Obscure Elk Hunting ?

[NOCK NOCK]

Anybody ever hunt very obscure elk? I'm talking like places that elk are not normally known to be, might be 5 or less animals in the area.

[Killmore]

Are they cows in the clockum unit...come November, mmmm

[Woodchuck]

There are a couple of herds north of town out in the farm fields that I have chased a little bit. 

[Igor]

Anybody ever hunt very obscure elk? I'm talking like places that elk are not normally known to be, might be 5 or less animals in the area.

We hunt the Chiwawa unit (245) when we draw a late deer tag.  Quite often we run into elk hunters.  We have been hunting that unit for 30+ years, and have never seen an elk, but have seen elk sign a couple of times.  The WFDW harvest statistics show that a few elk are taken there, but the numbers are very low.

[Jonathan_S]

Yes  as a matter of fact just yesterday I found a nice heavy 6 pt shed that was two years old.  I was on public land about a mile above a farmers land in the NE.  I stopped by and offered to repair one of his pasture fences in exchange for some elk hunting this fall.  He said I was welcome to hunt the property but there was no elk there and hadn't been in 20 years 

[JimmyHoffa]

Thought about it.  Was driving to sequim once and there was a really nice 5 pt running through a field.  Most of the elk never leave the elk area which is closed, but this bull was loose in the 624.  Looked around the area a few more times that summer to see if he had a pattern, but never saw him again.

[MountainWalk]

There are elk on the Coyle pen.. few elk round kala Pt outside of port Townsend.  Know of a bull that lives behind Chimicum chevron. Three years ago seen a six Pt bull in a hay field off of center.  They show up in the damndest places.

[Stein]

I found a place that is probably 100 yards off the road in a tiny patch of state owned land.  If you luck out, a ranch hunt nearby will push a small herd up and over a hill and they always cross this state land.  They are so winded they stop right on the state land next to the road almost every time.  A few people know about it and we set up a pumpkin patch ambush.  Beauty is that antelope also cross it in the morning and evening about 4 days a week if I happen to draw that tag as well.  The amount of bones on that land is pretty amazing.

[turbo]

About 15 years ago I saw a small herd 0f about 8 cows north of Twisp on Finley MT. Couldn't believe my eyes.

[Curly]

Anybody that hunts in the Blues is hunting obscure elk right?.......because all on this forum knows that there "are no elk in the blues".  Right?

[Woodchuck]

Anybody that hunts in the Blues is hunting obscure elk right?.......because all on this forum knows that there "are no elk in the blues".  Right?

Sing it brother.

[Jonathan_S]

I saw some elk in 328 one time.  Pretty strange

[NOCK NOCK]

We used to hunt an area that held a small amount of elk(had very good success there) but things/seasons/boundarys have changed and it's no longer the honey hole it used to be. I have known of another area that holds very few elk, and although they have been in there for years, I have only seen 2 in the past 30 years.
 I have never tried to hunt it and doubt anyone else has so I may give it a day or two this year to see. With the later season, they may be more responsive to some calling. 

[metlhead]

South end of Olympia airport before that spa depot and state building went in. Used to hunt Maytown also. Gotta figure out how to get in on the old Evergreen dairy/delphi herd now. They do show up in the strangest places. The big C island downriver from Woodland had a herd this winter.

[NOCK NOCK]

Are they cows in the clockum unit...come November, mmmm

So True Mike