Scouting Access - Margaret, Coweeman, Winston, Etc

[zackmioli]

So what is your weapon choice?

modern firearm. sorry, thought i included that in the original post.

[shorthair15]

ive hunted all 3 units for deer and elk. be careful in the winston area ive seen bozos up there blocking the whole road with there vehicles during modern rifle. its a frickin zoo. i tend to stay away from the winston unless im hunting deer but there is quite a bit of elk in there. try and get a map from weyerhauser if you can it will list all the roads they help alot if your new to those areas.

[zackmioli]

ive hunted all 3 units for deer and elk. be careful in the winston area ive seen bozos up there blocking the whole road with there vehicles during modern rifle. its a frickin zoo. i tend to stay away from the winston unless im hunting deer but there is quite a bit of elk in there. try and get a map from weyerhauser if you can it will list all the roads they help alot if your new to those areas.

thanks i will do that.

[Cascader74]

I just went to check out the Winston area last week, I didn't see a single gate open. On the way back I stopped off at the WDFW office in Morton and talked to the guy, he said the timber companies are tightening down on access from all the bozos dumping garbage and such. He said it's a possibility they may not even open them up this fall but I don't see that happening. He said Weyerhaeuser also changed their policy of how if you got an elk behind a locked gate you could call the # and they'd send someone out to open the gate so you could drive in and get your animal out, they're no longer doing that according to him. The only gate I saw open was to the Goat Trail but that had a rock slide blocking the road so that was useless anyhow.

[bonecrusher]

thats good news if you ask me, the more blocked roads and closed gates the better. you should get out of the truck and head up those roads.

[sportsman002001]

I heard the gates are open this weekend. They opened the green river early for fishing and the sign at the 1900 gate had the black sack over it. I called weco and they said as long as the sign is covered you can enter.

[brew]

haven't hunted Winston in about 15 years.  My son had a modern tag and wanted me to take him out.  i loaded up my old partner from that area, my son and son in law and took off up to where we previously hunted.  going up a road into an area where we have previously taken elk before just after daybreak and heard a war going on.  had to go around a couple corners just to see what was happening and about fell over.  clear cut with 3 roads going through it and people were shooting off every one at a small group of elk and one bull.  the topper was the guy on top of the camper off the middle spur launching lead as fast as he could reload.  unfortunately someone actually hit the bull and was gearing up with his party to hit the reprod to look for it.  They didn't  have any two way radios so i lent them mine so they could be in contact with each other.  don't know if they ever got the bull as they never mailed my radios back.  haven't been back since.