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Elk Scouting Ethics
« on: September 11, 2009, 10:25:20 AM »
So being as my unit has been closed for quite a while, it's finally open and has coincided with a weekend I am able to go scouting.  Being as it is next weekend and the last 3 days of the archery season, what ethics do you guys reccommend while scouting.  I have to scout, but I don't want to royally screw up someone's hunt.  But I'm certainly not going into the season blind.

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Re: Elk Scouting Ethics
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2009, 10:37:13 AM »
I'd probably do as much scouting from a distance as i could...maybe sit on a ridge and glass out of people's way as much as you can be. as long as you're not crashing through the woods making all kind of racket, i don't see a problem.
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Re: Elk Scouting Ethics
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2009, 10:41:26 AM »
Plenty of people will probably be out hiking this weekend seeing it is going to be nice.....I would not walk through an area I saw active hunting going on but the woods belong to everyone of us and there are plenty of non and anti hunters out there walking around who do not even know what a hunting party looks like.  I think your fine if you are not purposefully ruining it for someone.

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Re: Elk Scouting Ethics
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2009, 10:46:18 AM »
If you're just driving around on the roads you're not going to hurt anything. And really that's all you've got to do to scout... learn the roads. There's hardly anywhere in the Toutle you can't drive to on a road. My brother and I will be in there for the early muzzleloader hunt. I don't think we're going to take the time to scout. But it really shouldn't be necessary, especially when it's just for a cow permit. What part of the unit are you planning on checking out?

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Re: Elk Scouting Ethics
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2009, 02:10:45 PM »
the Toutle is open? thought that was a permit hunt
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