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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: elkkillin5 on July 24, 2012, 01:05:40 PM

Title: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 24, 2012, 01:05:40 PM: Is anyone going to up to the 560 gmu this year? If so I have a couple of questions. 1) Have they done any clear cutting that you know of up by the loaf, or mosquito meadows? 2) Do you know anything about huff rot? Does it affect the meat at all or does it just slow them down cause it seems like that is what I need always just one step behind them dang things. >:( 3) Have you done any scouting of this area this year? I will be heading up in two weeks to place some game cams and hike some old trails. Its so close to September I can feel the camo paint on my face and hear the bugling. Let me know if you got any information and I will keep you posted! Good luck to all the hunters out there.
Sorry forgot to add this is my first post on this website, but definitly not the first time on it. I get on this website at least once a day and like all you say its addicting. I have always bow hunted and will never change the thrill is just to over welming!! I have taken 7 deer with my bow and have had my far share of chances for elk but never closed the deal. I have put my time in and now its time to deliver. All of you guys and gals seem really cool I wish there was a camp site big enough to hold all of us. The problem would to many stories there would never be time for hunting. Its just really freaking cool to see that there are other people out there as CRAZY as I am about elk hunting. My wife almost had me convinced I needed help. Boy was she WRONG!
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: mrmoskillz on July 24, 2012, 01:34:59 PM: I know there is a few new clear cuts by C-post. I have done some scouting and it seems like they all head to C-post this time of year :dunno:
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 24, 2012, 02:49:24 PM: I know that there are some newer clear cuts down lower, but I hunt up on elk pass road from mile marker 24 to about 32 all through there. I'm to sure what your talking about c-post? I know that there is elk up there its just real tough huntin with all the thick rep rod. They need to do some thining up there and I think then we could have a lot more success. Do you hunt up there by elk pass?
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 24, 2012, 03:01:04 PM: They've been doing a lot of controlled burns around the huckleberry fields and have more scheduled for this bow season. Call the Gifford Pnichot HQ in Vancouver. They'd tell you more.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: bankwalker on July 24, 2012, 04:31:27 PM: Quote from: mrmoskillz on July 24, 2012, 01:34:59 PM
I know there is a few new clear cuts by C-post. I have done some scouting and it seems like they all head to C-post this time of year :dunno:

Gotta love the C-post post. It's like clockwork when a new guy posts :chuckle:
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on July 24, 2012, 05:03:24 PM: Welcome! Good luck and let us know how it goes! :hello:
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 24, 2012, 06:47:51 PM: Thanks for the feed back I can't get enough of the huge bull pictures and elk talk man 42 days seems like a life I will be up there from Sept 1 till Sept 16 hope to see you all up there
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: spin05 on July 25, 2012, 03:44:35 AM: Quote from: elkkillin5 on July 24, 2012, 02:49:24 PM
I know that there are some newer clear cuts down lower, but I hunt up on elk pass road from mile marker 24 to about 32 all through there. I'm to sure what your talking about c-post? I know that there is elk up there its just real tough huntin with all the thick rep rod. They need to do some thining up there and I think then we could have a lot more success. Do you hunt up there by elk pass?

the Elk pass i know is not in the 560 unit. But it is still open. I think its the packwood unit.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 25, 2012, 05:19:40 AM: Ya it is the packwood unit the highway going up there is the boundry between the 2 units. There both cow or 3 point units.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: bowhunterty on July 25, 2012, 05:44:30 AM: Packwood is 3 pt or better. No antlerless. Lewis River is 3pt or antlerless.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: CavemantheHunter on July 25, 2012, 06:49:21 AM: Welcome to the site! I'll be headed down there to do some scouting the August 11th weekend. September can't come soon enough!
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 25, 2012, 07:18:36 AM: Caveman I will be there thr same weekend in a black silvera :twocents:do with mathews sticker on it. The packwood unit is 3 point your right sorry but I think that elk pass road is the Lewis river unit cause isn't the boundry trail right there the boundry between packwood and Lewis?
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: CavemantheHunter on July 25, 2012, 08:24:49 AM: Elkkillin, I'll be in a black F150 with an elkoholic decal and a mule deer trigger time decal. If I see you, will definitely stop to chat! Good luck.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 25, 2012, 08:34:37 AM: Right on brother good luck
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: jpharcher on July 26, 2012, 09:17:50 AM: Heading up this weekend to work on the camp and do some scouting. None of last years elk had any hoof rot problems.....
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 26, 2012, 10:41:03 AM: I saw quite a few of the elk taken in 560 last year with no hoof rot problems. There were quite a few in 520 during the late season, however.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: elkkillin5 on July 26, 2012, 11:06:00 AM: Does that hoof rot damage any of the meat? Jp where about do you camp.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: pianoman9701 on July 26, 2012, 11:16:24 AM: Sometimes it does cause gangrene.
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: jpharcher on July 26, 2012, 12:37:26 PM: Pm me and I'll tell you- sorry but hate to loose the spot we have been in for 15+ years.....
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: Annette on July 26, 2012, 12:37:49 PM: been over there and haven't seen the new cuts? My 5 cameras are up! hope to head over there on the 31st. lookin for bears! Need to be out there!maybe do some fly fishing on the lakes too...can't wait!!
Title: Re: LEWIS RIVER 560 early season bow hunting 2012
Post by: THINK_N_ELK on July 26, 2012, 05:18:33 PM: PM sent