Slicin' and Dicin'
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Dustin07
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on the west side we have blacktail, east side of the state is whitetail and mulies, we've pretty much hunted all of them. My brother has taken I think 2 elk on mom and dads fields, but they're a bit harder to get at in that area without a predation tag (and blackpowder only). I was hoping to take a blacktail this year (archery) off our woods this year, its just going to come down to time/schedule! actually, on the west side everything is hard to get at unless you go way up north to snohomish area and have access to a lot of farm land, most of our public hunting land on the west side has such a thick underbrush its just miserable to hunt lol.
Dustin07
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I shouldn't complain though cause WA in general is such a mild state, we don't have to worry really about snakes, poisonous spiders, scorpions, etc. We do have rattlesnakes but you rarely see them, black widows and brown recluse, but not really an issue. worst thing I've encountered hunting in WA was ticks during turkey season but even that wasn't too bad, I had 2 on me and neither were drawing blood so I just flicked them off lol. I did open my tacklebox that afternoon after the turkey hunt though to go fishing and there was a black widow in it, so that was a pretty buggy day, ha.
Dustin07
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both actually- on the west side we have the Roosevelts pretty much wide spread from OR - Canada, west of the mountain range. On the east side in the highlands with the mulies we have the Rocky Mountain Elk. They're all big but when you come across a heard of Rocky Mtn's after growing up around Roosevelts they look kina squatty like someone cut off 6" of their legs lol.
here's a cougar/mountain lion I had on my front porch last fall: