Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: iRem on September 08, 2012, 08:03:54 PM
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Well, I has out on Friday for a 1 day hunt as I was wanting to get in another "Scouting" day with bow and tag in hand! Went to my first location in the Taneum area and hiked about 5 miles with no sign. Sat and did some early morning cow calling and called in the stinkiest, rutty smelling archery hunter I have ever been around! WOW! I am soooo glad that I got away from using Elk Piss while hunting as I like to use the sense of smell to help with locating elk while I'm on the move! My best example is the second location I went to in the Manastash area. We spotted this bull with some cows and I proceeded to follow them. As I got onto the trailthis these elk the bull smelled rutty! Looks like and smells like he just got out of a wallow and smells like the guy from this morning!
I hope the weather gets a little cooler next week, the moon will be in our favor and hope I'll be able to get it done starting Thursday for the last 4 days of the early season.
Any one have any luck in the Manastash area?
Here's the pic my buddy took while we were hunting! A little fussy but thats what we get when a big bull (no bull tag) is starring at you and your trying not to spook the cows too bad....
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I was out with a buddy helping him today and got skunked in the Manastash. Some good sign, but no luck. Tons of hunters though.
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Just got back from Manastash. Tons of hunters. We were in the elk most every day, but couldn't seal the deal. My uncle and I both had shot opportunities at cows, but limbs in front of the vitals at 26 yds for me and cows stacked together for my uncle left us with un-notched tags. Went out for a morning hunt today and the bulls were bugling quite a bit. Second week should be better. Seemed like guys just couldn't keep off of the cow calls. Sounded like a bunch of squirrels at times.
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Yeah I figured there would be a few extra hunters on the weekend. Not looking forward to have to hunt the last 4 days into the weekend but I'll have to use it to my advantage. I also thought I would just hit the drainages and make it happen. The bull that we found with the cows came up out of a drainage. Seemed to me that there's a wallow at the bottom, so might start my hunt down in there!
