Naches Question

[smitty8202]

i was wondering if the naches unit is strictly special draw/permit hunt only and how good is the rifle season over there? i have never been but have been looking on google earth and talking to some people about areas to go. not looking for anyones "honey holes" and probably wont get any help since no one on this site likes to give out any info regarding where to go but I'm gonna ask anyways. roughly where is a good area to go over there and where can and can not camp? any info will help. thank you

[gasman]

All the area around Naches will be filled with huters durring teh riffel season. everyone an dthere great grandpa will be there, It is one of the busiest places i have seen, (except the Vail tree farm on the deer opener).

Lots of people and teh elk get pushed hard all over. Just find a place to sit and wait untill others push them to you.

[270Shooter]

Theres elk all around there, not permit only, can only shoot spikes, tons of guys. Find a deep nasty draw and sit down there and wait for the shooting to start, i bet if you wait long enough in an area with a good amount of sign you will get a herd to be pushed to you, just gotta look for that spike(usually following a herd of cows). I pretty much quit hunting elk unless i get a permit, id rather go kill ducks.

[royalbull]

If it snows head to the east end of the unit

[Band]

Worst pumpkin patch I have ever seen.  I hunted modern in the area for years until I got fed up with the overcrowding in that unit.  No exaggeration: one year I counted 13 of us surrounding a 100 yard X 300 clearing at first light on opening day.  It's a wonder more hunters don't get shot.

My last year I finally downed a spike and then some joker put another bullet in it and he got to the dead animal first and had already notched his tag and was tying it on the bull and it was only 70 yards (uphill) from me.  I walked back to camp and then drove home fuming.  That's when I bought a bow and never looked back.

[boneaddict]

If you care about your family make sure your life insurance is up to date.   If you don't get shot, you'll get run over trying to get out of there.   Remember the Clockum in the 70s, maybe 80's?  Its ten times worse.   I live here and I have the tag and I DON't go.   

[Mr T]

Hunted the area in the late 80's with the old man.  We had just spotted a 5 point bull when the woods blew up with gun fire. My dad looked at me wide-eyed and said get down.  We laid down next to a downed tree until the shooting stopped..  Way too crazy for me!!

[coachcw]

I was muzzy hunting on the east end in 342 just off 1701 a few years ago and heard a smoker driving up the road it stopped then the shooting started they must have had a couple of nines loaded up I jumped behind a tree and could hear bullets whizzzzzzing by scary chit. I yelled and they bugged out fast , to this day i feel that if I had my scoped rifle that that dodge woulda had a whole in the bed , woulda been funny seeing those *censored*s explain that to there wives.Anyone in the woods should repect the other seasons going on and how frick'n many times do you need to shoot at a grouse . came around a corner once to see a kid and his grandpa aiming right down the road towards me at a grouse mind you it was aug 31st I road up to the guy and let him know what a fine example he was setting for the kid .