Winston Rifle Elk

[throttlejocky20]

Hoof rot, hoof rot , hoof rot? sound like this could be as big of an issue as cats and wolves?

[kentrek]

Hoof rot, hoof rot , hoof rot? sound like this could be as big of an issue as cats and wolves?

this is much bigger then wolves an cats...at least wolves an cats get full eventually..


i think this is why wa is wanting to kill off its elk herd...so it can rebuild a new one with out any hoof rot   

[throttlejocky20]

My bussy killed a cow in the winston last year and due the the hoof rot the bones were greenish in color and the meet was garbage.

[throttlejocky20]

Bussy...WTF... Buddy

[Alpinegus]

Bussy...WTF... Buddy

Thanks for the clarification; I was wondering 

[cem3434]

Up the 19 mile a saw dead bulls everywhere. 18 to be exact. 10 of those were fives or better I have never seen so many mashers. There were people on every corner. I saw 2 elk alive. The best elk I saw was a 7 pt on one side and it was busted off above the third pt on the other side. Killed by a boy about twelve years old.

Where is 19 mile?

[kentrek]

Up the 19 mile a saw dead bulls everywhere. 18 to be exact. 10 of those were fives or better I have never seen so many mashers. There were people on every corner. I saw 2 elk alive. The best elk I saw was a 7 pt on one side and it was busted off above the third pt on the other side. Killed by a boy about twelve years old.

Where is 19 mile?

the 1900 road system area out of kid valley, Toutle

it gets hit pretty hard

[cem3434]

Up the 19 mile a saw dead bulls everywhere. 18 to be exact. 10 of those were fives or better I have never seen so many mashers. There were people on every corner. I saw 2 elk alive. The best elk I saw was a 7 pt on one side and it was busted off above the third pt on the other side. Killed by a boy about twelve years old.

Where is 19 mile?

the 1900 road system area out of kid valley, Toutle

it gets hit pretty hard

Gotcha, I have never heard it called 19 mile.  I seen 3 bulls that got pulled out of the timber right along the river heading up the 1901 between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.  I seen a couple of other gut piles low when hunting in that area Monday, but I would have never guessed 18 bulls came out of there opening weekend.

[fisher67]

My brother shot a 6x6 at first light on opener up the 1900 area.

[billythekidrock]

Everyone we talked to said the hunting, amount of animals seen was the worst they ever saw. I talked to a couple of old timers that have hunted the area for 35 and 40 years, and they said it was terrible!

Not that wierd if you think about the hundreds of cow permits given out every year. I've only hunted there for about 6 years and have seen a sharp decline in that short time.
thats weird...esp since archery didnt do so well

[Yelm hunter]

I came home from hunting up there since last Monday... I was never on the 19 mile road system this year or anywhere near kid valley and I counted a total of 34 gut piles that I could see just by the side of the roads. That is not the ones that I counted in the clear cuts and a few that I found yesterday. I camped at camp 9 and they had 2 nice 6x6 bulls and a 4x4 taken from just that camp. 1109 and 1113 roads were really good this year. I talked to a couple of hunters up there Saturday and they got 2 bulls running together on the 1109 said there guy piles were on the main road there. Well we found them yesterday and right next to it was a 3rd gut pile. Well today we drove by there on the morning hunt to hunt on the other side of that cut. At 8am there was a 4th gut pile and at 9am someone took a cow out of that same hole. Also while glassing the clear cut I believe there was a gutpile down below as there were alot of crows and a young bald eagle eating on something down there.  The funniest thing I seen today (Monday) was a Racoon someone killed and hung over a sign and put a coors light can in its paw. Sad but funny as hell! 

[RB]

My hunting partner and I spent four days there last week and only saw one Bull (a spike) in the brush along with a couple cows. Several in camps and back of trucks. Biggest teaching point for me was to learn the roads better. After busting my way to a spot I thought was somewhat isolated I found a couple guys over a nice 5 point at the top of the cut.

Walked over and just had to know how the hell did you get here? Response as they both pointed the road is right there at the top of the cut...well sheet  if I had known that....guess better luck next time, but I did get to watch a cool Owl catch a rodent less than 10 feet in front of me while in the brush

[Cylvertip]

It's almost like there was no archery season in there this year.......  Go figure.

  You can imagine what it's like during the rut.

[MADMAX]

 

Usually closed for fire danger

[Yelm hunter]

I heard that Archery was only open for 1 day up there... My dads boss goes there every year and they had to leave cause DNR and Weyco shut the land down to hunting for the fire danger. So that is why there were so many bulls taken out this year.