late season elk

[bighunter]

Does anybody know a good place for a late season elk hunt for muzzy?

[fair-chase]

In the same boat as I struck out in early season. Praying for snow lots and lots of snow.

[bobcat]

Western or Eastern?

[bighunter]

i am eastern washington but i just have no idea where to go late season

[bobcat]

Sorry to hear that. Honestly there is really nothing open for late muzzleloader on the eastside. Nothing that is worth hunting anyway. Don't feel bad, there really isn't much over here either. But at least we do have several units open that have elk in them. The east side has virtually no units open that have enough elk to make them worth hunting. You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.

[elkhuntindad]

sure would be nice if WDFW would actually let us hunt for a while 

[bobcat]

If you want a long season and good units to hunt, you need to buy an archery tag.

[Band]

You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.

Would you say that true of the late archery season as well?  I'm looking over my options in the 300 series units for the late season and it appears that the units that likely will hold numbers of elk are closed or at least have a "safe zone" feeding station.

[bobcat]

Definitely less units open for late archery compared to early, but there are still some that should be good. Such as Taneum (336), Little Naches (346), Nile (352), and Rimrock (364).

For muzzleloaders, there is not one unit in the Cascades that is open. Basically they have Chelan and Okanogan County units, and some in the Columbia Basin, and a few south of Spokane that are all private. Nothing that has any real numbers of elk.

[Little Fish]

I think there are a few good areas for late season muzzle loader on the W side, but I don't know much about the east side.

[vandeman17]

You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.

Would you say that true of the late archery season as well?  I'm looking over my options in the 300 series units for the late season and it appears that the units that likely will hold numbers of elk are closed or at least have a "safe zone" feeding station.

The nice thing about late archery on the eastside is that some of the units open up to cows instead of just spikes or true spikes. It is nice to have that option.

[bighunter]

Ya it would be nice if we had more then a week to hunt. They give the crazy riffle hunters 2 weeks.

[400out]

Ya it would be nice if we had more then a week to hunt. They give the crazy riffle hunters 2 weeks.

lets not do that!   

[coachcw]

If the weather hits at all the late archery hunt sucks , but you can find a decent buck in 346 with a few elk straggling down , 336 has a few stragglers to but they mostly are pilled up in 340 then .

[bighunter]

are areas 203,204,209,215 any good for late season, or would i just be wasting my time? I could really use a freezer full of meat