Went for a drive over to the Swakane/Entiat pics!!

[halflife65]

I've been elk hunting it for awhile but never really tried for deer.  Do you think that there are many bucks there?

[MLHSN]

I've been elk hunting it for awhile but never really tried for deer.  Do you think that there are many bucks there?

Elk in the Swakane/Entiat area???  Learned something new.  I've done quite a bit of hiking up there but have never seen Elk.  I see the entiat unit and slide ridge unit had 1 elk harvested a piece in 2007, none for 2009.  Entiat had 1 in 2008.  Swakane had 3 in 2008 and 2 2009. 

[huntergreg]

Never see one elk in there and have been hunting it for 3-4 years. Never even seen an elk tracks. 

I've been elk hunting it for awhile but never really tried for deer.  Do you think that there are many bucks there?

Nope only one deer left over there and it has my name on it!! 

[FullDraw]

I think halflife65 is getting a good chuckle out of this.

[halflife65]

Uh, yeah, sorry guys.  I was being facetious.   

I don't generally give away too much info about where I'm hunting/not hunting but, since I caused some confusion, I'll just say that I think that the Swakane would be a poor place to elk hunt.  But it might be alright for deer.   

[huntergreg]

     I get it 

[cle elum bowhunter]

Ok, laugh it up halflife, I grew up in the Leavenworth area, saw a big 5x5 bull up in Derby canyon during late archery back in the late 90's.  Also cut some fresh bull tracks in the snow up on Entiat ridge near Sugarloaf lookout last year during modern deer.  So yes, there are actually elk, just not many.  Much better deer numbers once the snow pushes them out of the Icicle and Lake Wenatchee areas.

[MLHSN]

So I wonder if those 3 people that said they shot an elk in 250 just screwed up and meant to put 251

[remington300mag]

So I wonder if those 3 people that said they shot an elk in 250 just screwed up and meant to put 251

Most likely not...there are "some" elk in the 250 unit....I know when I was really young, my family and some friends of our family would get into them now and then in the 250.....but tht was long ago when there was a late hunt......

[shedcrazy]

There are some elk in there, but few and far between. Thats why you get an any elk season, and a week longer. Nice pics of the bucks though. Im taking a buddy in for the late bow hunt. The Swakane is big enough to find a few hidey holes!! BRING CHAINS

[halflife65]

Ok, laugh it up halflife, I grew up in the Leavenworth area, saw a big 5x5 bull up in Derby canyon during late archery back in the late 90's.  Also cut some fresh bull tracks in the snow up on Entiat ridge near Sugarloaf lookout last year during modern deer.  So yes, there are actually elk, just not many.  Much better deer numbers once the snow pushes them out of the Icicle and Lake Wenatchee areas.

I actually have seen some pictures of some cows in the area - not saying that there are NO elk, just saying that it wouldn't be a good place to hunt elk.  If someone thinks that they can catch up to that bull you saw in the late '90's they should go right ahead.

Interesting that elk would be out by Sugarloaf.  Would be cool to see.

[cle elum bowhunter]

Definitely surprised me to see Elk tracks that far in but there was no mistaking them.  Sorry Halflife, wasn't meaning to lash out if it came across that way. 

[halflife65]

No worries at all. Didn't you get a nice buck this year?  I thought I recalled seeing a picture but maybe not.

[Armadillo]

found a elk shed this year in Chiwawa, they're in there although few and far between 

[cle elum bowhunter]

Halflife, no deer yet.  I did get my moose though.  Maybe those were the pictures you saw.  Hoping to see the 30" buck I saw last season but about 30 yards closer this time.