west side drop camps

[stumprat]

Have you visited these camps? Are you certain they are outfitters?

[rasbo]

our country,our land..we can share..Ive taken game in remote areas and so close to towns or heavy concentrated hunting areas.I just change my strategies .smile probley meet some good folk around

[Houndhunter]

bearpaw: i really dont know what the regulations are on how many and how close they can put the drop camps in. but if you think that they would be doing somthin wrong if im seeing that many, there is a ranger office right by where i drive to the trail head

rasbo: i dont think you know the situation, have you bowhunted elk with several camps around 8miles or more back in?

[littlebuf]

any way    back to the topic, bearpaw do you have any contacts you would recommend on the west side of the mountains? im more than likely doing what i do every year this year and hiking my ass off to get in (funny ive never been up set about other guys in the woods, huh  ) but id like to look into this for the future. my dad cant get around as well as he used to and with him getting knee replacement this could be a option for him next year

[bearpaw]

I know that where I operate I am allowed to have 1 camp in a drainage. If I put my camps on top of one another my hunters would be unhappy anyway, so it's not anything I would want to do.

Stop and ask the ranger station what is going on. A friendly conversation will gain you a lot of insight. If it is within their acceptable level of use they are probably going to tell you to live with it. But if there is unauthorized commercial use going on, they will be glad you stopped and asked, and so will you.

It is possible that there is unauthorized use occuring. On the other hand perhaps everything is on the level, but if you ask you will know.

Good Luck

[bearpaw]

littlebuf

which wilderness do you want to go into?

[bearpaw]

Check the link in the PM. Don't know him but he is in that region. He might know someone else too.
Good Luck

[littlebuf]

thanks again bearpaw, and jackalope foe the other links. you can never have to much info

[oneezreiter]

Hound, I see your point and I think that we may have to agree to disagree.  Bear, Jackalope, if you two could forward me the info you sent to Littlebuff I would apreciate it.  Don't know if I can aford it this year but you never know.

[jackelope]

the only link i gave littlebuf is for the washington state guides and outfitters association webpage. you can go to the member directory and click on your region and get a list of all the guides and outfitters for that region. this is hunting, fishing, horsepacking, whitewater rafting, etc.
http://www.woga.org/

[BLKBEARKLR]

wow just read through this post, 1300.00 a month?? You might want to save a little more before you go on a good quality drop camp. As far as they are dropped off in every drainage that you hunt. sounds like you need to go a little deeper in the woods then. I  have a lot more that I could say and that I would like to say but obviously at 18 you have been around the world 4-5 times and you already know all.

Dale (Bearpaw) I have seen first hand what kind of hoops you have to go through to get your sites established. So I commend you on a job well done for that. I am still talking it over with the wife to see if we are going to get over there to hunt the muzzleloader season with you. Correct me if I am wrong but during muzzle loader we are allowed to use our bows correct? I just dont know if buying a muzzle loader for one season is worth it.

Littlebuff, there is icicles outfitter that does drop camps. There are a couple of other ones that do some drop offs over here on the west side.

Joe

[jackelope]

joe-no bows in muzzleloader season...muzzleloaders only. there's 13 or 14 threads    on this site re: that topic...crazy reg but it is what it is.

[BLKBEARKLR]

awww crap was thinking that, oh well might go out and buy one and me and the wife can share it. I am dang sure not going to buy two of them.

[littlebuf]

  you crack me up joe, your right tho i wish i still knew everything i "knew" when i was 18 

[7mag.]

Hey hound, I think that you may have a somewhat unique situation in the area you like to hunt. I have been on several wilderness drop camp hunts, all in different wilderness areas, and never have I seen a single other person while I was in there. I like to get away from people too, that's why I sometimes hire an outfitter to pack me in. Branch out a little, and find a wilderness area that isn't overrun with outfitters. Good luck for elk, because in this state, everywhere elk live, massive amounts of people flock there each fall.