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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: hardkorrhunter on November 04, 2012, 07:31:02 PM

Title: ELK IN 448
Post by: hardkorrhunter on November 04, 2012, 07:31:02 PM: HAS ANYONE BEEN HUNTING THE ELK IN 448.................
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Russ McDonald on November 04, 2012, 07:34:34 PM: I want to tag this. I would like to know the same thing.
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Turner89 on November 04, 2012, 07:50:51 PM: I live on the 448-460 border, and have seen a few elk over the years. It's frustrating that they don't do better back in the Sultan basin area.
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: hardkorrhunter on November 06, 2012, 02:04:48 AM: what frustrates me is we dont have but a hand full of them up around here and the go and open it up for hair tags in all three seasons but luckily they been hiding out pretty good lately ive only hurd of one cow being taken so far........................
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Bullets_n_Octane on November 06, 2012, 06:06:52 AM: Seen a HUGE 6x6 Bull near Sultan, on the 448 side of US2, even posted a picture last month in a different thread titled "Ever have this happaen...?"

Check out the pic, Really makes me wish more would come in the 448! The crappy part about the 448 is that every thing between US2 and Pilchuck is all gated off. All because Dumb A$$ morons destroyed the woods for years and years and years with their ORV's.... there has gott be a ton of game back there after 15 years of closure...
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Whitpirate on November 06, 2012, 07:35:42 AM: I'm interested in this as well.... I've not found sign where I've looked around Index and north.
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Ripper on November 06, 2012, 07:54:45 AM: Quote
there has got be a ton of game back there after 15 years of closure...

:yeah: I had the Monroe Spring bear tag so I had access to some of that area. I didn't see any elk sign but there are a ton of deer and bear in there. It's really frustrating knowing how much land there is that isn't accessible to us hunters. If you are young and in good shape you can get back in there, but I'm just not up for 15 mile hike ins anymore. Especially if I have to hike back out with an animal on my back!
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Stomper on November 06, 2012, 08:21:48 AM: We used to see a lot along the river in Sultan.Now in the last five years I've only seen two.There here in the spring and summer,as soon as fall comes they are nowhere to be found.About ten years ago my friend shot a 6x6 along the river off of Ben Howard Road.Soon after this the 460 was closed for elk during the early archery season . I've seen two nice bulls in the corn field just outside of Sultan behind the Wayside Chapel.This is in the 448,of course they were there in August.
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Bullets_n_Octane on November 06, 2012, 08:47:15 AM: Quote from: Ripper on November 06, 2012, 07:54:45 AM
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there has got be a ton of game back there after 15 years of closure...

:yeah: I had the Monroe Spring bear tag so I had access to some of that area. I didn't see any elk sign but there are a ton of deer and bear in there. It's really frustrating knowing how much land there is that isn't accessible to us hunters. If you are young and in good shape you can get back in there, but I'm just not up for 15 mile hike ins anymore. Especially if I have to hike back out with an animal on my back!

Did you fil the tag? I've always wondered how Spring Bear Tags work... I didn't know/pay attention to the fact that they were for special areas... guess i sjhould have known better...

There has to be a little pocket herd of Elk somewhere in that area... It boggles my mind, but there has to be...
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Turner89 on December 01, 2012, 01:20:08 PM: I've seen them within a 1/2 mile of the sky river as others have mentioned. i have heard stories of sightings farther north in the basin, but i havn't seen any sign of them in any of the places i hunt.
I spend all my time scouting & hunting in a 4 mile radius though also. It is frustrating that we don't have them in greater #s
Title: Re: ELK IN 448
Post by: Forrestrover.02 on December 04, 2012, 07:23:09 PM: We were talking to an indian woman up on Sulfur Creek Rd. a few years ago. She said that there is a herd around Sulfur Creek Rd. I've never seen any or any sign around there, myself.