Post by: adictd2hunting on October 11, 2013, 02:49:12 PM
If had to chose id say Twisp. It crazy the amount of people that pile into that town.
Post by: jackmaster on October 11, 2013, 02:50:52 PM
Post by: Jonathan_S on October 11, 2013, 02:56:23 PM
Winston, Any 300 GMU, 101, 204
Post by: baker5150 on October 11, 2013, 02:57:23 PM
Post by: Southpole on October 11, 2013, 03:00:53 PM
Swanson Lake Wildlife Area, it gets pounded hard by road hunters.I'll second the GMU 101, just awful the first week :(
Winston, Any 300 GMU, 101, 204
Post by: Jonathan_S on October 11, 2013, 03:08:47 PM
Swanson Lake Wildlife Area, it gets pounded hard by road hunters.I'll second the GMU 101, just awful the first week :(
Winston, Any 300 GMU, 101, 204
Yeah it's a zoo and it's the worst when you're behind someone road hunting and all you want to do is get up the road three miles :chuckle:
Crazy how much it cools off late in the season though. I was up there with my Dad last year while he was hunting and there was hardly anyone hunting / camping in some prime areas. Even with the youth and senior hunts.
Post by: vandeman17 on October 11, 2013, 03:11:06 PM
Post by: jrebel on October 11, 2013, 03:31:13 PM
Post by: PlateauNDN on October 11, 2013, 04:06:45 PM
Post by: Craig on October 11, 2013, 04:19:13 PM
Post by: n2thecraft on October 11, 2013, 04:36:35 PM
Sumas Mountain
Uh Oh,, :bash: was thinking about going there myself.
Post by: adictd2hunting on October 11, 2013, 04:58:15 PM
*Emergency Notice* all rifle hunters please vacate the following units due to unkown outbreak-umtanum, manastash, lil naches! that will be all, thank you. :dunno: :chuckle:
My buddy heard the samething about the puyallup and mashel units also. Weird must be true if more then one preson heard about it. :chuckle:
Post by: Jrod79 on October 11, 2013, 05:23:31 PM
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on October 11, 2013, 05:27:26 PM
Post by: grundy53 on October 11, 2013, 05:32:48 PM
sent from my typewriter
Post by: CplRaines on October 11, 2013, 06:26:55 PM
All the squids come over from Kitsap and the place get's overrun. ;)
Post by: PlateauNDN on October 11, 2013, 06:35:29 PM
*Emergency Notice* all rifle hunters please vacate the following units due to unkown outbreak-umtanum, manastash, lil naches! that will be all, thank you. :dunno: :chuckle:
My buddy heard the samething about the puyallup and mashel units also. Weird must be true if more then one preson heard about it. :chuckle:
I heard it on the internet and I also heard you can't put stuff on the internet that's not true. :dunno:
Post by: Jellymon on October 11, 2013, 06:51:20 PM
Post by: whackmaster on October 11, 2013, 06:52:28 PM
Any rifle GMU with a road system. Duh :IBCOOL:you got that right :tup:
Post by: Tonasketstickflinger on October 11, 2013, 07:09:21 PM
Post by: DoubleJ on October 11, 2013, 07:42:52 PM
Post by: Paulh on October 11, 2013, 07:48:26 PM
Shelton. Hell, I saw half of town in Wal Mart buying hunting stuff this evening and the other half were only there to buy a new rifle.
Great hopefully they will be heading where I'm not. :chuckle:
Post by: Axle on October 11, 2013, 08:02:58 PM
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Post by: dscubame on October 11, 2013, 09:28:45 PM
Post by: HoofsandWings on October 12, 2013, 06:20:44 AM
Very few drove by the camp.
I bagged a deer most years.
Post by: lokidog on October 12, 2013, 06:46:11 AM
Five minutes and counting, but it's too dark to see anything in my driveway yet. :chuckle:
Post by: Mudman on October 12, 2013, 08:45:52 AM
Post by: threedwizard on October 12, 2013, 08:53:26 AM
Post by: baker5150 on October 12, 2013, 08:55:38 AM
Sumas Mountain
Uh Oh,, :bash: was thinking about going there myself.
