Had hardly had time to get on here!
After my last hunt with the rest of the Gooserbat crew I was in two weddings in back to back weekends, one in Florida and one in Illinois, finished my time at Oklahoma State University, helped put on a week long camp for urban/minority students interested in agriculture, and interviewed for a position at Washington State University.
Well, I was offered and accepted that position, so the family and I packed up in Oklahoma and headed to Washington! The good news is there are several options for me to chase gobblers this spring! Washington actually has Easterns, Rios, and Merriams! I am very close to Idaho and more Merriams as well!
Oh, yeah I saw this guy last week!
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/UKturkeyhunter/mulie_zps8682127f.jpg) (http://s126.photobucket.com/user/UKturkeyhunter/media/mulie_zps8682127f.jpg.html)
Congrats on the job. Good luck with your new venture.
Nice mulie too. :icon_thumright:
Good luck with your new job, I'm sure you will like washington, nice place. my daughter and grandaughter just moved back to georgia from washington.
Congrats on your new job & good luck.
congrats and good luck
Congrats. Not a bad place to land at all. We came close to moving to Pullman and WSU a few years back and spent a summer there. Great place for a family. Loved seeing the wildlife in the area: pheasants, chukars, quail, grouse, deer, elk, turkey. There was a pretty decent gun and sporting goods shop on the road from Pullman to Moscow. Sure Shot, I think. Very knowledgable owner. Good guy to talk to about hunting in the area. The farmers market in Moscow on Saturday mornings is awesome.
Sounds like you have it made! :you_rock:
Very nice, I've often dreamed of moving out west. Wyoming/Montana in particular. Just don't know if I could ever leave my beloved Midwest again after moving back from California a few years ago.
Thanks guys, it is a beautiful area, but budtripp, you're right. It's not the Midwest, but I think i'll get used to it. RV, my wife actually stopped in Sure Shot the other day when she was in Moscow, she said it was awesome. She's a pretty good woman to scout sporting good stores for me. I think I'll let her stick around! :turkey2:
Congrats on your new job!! Good luck this spring in your new area. I hope you get a chance to hunt some mulies like the one in the pic. He's a nice one!
Good luck....and don't forget about us Okies. :anim_25:
jblackburn,
Congrats on your new job. I've lived in Washington all of my life, I live about 2 hrs from Pullman. I'd say it'd be a very good idea for you to turkey hunt in Idaho as well as Washington, since you'll live so close to the WA/ID border. I do a lot of turkey hunting in the Blue Mountains in SE WA, but I also hunt in Idaho over towards Orofino. Idaho has so much public ground to hunt and way fewer hunters than what I see in WA. Welcome to Washington!
Do you do any waterfowl hunting?
Gamblinman, don't worry, I have a lifetime hunting license and I intend to use it! I got my butt kicked by some mountain birds down at Pushmataha and I intend to go back and settle the score!
Riofan, thank you VERY much for those tips. I have the reg books for WA and ID, it is a lot to take in, especially all the elk and other big game rules!
I used to goose hunt a little bit, but it has been years. I grew up in Missouri and we just did not have many ducks other than teal and a few woodies.