Another reason not to go elk hunting.

[calawahsteelie]

this is from the sheriff log or the called in reports this is just one of the fights that happened this weekend. Couldn't find the 1900 rd fight logged anywhere but there was one worse than this.
 11-16922 18:53:50 10/30/11 Simple Assault  FS RD 1791, NACHES, WA
Disposition:  ACTIVE
Comments   :  RP WAS ON FS RD 1791  BETWEN 1640-1700 HRS TODAY WHEN A WHI/M
              W/LONG BLOND HAIR CAME INTO HIS HUNTING AREA//RP ASKED HIM TO
              MOVE//THERE WAS A VERBAL ALTERCATION AND THE BLOND MAIL SWUNG HIS
              RIFLE AROUND AND TRIED TO POINT IT AT THE RP//RP THEN GRABBED THE
              BARREL THE RIFLE AND STRUCK THE MAN IN THE MOUTH//THE BLOND MAIN
              LEFT W/HIS HUNTING PARTY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN//RP IS ENRT TO WHISTLIN
              JACK LODGE ETA 20 MIN//HE WILL WAIT IN THE PK LOT IN A TAN/BLK
              F350 TK AND IS REQUESTING CONTACT 19:09:02 10/30/2011 - TRICKEY, A
              xxxx AT 141 WAPITI RUN LN 658-xxxx SAID HIS FRINED WAS
              ASSAULTED WHILE HUNTING//MR. xxxx WAS HIT IN THE
              FACE AND THE BACK OF THE HEAD W/THE BUT OF A GUN AND IS BLEEDING
              AND HAS BROKEN TEETH//FIRE ENRT///I BELEIVE THIS WILL BE THE OTHER
              HALF OF THE INCIDENT


I see all sorts of beer cans but the majority of the 200 lbs of beer cans I picked up off the roads  last year is Busch light. I have about 175 lbs of beer cans this year.

Stop! Hold the press! I drink Busch light and I don't road hunt. Please do not put me into that category. 

[yajsab]

Dang...  I used to hunt this area during archery.  I don't drink though.

[pips4bucks]

Exactly why I go archery.  Been doin' it for 12 years now.  Can't say as I miss the pumpkin patches.

[LincolnTWilliams]

Sounds like he had it coming.  WHo walks into a camp and tells someone to move? If it was me having a rifle swung my way my 357 would have been in the news

I can get on board with that, "How you like swallowin teeth hippie?!?!?!"...

[colockumelk]

Sounds like he had it coming.  WHo walks into a camp and tells someone to move? If it was me having a rifle swung my way my 357 would have been in the news

I can get on board with that, "How you like swallowin teeth hippie?!?!?!"...

Yeah the only difference is at the end of the hippie stomping he would have been zip tied waiting on the side of the road for the cops. 

[pianoman9701]

That's why I hunt with a bow. I dont see amy of the above.

  x 10. Bow hunters have to work too hard for their kills to drive around being stupid. You might consider the switch. I went to bow when the modern season pressure got to be too much to handle.

[WapitiChaser]

Naches seems to be getting full of a$$holes.  The guy who was camped in our spot for deer had his generator stolen before we got there for Elk.  Just a sad commentary on society in general.  Thieves should be summarily shot,  and hunters should have a peer point system.  If we see you drinking and driving/littering/acting like an ass then you get a point.  Too many points and you get no license next year.

Fellas, we need to watch out for each other and our ever decreasing wild land access.  Call it in, write it down, get involved.

[Glockster]

I've hunted the area off and on for nearly 30yrs.  Went elk for the first time in 5 or 6 seasons this past weekend.  I remember 'back in the day' everyone would give a polite wave as you passed.  This year I think only about 1 in 4 returned the wave....mostly just scowled at you. 

I was set up in a canyon watching a trail opening afternoon.  A guy comes within 20yds of me and doesn't even notice until I whistle.  Another guy sees me and sets up above me about 100yds away and just sits there with a sh#@ eating grin on his face.  I don't say a thing in these situations...just leave and find another spot. 

What has elk hunting become??

