667 Elk, Vail Tree farm

[72k5blzr]

n 46 44.249    w122 39.184  good spot           n46 47.417     w122 24.186 another good spot. Im not sure which was the elk spot i wasnt specific enough when i hit the waypoint but both spots should be good hunts.   

[gasman]

Now everyone knows the secret spot 

[Mike450r]

I think those coordinates take you a bit further south than GMU 667,  more like 520

[72k5blzr]

they do you go in through vail tree farm its a haul.

[72k5blzr]

its close enough and i didnt see the point of posting gps coordinates where id never seen animals.

[Antlershed]

I've heard you can only shoot an elk in vail if your dad works for WH and takes you in during the week.....

[WDFW-SUX]

there's lots of elk in there.

[deerslyr]

ive hunted the tree farm for 8 years and have never seen an elk goin in through the main line, only on the chehalis and pleasant valley sides. although one year during late buck we were up off the 2000 line quite a ways and there was an elk hide draped over a log with the hooves next to it. im thinkin a logger had one staked out and got it the week before during rifle season.

[gasman]

I have been hunting the tre farm for 15 years now and only have seen elk along Johnson Creek Rd. I have see elk sign in ther areas but never any animal, only sign.

[SkookumHntr]

-Theres pockets of elk everywhere, but they are few and far between! I bet hardly any elk get killed off the vail tree farm, I cant think of any ever and Ive lived and hunted it all my life.

[PolarBear]

There are very few that are taken within the tree farm itself.  Some are taken in the Bald Hills area and the Skookumchuck.  I have only seen them at the very bottom and none up top.

[Ranger91298]

I hunted there with a friend of mine the last day of late buck this year and spent alot of time driving around. We came across a poached elk at the end of a dead end. The head was gone but the rest of the hide was there so I am assuming it was a bull...they took the meat atleast...Along with the elk was the head and hide of a BT Buck, the antlers were cut off of course. If I had to guess I would say that the buck probably wasn't tagged either since the bull was poached already.  It takes some real balls to poach two animals like that with THOUSANDS of other hunters around. We found them first thing in the morning so they must have got them the night before and did all the dirty work after dark...

[gasman]

Thats nothing new. I counted 6 deer carcases in one area one year (johnson creek rd area)

People also dump there carcases off after a legal kill also. so who knows 

[Ranger91298]

Yeah I wouldn't have thought twice about it if it was just the BT; but there was an elk hide laying there and it wasn't elk season. They were pretty fresh; thinking they were killed the day prior.

[huntmando]

I agree with skookumhntr, there aren't many in 667, let alone vail. I would stick with 520.