New Anterless Winston Elk Hunt

[Yelm hunter]

So what do you guys think about the New Anterless Elk Hunt in Winston Creek in January? I hope that I get drawn for it!!

[cem3434]

It would be a great hunt because you wont have all of the road hunters.  I put in for this hunt as well.  Not really sure if they are going to open the gates for the late season, but who cares. 

[Mike450r]

Definitely a good cow tag.  If you get drawn and are squeemish at all,  I suggest the gutless bone out method,  unles you want some veal too.  I have seen two very small but fairly well formed calves in the bellies of January muzzleloader cows.

[Alan K]

I know a guy who has a calf elk in a jar of formaldehyde that he pulled out of his cow on a late hunt.  I'm not a fan of the hunts myself. 

[cem3434]

I know a guy who has a calf elk in a jar of formaldehyde that he pulled out of his cow on a late hunt. 

Seems a little demented to me!

[dlaw]

I am not a fan of them either for that reason in particular.  Just my thoughts though.
The tag on the other hand is going to be a high success rate tag if you are not afraid of hiking in a little ways.

[elkslayer069]

yeah it should be good im affaid that with the 200 perimits everybody n their bother is gonna put in for it though, probably have better chance drawing a bull tag

[elkoholic]

looks more like an extermination of elk to me in that unit....350 MF cow tags and 90 ML tags= 440 total antlerless tags, How many freekin elk are in that unit?

[FSTaxidermy]

looks more like an extermination of elk to me in that unit....350 MF cow tags and 90 ML tags= 440 total antlerless tags, How many freekin elk are in that unit?

Just a continuation of the "no management" policy in the Winston, get rid of the elk numbers and simplify the job for WDFW.

[funkster]

looks more like an extermination of elk to me in that unit....350 MF cow tags and 90 ML tags= 440 total antlerless tags, How many freekin elk are in that unit?

Yeah, put that on top of the 415 elk that where actually harvested in 10' and it won't be long until there is no elk in that unit. With that being said, I put in for the muzzy anterless tag.

[elkslayer069]

looks more like an extermination of elk to me in that unit....350 MF cow tags and 90 ML tags= 440 total antlerless tags, How many freekin elk are in that unit?

None no elk tell all your friends too. There has been tons of locals complaining about the master hunter any elk hunt in the months of august (including me), and this year they only have one week of that permit. So idk if they just decided to make it easier on themselves by doing this. 

[workstohunt]

There are no "any" elk permits for MH only antlerless.

[cem3434]

There are no "any" elk permits for MH only antlerless.

There are some anterless permits in the Winston still.

[bobcat]

looks more like an extermination of elk to me in that unit....350 MF cow tags and 90 ML tags= 440 total antlerless tags, How many freekin elk are in that unit?
 

 That's why I decided not to apply for it. Just decided I didn't want to take my chances with the slaughter that would be going on. Besides, I had to wonder how many elk would be left by the time January comes around.

[cem3434]

I think the herd could sustain loosing 300 cows, but I dont know for how long.  The herd is pretty healthy, but I still dont like taking that many out at one time.  My guess is less than half of the permits issued will actually be filled.