Winston unit IDIOTS

[jstamp]

was up in the Winston Unit last night working. Some idiots think it's ok to block main roads off with vehicles, campers, and just about anything else you can think of to block roads. when the cops showed up because of a fight over the idiots blocking roads off. the idiots thought it was their god given right to block the road, because they were going to hunt up there today. I now know why i switched to archery hunting. and to think i was going to take the kid up there hunting this weekend to try to get him his first elk. not with that cluster f*^* up there. I wish they would shut and lock all of those gates and make everyone walk in there. It would be a whole lot better. 

[New England Native]

I saw the same thing this morning as I was heading out. Man I got soaked today. Nobody else was getting out of their rig so it was a good time to do some walking.

[Wa hunter]

Its not only modern.  Last year the same thing happened to me in the winston unit during the late archery season.  3 guys tried to block the road with their trucks they acted like they owned the place.  It was just starting to get ugly before they decided to move.

[NWBREW]

was up in the Winston Unit last night working. Some idiots think it's ok to block main roads off with vehicles, campers, and just about anything else you can think of to block roads. when the cops showed up because of a fight over the idiots blocking roads off. the idiots thought it was their god given right to block the road, because they were going to hunt up there today. I now know why i switched to archery hunting.  

Dude..I've had the same thing happen to me with Bowhunters. It's not the weapon of choice that makes idiots do this...it is the person themselves. I know exactly how you feel.

[Ray]

Seen it before. Also seen their tires get slashed. Kind of an expensive citizens' ticket. Guess they should have thought of that. Wasn't my problem but I chuckled a bit.

[Bigfoot]

This is the reason I do not hunt lowland easy access units anymore.  I got sick and tired of everyone thinking it's a race and competition to get to the elk.  I see fewer elk where I hunt and have to walk a lot farther, but I see fewer idiots too.

[PolarBear]

That is a big reason why I will never hunt Winston again.  Too many idiots driving the roads, blocking all pull outs and shooting at everything that moves, even during archery.

[gasman]

I had a few dumb a$$es do that t me in Vail (deer hunting), I just drove y jeep in the ditch to get around them and smiled as i whent around.

 

[PolarBear]

Funny that you mentioned Vail.  My daughter and I were up there a couple of weeks ago hunting grouse and came upon a   mini van parked sideways on a narrow a spur road.  It was a bitch turning my F350 Crew cab around.  I honked the horn the entire time that I was doing my 40 point turn and did a big burn out in the mud as we left.  If I had my saw I probably would have fell a snag over the road.  I have 0 patience for idiots like that.

[logger]

P bear never fall one across the road, fall it with the road that way they have to chunck the whole damn tree out of the road.

[PolarBear]

Thanks for the tip, I'm sure it will come in handy!

[gasman]

I have to admit, I my self have blocked off a dead end road my self. When I do, i park in an area closer to the end of the road, not 3 miles of road, and leave plenty of room for peple to turn around in.


This year i just pulled ff the road, because we have not see any one in the area we hunt in a few years. Well this F&&ker in a yota passes my jeep and drives on. He sees we are hunting the area, there are 3 of us in a less then 1/4 mile area. I had my daughter waling the road towards the end, they passed up her on the road, speed up to the end of the road and jumped out and speed walked to the ravine on the end of the road  
This really pissed her of for it was one of the ravines we were watching.

So just t be a dick, i walked around them and hunted the finger ridges below them.  

[PolarBear]

Not to be a jerk but they had every right to drive around you.  You have no right to block any road or trail just because you want to hunt it alone.  My cousin works for a certain timber co in Mason county has parked his grader, blocked in folks who block the roads, had the oiler pick him up and left them blocked in for the night.  Keep in mind they are not your roads to block or do with as you please!

[gasman]

Not to be a jerk but they had every right to drive around you.  You have no right to block any road or trail just because you want to hunt it alone.  My cousin works for a certain timber co in Mason county has parked his grader, blocked in folks who block the roads, had the oiler pick him up and left them blocked in for the night.  Keep in mind they are not your roads to block or do with as you please!

It did not piss me off that they drove through ( i was parked on the side of th eroad, not blocking), it was the fact they sped up and drove past my daughter to beat her to the end of the road, that was only 80 yards in front of her, just to be at the ravine first. She was walking slow, looking for deer in th esurounding area ,as she waled to the ravine.

This is a very small area in the Entiat unit, and i mean small area.

[Alan K]

I had a couple *censored*bags block off a road heading down into a unit I'd been scouting all summer on opening morning of elk season a few years ago. . . They were there blocking it off a good hour before daylight.  They refused to let me around, insisting they had a bunch of guys in there.  I told them I wanted to go in there too regardless, and they still wouldn't let me pass. 

I headed around to the other side, hiked in a half mile or so on a dug-up road and walked all through the unit making all the noise I could before the sun came up, didn't hear anything take off, but I was going to make sure if there was anything alive in the area it'd be running to the next county.  Served those *censored*s right.  I am happy and fairly surprised I didn't get shot at!