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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2015, 11:35:36 AM »
  a friend who lives in alta and has a gardner tag has not seen a buck over 25.  he has been hunting for 14 days.  has seen 2 wolves and a bear.  he wont put in for alta or gardner again.   mike w

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2015, 12:41:29 PM »
I watched a wolf drop down into the alta unit last year during my late buck hunt. Saw lots of tracks in the snow.

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2015, 02:26:51 PM »
The one with the hand in it looks like canine and the other looks like cat. Could they be different tracks ?

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2015, 02:57:35 PM »
The one with the hand in it looks like canine and the other looks like cat. Could they be different tracks ?
They were right next to each other. We should of taken a better pic of the bed. I was trying to capture the whole bed with piss.  There were a lot tracks and definitely wolf. We saw wolf track on this same ridge last year.
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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »
cle elum bowhunter  Perhaps some one was just exercising their dog or dogs.

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2015, 05:35:34 PM »
Ridgeratt, I suppose that could be true but tracks came up out of a canyon, traveled the road a ways and then dropped of the other side of the road towards Alta.  Btw, no boot tracks anywhere along that stretch besides mine.
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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2015, 06:14:48 PM »
KFHunter had a photo close of folks exercising their dogs over here also.

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2015, 06:04:30 AM »
 Still no success pics maybe nobody on this site has a tag?

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #38 on: November 23, 2015, 08:22:00 AM »
Still no success pics maybe nobody on this site has a tag?
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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #39 on: November 23, 2015, 08:39:28 AM »
Well if people held out for larger bucks they might be eating tag soup.
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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #40 on: November 23, 2015, 02:24:56 PM »
2 friends did exactly that.  mike w

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #41 on: November 23, 2015, 09:36:37 PM »
way too much wolf sign in manson too  very sad

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #42 on: November 24, 2015, 08:18:25 AM »
we need to transplant some wolves to Olympia.    mike w

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #43 on: November 27, 2015, 05:29:55 AM »
It's a tough time in the Alta.  I have been seeing plenty of deer, but the rut is pretty well over and the weather has not pushed many deer down from the high country.  No shooters yet.

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Re: Alta Late Tags
« Reply #44 on: November 27, 2015, 07:02:24 AM »
Lots of wolves in Alta.  They have increased their range a lot in the past few years.  Had some resident moose where I hunt and they cleared out.  The deer have largely cleared out, with a few small pockets of skittish deer left.  I see a lot of wolf scat and tracks.  Lots of cats last few years.  I started packing a sidearm during muzzy season, since I hike in the dark.  Too many dogs and cats.

 


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