on December 31, 2011, 07:52:18 AM: Yup.agree with anderson the state wouldnt even have them.witout the.tribes help :bash:
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Post by: wa.hunter on January 02, 2012, 10:43:38 AM: The tribe is doing almost all of the ground work, with financing coming from SCI. With alittle luck looks like there will be more coming in the first week of Feburary. Once again it appears that Nevada will be contributing the antelope. Without their assistance it would not be happening
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Post by: Machias on January 02, 2012, 12:18:55 PM: I saw about 150 yesterday. I was just outside of Long Creek, OR. I had to slam on my brakes for the last four of them.
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Post by: bearpaw on January 04, 2012, 04:50:53 AM: Quote from: wa.hunter on January 02, 2012, 10:43:38 AM
The tribe is doing almost all of the ground work, with financing coming from SCI. With alittle luck looks like there will be more coming in the first week of Feburary. Once again it appears that Nevada will be contributing the antelope. Without their assistance it would not be happening

That's great news.... :tup: :tup: :tup:
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Post by: C-Money on January 04, 2012, 06:31:02 AM: Great! Hope we get another batch of disease free quality animals like last time! Thank you Nevada and all involved.
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Post by: bearpaw on January 04, 2012, 06:34:40 AM: Have any of them been proven to carry serious communicable diseases? :dunno:
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Post by: boneaddict on January 04, 2012, 06:52:48 AM: I am seeing anecdotal evidence of some from Oregon as well. I'm not sure if they have swam the river or how that works, but have run into some near Goldendale that didn't appear to be plants. :dunno: Either way I think its very cool to have them within our borders. I wish the tribe would open up coyote hunting to whites or take a more assertive approach at culling them. I saw 5 down by the refuge the other day, in the middle of the day. Maybe you can get a permit to hunt them like birds, I'm not in the know on that.
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Post by: dontgetcrabs on January 04, 2012, 07:14:40 AM: The tribe does allow coyote hunting for non-natives. I'm not sure of the proccess or the cost? Raul Duke has a permit to hunt the rez.

I have not seen any lopes around Bickleton since last summer.
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Post by: boneaddict on January 04, 2012, 07:19:13 AM: Thats too bad. The tribe will be wasting alot of time and effort on these lopes if they don't practice some predator control.
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Post by: farmin4u_98948 on January 04, 2012, 08:32:55 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 04, 2012, 07:19:13 AM
Thats too bad. The tribe will be wasting alot of time and effort on these lopes if they don't practice some predator control.

I really dont think you need to worry about the yotes on the rez. Lots of guns and people who like to shoot them...
At least in my neighborhood....... :hunter: :hunter:
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Post by: PlateauNDN on January 04, 2012, 08:50:49 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on January 04, 2012, 07:19:13 AM
Thats too bad. The tribe will be wasting alot of time and effort on these lopes if they don't practice some predator control.

What yote problem? :dunno: I wasn't aware of a yote problem when I was sighting in my rifles in the south boundary area (S. 97). :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Quote from: farmin4u_98948 on January 04, 2012, 08:32:55 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on January 04, 2012, 07:19:13 AM
Thats too bad. The tribe will be wasting alot of time and effort on these lopes if they don't practice some predator control.

I really dont think you need to worry about the yotes on the rez. Lots of guns and people who like to shoot them...
At least in my neighborhood....... :hunter: :hunter:

:yeah:
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Post by: wa.hunter on January 04, 2012, 10:34:59 AM: tribe has done its work on predator control, they knew it was going to be an issue before the release. The big problem is really the wild horses. They are the ones competing the most. If you want antelope off the rez then possibly the wild horses are our best friend, believe me they have shown us that they are going to look for greener pastures.
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Post by: HairTrigger on January 04, 2012, 11:19:48 AM: My rifles like to make sure they are on when a yote is wondering about helps the fawns an calves out with less yotes