Asking for your advise with 16 points and elk muti season!

[Bearhunter]

Bowhunter45 that has got to be the biggest Margaret Bull Ive ever seen!!! 

[trophyhunt]

I'm 41 and have done pretty well hunting elk in the past. I don't have the extra cash and feel I can give myself a pretty good chance at an oppertunity if I can draw the tag. So no guided hunts for me, but I would love to be packed in a few miles by a guide. I know i'm getting ahead of myself, got to draw first.

[SkookumHntr]

Ya and remember, Theres lots of us with 16points so I wouldnt be booking your Hunt just yet!

[Ridgerunner]

choose wisely, I think its probably more of getting drawn for a tag and putting your time in than picking the right unit, especially in teh blues, I think most units down there have 350 potential.  Heck even colockum and the yakima units have there share of 350 bulls.  Study the odds and pick the unit/hunt with the best chance of getting drawn and go smoke a monster.

[Antlershed]

I just wish I had your problem. I have 14 points, but no multi-season, so here is another year of building points 

[SkookumHntr]

Ya Brent im in the same boat But hey, who says you need a Permit to smoke a monster

[nwhunter]

All the Blues units have 350 plus bulls in them no doubt and all are hard to draw. Every year someone draws the Blues having never been there but has heard the big bull stories then they go look at what they are in for and say holy crap its steep or there are no roads in the wenaha etc. and then their hunt takes on a totally different agenda. Example I have guided 2 hunters in the Blues backcountry who were experienced hunters who had never been on a guided hunt but because they had nobody who would go with them and they needed to be packed in on animals to really be able to do the hunt it forced them to spend some money.If you don't have your own stock or the money to hire a packer the east wenaha is very tough as is the wilderness parts of the tucannon and west wenaha.Make sure how you like to hunt and what kind of country you are capable hunting/hiking and who you have to go with you is part of your draw selection.nwhunter

[trophyhunt]

Great advise guys, I definitely have some thinking to do.  Being packed in sounds like something I would love to experience!

[YoterHunter]

if i ever dew get drawn for a qality tag .i will probably use a guide becouse i want the biggest bull i can get . i will be fifty nexts mounth. and my luck on drawing.isent very good.so i figer if i ever do get drawn in my life time im going to make it count. good luck to the rest of you.

[unluckyjohn]

we backpacked in above twin sisters (bumping) and seen a few above 310ish. great area for the muzzy season. not sure whats going to happen if the 1800 road opens.