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Title: WHAT WEEK TO HUNT!!
Post by: elkoholic1 on June 13, 2012, 11:37:23 AM: was curious to hear everyone ideas and thoughts of what week they'd hunt if hunting for moose what week seems to be the better week if you had to choose from Oct 1- Nov 30 for a good bull????
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Post by: buckfvr on June 13, 2012, 11:52:43 AM: With one week to hunt, I'd get ahold of the regional biologist, see if he couldnt help me determine peak rut date, then I'd hunt the week up to that date. :twocents:

If I draw before I die, I will hunt every day.......
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Post by: jackelope on June 13, 2012, 11:58:28 AM: the week of 10/10
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Post by: Dr. Death on June 13, 2012, 12:11:31 PM: Talked to the biologist, and a few others, say the 1st part of the season is the best.
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Post by: coachcw on June 13, 2012, 12:29:19 PM: the week your buddy can go ! ;)
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Post by: HUNT on June 13, 2012, 01:12:05 PM: The rut should be really going the first 2 weeks of your tag, Oct 1-15.

I would go the first week myself.
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on June 13, 2012, 01:27:56 PM: Find a logger and ask him. I bet you'd get a real answer instead of some statistics based on an Olympia biologist that doesn't know what the real story is... Try Dana Base WDFW out of Colville.
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Post by: huntnnw on June 14, 2012, 02:42:05 AM: Rut will be full bore on the opener thru the first 2 weeks
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Post by: surbite on June 14, 2012, 05:56:44 AM: As stated the first part of October but it will be base on the weather, moose like it cold so if a warm spell is going on it may push rut back a few days.
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Post by: 520backyard on June 20, 2012, 08:32:33 PM: Well I'd hunt any OIL tag the entire season or until it's filled. You only get to do it once and those tags are really really hard to swallow and the taste would stay with ya forever.
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Post by: tmike on June 20, 2012, 08:54:39 PM: If you only have a week to hunt I'd hunt the first one. My bull was on fire from Sept 20 until the day I killed him, the first day, and it was hot. (70 plus) Others will say wait until the leaves fall, but I never made it that far and didn't have the time to hunt the whole season.
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Post by: Wea300mag on June 20, 2012, 08:58:46 PM: Like others have said, you have to be there for the first week.
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Post by: benhuntin on June 20, 2012, 09:28:32 PM: Quote from: Wea300mag on June 20, 2012, 08:58:46 PM
Like others have said, you have to be there for the first week.
Rut first week, Snow and no leaves last week
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Post by: steeleywhopper on June 21, 2012, 12:11:39 AM: Quote from: 520backyard on June 20, 2012, 08:32:33 PM
Well I'd hunt any OIL tag the entire season or until it's filled. You only get to do it once and those tags are really really hard to swallow and the taste would stay with ya forever.

Yep
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Post by: boneaddict on June 21, 2012, 01:45:09 AM: Honestly it will depend on your style of hunting.......if you call, first week of October, if you road hunt, second/3rd week of October, if you spot and stalk, 1st or second week of november.
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Post by: RoyBoy on June 21, 2012, 02:43:20 AM: Quote from: CAMPMEAT on June 13, 2012, 01:27:56 PM
Find a logger and ask him. I bet you'd get a real answer instead of some statistics based on an Olympia biologist that doesn't know what the real story is... Try Dana Base WDFW out of Colville.

:yeah: :yeah:
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Post by: elkoholic1 on June 21, 2012, 08:31:25 AM: dana base out of col ville is this a WDFW biologist???
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Post by: tmike on June 21, 2012, 12:37:21 PM: Here's one of the reasons the early season is fun.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi238.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fff110%2Ftkswhanson%2FTH15.jpg&hash=26f6da57effc263bb8a2bfb3c6a5e615db2fd34a)
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Post by: bobcat on June 21, 2012, 12:48:26 PM: I'd go the first week no matter what. I'd want to hunt without all the deer hunters in the woods.
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Post by: jackelope on June 22, 2012, 08:21:24 PM: Quote from: elkoholic1 on June 21, 2012, 08:31:25 AM
dana base out of col ville is this a WDFW biologist???

Yes.
509-684-2362 ext 21

dana.Base@dfw.wa.gov
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Post by: huntnphool on June 22, 2012, 08:39:34 PM: A once in a lifetime draw and you are limiting your time to one week? :o
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Post by: jackelope on June 22, 2012, 09:09:03 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on June 22, 2012, 08:39:34 PM
A once in a lifetime draw and you are limiting your time to one week? :o

Easy now...he's one of my stronger techs. :chuckle:

I think he's planning to go for a solid week and then some more weekend trips if needed. Not sure...but thats what I think his plan is.
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Post by: huntnphool on June 22, 2012, 09:26:29 PM: Quote from: jackelope on June 22, 2012, 09:09:03 PM
Quote from: huntnphool on June 22, 2012, 08:39:34 PM
A once in a lifetime draw and you are limiting your time to one week? :o

Easy now...he's one of my stronger techs. :chuckle:

I think he's planning to go for a solid week and then some more weekend trips if needed. Not sure...but thats what I think his plan is.
I hear a cough and fever coming on. :rolleyes:
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Post by: elkoholic1 on June 23, 2012, 07:34:50 AM: thats right phool its funny how quick flus come on during hunting season ;)
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Post by: D-Rock425 on June 23, 2012, 07:45:39 AM: I'd have to be thwre opening day no way i couldn't be I'd go crazy.
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Post by: coachcw on June 23, 2012, 09:41:08 PM: you know who he's going with if we cant find a good bull in a week he dosn't deserve a tag.
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Post by: Hyde on June 24, 2012, 08:51:32 AM: Lots of good advice here, but the BEST advice (IMHO) is to go when your buddies can go too. Take it from someone who tried to do it alone... TAKE FRIENDS. LOTS of friends. Or a helicopter.
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Post by: PA BEN on June 26, 2012, 05:42:50 AM: They were in hot rut and very callabale the first week of Oct.