Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: kkc66 on July 07, 2009, 10:48:51 PM
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I got drawn for a tag this year any buddy ever hunt this unit are have any info :)
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Walk in, get away from the gates. Use a bike. I hunted Margaret bow many years ago and ran into all of the other drawees. Had a blast, 13 legal bulls less than 100 yards the day I got mine at 16. Get out and scout, they don't get disturbed much so stay pretty close to where they are comfortable.
Have FUN!
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so are you looking for a guide? and if so what are u willing to pay?
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i sent you a pm message
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i will be gone all weekend. i will get to you soon
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Unless you've never elk hunted before, you don't need a guide..... Save your money for some sausage processing! Or a rented pack horse to haul it out. Them hills are crawling with elk. Opening morning on my hunt, I passed a 4X4 at 20 yards just feeding in a little meadow off the side of the road.
Sorry to step on someone trying to make a buck but... :twocents:
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I got a margret tag 12 years ago, before Weyco locked it up. Master hunter tag with a bow, nice 7x7 P&Y 286 5/8 grossed 308. Might want to go in off the Windy ridge to Ryan lake road and hunt the standing timber by Black mtn. I seen game trails in there you could drive a F350 on. I was hunting the top of miners creek and chased about seventy head with a big 7x7 over there but it was to far to hunt day hunts, hunt with your camp on your back. Or take a row boat to the far end of Coldwater Lake and hunt up there, a guy at work a few years back did that and got a nice 6x6. This year I drew a Upper Smith Creek any elk archery tag :IBCOOL:. Good luck and hopefully Weyco will open the roads so you can get in to the good stuff. I ended up killing my bull over the ridge from the Coldwater visitor center. You can walk your bike into that area real easy.
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Just a quick note about hunting up the end of Coldwater Lake. You may want to do some careful map study before going in there. I still have the WDFW map from last years hunt. Not all of the area off the end of that lake is open. There is a inlet creek that you follow to a FS trail that then goes NE. So basically a good chunk of that nice ground in the bottom is not open to hunt. If you look at a satellite shot of the bottom, you'll see the creek hangs to the left side. It may have been open in the past, but per the definition I received last year a good portion of it was not open.
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I got a margret tag 12 years ago, before Weyco locked it up. Master hunter tag with a bow, nice 7x7 P&Y 286 5/8 grossed 308. Might want to go in off the Windy ridge to Ryan lake road and hunt the standing timber by Black mtn. I seen game trails in there you could drive a F350 on. I was hunting the top of miners creek and chased about seventy head with a big 7x7 over there but it was to far to hunt day hunts, hunt with your camp on your back. Or take a row boat to the far end of Coldwater Lake and hunt up there, a guy at work a few years back did that and got a nice 6x6. This year I drew a Upper Smith Creek any elk archery tag :IBCOOL:. Good luck and hopefully Weyco will open the roads so you can get in to the good stuff. I ended up killing my bull over the ridge from the Coldwater visitor center. You can walk your bike into that area real easy.
Sounds like you had a good hunt... Do you have any pics of your 7x7?
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Ya lets see some pics of that bad boy!
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Ya lets see some pics of that bad boy!
:yeah:
