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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Ghost Hunter on August 06, 2009, 10:19:45 PM

Title: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Ghost Hunter on August 06, 2009, 10:19:45 PM: Scouting this weekend. Is a lot of this unit shut down for access? Planning on focusing most of my muzzleloader time in this unit.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: bobcat on August 06, 2009, 10:22:19 PM: I would assume that the majority of it is closed to public access. At least the Weyerhaeuser ground is. Try calling the Weyerhaeuser access hotline. The number is listed in the hunting regs or on Weyerhaeuser maps if you have one.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Turkeyman on August 06, 2009, 10:22:45 PM: Shut down for fire danger.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: coldsteel3d on August 06, 2009, 10:37:47 PM: It'll be open by the muzzle season for sure, you just won't be able to scout much :'(
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Post by: letmhunt on August 06, 2009, 10:56:14 PM: you shouldnt scout during archery season anyway. :bash:
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Ghost Hunter on August 07, 2009, 07:01:19 AM: Quote from: letmhunt on August 06, 2009, 10:56:14 PM
you shouldnt scout during archery season anyway. :bash:
:cryriver:
Didn't realize archery was open on the west side in August :dunno: Guess I need to pay more attention ;) But then with a multi-season tag, do I have a free pass :rolleyes: Guess I shouldn't be bear hunting during archery too :dunno: I'll try not to mess up your hunt or anyone elses :brew:
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: bobcat on August 07, 2009, 10:32:41 AM: I scout whenever I have time, which lately isn't very often at all. But if it happens to be during some other season that I don't have a license/tag for, oh well. Not my problem. A guy has just as much right to be out there scouting as another guy does to be out there hunting. I don't recall anytime that me being out there scouting has had any affect on anybody's hunt anyway.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: SkookumHntr on August 07, 2009, 10:49:06 AM: Quote from: letmhunt on August 06, 2009, 10:56:14 PM
you shouldn't scout during archery season anyway. :bash:
--If anybody told me that I would probably punch him in the face! >:(
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Crunchy on August 07, 2009, 11:06:29 AM: Ya no S__T. I dont rifle hunt but if you did, you'd have to wait for the archers, and smoke polers to finish before you scouted and that aint no good.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: bucklucky on August 07, 2009, 12:31:24 PM: Thats funny. You guys cant scout during archery season :chuckle:

I got my ass chewed out up st helens one time for screwing up a guys bull hunt during archery season. Hell, I was on a damn road watching these elk in Loo-Wit none the less, they finally moved off and here comes a guy in a suburbon. Comes halling ass down the road by Ted Gilbert , we were on out quads.

"You guys just screwed up my hunt, what the hell are you doing in here if your not hunting! You *censored*s! I just had a bull within 50 tyards and you scred him off!"

My uncle and I say" Dude, you were hunting in Loo-wit you dip stick! "

Pissed off hunter " Bull s!@t ! I know the boundry for Margret" ......as we pulled out the regs and showed him he was in Loo-wit :chuckle: He got in his rig and left. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: bowelkaholic on August 07, 2009, 02:56:57 PM: NO ALL BE HUNTING TO WITH MY MULTI SEASON TAGS FIND STATE LAND THEY ARE ALLWAYS THE LAST TO LOCK THER LAND UP GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: grousetracker on August 08, 2009, 12:10:34 PM: if someone told me i couldnt scout during a certain time i would laugh and scout even harder. if i scare someones game they were hunting rite then , i would feel bad and leave but not because i might scare there animal they hunt next month or week.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: littlebuf on August 08, 2009, 12:14:49 PM: Quote from: letmhunt on August 06, 2009, 10:56:14 PM
you shouldnt scout during archery season anyway. :bash:

i wont be scouting, ill be out there with my fox pro cranked all the way up calling bears. hows that
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Dmanmastertracker on August 08, 2009, 12:21:07 PM: Quote from: letmhunt on August 06, 2009, 10:56:14 PM
you shouldnt scout during archery season anyway. :bash:

I disagree, but I think the scouting should be done in a manner careful not to interfere with anyone's archery hunt. Driving driveable roads should not interfere, I've never hear of archery road hunting. As long as the person scouting is not pushing animals out on foot, just glassing from a good distance they are OK.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: PolarBear on August 08, 2009, 12:27:21 PM: You are right D- about scouting from the road. I don't know very many archery road hunters, at least no consistently successful ones.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: littlebuf on August 08, 2009, 12:27:37 PM: your "ok" to do what ever the hell you want in the woods, regardless of the season
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: Ghost Hunter on August 09, 2009, 04:43:11 PM: Well I made it in some of the south 1/2 this weekend. Did manage to spot one elk. Looks like a good area for muzzleloader. Any archery hunters interested I could give coordinates :chuckle: Didn't see any signs saying closed. Did see a couple other vehicles, and a couple of camps. Interesting they haven't done flood damage repairs on county roads.
Title: Re: Ryderwood access?
Post by: dawei on August 11, 2009, 06:07:59 PM: Many years ago I was grouse hunting, walking walking down a logging road. I had a bow hunter come out of the woods about 10yds in front of me. He proceeded to tell me I had to turn around as he was deer hunting. I told him had I known he was hunting the area, I would have chosen another road. As I didn't know however, I informed him he was interrupting my grouse hunt. Long story short - a SxS shotgun & 357 Magnum trumps a Bow & Arrow. He left and I continued grouse hunting. (Not trying to be a jerk, or a smarta$$ - just relaying a true story & outcome.)