[wazzu99]

Cousin and myself ran into 4 "Hunters" this past weekend that each had backpacks FULL of beer.  No food, no water, just Busch.  We ran into them at 10:30am and watched one of them down 3 beers in 20 minutes!  He smelled like he hadn't stopped drinking from the night before.  Maybe some sort of new cover scent

We proceeded in the other direction quickly.

Wazzu99

[Knocker of rocks]

Sounds like he had it coming.  WHo walks into a camp and tells someone to move? If it was me having a rifle swung my way my 357 would have been in the news

I think you missread the report.  No campsite was involved.  One hunter was set up in an area, and another ( long-haired blond ) entered it.  First hunter ordered him out, and trouble ensued

this is from the sheriff log or the called in reports this is just one of the fights that happened this weekend. Couldn't find the 1900 rd fight logged anywhere but there was one worse than this.
 11-16922 18:53:50 10/30/11 Simple Assault  FS RD 1791, NACHES, WA
Disposition:  ACTIVE
Comments   :  RP WAS ON FS RD 1791  BETWEN 1640-1700 HRS TODAY WHEN A WHI/M
              W/LONG BLOND HAIR CAME INTO HIS HUNTING AREA//RP ASKED HIM TO
              MOVE//THERE WAS A VERBAL ALTERCATION AND THE BLOND MAIL SWUNG HIS
              RIFLE AROUND AND TRIED TO POINT IT AT THE RP//RP THEN GRABBED THE
              BARREL THE RIFLE AND STRUCK THE MAN IN THE MOUTH//THE BLOND MAIN
              LEFT W/HIS HUNTING PARTY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN//RP IS ENRT TO WHISTLIN
              JACK LODGE ETA 20 MIN//HE WILL WAIT IN THE PK LOT IN A TAN/BLK
              F350 TK AND IS REQUESTING CONTACT 19:09:02 10/30/2011 - TRICKEY, A
              xxxx AT 141 WAPITI RUN LN 658-xxxx SAID HIS FRINED WAS
              ASSAULTED WHILE HUNTING//MR. xxxx WAS HIT IN THE
              FACE AND THE BACK OF THE HEAD W/THE BUT OF A GUN AND IS BLEEDING
              AND HAS BROKEN TEETH//FIRE ENRT///I BELEIVE THIS WILL BE THE OTHER
              HALF OF THE INCIDENT

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I have about 175 lbs of beer cans this year

They are helping you pay for fuel..
175 X .45 = $78.75 
Yhanks for picking them up. 
Also, *censored*s are out there during Archery season also, just fewer of them.
smaller user group, still get that 1% 

[andrebeergog]

Hunted Rimrock for the first time and probably the last this year.  Scary amount of people in the woods!  This thread sums up everything I experienced.  It sounded like a shooting gallery up there and obviously it wasn't Elk being shot as I only saw 3 hanging on the Rimrock and Bethel side combined.  Is this normally how it is up there?

[throttlejocky20]

That's why I hunt with a bow. I dont see amy of the above.

  x 10. Bow hunters have to work too hard for their kills to drive around being stupid. You might consider the switch. I went to bow when the modern season pressure got to be too much to handle.

Same stuff happens during archery season but not as much. One year me and the old man watch a guy chase a group of cows into an erigation canel and proceeded to shoot one while she fought to get out. Not to mention all this went on inside a safty zone. Well I couldent not due anything so we cut him off and called him out. It turned into a big fist sight when dudes brother tackled my old man. In the end they got what was coming there way because the gammy showed up.

[jordanramos_79]

My hunting partner and I were in that area last year for early bow season and didn't have any bad experiences, in fact we had the opposite, my partner lost his release and the guys in the camp next to ours had already taken an elk so the guy let my partner borrow his release for the remainder of our hunt. 

[Buckmark]

I have about 175 lbs of beer cans this year

They are helping you pay for fuel..
175 X .45 = $78.75 
Yhanks for picking them up. 
Also, *censored*s are out there during Archery season also, just fewer of them.
smaller user group, still get that 1% 

Holy cow thats alot of cans...
12oz would be 5713 cans
16oz would be 4307 cans
24oz would be 3109 cans