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Offline Daveinthebush

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Statewide archery season for moose
« on: January 01, 2006, 02:49:32 PM »
I see in the new proposal book that someone suggested a state wide archery season for moose.

It would run from Oct. 10th - 20th and would only be open for those not gun hunting the regular season.

Any feeling on this?
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« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2006, 05:11:51 PM »
I'm wondering if you'd find the animals real rutty that time of year - depends some on what part of the state but I'd sure hate to see a season right in the rut - there would be a lot of wasted meat.  

That can be a real iffy time of year for weather out our way.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2006, 06:31:28 PM »
I sure would not want to hunt during the rut (October for the Interior) The meat would be so rank no one could stand to get near it, let alone eat it.  November is the time to hunt after the reguler season.  I remember when the season started in September and lasted till Febuary.  Most people did not hunt till November.  I remember our neighbor killed a medium Bull in October, he dressed it out and brought it home.  We were there one evening when he started to cook some of it, the wife and I left in a big hurry before it got done.  His daughters left everytime he started to cook any of that meat, they eat at friends homes those nights.  We must have fed those kids half of the winter.  Then somehow their freezer came unplugged and the lid just opened up all by itself while they were on a trip to Anchorage, all that Moose meat had to be throwen away.  He had given some to me earlier, my Huskey was the only one that liked it.  He got everybit of it.
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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2006, 06:35:36 PM »
Plus, how are they going to know wheather someone hunted during the reguler season or not?  And I don't think there would be enough dyed-in-the-wool archers to support that kind of a program.
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2006, 03:47:54 PM »
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...I don't think there would be enough dyed-in-the-wool archers to support that kind of a program.


I support it.

I've taken several moose in the rut.  If taken care of properly, its not bad.

October rut is much better than the Aug season we have now.  

August is extreme heat, bugs, &  bush!  

I've taken 9 moose in the last 10 years and it is a race to get them on ice once they are down.  You can't hunt too far from the ice machine.


I'm all for it.

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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2006, 07:05:14 AM »
The Fairbanks Advisory Commitee did not support this proposal.  Their commet to the Game Board was that it was wrong timing, and they deffinately resist any proposals for seperate hunting seasons for any one user type.  Archers can hunt during the reguler season along with everyone else.  Their are no archers on the commitee.
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2006, 05:29:18 PM »
Make sure you check your local regs.  Though it isn't statewide, there are some archery hunts.  There is a archery only hunt where I have property in 16A aug 10-17, right before rifle season.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2006, 08:48:27 PM »
Hey Sourdough,  I'm on the advisory committee in Fairbanks.  I'm a bowhunter and I'm also a member of GNAA.  There is also another archer and GNAA member on this committee.  I brought up Prop 79 before the committee because I hoped to get support for this proposition.  It was introduced by a fellow GNAA member.  It was defeated by our committee 12-3.  Three other so called archers on this committee spoke against this Propostion saying that we didn't need any other special seasons for special interest groups.  If there had been more public support in attendence then maybe it would have been different.  If you don't know the facts, then you should talk to one of the archers on the advisory committee first.

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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2006, 08:13:20 PM »
Rob:  Like I said the Fairbanks Commitee did not vote to support the proposal.  You are right in that I do remember you supporting the proposal, but the comments were made by other members just as I said.   The mojority of the Commitee members do not support archers.  I'm one of the so called archers that spoke out against it.  I don't remember if I voted or not on that issue.  If it was during the January meeting I would have voted against it.  If it was the Febuary meeting I did not vote.  Rob, I'm sorry I forgot you are an archer and on the commitee.  I stand coorrected on that point.  Also prop 79 was for a muzzleloader hunt, and the commitee decided to support my proposal 78 instead of 79.
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