Experience with Toutle Bull hunt?

[funkster]

I don't know where people are coming from when they say there are no big bulls in this unit,must not be in the areas we hunted. This is not the eastside bulls rarely get over 300. I agree that the average bull is a raggy but don't be fooled,there are some big bulls in this unit. Most will not score over 300 but if you do your home work you can get close to that score! I  have spent a lot of time in this unit scouting and spent two weeks during early archery season last year. Sept was awesome called in a nice 6x6 bull with crowns to 23 yards but my dad(tag holder) missed, we still don't know how. That was one of 20 or so close encounters with better than average bulls. November was a little slower and the bulls were on high alert but as soon as the snow started flying the bulls came out. Get a good map and look for elky spots,get away from other hunters and think like an elk! Have fun it's a great hunt.

[Houndhunter]

if you think that area dont have good genetics just look over the other side on the 3000 and then say that. the big bulls are smart and they know what side to stay on

[Opportunist]

It all depends on what a guy considers to be a big bull. I consider a bull to be a big bull at 300" or better.  The toutle unit does not produce 300" bulls. It all boils down to what hits the ground. The proof of what is in the unit is what is killed, not what is seen. Of the 20 or so Toutle permit holders that I personnally know archery/rifle/muzzle, the best bull was a 240" 5X6. Only a couple didn't kill bulls but the rest were 5's and rags. 
 
It is a fun hunt because there are so many bulls and a guy can pull out a nice bull. I'm not trying to be a wet blanket just being honest about the hunt.

Good luck to those that drew!

[huntnphool]

I have drawn twice and been in there several times with friends helping out. Perhaps the bulls move out of there come rifle season but during archery I never had a hard time finding a 300+ bull. In fact I have seen several decent 7 points in there, at least one a year. They may get pushed over the hill into Loo-wit once the guns start going off, maybe the muzzy guys push them out Anyone that draws an archery tag should have a blast.

[Opportunist]

How many taped 300" bulls hit the ground?

[huntnphool]

How many taped 300" bulls hit the ground?

Several

[Opportunist]

Any pics?

[huntnphool]

no digital all Kodak

[bucklucky]

Scan them, I wana see!

[HoofsandWings]

Well, my first order of business is to work up a 150 gr load for my 270. I will be happy with any 4 or 5 pointer.
They will be old enough to be only good for hamburger. I shot a 3 point a while back and it was tough!
I plan to post to find someone on this board who also drew Toutle. One hunting partner died recently and the other no longer hunts or camps.

[huntnphool]

Scan them, I wana see!

I know I know, Pope told me a while ago to rent one at Glazers, I just havn't gotten around to it.

[bucklucky]

Scan them, I wana see!

I know I know, Pope told me a while ago to rent one at Glazers, I just havn't gotten around to it.

Well dang it! I like to see pics of big bulls that were shot down in my old haunts!

[ICEMAN]

I will be happy with any 4 or 5 pointer. ....They will be old enough to be only good for hamburger. I shot a 3 point a while back and it was tough!

Burger!?  You are kidding aren't you?

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Lots of people are happy with the spike they shoot in toutle on the last day, hopeing for the big boy that they do not see.
As i remember there was a spike shot in Margaret last year by somebody on this board, so if you are holding out for a monster, don't feel bad about that spike you shoot on the last day, at least you will have meat in the freezer.
Like i posted earlier, 2 of the biggest bulls i have seen have come out of units adjacent to the toutle, and neither one of them scores 300, both 288", we spend alot of time in that unit so the day we draw we will be prepared, it is a big unit and if you pick the wrong area you might see a bull, then again you might not. So we scout it every year. Our party has 1 Toutle bull tag, smoke pole. And we will be in there every day trying to get him a nice bull, but we have been realistic with the expectations, that is why Toutle is our 4th choice.
Toutle is really about added opportunity, not world class bulls.

[funkster]

Both the Toutle or the Margret aren't known for big bulls.... There are just a ton of elk and small bulls, but the biggest bull you'll see is about 250 if your lucky.  It just doesn't have the genetics to produce big bulls... 

288? No way! 250 is the biggest bull to come out of here EVER