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WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« on: February 23, 2019, 09:10:57 PM »
Sold for $30k tonight in Lynnwood. The generosity is outstanding. Tons of money on the ground for WA mountain goats.

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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2019, 10:02:05 AM »
 Talked with the guy who bought it. He said he bought it for a friend. Should have asked him if he wanted a new friend  :chuckle:
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2019, 10:29:33 AM »
Talked with the guy who bought it. He said he bought it for a friend. Should have asked him if he wanted a new friend  :chuckle:

Was it Aryon Snyder? Ran into him, and his friend he bought the goat tag for one year hunting goats.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2019, 11:00:07 AM »
Remembering the good old days...
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2019, 11:04:23 AM »
Remembering the good old days...

Wow 900 goat permits! Lower success rates back then maybe?

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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2019, 11:07:54 AM »
Remembering the good old days...

Wow 900 goat permits! Lower success rates back then maybe?
I'm sure it was lower. As I recall they were considered almost a varmint and hunters didnt put a lot of effort into hunting them. Probably akin to a cougar tag today: you get one just in case you run into one. I think they were $5.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2019, 11:23:09 AM »
Talked with the guy who bought it. He said he bought it for a friend. Should have asked him if he wanted a new friend  :chuckle:

Was it Aryon Snyder? Ran into him, and his friend he bought the goat tag for one year hunting goats.
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WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2019, 11:30:21 AM »
Talked with the guy who bought it. He said he bought it for a friend. Should have asked him if he wanted a new friend  :chuckle:

He didn’t pay for it for someone else. He bid for the other guy who wasn’t present. The guy on the other end of the phone paid for it.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2019, 12:12:40 PM »
I wonder if the guy placing the bid was nervous about spending $30k if the guy on the other end backed out.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2019, 02:58:47 PM »
I wonder if the guy placing the bid was nervous about spending $30k if the guy on the other end backed out.

Depends who’s bid number it was  :chuckle:

I’ve bid for someone else who couldn’t be present but it was their packet and their credit card on file.

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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2019, 03:56:35 PM »
I wonder if the guy placing the bid was nervous about spending $30k if the guy on the other end backed out.

I’d be terrified.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2019, 04:07:24 PM »
Heard through the local grapevine it is a hunter known to us all who buys a lot of Auction tags around the west.  Will probably be new state record if the number I heard was correct. No pics and I wont say the name out of respect for privacy.

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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2019, 04:28:34 PM »
I wonder if the guy placing the bid was nervous about spending $30k if the guy on the other end backed out.

I’d be terrified.
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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2019, 04:37:14 PM »
Heard through the local grapevine it is a hunter known to us all who buys a lot of Auction tags around the west.  Will probably be new state record if the number I heard was correct. No pics and I wont say the name out of respect for privacy.
:dunno: known to us all? Didn't he have the tag last year? If so, he's a pretty private guy and not known to us all. Good luck to the hunter.

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Re: WA Mountain Goat auction tag
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2019, 04:52:07 PM »
Remembering the good old days...

Wow 900 goat permits! Lower success rates back then maybe?
I'm sure it was lower. As I recall they were considered almost a varmint and hunters didnt put a lot of effort into hunting them. Probably akin to a cougar tag today: you get one just in case you run into one. I think they were $5.

900 tags............    seems unreal.
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