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[Limhangerslayer]

Congrats on a great bull and you definitely put the time in to get it!! Hope your bear hunt goes as well as your elk hunt.. pretty suprised wdfw lets you hunt the spring hunt but glad your doing it…

they found that loophole and it will not be available in the spring anymore.

[nwhuntinman]

Looks like it will be a historic hunt then. Washiington State is so messed up. The true conservation is going away. People that don't hunt and put no money into habitat get to tell us how to live and add more predators without managment all for THEIR personal agenda.
Sorry for the little rant. I'm sure this is already a topic on here. I get wound up fast on this subject.

[hunterednate]

Very excited to follow along on this. Congrats on some fantastic animals and hoping for the best for you this spring.

[idaho guy]

Wow great bull! I just saw this since I dont get on here much. Great story and well done. I would NOT have been able to pass all of those bulls you posted. Good job well deserved

[sjhgraysage]

Congratulations on the amazing bull and the two fine bucks!!

[nwhuntinman]

Ok so I just got my Spring Bear tag. There was a big issue as you all know that they recently have cancelled spring bear. Well, my tag that they gave me only had 2024 on it. Being I want to be completely transparent and legal I went to game dept and asked to get it updated for the 2025 spring bear. I went through 3 people in office there then a call to Olympia. No one could say yes to me or make the tag. I sent out an email then and received 2 phone calls him-hawing around hoping I would just say ok I'll go without. Well for me this tag is the second highest to the elk tag and is the reason I wanted the raffle. No one ever did answer my email, but the 3rd call to me was a gentleman that just said he was making my tag, and it is being sent to me. So here we go guys. I'll be back in the field in a couple weeks. I believe I will be the only guy too. Should get to look at a lot of bear without competition. Talk to you all soon.

[Sundance]

good update, you should have a blast. Looking forward to tagging along here, go get a brute.

[Ghost Hunter]

I figured you would have to scratch a little for that tag.  Glad you dug in and made them produce.

[High Climber]

Awesome good luck and enjoy it! You might be the last spring bear hunter in WA

[nwhunter]

That’s awesome you got the spring bear tag. You got one up on wdfw stupidity..Be patient it doesn’t get good until mid to late May usually…

[trophyhunt]

Man, what an opportunity to kill a tank, no spring bear hunters since 2021 I believe and you'll have the place to yourself.  Like others have said, you'll prob be that last spring bear hunter in the State of Wa (legal anyway) and like Scott said, the later in May the better as far as the rut goes.  I will admit it, I'm so damn jealous!!  This makes me really hate the commission for taking away not only a needed hunt but one of the funnest this state had to offer. 

[Karl Blanchard]

As others have stated, don't be in a huge hurry. Snow will make access an issue in a lot of places and the bears aren't gonna be moving much. Focus on that first full week of May till end of season. Once those wild onion patches start to get neon it'll be game on.  If you need another set of eyes down there I'd love to come glass for some bruins.  Divide and conquer.

[trophyhunt]

As others have stated, don't be in a huge hurry. Snow will make access an issue in a lot of places and the bears aren't gonna be moving much. Focus on that first full week of May till end of season. Once those wild onion patches start to get neon it'll be game on.  If you need another set of eyes down there I'd love to come glass for some bruins.  Divide and conquer.

me too!!!  If I have an open weekend I’d come down, I get 3 day weekends every other. 

[nwhuntinman]

Man, what an opportunity to kill a tank, no spring bear hunters since 2021 I believe and you'll have the place to yourself.  Like others have said, you'll prob be that last spring bear hunter in the State of Wa (legal anyway) and like Scott said, the later in May the better as far as the rut goes.  I will admit it, I'm so damn jealous!!  This makes me really hate the commission for taking away not only a needed hunt but one of the funnest this state had to offer.

If there hasn't been any spring bear hunters since 2021 it boggles my mind that the winners of this same raffle never hunted them. Possible they scored and no one ever knew it I suppose.

[ipkus]

Around May 16-18 is the time period in the Blues every year for us that it seems to shift gears and we start seeing a lot more big boars really covering ground vs. just hanging out and not being seen as much.

Enjoy the opportunity, many of us miss it a lot!