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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #45 on: December 08, 2020, 10:22:31 AM »
It looks like the top and bottom pic are the same bull.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #46 on: December 08, 2020, 10:24:20 AM »
Same bull
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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #47 on: December 10, 2020, 03:28:57 PM »
Well one user group didn't have a problem finding them in the west wenha

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Zero shooter bulls for a 20+ point unit. Good for the hunters if they are happy, but let’s not tout this picture as supporting the quality of the Blues. In a few more years the Blues will have so few elk it’s embarrassing. There are OTC hunts all across the West that make the Blues look like a joke from the perspective of opportunity. I feel bad for hunters that are stuck to only hunting WA and have 20+ points.


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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #48 on: December 10, 2020, 03:40:47 PM »
We will be lucky to be hunting elk there in 10 years.

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Between the "user group" and the wolves make it 3 years !    In Utah limited trophy area same thing was happening and Game Dept kept reducing tags until down to 4 and finally gave up - why let one user group get 90% of the harvest - they just turned it into a general tag.   Happened in Margaret unit just a matter of time for the Blues too.
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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #49 on: December 10, 2020, 04:18:55 PM »
Kudos to those hunters that found some mashers - assuming it was fair chase and they are proud of and harvested for their own consumption.

A lot of tag owners didn't find these bulls ?????

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #50 on: December 21, 2020, 11:15:58 AM »
Kudos to those hunters that found some mashers - assuming it was fair chase and they are proud of and harvested for their own consumption.

A lot of tag owners didn't find these bulls ?????

You are correct, any animal harvested by someone else is an animal a tag holder didn’t find  :chuckle:

It’s winter time, not even similar to a tag holder experience

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #51 on: December 21, 2020, 11:44:29 AM »

It’s winter time, not even similar to a tag holder experience

You think they were not in the unit during the season? 

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #52 on: December 21, 2020, 12:08:58 PM »
When the snow flies and elk are more concentrated, yeah it's easier.  But when you have a golden ticket in your pocket for the rest of your life, yeah, its much easier to kill bulls whenever.  If these tribal members got their one bull for meat to feed the family, good job!  But if they are killing multiple bulls in a special area that has already taken a huge down turn, shame on them.
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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #53 on: December 21, 2020, 12:25:00 PM »

It’s winter time, not even similar to a tag holder experience

You think they were not in the unit during the season?

They were.....just not in an area you can get into in December.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #54 on: December 22, 2020, 11:50:14 AM »
How do you shoot a bull like that and then just hack the head off?
Pain is temporary, achieving the goal is worth it.

I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be worth it.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #55 on: December 22, 2020, 11:55:47 AM »
How do you shoot a bull like that and then just hack the head off?
they don’t have to wait 15-20 years to draw.
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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #56 on: December 22, 2020, 12:08:05 PM »
How do you shoot a bull like that and then just hack the head off?
they don’t have to wait 15-20 years to draw.
I get that but that is still a pretty epic bull.  I am not sure I could shoot one of that caliber every five years even if I could hunt bulls all year long every year with a rifle.

I know it happens, guys shoot an animal, hack the head off and then realize after the shock wears off what a great animal they harvested and then the search for a cape begins.  Shoot that cape was worth a ton to a guy that ruined one on the shot, on the pack out or that spoiled in the heat and they needed to replace it.

Great bull and I am happy for them as long as it was all done legally.  Either way it is too bad they just hacked the head off.
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I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be worth it.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #57 on: December 22, 2020, 12:14:52 PM »
It's a different perspective.  If you shoot multiple large bulls every year, your perspective will be much different than a guy that may get one chance in his lifetime to hunt the unit, much less get a shot at a great bull.

Either way, what an incredible bull.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #58 on: December 22, 2020, 05:18:13 PM »
If you guys haven't figured out yet that OUR license dollars are paying WDFW to reduce OUR tag numbers so there's more elk/bulls for Umatilla/Nez Perce to shoot in late-September/early-October and December/January then I don't know what to tell you.

-We could go round and round but Wik told me no less than 4 times when I last spoke to him "they don't report, we can't do anything about their harvest".

-Hating on the natives? Facts are facts jack...this is what's happening.

-Also a fact, you and I (probably) could not begin to imagine what it would be like to be born into the native culture/life/lifestyle today...Google some statistics, it'll blow your mind.

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Re: Wenaha West Help
« Reply #59 on: December 22, 2020, 05:50:35 PM »
If you guys haven't figured out yet that OUR license dollars are paying WDFW to reduce OUR tag numbers so there's more elk/bulls for Umatilla/Nez Perce to shoot in late-September/early-October and December/January then I don't know what to tell you.

-We could go round and round but Wik told me no less than 4 times when I last spoke to him "they don't report, we can't do anything about their harvest".

-Hating on the natives? Facts are facts jack...this is what's happening.

-Also a fact, you and I (probably) could not begin to imagine what it would be like to be born into the native culture/life/lifestyle today...Google some statistics, it'll blow your mind.

**I no longer apply for elk tags in WA and when I draw a deer tag with my kids when their old enough to hunt I will exit the license pool completely.
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