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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 09:31:17 AM

Title: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 09:31:17 AM: Please vote for your favorite westen wa OTC elk hunt.
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 09:49:46 AM: Im guessing that this is going to be a pretty even poll.. lots of good spots out there :dunno:
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Post by: bobcat on August 24, 2009, 10:05:21 AM: You want us to vote for the best, or our favorite? They're not necessarily the same.
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:18:22 AM: Favorite.
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Post by: jackelope on August 24, 2009, 10:23:29 AM: I voted for the one and only unit i have hunted in on the wet side.
:dunno:
its my favorite.
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:24:14 AM: Good.
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Post by: bullchaser on August 24, 2009, 10:42:14 AM: White rvr is not otc
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:42:50 AM: My bad Ill take it down. Can one of the mods fix it I dont know how?
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Post by: bucklucky on August 24, 2009, 10:45:28 AM: They all SUCK ;)
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:46:39 AM: I think the west side is underrated. :chuckle:
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Post by: bucklucky on August 24, 2009, 10:47:52 AM: Quote from: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:46:39 AM
I think the west side is underrated. :chuckle:

:liar: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 10:51:08 AM: :chuckle:
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Post by: matlockmike on August 24, 2009, 12:08:29 PM: I voted Winston just because of the numbers. I don't know who voted Satsop??? I live in that unit, wouldn't be in my top ten. :dunno:
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: letmhunt on August 24, 2009, 12:39:23 PM: They all SUCK

:yeah: :lol4: :tdown:
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Post by: bucklucky on August 24, 2009, 01:13:54 PM: I voted for capitol forest :chuckle:
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Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 01:14:16 PM: I bet there are more 300" bulls killed in western archery than eastern archery every season..
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Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on August 24, 2009, 01:16:48 PM: Quote from: bucklucky on August 24, 2009, 10:45:28 AM
They all SUCK ;)

Your just mad cause you have an eastside sucky tag :chuckle:
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 01:18:53 PM: Whats the biggest bull you have seen out by you?
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Post by: bucklucky on August 24, 2009, 01:21:35 PM: Quote from: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 01:18:53 PM
Whats the biggest bull you have seen out by you?

dead or alive?? 315
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: letmhunt on August 24, 2009, 02:27:21 PM: alot of bulls on west side yes, but majority of them are tiny! when i mean tiny im saying 5point or smaller. only maybe 2 units that have good quality elk and bulls. But there is alot of elk here on the west side ive hunted just about every good unit along with everybody and there brother, dad, sister, mom, cousin, uncle, grandfather, who else in the woods??? :P
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: bow4elk on August 24, 2009, 02:48:31 PM: I think mature elk find ways to disappear in any unit. They are where you find them, if you work hard enough to dive into nooks and crannies nobody else is willing to, or has simply overlooked. Every unit has a pile of 3, 4, and *censored* 5's running around. Just consider for every one of them that doesn't get killed is now into his 3rd season, then 4th...and soon you have a smart mature bull.

That being said, the first raghorn inside 30 gets an arrow in the ribs!
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 06:07:33 PM: There is one unit that doesn't have any votes and i gotta say im surprised. :dunno:
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Post by: littlebuf on August 24, 2009, 06:17:00 PM: ive seen bulls in the mashel that would go 360 easy and one that way bigger, you cant hunt um but there there
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Post by: h2ofowlr on August 24, 2009, 06:20:15 PM: Used to see some big ones around Mt. Saint Helens. Hit or miss depending on what unit you are in.
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Post by: fishcrazy on August 24, 2009, 06:22:13 PM: It depends on what you like. Do you like killing an ELK. Then we have lots of great units. Do you wantto kill a HUGE trophy? West Side sucks.

Kris
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Post by: bowelkaholic on August 24, 2009, 07:18:04 PM: I no that there is five game management units around a PARK on the west side to make some of you eat your words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 8)
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Post by: letmhunt on August 24, 2009, 07:53:48 PM: And what unit, road#, drainage,creek,gps cord., are these elk by the park.
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: Curly on August 24, 2009, 08:15:50 PM: Quote from: WDFW-SUX on August 24, 2009, 06:07:33 PM
There is one unit that doesn't have any votes and i gotta say im surprised. :dunno:

Fall River is a little surprising that it doesn't have votes.........Lincoln sucks for elk, so no surprise there.
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: Huntbear on August 24, 2009, 10:31:59 PM: I have seen some absolute monsters in westside units, that never get taken out, because they go into some hell holes no one with a right mind would even think about going into...

I watched a 7x7 350 class bull for over an hour one evening 200 yards from a paved FS road. He could have cared less that I was there.... Saw him again the next year.. even bigger, in the same clearing.. I know what drainage he went into.. I could not even talk my billygoat of a brother to go after him.

they are there, but you have to be very lucky, and love to hunt the darkest, deepest, and steepest chithole you know of to find them once the shooting starts.
Title: Re: Best western WA elk unit?
Post by: finnman on August 25, 2009, 09:13:53 AM: I have seen some huge elk in the Puyallup unit, but hunting them is a different story! I have video of a 378 bull that we could not shoot during archery season, a guy with muzzleloader ended up shooting him, a monster 7x8!! My fav is the Mashel, good bulls and lots of hunting ground, you don't have to worry about any property lines....