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Crunchy, I'm a Mt bike hunter for the most part and I was considering the winston unit, but I'm unfamiliar with it, I spent the early season on the peninsula. Do you know any areas that have more locked gates than the others, I thought that whole unit was weyrhauser and open. Are the main lines passable with a passenger car?, I drive a honda civic...yep a civic. Any info would be hugely appreciated PM if you prefer.
Who's goin to be down in 520 this year? I'll be headed down on Thurdsday, wondering how many others might be joining me.
Was down in the Winston last 3 days and didn't see any animals. Put a lot of miles on the truck tryin to find something to chase. Got out quite a few times to find fresh track and found minimal. Very slow down there. Good luck to whoever is headed to 520.
Quote from: Icdeadelk on November 29, 2011, 06:12:09 PMWas down in the Winston last 3 days and didn't see any animals. Put a lot of miles on the truck tryin to find something to chase. Got out quite a few times to find fresh track and found minimal. Very slow down there. Good luck to whoever is headed to 520.Did you happen to go over off of Green Mountain Road?? Get behind the gates and walk about 5 miles you should run into Elk...
I spent Wednesday and Thursday in the Winston. I did not hunt anywhere near the clear cuts. I found timber and found lots of fresh sign. I have not hunted here before so I hunted the morning in the timber and then drove around to get a lay of the land between 11:30 and 1pm. I found most of the other hunters were all hunting around the clear cuts but no one had been seeing anything. On day one I only found sign but in some nice areas. On day two I jumped a couple deer in the morning but no elk. After my drive around I found another spot that had so much fresh sign I had to stay there and see what came around as it looked like elk were spending a lot of time in there. About 2:30 I let out a few cow calls and a couple minutes later I heard a cow below me accross one of the many roads in there. We would talk back and forth for a while but they seemed hesitant to cross the road. They seemed to be whining about it. It started getting later and I noticed they had moved up to my left a bit so I decided it was time to go find them. I moved off and started sneeking their direction, then I heard one of them mew and knew where they were. The wind was perfect for me. I spotted the lead cow on the old unused road walking on a path that would put her in from of me. I moved down to about 35 yards from the road where I had a clear shot. Then they turned up into the timber but it was ok, they were still working right to me . As the lead cow got closer I realized that she was going to turn on a path that would put her head on or quartering to me . That is exactly what happened. She came out from behind the last tree 10 yards in front of me and quartering to me. She all of a suden looked up and looked right at me with that oh crap look on her face . I'm standing there at full draw waiting for her to turn away from me so I can let one go. Then, like they had planned it out, she starts to turn and one of the other cows pulls in right behind her . It looked like a well planned dance as they turned together still one behind the other and trotted back towards the road. I cow called to stop them but could not get a clean shot through the branches . There were four cows all together and I thought I had one of them in the freezer. I already had it all figured out, she would drop right there by the road so I would not have to pack the quarters up or down any steep hills. I would just put them right in the back of my truck and head on home...Oh well such is hunting. I had a great time and will just have to look forward to next year now.Oh.....here is a couple pictures of something I found out in the woods. Now these were real hunting mountain men!Hope these pics show well... These two gents were only 10 yards apart on a little ridge in the timber. You could see the ground indented in front of the stones. Pretty cool!
Made a huge mistake that probably cost me a shot. We had a close encounter with some cows on private property right at daylight but they were just on the other side of the property line and when they crossed over it was too brushy. We decided to drive up to winston around 10 am and We hunted until about an hour and a half before dark in a place we hunted early season. I didnt want to get home too late so we started driving out when we came to a road we like to hunt off of. I drove to the landing at the end of the road and decided to get out and look. I grabbed my binoculars and climbed the ledge to look over. (I dont have my bow with me because There is no way an elk or deer will be right on the other side of the knob after the truck pulled up right?) wrong! as soon as I look over the edge there are 6 cows at 65 yards away walking right too me. I hit the ground and motioned to my buddy to grab my bow. By the time he got to me They were heading the other direction! I am usually so careful about not putting my self in situations like that! It was cool though to see that one of the cows had a radio collar on her.
