Repeat of "88" The end of the Entiat deer herd

[MtnMuley]

I wouldn't say that I've lost some spots, but rather say that some have gotten more attention.  

Loose lips, sink ships.   

[turbo]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

[Yak-NDN]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

I disagree!!!

[ICEMAN]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

Really? When there is 4 feet of snow on any hill, there area also pockets and exposures where there is very little or no snow. I know for a fact that snowmobilers often disrupt deer and cause them to move off, often into the deep snow to escape the harassment. As 50cal said, some guys chase the deer to get the antlers to drop.  Deer cannot handle the constant harassment of snowmobiles in the areas where they are wintering over. Guys run their rigs down low on the hill looking for sheds, sometimes running them into very thin snow, exactly where the deer are trying to survive.

[WAmuleyHunter]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

Really? When there is 4 feet of snow on any hill, there area also pockets and exposures where there is very little or no snow. I know for a fact that snowmobilers often disrupt deer and cause them to move off, often into the deep snow to escape the harassment. As 50cal said, some guys chase the deer to get the antlers to drop.  Deer cannot handle the constant harassment of snowmobiles in the areas where they are wintering over. Guys run their rigs down low on the hill looking for sheds, sometimes running them into very thin snow, exactly where the deer are trying to survive.

[Lowedog]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

Since when  does it take 4 feet of snow to ride a snowmobile?  Go take a walk up some of those roads this winter and see where these guys take their sleds.  You will see tracks across bare ground where they run up and down the ridges. 

[bearhunter99]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

Since when  does it take 4 feet of snow to ride a snowmobile?  Go take a walk up some of those roads this winter and see where these guys take their sleds.  You will see tracks across bare ground where they run up and down the ridges. 

 

It is amazing where some of these morons will take their sleds and they do harass the deer.  Some of them don't really mean to they are just too stupid too realize what they are doing when they are trying to get closer to see the deer better.  Personally I think shooting stupid people with rubber bullets should be completely legal.

[Elkaholic daWg]

Lets not forget about the Snowmobile/Shed Hunters chasing Deer around at the most critical time either.

FYI, there are no deer in 4' ft or more of snow anywhere. Nice try!!!

Since when  does it take 4 feet of snow to ride a snowmobile?  Go take a walk up some of those roads this winter and see where these guys take their sleds.  You will see tracks across bare ground where they run up and down the ridges. 


 Yes an IDIOT can ride a snowmobile ANYWHERE. We'll give you that!
 You will find that more sledders hunt, than hunters sled.
 The serious sledder would not do this chit, just as the serious hunter would not steal anothers animal. Is there not a thread on that here somewhere?
 

 Right ON Turbo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 As the DOW,wilderness sociey, PETA ,sierra club, and others smile at how well we all can be used  Against each other to further their agenda. to remove as many of OUR rights to use public land as possible!

[HardCorpsHuntr]

35 degree slope, about 18 inches of snow, lower end of the Entiat!!!!!  Turds!!!

 

[Elkaholic daWg]

35 degree slope, about 18 inches of snow, lower end of the Entiat!!!!!  Turds!!!

 

 Now would that be a resident, of the area riding that machine, or is there a snopark nearby??

[HardCorpsHuntr]

It's private and posted, and permission was not allowed!  What are they doing?  Looking for sheds!!!!!!

No snow park anywhere close.  Locals.

[DOUBLELUNG]

When I worked for WDFW, I had one of the better known Entiat locals come to my office to show off some big sheds he'd collected.  They were in the bed of his truck, along with his snowmachine - every open space of the upper steering assemblage above the skis, as well as the skags under the skis, was packed as tight as can be with crushed and broken off bitterbrush - up to big stuff as big as your thumb.  I rained on his parade that day, he expected me to admire his sheds and left with a severe ass-chewing.  He darned well knew better, too, and had repeatedly told me before how he glasses and watches the bucks, uses the snowmobile and 4-wheeler only on the road to get close, and walks in from the road to look for sheds after the deer are gone so he doesn't disturb them.  Freaking LIAR.

Like the picture HardCorpsHuntr posted above, what hunters with ORVs say they do, and the evidence they leave, are very different.  Not saying all hunting/harvesting ORVers are lying sleazebags, just that the honest 2% get a bad reputation from the other 98%.  I think ORVs are like crack cocaine and meth rolled into one for hunters of sheds, game animals, or whatever.  Nobody starts out with recreational abuse expecting to turn into a crackhead - it just happens nearly every time.

[WAmuleyHunter]

Best part is the people that did both of these things, in the picture and what doublelung is talking about look at this site and are reading this and just smiling cause they never ever get in trouble!! Thanks for posting the picture nothing better than direct evidence. And thanks for the inside story as well DOUBLELUNG.  Im sure one day soon they will just shut down the entiat and swakane units winter range to ALL people from Jan 1st to april or May.

[Lowedog]

If they do shut it down will these guys obey the rules?  They don't now.  They use their sleds until there isn't enough snow to get up the roads and then get on their motor bikes and do the same thing.  You see the tire tracks in places that would be more easily walked.

[bearhunter99]

If they do shut it down will these guys obey the rules?  They don't now.  They use their sleds until there isn't enough snow to get up the roads and then get on their motor bikes and do the same thing.  You see the tire tracks in places that would be more easily walked.

They won't obey the rules, they never do.  I have busted guys riding their bikes off of the main roads through the sage brush and they are always just like "What? I didn't do anything wrong?"  I get so damn sick and tired of seeing the ruts and erosion caused by the idiots that can't take the three extra seconds to go around the corner instead of cutting across tearing up the bank and everything else, "taking a shortcut" Bull$hit