Douglas 108 Moose tag

[Bonehuntn]

Hey everyone, good buddy drew this moose tag and was curious if anyone had any info they’d be willing to share? Not looking for secret spots or anything…just general info, looks like a ton of private with not a lot of options? Figured I’d ask 🤷‍♂️Thanks

[Ridgeratt]

Perhaps you should look at the crown creek fire. Most of the area is under fire.

https://gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/fire_info.php#WA-NES-002249

Son has a buddy that the fire has burned up to his back door of his place.

[shootnrun]

Never hunted the unit, but looked at OnX for about a minute and see a few good chunks of public land with another fair bit that is private timber, most of which is accessible via non-motorized options. In addition, it appears a good 10% of the unit is currently on fire. So I'd rule that portion out. But otherwise there are lots of places to go if others don't chip with with specific creeks or drainages to hunt.

[fishngamereaper]

Van Stone mine road to harrier Creek and all roads in between...make loops for hours and hours..bring a sxs.
Joe Creek is an option as well.
As is Comstock mine Rd.
Moose in there are where you find them. It's thick country.
I can send you some pins if you hit any snags.

[Bonehuntn]

Appreciate that Reaper. That’s all we were hoping for was a decent starting point, he doesn’t have a ton of time unfortunately to hunt. So just trying to make that best of it. Thanks!

[Falcon]

Congrats on the tag.   Had the late tag back in 2014.  Late or early tag?

[BrockWeilep]

Van Stone mine road to harrier Creek and all roads in between...make loops for hours and hours..bring a sxs.
Joe Creek is an option as well.
As is Comstock mine Rd.
Moose in there are where you find them. It's thick country.
I can send you some pins if you hit any snags.

As a local, this is about the best advice you could have gotten. If I had that tag that’s where I would be. There are big bulls in there most years, but if it’s the early tag most of them are gonna be higher more than lower. Learn what timber companies you can hunt and which ones you can’t then keep checking clear cuts.


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[Bonehuntn]

It’s the late tag. And that’s great to hear! Appreciate all the insight! Very helpful. Just gotta figure out how to look into what timber company’s let you hunt.

[callturner]

Most all do. Some are gated, walk in only. Some are open with no restrictions. A few such as Vaugans are posted. ON X shows the boundary lines and owners

[bearpaw]

Two things that's going to impact moose hunters in numerous moose areas, Hancock (now Manulife) is closing all lands and posting them, and there are fires in several moose units. All the Hancock lands I've been by while scouting recently have been closed, so take that into consideration in advance.

[Caseknife]

Is Hancock closing permanently or is this just their fire season closure that they do every year?

[hunter399]

Two things that's going to impact moose hunters in numerous moose areas, Hancock (now Manulife) is closing all lands and posting them, and there are fires in several moose units. All the Hancock lands I've been by while scouting recently have been closed, so take that into consideration in advance.

Is Hancock closing permanently or is this just their fire season closure that they do every year?

Not sure ,but a lot of no trespassing signs going up from Manulife/Hancock.
Probably going towards access permits and land lease deals.

[Limhangerslayer]

https://manulifeimlanduse.com/browse-licenses

And at a little over $3 an acre you can lease it.  It’s going to make that NE area harder to hunt in the future

[bearpaw]

Is Hancock closing permanently or is this just their fire season closure that they do every year?

It's a permanent closure

[HillHound]

I assume this must be their larger tracks of land or just further north pieces? Lot of it is so patch worked I don’t know how you would create a lease out of it when you need to go through it to get to other timber companies or state land. We haven’t seen any new Closures in all of our scouting trips over to the Huckleberry unit yet. Hopefully we don’t start seeing them this weekend