Coweeman Jan 1st cow tag???

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

We have 2, how many others will be up there with us?

[SilkOnTheDrySide]

We will be in the Toutle for the same tag...heard how the snow level is?

[PolarBear]

I know 3 people with a Jan Coweeman cow tag and another 3 with Jan Margaret cow tags.  Hope you have better luck in the Coweeman than most of the other folks that I know of who hunted it during late season. 

[gotcha]

Snow will be tuff for you guys.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

oh PB im not worried. we were into elk during late muzzy. i just didnt have a muzzy elk tag.

[PolarBear]

Sweet!  You did better than most of the guys that I know.  One group took them the entire  late muzzy season camped out down there (plus one week prior to scout) to scratch up a couple of cows and a small bull.  Hope you get a big ol fat one!

[BOWHUNTER45]

I do not think this tag will be much problem  Just noy shot one out of someones yard 

[PolarBear]

Or a wild horse!

[mtman]

My wife has a tag. She is five months pregnant. Good thing that unit has roads everywere. Should be fun cold weather will have those elk movin. good luck everyone.

[Turkeyman]

Another slaughter begins easy hunt. Couple more years and we wont have any elk in those units. Just what wdfw wants.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

.not sure it is wdfws goal as much as it is wheyerhauser controlling the tag numbhers...

[wackum]

.not sure it is wdfws goal as much as it is wheyerhauser controlling the tag numbhers...
                           

[EDARD]

+3 MORE

[Turkeyman]

Your probably right on that. Ether way its sad to see, i have hunted those units my hole life and its going down hill fast. these elk are being hunted from August till the end of January.  With poaching and the hoof rot problem it wont take long. I was able to hunt in the good hold day's, to bad my kids and grand kids wont enjoy it.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Turkeyman, i am right there with you. We used to get bulls every year, now we are getting to the point of every other year. We are into bulls every year still but what we are seeing is fewer and fewer groups of animals.

We had a muzzy cow tag go unfilled, the person in our group that had it couldn't single out a cow without a calf. That is our challenge.

Most people pull the trigger on any cow they see, we will not pull the trigger if the cow has a trailing calf.

Now my 13 year old son has the tag with me, it really is his first big game hunt and he is my focus. I am going to try and hold him back from shooting a cow with a calf because i don't need to ruin his hunting experience with a calf that won't leave. I can fill the tag every day, so i am going to wait untill he has filled his, hopefully tuesday.
We also were blanked in the elk department this year, we did get 3 deer but no elk. Really need to replenish the freezer.