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Chiwawa special permits
« on: November 30, 2017, 11:29:58 AM »
Hey lets see some of those Chiwawa special permit bucks.
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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2017, 12:04:33 PM »
Hopefully the weather pushed some good ones in.  My son and I scouted a couple times for his youth doe tag and we didn't even see enough sign, let alone deer, to bother going back.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2017, 03:52:30 PM »
That unit sucks for late tag.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2017, 04:11:50 PM »
That unit sucks for late tag.

Unless your happy with a 140 buck, I'll second that.
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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2017, 04:20:22 PM »
I ended up eating my tag. Saw 2 shooter bucks and the forest cirques blew the only opportunity I had at a great buck. Lots of fog. And the deer were spread way out way up high and down low. I gave it hell and am still happy with the decision with eating the tag. Had plenty of opportunities at 140 class bucks.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2017, 05:12:03 PM »
My two buddies didn't see anything bigger than a rag horn 4 point. Both ate their tags.
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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2017, 06:24:19 PM »
Just goes to show this state is hurting. This unit used to have some pigs in I‎t.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2017, 06:42:11 PM »
It still does just far and few between. Weather played the biggest part. The one shooter I saw was the biggest buck I have seen in my life. But I hiked a ton took snowmobiles up high gave er hell and that was what I came up with

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2017, 06:46:40 PM »
Just goes to show this state is hurting. This unit used to have some pigs in I‎t.
oh it still does! Just have to work harder than most to get to them. And that's the easy part. Then the hard part is to try to out smart the old warrior in his bedroom! The ones I'm talking about don't come down in the winter.
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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2017, 07:35:24 PM »
The transition units like Chiwawa are definitely more difficult than the winter ground destinations like Entiat.  You have to hit it just right to intercept them on the way through - and even then, they are moving through and difficult to catch up with in that terrain.  Once they get to the Entiat or Swakane, there's nowhere else to go.  It's also more weather dependent (need snow, but not too much), and there's more fog being higher and further west. 

I also think the early migration/rut in 2015 hammered the mature bucks in all those units.  The 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year old bucks all got shot, so now we're not seeing the older age classes.  Need to give it another year or two. 

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2017, 08:06:16 PM »
My buddy was drawn for that unit for muzzleloader only three tags. They only saw one doe the whole time.
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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2017, 08:48:04 PM »
That unit sucks for late tag.

For the record I was half joking. Have had the tag twice and helped on several others. Definitely a hit or miss tag. I admire the guys that ate their tags. It's a choice everyone has to make going into the hunt.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2017, 09:45:33 PM »
I just finished eating my tag, not chiwawa but another really good late tag.  Never saw the 170+I wanted till the last day.  He slipped away but I still had a great hunt.  But that's muzzy hunting

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #13 on: November 30, 2017, 10:24:30 PM »
I just finished eating my tag, not chiwawa but another really good late tag.  Never saw the 170+I wanted till the last day.  He slipped away but I still had a great hunt.  But that's muzzy hunting

Don't know how you guys, and gals, do it, I'd be hard pressed to pass a 140 class deer and maybe even a `130.

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Re: Chiwawa special permits
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2017, 05:21:46 AM »
One mans 140" is another mans 170"
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