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Season a olympics goat hunt
« on: September 26, 2021, 08:59:56 AM »
Anybody do any good for the first season?


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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2021, 09:13:04 AM »
Thought the goats were eradicated?   :dunno:

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2021, 09:15:17 AM »
No not quite less than a 100 is what the biologist told me remaining first season ends today they gave 5 tags out . 2nd season starts tmrw which is my season I’ve seen 16 goats total with the scouting trips I made . Supposed to rain a bunch this week


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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2021, 10:56:02 AM »
They 'gave' 5 tags in an area where millions have been spent to eliminate them?  Hit teams were recruited to kill a few also and the state still ran a draw?  YIKES, welcome to WDFW

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2021, 12:26:08 PM »
They 'gave' 5 tags in an area where millions have been spent to eliminate them?  Hit teams were recruited to kill a few also and the state still ran a draw?  YIKES, welcome to WDFW

Pretty sure the "hit teams" were not authorized to cull goats outside the park boundaries. That's where these hunts will take place. I didn't apply for these hunts, but I'm not upset that they made them available. Best of luck to the fortunate tagholders!

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2021, 01:04:20 PM »
Yeah there's nothing wrong with getting a tag there and hunting them. I just was under the impression that the population was pretty much gone. I don't know that even a hundred would be encouraging enough to hunt there. Does anyone know definitively if that's true about not culling beyond the park boundary?

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2021, 03:25:37 PM »
The teams were inside the park only. they already started areal execution by helicopter outside the park and will continue that next year inside and out to kill all remaining.
I have the c permit. It’s going to be extremely tough.

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2021, 03:26:47 PM »
McCabe you may have run into my bro-in-law scouting. He’s hard to miss…

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Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2021, 05:41:57 PM »
They 'gave' 5 tags in an area where millions have been spent to eliminate them?  Hit teams were recruited to kill a few also and the state still ran a draw?  YIKES, welcome to WDFW

They ran a draw for a hunt in a different area that doesn’t impact your OIL points in a situation where you don’t have to put together a freaking SEAL team of 4-6 people, get interviewed and possibly get selected and blindly assigned an area you can’t scout or explore or anything ahead of time. Seems reasonable. The best part is that it gives you the opportunity to kill 2 goats in WA without having to buy an auction tag or dump a bunch of $$ into the raffles.
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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2021, 06:34:21 PM »
They 'gave' 5 tags in an area where millions have been spent to eliminate them?  Hit teams were recruited to kill a few also and the state still ran a draw?  YIKES, welcome to WDFW

They ran a draw for a hunt in a different area that doesn’t impact your OIL points in a situation where you don’t have to put together a freaking SEAL team of 4-6 people, get interviewed and possibly get selected and blindly assigned an area you can’t scout or explore or anything ahead of time. Seems reasonable. The best part is that it gives you the opportunity to kill 2 goats in WA without having to buy an auction tag or dump a bunch of $$ into the raffles.

Exactly jackelope odds are against us still but I know I’m going to give it hell. Not many times in your life you can say your goat scouting.

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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2021, 09:46:44 PM »
McCabe you may have run into my bro-in-law scouting. He’s hard to miss…
Yes I did super nice guy . It’s been dumping rain and got snowed on today .


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Re: Season a olympics goat hunt
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2021, 11:40:04 PM »
A tough goat hunt beats no goat hunt.      :tup: :tup:

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