Post by: Bow tech hunter on September 12, 2015, 07:09:11 AM
Post by: PolarBear on September 12, 2015, 07:58:01 AM
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Post by: kirkl on September 12, 2015, 08:13:33 AM
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Post by: Bow tech hunter on September 12, 2015, 09:07:11 PM
Dad's from this morning. Picked her out of a harem that he was literally in the middle of them. None of them spooked. We heard the herd bull but never saw him.
Nice job to ur dad that will be great eating there
Post by: Fish2xs on September 12, 2015, 09:42:31 PM
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Post by: Jellymon on September 19, 2015, 08:20:56 PM
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Post by: Pete112288 on September 19, 2015, 08:22:10 PM
Post by: PolarBear on September 19, 2015, 09:08:44 PM
Great looking cows, guys! (Your's looks good too, PolarBear) :tup:Thanks, she is at the Pulalup Fair right now with my kids. :chuckle: In all seriousness, I'm hoping my daughter will have a pic to put on this or the 2015 bull thread as soon as muzzy elk starts.
Post by: shootnrun on September 22, 2015, 08:31:42 PM
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Post by: Chukarhead on October 17, 2015, 09:19:06 AM
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Post by: Shooting Stix on October 17, 2015, 10:33:59 AM
Opening morning at 9:30. My go pro camera battery died a few minutes before I got my shot off. :bash:
That cow looks huge
Post by: Shooting Stix on October 17, 2015, 10:36:00 AM
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Post by: huntingbaldguy on November 05, 2015, 02:11:38 AM
Post by: SniperDanWA on November 05, 2015, 07:29:58 AM
Good job all. Hope to have a pic to add in late archery.
Agree, great job guys, but I hope I can add one between now and Sunday eve.
Post by: Muleyslyr on November 05, 2015, 08:54:29 PM
Post by: huntingbaldguy on November 06, 2015, 01:20:52 AM
Sniper..never did figure out how to post a pic off my iPad. I got a cow pic to add from archery season but don't know how. Can you help a brotha out?
There's a couple options. You can either use img tags like this [ img ] [ /img ] (without spaces) and put the image url in between them from a host such as imgur or photobucket, or the other option is uploading as an attachment. It's below the text box in the full editor. "+ Attachments and other options"
Post by: hunterofelk on November 07, 2015, 07:01:12 AM
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Post by: SniperDanWA on November 07, 2015, 02:46:19 PM
Sniper..never did figure out how to post a pic off my iPad. I got a cow pic to add from archery season but don't know how. Can you help a brotha out?
The forum requires a pic format not supported by the camera; however, just pull up the pic in your photos and screenshot it. Press quickly on power button and navigation button. The screenshot is supported.
Post by: SniperDanWA on November 07, 2015, 03:30:01 PM
I was in nice looking cows on Saturday (5), Sunday (9), Monday (2), and Tuesday (1). One cow and I stared at each other for 10 minutes before she pranced off. One cow barked 5 times so loud, I thought my ears were going to pop. I was only 30 yards from her. I could have had great shots every day, except my tag wasn't valid until Wednesday. I saw a nice bull, a Billy goat and his mate on the East face of Goose Prairie rock outcropping, and a heck of a lot of miles. In the eight days I was out, I put on almost 80 miles. There is a lot of great hunting ground in Bumping and I only saw a fraction of it. Found multiple kill sites, from other hunters and a nice lower jaw from a herd bull someone got and was planning for a euro mount. I'm bummed - skunked for the season. My boy was rear ended in August while driving to work. He still can't turn his head much. That hurt as I expected to spend time together on this hunt. It's hard to work the area by yourself and feel you did it justice.
Wednesday morning there was a hard frost, everything was crunchy or frozen. I bumped a cow at near 50 yards. I wasn't prepared and I blew an opportunity - that stunk. It was like being in a Looney Tunes cartoon. She was spinning around and running in mid air, all while I'm trying to get my gun ready and leveled for a shot. I felt like Wylie Coyote and she was the roadrunner.
Thursday, it rained like crazy. I had two cows across a ravine at what I thought was 300 yards. Turned out I underestimated the distance at over 400 yards and I undershot. I didn't know at the time, so I decided to go check and as I climbed the hill she was on, she climbed the hill I came from. Dang animals. I should have just waited.
Friday, I bumped three cows in the dark thick trees with no visible way to shoot. Sounds like a freight train the woods sometimes. Can see a blur of brown, branches cracking, and rustling trees, but no visible sign of the creature.
Today, I was skunked. As soft as the ground was and wet, it was optimal for walking through the woods. I put in about 4 miles of great terrain. Perfect tracks, sign, but no animals anywhere.
Every time I got busted from Wednesday on, it was my movement that did me in. I just can't believe I'm done. Wife's birthday, so I came home to take her and the kids out. Good luck to you still out there.
Post by: 3006hunter on November 07, 2015, 06:37:03 PM
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Post by: Da stump on November 11, 2015, 03:58:47 PM
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Post by: dadeo316 on November 11, 2015, 05:53:30 PM
None for me this year. Drew Washougal but couldn't find them :'(Where did you look?
