Raymond Cow Tags....12 yr old Daughter

[PLUVIUSWAPITI]

I think you would be wasting your time on ground blinds. I would think that you would do just fine driving around and finding a herd. I tried calling yesterday but no answer. Right now the elk are being easliy spooked due to so much pressure.

[PA BEN]

Thanks for the call. I got another call too and I want to say thanks you guys for all the help. I was going to go down to Cabela's on Black Friday with my daughter and get her some winter rain gear and head down to the hunting area, but it didn't work out. Swains in town here had a black Friday sale and I got her Rivers west rain gear at 33% off and a good pair of insulated rubber boots. I will call you guys when I get a game plan on our hunt. I have a friend in Raymond who said we can stay at his house but it's going to be my daughter and I hunting and scouting at the same time. Hope to get her in on some steelhead fishing also, she's never caught a big fish in a river. So I hope this trip w/be a first elk and steelhead too.

[Maximus4252626]

You don't need a ground blind. Just stay in your truck with the heat running. The elk are in the dairy farmers field all year. All you have to do, is be there at daylight and have your daughter get out and shoot. It is not much of a hunt. It is a super small area. The hunt was designed specifically to help out a few of the farmers complaining about their fences being damaged by the elk. If they are not in the field, you can hunt the timber on either side of the road to the top. If you go over the top, the area is not open. I would not waste your time getting out of the truck and beating the brush. Just show up every morning/evening and drive the road until you see one. The road takes less than 10 minutes to drive down. This hunting is not hunting. It is a pull up a shoot an elk so called hunting tag.

[grundy53]

I think you would be wasting your time on ground blinds. I would think that you would do just fine driving around and finding a herd. I tried calling yesterday but no answer. Right now the elk are being easliy spooked due to so much pressure.

[PA BEN]

You don't need a ground blind. Just stay in your truck with the heat running. The elk are in the dairy farmers field all year. All you have to do, is be there at daylight and have your daughter get out and shoot. It is not much of a hunt. It is a super small area. The hunt was designed specifically to help out a few of the farmers complaining about their fences being damaged by the elk. If they are not in the field, you can hunt the timber on either side of the road to the top. If you go over the top, the area is not open. I would not waste your time getting out of the truck and beating the brush. Just show up every morning/evening and drive the road until you see one. The road takes less than 10 minutes to drive down. This hunting is not hunting. It is a pull up a shoot an elk so called hunting tag.

Well I call it HUNTING. MEAT HUNTING 

[Hunterman]

PA BEN,,, We are going to require that you post pictures of your daughters BIG COW        and maybe your calf 

Good luck on your "MEAT HUNT"

Hunterman(Tony)

[PA BEN]

I will let her shoot the cow and so the calf doesn't grow up w/out a mom I will shoot it. Less meat to bone out that way

[Hunterman]

Easier to get to the truck too     

Hunterman(Tony)

[PA BEN]

Hopefully it will be like this. Took these pictures out of Forks yesterday. Went out shooting and plunking for steelhead.

[PA BEN]

Just got the truck loaded and heading out. About 3 1/2 hr drive. I know it's a late start but the daughter had a party to go to last night. O well only 5 tags for this area and we got 2, not like there will be hunters everywhere.

[Kowsrule30]

Good luck!!!!!!     

[JimmyHoffa]

Good luck!!!!!!     

 

[buck man]

Great pics and good luck! If your daughter wears Georgia Romeos I bet you do too. I promise they are a good luck shoe and i never leave home without them

[PA BEN]

Just got home from our first trip over to Raymond. All I have to say is I hope we get one. Those elk have been hunted hard for 4 months, lots of sign but old. You don't know how small the area is until you hunt it. Everywhere we went there was boned out elk and hides. All the farmers we talked to were real nice and let us hunt there land. I forgot my game camera but will take it next week after Christmas. My Daughter did spot some elk in a clear cut and we went after them. I had a 390 yd shot at a big cow, but I wanted my daughter to get one. We put the sneak on them and followed them for about an hr and a ½ until they went into a steep canyon, they were only 50 yds in front of us but could see them. I didn't want to kill one down there in that hole with just me and my daughter so I did two cow calls and they went to the bottom and called back to us the whole way down.  We are having fun and that’s what it’s all about but we could use the meat. I would like to thank all the members who have helped us out so far. Here is a picture of my daughter sitting in a field that the elk were in the night before but they didn't come in that night.

[lokidog]

Nice pic, and good luck!