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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2019, 01:25:01 PM »
Too many cow permits. They like to hand out lots and lots of permits. Then when the numbers are way low panic and say we have to many killed. No method to there madness
almost 3,000 cow tags went out in 2016 for just the Yakima heard.  Add the open season on cows for archery hunters and it leaves us exactly where we are today. 

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2019, 02:12:23 PM »
Too many cow permits. They like to hand out lots and lots of permits. Then when the numbers are way low panic and say we have to many killed. No method to there madness
almost 3,000 cow tags went out in 2016 for just the Yakima heard.  Add the open season on cows for archery hunters and it leaves us exactly where we are today.

How many cows were actually killed? I remember seeing 400 muzzy cow tags one year, but only something like 11 tags actually being filled in the unit I hunt. That was just muzzy though.
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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2019, 03:05:09 PM »
The Department used to use an allocation model that went something like this MF#x Success rate + ML# x Success rate + Archery x success rate = Target harvest
They used this formulate to divide up everything from # permits to season lengths point and sex limitations and time period.

Bad blood was always created because MF hunters had a higher success rate than ML or Archery. on the surface it looks bad because archers get a disproportionate amount of permits  because their success rate was so much lower. Id heard that part of the reason why they didnt issue permit only for cows is 1 the constant complaint of juicing folks for permit money. 2 most folks that couldnt hunt cows would head to the Colocum herd and there would be a huge concentration of hunters throwing that herd out of balance. Supposedly allowing cow hunting the second half of the season in the Yakima units  for archer had the same projected harvest  as permits with out concentrating hunters in one area.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. 

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2019, 01:34:27 PM »
They started feeding.   There are a few mature bulls in. Nothing too exciting, but they are there.

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2019, 06:10:15 AM »
Thanks for the update, see if I can get the kids and go for a road trip

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2019, 04:49:54 PM »
Stopped by Wednesday at 3pm and there were lots of decent bulls. Largest looked to be a nice 6x6 hanging out towards the back. I’d guess he was in the 380” range.
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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #21 on: February 15, 2019, 05:13:52 PM »
Thanks for update!

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2019, 06:29:38 PM »
Here's a pic from about 4:30 p.m.

Seen a few below the elk fence a bit ago.

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2019, 11:40:37 AM »
Is there a certain time of day that more are down and closer?
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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2019, 12:26:00 PM »
I think they feed at 1:30?
Last time we were there you could see them coming over the hill heading down
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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #25 on: February 16, 2019, 01:02:04 PM »
Feeding time is 1330

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2019, 02:29:17 PM »
Are the Sheep being fed also?

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #27 on: February 17, 2019, 06:33:14 PM »
Yes

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #28 on: February 17, 2019, 06:41:12 PM »
Stopped by Wednesday at 3pm and there were lots of decent bulls. Largest looked to be a nice 6x6 hanging out towards the back. I’d guess he was in the 380” range.
Need a pic next time as there are not many if any 380" bulls that are alive near any feeding stations or pics would have been posted on the internet.
« Last Edit: February 17, 2019, 07:14:34 PM by Naches Sportsman »

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Re: Oak creek feeding station
« Reply #29 on: February 17, 2019, 07:10:09 PM »
380"??? Is that a typo? No disrespect intended but that's beast for that area
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