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Post by: bowguy on November 14, 2015, 09:32:15 PM
When you guys say 1.5 mile drag out are you doing this whole? Sounds like way too much work.
Yeah elkrunner we did with this cow. Got her in a burn scar so didn't want to gut her and drag getting meat dirty. Wasn't to bad mostly down and across a flat.
Post by: Elkrunner on November 16, 2015, 08:59:02 AM
When you guys say 1.5 mile drag out are you doing this whole? Sounds like way too much work.
Yeah elkrunner we did with this cow. Got her in a burn scar so didn't want to gut her and drag getting meat dirty. Wasn't to bad mostly down and across a flat.
Sounds like you guys need to start quartering them out.
Post by: bobcat on November 16, 2015, 09:09:02 AM
When you guys say 1.5 mile drag out are you doing this whole? Sounds like way too much work.
Yeah elkrunner we did with this cow. Got her in a burn scar so didn't want to gut her and drag getting meat dirty. Wasn't to bad mostly down and across a flat.
1 1/2 mile drag? A full size cow elk? :yike:
I wouldn't drag a deer even half that far. Man! How was your back after that? :o
Post by: Rainier10 on November 16, 2015, 09:50:05 AM
Awesome day for sure.
Favorite quote so far, "these are a lot bigger than deer." :chuckle:
Post by: jbeaumont21 on November 16, 2015, 12:30:09 PM
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Post by: dadeo316 on November 16, 2015, 01:37:39 PM
Sorry I'm a little late to post this, first time I saw that there was a cow thread which is awesome by the way. Why should it just always be about horn porn right?? ML Ryderwood cow special permit tag. She has been delicious!How was ryderwood this year? Plenty of elk? Last time I hunted ryderwood was when I was 15 with a youth doe tag. Saw quite a few elk back then.
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Post by: jbeaumont21 on November 16, 2015, 02:47:54 PM
Nice Shot jbeaumont21!
Thank you! She only ran about 20 yards before she piled up nice and close to a logging road. Love it when it happens like that ;)
Post by: jbeaumont21 on November 16, 2015, 03:03:33 PM
Sorry I'm a little late to post this, first time I saw that there was a cow thread which is awesome by the way. Why should it just always be about horn porn right?? ML Ryderwood cow special permit tag. She has been delicious!How was ryderwood this year? Plenty of elk? Last time I hunted ryderwood was when I was 15 with a youth doe tag. Saw quite a few elk back then.
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Ryderwood seemed busier with hunters this year than in the past. I've been hunting that unit for the past 7 years, biking in on the Sierra Pacific land and this year I ran into hunters around every corner. I was hoping with all the extra units open this year that there would be less people in Ryderwood. Guess everyone else had the same idea lol. A couple of times I ran into hunters down on spur roads at first light that I know did not bike or hike in the same way I did. They had to have come up from the bottom. I think SP still has a problem with people on quads sneaking in through the creek bottoms. Gets pretty frustrating for those of us who work hard to get back in there.
As far as elk they seemed pretty sparse this year. I saw a number of bulls early on while bear hunting but I think the bow hunters thinned most of them out. Out of our party of 4 we got 1 bull and my cow. One of our guys clean missed a bull at 80 yards otherwise would have had another. I didn't get my cow until the second to last day of season. Just happy to have gotten my meat since us muzzle loaders no longer have a late season in the Coweeman.
Post by: 12Gauge on November 17, 2015, 07:07:19 PM
Post by: bowguy on November 17, 2015, 09:19:11 PM
When you guys say 1.5 mile drag out are you doing this whole? Sounds like way too much work.
Yeah elkrunner we did with this cow. Got her in a burn scar so didn't want to gut her and drag getting meat dirty. Wasn't to bad mostly down and across a flat.
1 1/2 mile drag? A full size cow elk? :yike:
I wouldn't drag a deer even half that far. Man! How was your back after that? :o
She was about a 2 year old cow, backs were fine more sore in arms from holding log up to drag. Adrenaline was pumping for sure through all us guys being it was my first.
Post by: KillerBeee on November 18, 2015, 03:02:59 PM
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No field pics but got this Rimrock cow on Friday of general season. I crested a jeep trail coming out of the timber and sat against a tree to listen for a bit. She trotted through some windows and I couldn't get on her. Thinking she was gone, I stayed put and in a few seconds she appeared coming towards me at about 75 yards. She stopped full frontal, then continued towards me. I waited til she quartered to and let one rip. Tikka 300WSM with 180 gr. Barnes TSX. No follow up shot required. No loss or damage of meat. She ran past at 25 yards and crashed through some trees and crashed 75 yards down hill breaking her lower jaw when she face planted.
Another camp left the Jack-o-lantern and we rescued it. Pretty cool carving....
Things were pretty slow for us in that unit. I did see a nice 6x6 one evening and saw elk every day but not a single spike for 6 of us. My buddies wife did get a great 5x5 on opening day of the bull tag.
Still a great time to be in the woods with a great crew of friends.
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My late archery cow, and my nephews first elk taken during the youth rifle cow season
Both elk were taken less then a mile apart, and only two weeks between them
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