Hi all, I just found out I won 1 of 4000 all season hunting permits. I can bowhunt all hear long for deer!!! I am not bragging, I am the guy that never wins anything and of all the things I could win, this is the best thing ever!!!
Wow, Congrats I wish they offered that in MI.
Are you sure it's year around? The ones in NM are during any season.
Here's what I found:
This is a great opportunity for hunters to extend their hunting season this fall," Dave Ware, state game manager, said in a prepared statement. "Rather than having to choose one hunting method over another, hunters drawn for a multiple-season permit who purchase the tag can participate in multiple seasons."
Ware noted that the tags can only be used during general seasons and in game management units that are open during a modern firearm, muzzleloader or archery general season.
For example, winners may not hunt during the muzzleloader general season in an area that is not open for the muzzleloader general season.
Mike
Wingnuts right but I'm sure thats what Michael meant. This is a cool deal, especially if you have alot of time and enjoy using different weapons.
Congratulations!
Thanks all, I am seriously jazzed.
Wingnut, Yes only during a hunting season, sorry for the confusion.
As they explained it to me on the phone, I can hunt during rifle season with a bow, but I can't hunt during bow season with a rifle. Same with muzzle loader, I can hunt muzzle loader during muzzle loader and rifle season but not bow season.
Michigan has a Combination Lic. that is good for one buck of any size and a second with 4+ points on one side. It enables you to use it in all of the seasons. So for Souther Michigan that means deer hunting from Oct 1 to the first part of January. It is a great thing and my challenge this year is to go a field hunting every time with my longbow only. I can't wait!
Congrats. Northwewst Bowhunter I'm holding out for the elk multi season.With that you can hunt east side or west with whatever tool happens to be in season
Tim
QuoteOriginally posted by doug g:
Wow, Congrats I wish they offered that in MI.
We do have this. Our license are good for any weapon not just archery or firearms.
I lived in Washington for a time. It was really hard for me to get used to the notion that I had to choose a weapon! Glad to hear you won't this fall!
Being retired, I put in and got one of those last season. Unfortunately, at $180 for the resident license, I did not even apply this year.
I understand several of these multi-season tags go unpurchased by the "winner", so they have increased the number of permits to be drawn. The government is always looking for ways to separate us from our dollars.
Tim in Wa. I put in for that one as well but I am happy with this one. Blackhawk, I am still waiting on my first trad kill so I will be out many times between Sept and Dec to try and fill that tag. $180 seems reasonable considering the restriction it lets you get by, odds are I will skip my Elk this year though.
Well I cant be too jealous. I hunt on a red tag farm which allows me to hunt all year except deer season, for which, I need to supply my own tags. But congrats to you and good luck. You're gonna need it! If the deer in Washington are anything like the ones in PA, they are in herds 9 months of the year, when you find one you find 'em all, and it is soooo much harder to hunt them because you have 10 times as many eyes ears and noses watching out for you. Good luck! Im excited for you.
I put in for it this year both elk and deer and as they say, "Sorry! Please play again!" Got a point though.
I think it's a great idea. To hunt during the rifle season you need to wear fluorescent orange, tho, and play in the punkin patch. But there are some good opportunities during the muzzleloader season.
bucksbuouy... LOL... wait'll you get a load of the famous burrowing bucks of Okanogan County!
burrowing bucks lol
This tag gives you some chances to hunt with your bow in some of the rifle hunts that occur during the rut for both Blacktail and Whitetails .. thats the main reason I put in and buy the multi season deer tag.
Of course you have to shoot straight too, last year I missed a whopper in the late rifle hunt in eastern WA. A nice big 10 that was chasing around six does. I redeamed myself in the late archery hunt shooting a nice 8 right through the heart...
Yeah, I hate those burrowing bucks almost as much as I hate the "ghost" black tails (it was right over there a minute ago).
elkken, are you hunting the east side because we don't have any white tails out here on the coast. When ever I have gone to the eastern side of the state I see a lot of mulies but have only heard of white tails being there. Oh, and I see Elk everywhere when it isn't Elk season LOL.
Does this allow you to hunt the whole state, that's where it would be nice? Here in Cali with a bow you can hunt any season. Rifle, muzzle loader whatever but your tag will be for a certain zone. An archery only tag will let you hunt about 70% (a guess off the top of my head) of the state.
Yeah the whole state, if it was for Elk I am sure they would make me choose east side or west side, but they never put that restriction on deer tags.
I killed a three-pt. whitetail, my one and only, five years ago along Fraser Creek (trib of Beaver Cr. trib of Methow). I've killed blacktail in Oregon, but never in Washington. I'd love to hunt the peninsula some time. I do almost all my deer hunting here in Okanogan County and that all-season tag would be a real bonus, especially on whitetails because they travel up and down the creeks and it would be really nice to have all that time to wait one out where you can get access, which is really almost impossible on the bottoms any more. I wouldn't want to be on public land trying to hunt with a bow during the rifle season.
Took me a while to figure out what the permit allowed, but I think I have it now.
Thank God I live in Texas. Our season works such that archery "season" is aproximately during the month of October, followed immediately by General season (read: any legal weapon) which starts two days (a youth only weekend)after archery season and ends (depending on county)with the first week in January. General season is (depending again on county)immediately followed by two weeks of muzzle loader season.
I can start in October and hunt thru to the end of general season with archery tackle. I still cant figure out why I cant use a bow during muzzle loader season. It would seem to me that the hunter success rate would be higher with a muzzle loader. (especially those modern types). Oh, and that license is good for whatever part of the state I choose to be in whenever I choose to be there. That license costs $68 and is a combination hunting/fishing license that provides for all non federal stamps.
You can hunt both sides of the state (for elk)with a multi-season tag
Tim
For whitetails I'm hunting NE Washington ... I am fortunate enough to have friends with property over there so hunting pressure is minimal. However with a bit of effort you can find lots of huntable ground by asking permission or hunting state and timber company lands.
I got out yesterday afternoon. Got within range on a mature doe with no camo, from the ground, but she was obviously preggo so I didnt take a shot. I havent gotten within 100 yards of a deer since February so it was a major achievement. They are so hard to hunt in the spring and summer. And I found a dead turkey so I got some new fletching :) Great day all in all.
In Oklahoma we can hunt with bow all season. Beginning Oct 1 and right on thru Jan 15. We can even carry both a gun and bow during gun and muzzleloader season which is what I did this year during gun season]. Whats interesting is that we have to wear a blaze orange hat or coat[not both!] if we are hunting only w/ bow during gun or muzzleloader season, but we of course have to wear both a head covering and vest / coat if we are hunting w/ a gun. I think we have it pretty good if you're a bow hunter...but that Pennsylvania year round thing is amazing!
I love Ark, Mo and Miss. I could hunt any part of state with archery anytime, or whatever is in season bow or gun. They are pretty lax to many deer here.
Virginia works that way also. You can hunt any season with the "lesser" weapon. Archery all the way through, muzzleloader in rifle, etc. You just have to follow the rules of the "major" weapon's season.
Killdeer