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Go hunt anyway. Fucque them clowns.
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Too bad WA regs prohibit taking of cubs and sows with cubs. /sarc Funny thing is they actually dont. Pretty much every other state does. It is in fact perfectly legal to kill a cub or a sow accompanied by cubs in washington. No shi+? Inconceivable. That's the fix that's needed.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Dye7barrel: Sadly your contention is 100% correct. "taxington" - a great place to be FROM! Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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Fished last weekend with a pard that does hound work for the state, one of the reasons was, “killing a bear in the spring is as easy as killing a buck in velvet “.. what a joke
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
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Too many unfilled spring bear tags for that to be remotely true.
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Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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First step, Spring Bear. Second Step, Fall Bear. Third Step Elk, Forth Step Deer, Bam no hunting in WA. Give them an inch and they will take a foot.
A true sportsman counts his achievements in proportion to the effort involved and fairness of the sport. - S. Pope
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He collars lions for the skok Indians and wdfw, said you’d be amazed at just how many elk and deer they’re actually eating. Gonna get real interesting in the next 10 years or so.
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Fished last weekend with a pard that does hound work for the state, one of the reasons was, “killing a bear in the spring is as easy as killing a buck in velvet “.. what a joke Said no one that’s hunted spring bear.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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He collars lions for the skok Indians and wdfw, said you’d be amazed at just how many elk and deer they’re actually eating. Gonna get real interesting in the next 10 years or so. Not bears or lions but a bud had a camera set up on a coyote den a few years back. He got something over 20 whitetail fawns that the bitch had brought back to the den site. I would say these predators kill far more critters than we really know.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Yep add wolves, bobcats, no trapping or hound huntin, your gonna have problems..
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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We do have Bobcats. Far more than anybody sees. I have killed 1, missed one w my bow 30 years ago and seen a couple others in the wild. I see probably 20 a year hit on the roads. You can have those wolves. We had our first bear season last year. https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/mdc-reports-missouri-hunters-took-12-black-bears-during-first-season
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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He collars lions for the skok Indians and wdfw, said you’d be amazed at just how many elk and deer they’re actually eating. Gonna get real interesting in the next 10 years or so. Not bears or lions but a bud had a camera set up on a coyote den a few years back. He got something over 20 whitetail fawns that the bitch had brought back to the den site. If he's truly a bud, you'll be doing him a great service in encouraging him to do some research on how coyotes feed their pups – he'll no longer be so quick to reveal to the world that he's a major-league-bullszchitter.
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Iron Ironbender, I have hunted spring bear a fair bit and would have to say that overall in the areas I have hunted it has been fairly easy to notch a tag. I have not notched every spring bear tag that I have had though. Partly because I was picky and looking for mature boars but a couple times I just didn't have a good opportunity. It certainly depends on where one is hunting as well as the weather and snow pack when one is hunting. Anyway most of my hunts I saw plenty of bears but I also actually hunted and hunted hard. Many I think don't really put in much effort.
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I got an email survey from wdfw yesterday covering a range of topics from deer to bears, lions and bobs. Of the several bear questions, one was asking do you support an otc spring bear season. Never thought theyd even pretend to entertain the idea of that being an option.
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Congrats on all your success. I imagine there are areas that are harder to hunt or have lower success rates, and lower bear densities?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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No doubt Ironbender. I was fortunate to live in an area that had bears and I hunted hard and figured out how to succeed. I didn't fill every spring bear tag because I was picky and looking primarily for mature boars but sure had fun either way. I hope that Washington will reinstate the spring bear hunt. An OTC tag would be awesome.
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I doubt WA will do an OTC spring bear. Under current rules, Bear licenses bought with a deer/elk combo don’t generate much revenue. Special permit application fees do generate extra revenue over and above regular Bear tags. I saw several bears around during fawning season but they likely have moved up high
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