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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: NOCK NOCK on July 14, 2015, 08:33:31 AM

Title: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: NOCK NOCK on July 14, 2015, 08:33:31 AM: Anybody ever hunt very obscure elk? I'm talking like places that elk are not normally known to be, might be 5 or less animals in the area.
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Post by: Killmore on July 14, 2015, 08:47:42 AM: Are they cows in the clockum unit...come November, mmmm
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Post by: Woodchuck on July 14, 2015, 08:59:02 AM: There are a couple of herds north of town out in the farm fields that I have chased a little bit. :dunno:
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Post by: Igor on July 14, 2015, 09:17:03 AM: Quote from: NOCK NOCK on July 14, 2015, 08:33:31 AM
Anybody ever hunt very obscure elk? I'm talking like places that elk are not normally known to be, might be 5 or less animals in the area.

We hunt the Chiwawa unit (245) when we draw a late deer tag. Quite often we run into elk hunters. We have been hunting that unit for 30+ years, and have never seen an elk, but have seen elk sign a couple of times. The WFDW harvest statistics show that a few elk are taken there, but the numbers are very low.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on July 14, 2015, 09:35:37 AM: Yes :peep: as a matter of fact just yesterday I found a nice heavy 6 pt shed that was two years old. I was on public land about a mile above a farmers land in the NE. I stopped by and offered to repair one of his pasture fences in exchange for some elk hunting this fall. He said I was welcome to hunt the property but there was no elk there and hadn't been in 20 years :chuckle:
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Post by: JimmyHoffa on July 14, 2015, 09:40:54 AM: Thought about it. Was driving to sequim once and there was a really nice 5 pt running through a field. Most of the elk never leave the elk area which is closed, but this bull was loose in the 624. Looked around the area a few more times that summer to see if he had a pattern, but never saw him again.
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Post by: MountainWalk on July 14, 2015, 10:07:15 AM: There are elk on the Coyle pen.. few elk round kala Pt outside of port Townsend. Know of a bull that lives behind Chimicum chevron. Three years ago seen a six Pt bull in a hay field off of center. They show up in the damndest places.
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Post by: Stein on July 14, 2015, 10:07:25 AM: I found a place that is probably 100 yards off the road in a tiny patch of state owned land. If you luck out, a ranch hunt nearby will push a small herd up and over a hill and they always cross this state land. They are so winded they stop right on the state land next to the road almost every time. A few people know about it and we set up a pumpkin patch ambush. Beauty is that antelope also cross it in the morning and evening about 4 days a week if I happen to draw that tag as well. The amount of bones on that land is pretty amazing.
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Post by: turbo on July 14, 2015, 10:22:54 AM: About 15 years ago I saw a small herd 0f about 8 cows north of Twisp on Finley MT. Couldn't believe my eyes.
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Post by: Curly on July 14, 2015, 10:45:42 AM: Anybody that hunts in the Blues is hunting obscure elk right?.......because all on this forum knows that there "are no elk in the blues". Right?
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: Woodchuck on July 14, 2015, 10:47:19 AM: Quote from: Curly on July 14, 2015, 10:45:42 AM
Anybody that hunts in the Blues is hunting obscure elk right?.......because all on this forum knows that there "are no elk in the blues". Right?
:yeah: Sing it brother.
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Post by: Jonathan_S on July 14, 2015, 10:55:09 AM: I saw some elk in 328 one time. Pretty strange
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on July 14, 2015, 12:32:16 PM: We used to hunt an area that held a small amount of elk(had very good success there) but things/seasons/boundarys have changed and it's no longer the honey hole it used to be. I have known of another area that holds very few elk, and although they have been in there for years, I have only seen 2 in the past 30 years.
I have never tried to hunt it and doubt anyone else has so I may give it a day or two this year to see. With the later season, they may be more responsive to some calling. :dunno:
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Post by: metlhead on July 14, 2015, 02:44:28 PM: South end of Olympia airport before that spa depot and state building went in. Used to hunt Maytown also. Gotta figure out how to get in on the old Evergreen dairy/delphi herd now. They do show up in the strangest places. The big C island downriver from Woodland had a herd this winter.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: NOCK NOCK on July 14, 2015, 02:52:05 PM: Quote from: Killmore on July 14, 2015, 08:47:42 AM
Are they cows in the clockum unit...come November, mmmm

So True Mike
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Post by: deerhuntr4885 on July 14, 2015, 09:22:07 PM: "Any elk"unit. Mid November.
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on July 15, 2015, 04:13:52 AM: Nice :tup:
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Post by: RadSav on July 15, 2015, 04:18:30 AM: Does a golf course count? Four!!! :chuckle:

Shot one with a fish arrow about 80 miles off the mouth of the Columbia! Of course he was floating and not swimming, Doh! :o
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Post by: huntingaddiction on July 15, 2015, 05:59:42 AM: Yep no elk in the blues!!!!(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F15%2F07%2F15%2Ff514e69082726206a382e7c075c51663.jpg&hash=c011f7891d95f993e87d99d73f4ad5f42c9c90e8)
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: idaho guy on July 15, 2015, 05:29:06 PM: I have archery hunted elk in some really weird places where elk shouldnt be and have had luck calling them in -last year had a small bull come in about 100 yards from the highway on a tiny peice of public ground. If you seen it you would swear elk would never step foot on it.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: Curly on July 15, 2015, 06:14:03 PM: Quote from: huntingaddiction on July 15, 2015, 05:59:42 AM
Yep no elk in the blues!!!!

Must be photoshopped......right Woodblock?
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Post by: 2labs on July 15, 2015, 06:20:40 PM: Issaquah unit! More than you might think.
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Post by: Mudman on July 15, 2015, 06:21:21 PM: Yup, Pe ell. Seen 1 bull one time!!!
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Post by: kball4 on July 16, 2015, 05:38:19 AM: Stokes auction in Port Orchard had a bull on there property some years ago, along with Vashon Island 1 or 2 years ago.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: huntingaddiction on July 16, 2015, 06:32:35 AM: Quote from: Curly on July 15, 2015, 06:14:03 PM
Quote from: huntingaddiction on July 15, 2015, 05:59:42 AM
Yep no elk in the blues!!!!

Must be photoshopped......right Woodblock?
Photoshopped for sure! Lol
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: Pueblo on July 16, 2015, 07:25:33 AM: Not Washington but in the mid-ninties I was unemployed for a month and had time to spend at the library..internet was not what it is today....I read the full report on every wilderness study area in Oregon. They will discuss wildlife usage etc. and list off their estimates for population (Approximately 250 Mule Deer summer in the area, and about 25 elk also use it for summer habitat...) So I found a little mountain, more like a mound out in SE Oregon surrounded by flat desert and canyons that had some elk present. I pulled a muzzy tag which was a 75% chance of drawing. The access to the area was blocked by a ranch but a jeep trail skirted their fence back to public land and I got in there and took a raghorn bull. The next year I had a cow rifle tag and took a nice cow the first day. I heard one other shot during the cow hunt. In both cases I'm convinced that the only one hunting them was the rancher.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: zike on July 16, 2015, 09:22:09 AM: Quote from: huntingaddiction on July 15, 2015, 05:59:42 AM
Yep no elk in the blues!!!!(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F15%2F07%2F15%2Ff514e69082726206a382e7c075c51663.jpg&hash=c011f7891d95f993e87d99d73f4ad5f42c9c90e8)

I'd guess its not exactly the Blues, more likely posted private land. I wonder what the success rate is for the Blues. Sure don't see many hanging during season.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: huntingaddiction on July 16, 2015, 01:54:56 PM: Quote from: zike on July 16, 2015, 09:22:09 AM
Quote from: huntingaddiction on July 15, 2015, 05:59:42 AM
Yep no elk in the blues!!!!(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.tapatalk-cdn.com%2F15%2F07%2F15%2Ff514e69082726206a382e7c075c51663.jpg&hash=c011f7891d95f993e87d99d73f4ad5f42c9c90e8)

I'd guess its not exactly the Blues, more likely posted private land. I wonder what the success rate is for the Blues. Sure don't see many hanging during season.
I grew up there...may have some access to lands others dont!
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: D-Rock425 on July 16, 2015, 02:51:06 PM: I know a guy that knows a guy who's brother said might know a guy that has some land in the blues. I'll post info later everyone should plan on hunting there.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: huntingaddiction on July 16, 2015, 02:54:31 PM: D-rock you are a troll! Lol
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: Woodchuck on July 16, 2015, 03:01:22 PM: Quote from: D-Rock425 on July 16, 2015, 02:51:06 PM
I know a guy that knows a guy who's brother said might know a guy that has some land in the blues. I'll post info later everyone should plan on hunting there.
Wow, that is pretty obscure. Carry on.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: D-Rock425 on July 16, 2015, 03:17:17 PM: Quote from: huntingaddiction on July 16, 2015, 02:54:31 PM
D-rock you are a troll! Lol
more of a hobbit.
Title: Re: Obscure Elk Hunting ?
Post by: NOCK NOCK on July 16, 2015, 03:28:44 PM: :chuckle: