Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on December 07, 2012, 11:05:45 PM
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One of my good friends drew a Muzzy Mudflow antlerless hunt, and was shut out in the early season. Couldn't find access. Everywhere he went the gates were closed and said no walk in.
Maybe he was looking in the wrong place but pretty sure he wasn't. I can't answer for sure as i wasn't with him. He called Oly today because i told him about the extensions in the other units. And they told him tough crap, there is some DNR land that was open. He asked where it was and the person on the phone couldn't answer him. He just wanted to know where he could have hunted.
Now i have never hunted the mudflow, so i don't know exactly where the DNR land is.
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If you look on the Go Hunt map, it looks like about 90% of the Mudflow unit is DNR. You would probably access it from the South Fork Toutle, the 4100 road, to the 4200, up to the 3000 line. That 3000 line is the southern boundary of the Mudflow, so anywhere on the north side of that road, and there should be no shortage of elk in that area. It's too bad he missed out on that hunt. All that DNR land was open and accessible.
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He told me he drove all over looking for access but every gate he came to was closed and said no walk in access. He is 69 years old and was going at it alone. I wish I could have helped him but I had just had the snip snip done the day prior and I was all hopped up on pain killers.
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Yeah, the only way in would have been the 4200, which is what Weyerhaeuser calls a "public access corridor" or something like that.
