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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Rem700LR on November 05, 2024, 08:39:32 AM

Title: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Rem700LR on November 05, 2024, 08:39:32 AM: Anyone with the Pe Ell North permit having a hard time coming across elk in this area? Specifically modern firearm season.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Macs B on November 05, 2024, 10:44:30 AM: Most of the Elk in PeEl North and south migrate out of there about a week before season opens. I've got a farm in Centralia and they move across my back hill steady for a week or more.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Edminsterquality on November 05, 2024, 07:12:12 PM: Permit holder hete. Stay way west in the unit. More elk there. They love the reprod.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: fowl smacker on November 05, 2024, 08:12:47 PM: I had the walk in for there last yr and elk hunting was bad. 1st yr I had it and I didn't bother this yr. Hope you find one!
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Ingwe on November 05, 2024, 09:22:06 PM: Locals know where the elk are
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: fowl smacker on November 05, 2024, 09:35:42 PM: Quote from: Ingwe on November 05, 2024, 09:22:06 PM
Locals know where the elk are
Ya, they're on the locals property
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Martinhunter on November 07, 2024, 08:00:14 PM: Quote from: Macs B on November 05, 2024, 10:44:30 AM
Most of the Elk in PeEl North and south migrate out of there about a week before season opens. I've got a farm in Centralia and they move across my back hill steady for a week or more.
No not true, the elk up there don't migrate. Their up there all year long. No reason for those elk to migrate.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Rem700LR on November 07, 2024, 08:22:47 PM: Not many are being killed or seen from people I have talked too.

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Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Tinmaniac on November 07, 2024, 09:51:26 PM: Hoof rot has decimated those herds.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: HntnFsh on November 08, 2024, 05:07:22 AM: Quote from: Martinhunter on November 07, 2024, 08:00:14 PM
Quote from: Macs B on November 05, 2024, 10:44:30 AM
Most of the Elk in PeEl North and south migrate out of there about a week before season opens. I've got a farm in Centralia and they move across my back hill steady for a week or more.
No not true, the elk up there don't migrate. Their up there all year long. No reason for those elk to migrate.
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Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Cspahman99 on November 08, 2024, 08:33:22 AM: I have hunted an adjacent unit to the PE Ell South for years and I've glassed legal bulls every year in there during rifle, they're in there.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: 300winmag on November 25, 2024, 07:47:59 PM: Hoof rot has wiped out the area
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: howlow on December 05, 2024, 04:21:06 PM: Hoof rot is sad to watch in theses elk, Seems like no one looks at the connection between moo cows and elk hoof rot. cows get from to much nitrogen in the pastures sounds like it softens up the hoof and the bacteria grows and eventually crimpling them. I see the forest companies put down fertilizer and is this same reason the elk get hoof rot?
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: Nmarth88 on December 13, 2024, 09:46:48 AM: The elk are in there. Co worker of mine lives locally and is successful more often then not in there.
Title: Re: Pe Ell North Elk Hunting
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on December 14, 2024, 12:42:13 PM: They don't migrate in the typical sense, but they certainly change high use areas and patterns throughout the year.

Hoof rot has impacted nearly every westside elk unit in the state. In 501 specifically however, I believe a much bigger factor is the amount of logging that has taken place in the last 15 years. ALOT of state land has been logged in country that historically provided much needed protective cover, couple that with an antlerless gun season and its a big impact. I know of several big clearcut shoot outs that put a whooping on them.