Moving to "Washington"?

[Oldtrader3]

I lived in Georgia (next to Tennessee) for (7) years. I went to Georgia from Washington and then on to Texas. I enjoyed Georgia, it is beautiful, plus, the hunting and fishing are good and all, but!

Washington (and Oregon) have not only the mountains and rugged coastal vistas, we also this beautiful area of the North Cascade mountains, its lakes and the grand vistas of high desert surrounding this. I do not think these scenes can be beaten in the lower 48 for rugged beauty. I love living in Washington with its climatic drama and all. I just wish that they would not be so anti-hunting at the state goverment level.

 

[hubcap]

Yea, I hear that Oldtrader3. Wish they would establish a nice population of speed goats instead of those wolf packs. Go figure. The spike only rule for the east side is another state gov. decision I hate. The spike only rule was intended to be for five years. It is cheaper an easier to manage the hunter and not the game.
I actually believe the draw system for bulls on a permanent basis is anti hunting and is truley not necessary. Moving the elk season up into October was another anti hunting move to control eastside hunters. OK, I,m done venting. I feel better though.

 

[Oldtrader3]

Hubcap, problem is, a lot of our money goes to hire college boys (some) who are anti-hunting and we are paying their salaries with license revenues. Additionally, until this year, Fish and Game was run by politicians with a definite anti hunting agenda.

Now I have nothing against education and went to college for (8) years myself (BS, MS, MBA) but I look at the locals here with Western Washington University in Bellingham and I read what these people think in the Bellingham paper. Some of their belief sets are very foreign to me. I was raised in an old fashioned environment with a one-room schoolhouse type upbringing in Maine. This was the same school that my grandmother went to and taught in starting school way back in the 1880's.

This is why we are were we are now with "spike only" laws and complexity of regulations rivaling Obamacare legislation because it came from the same mindset and twisted Liberal control machine! I came to Washington in January, 1962 from Maine in the US Army. The laws hunting regulations then were much more simple. Seasons were long and split for sex and special hunts. Elk season went from October through January, any branched bull! This did not increase harvest, it just made it worth while to hunt hard and long!

I suppose that despite having a new Game Commission system with civilians (hunters?) on the commission, we sincerely hope that we may get some changes for the better now, at least in harvest and seasons? I am not asking to kill more elk, just for fairness and some time to enjoy my sport every year!

 

[Guy Miner]

A few Washington photos:

 

[Guy Miner]

 

[Guy Miner]

I like the fishing here... :grin:

 

[Oldtrader3]

Beautiful pictures Guy, this state has it all in many different ways. Those elk, especially one, would make me loose my mind on the spot if I ever saw them in person!

 

[Guy Miner]

OT3, thanks for the compliment about the photos - it's hard to take a bad photo outdoors here in Washington. I've traveled much of the world, and love this place the most.

Re the elk... Not my photo - borrowed from the internet - they're two of the "untouchables" who live full lives on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation - with no hunters and no predators... Amazing how big a bull can get when it's never been hunted... Nice genetics though - and they're spread among elk who do leave the protected lands...

Guy

 

[Oldtrader3]

They are nice elk and it is wonderful to see the genetics at work when they are given a chance to work. Whether you took that picture or not, the entire album is really terrific.

 

[hubcap]

Funny how pictures are worth a thousand words. Your photos are fantastic. Wa. does have decent hunting and fishing like you said. The cascades are awsome.

 

[DrMike]

Guy, the State of Washington should be paying you for all the advertising you do. I've seen most of those photos, and they are eye candy. Superb sales job of a beautiful state.

 

[Oldtrader3]

That is true, Guy should work for Tarvel and Tourism for the State with those pictures.