I know a guy who road hunts Sumas mountain whose color blind. No joke! His wife won't let him hunt alone so he has someone to point out the orange for him. Beware of the blue Chevy suburban.
Post by: Goshawk on October 12, 2013, 10:55:58 AM
It looked like a traffic jam with trucks and trailers last night!
Post by: Buckslaya on October 12, 2013, 06:32:05 PM
Okay update. The observatory rd is the worst place. Damn near 50 rigs. Someone got a nice buck though.
What? A nice buck was taken?? O.K. I'm on my way!!
Post by: n2thecraft on October 12, 2013, 08:23:54 PM
Sumas Mountain
Uh Oh,, :bash: was thinking about going there myself.
I know a guy who road hunts Sumas mountain whose color blind. No joke! His wife won't let him hunt alone so he has someone to point out the orange for him. Beware of the blue Chevy suburban.
I didn't go up there this morning,, went someplace else. I passed a few hunters/trucks, but not as many as I woulda thought. Funny thing,, when I was coming off the mountain to drop off the cowbell I brought with me, I passed a convoy of shiny Honda cars heading up the mountain,, nine in a line heading up there. Wonder what they were up to?
Post by: Dslayer on October 13, 2013, 05:46:06 AM
Okay update. The observatory rd is the worst place. Damn near 50 rigs. Someone got a nice buck though.
Yeah, I was there sort of. I camped on Umptanum Ridge in a brush pile so I could be out there in them at daybreak and the push began. I love to hunt the desert and when I've had success that's what I do, cold camp, but it has become a circus at least numbers wise. I think the number of hunters and the number of deer I saw were about equal, 30 plus, no legal bucks other than the one that some fellas on horseback shot one canyon over from where I was-I was headed for that spot and they got there about 15 minutes before I would have crossed over and dropped into that spot. I could see the Observatory Road parking lot from where I was, pretty amazing.
Post by: eburgtrapper on October 13, 2013, 05:57:35 AM
Post by: Jingles on October 13, 2013, 06:41:56 AM
Post by: WildlifeAssassin on October 13, 2013, 07:54:10 AM
ellensburg area was horrible. The reecer creek was over loaded. no wonder the success rate in this area is under 8%
I have watched the mile long line of rigs headed into the woods opening morning on Reccer, how can anyone enjoy hunting like that?
Post by: KFhunter on October 13, 2013, 08:50:45 AM
anywhere in the middle of a pumpkin patch
Post by: Hilltop123 on October 13, 2013, 09:15:07 AM
Okay update. The observatory rd is the worst place. Damn near 50 rigs. Someone got a nice buck though.
I gotta start dropping tree's at the lake and blow up the bridge at the canal crossing outa E-burg............then things should get quiet up here...
Post by: Axle on October 13, 2013, 11:01:20 AM
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Worst places to deer hunt this weekend
anywhere in the middle of a pumpkin patch
I watched a dandy 4 point buck escape a pumpkin patch in the Taneum many years ago. I heard a massive amount of shooting going on so I crested the hill to see what the commotion was all about on the other side. In the middle of the ravine was a nice 4 point slowly moving to the rim. Surrounding him was about one dozen hunters with buck fever. I don't know how many shots were fired at the buck but everyone seemed to empty their rifles more than twice. When the buck was cresting the hill, I assumed everyone was out of ammo because he passed only a few yards from several hunters and none of the fired a shot at that time. Everyone was under 200 yards from this nice buck too. I was probably no more than 250 yards and though I wanted to shoot it (and I knew I could hit it) I figured if I did, there would be 3 or more tags punched by the time I could get to it so I held back and just watched.
Funny thing is - not one of the hunters that shot at it followed it to see if there was a blood trail. They all went in opposite directions of the buck. I crossed over and followed the tracks for a few hundred yards and figured it had not been hit.
All told - I guessed well-over 100 shots were fired at the buck. It was his day to live.
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on October 13, 2013, 12:01:28 PM
Post by: Mongo Hunter on October 14, 2013, 09:47:16 AM