Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: daddy2busy on September 12, 2010, 06:09:58 PM
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Well I plan on taking my little cousins bow hunting this year (2010) for General Late Archery deer/elk. I've been hunting all my life and mostly in gmu 328 (ellensburg area) and did ok for elk/deer but after the years its become a zoo. People leaving their trash,having no respect for other hunters,and just killing anything that moves leaving bodies in the road (just a nightmare).
What I'm looking for is a area that isn't crazy populated and somewhat of a good success rate (I'm sure everyone looks for something like this) but its the first time my cousins have ever gone hunting and i just want them to have a good experience (like i did when i was a kid). I thought about River falls gmu 672 (originally thought of willipa hills gmu 506 but this year i believe its closed for elk)
If anyone can give me any ideas or advice it would be greatly appreciated.
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I don't know how old they are, you didn't mention, but if they are under 10 don't bother hunting, just go out and have fun, especially if this is their first time in the woods. They won't care about getting an animal. you will be looking at bugs and birds and tracks and sticks and agates and, and, and.
I have taken my daughter since she was 3 years old (she is 5 now). We eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I ask here what she hears, what she sees, where we need to go to get back to the truck, what kind of track that is. That is the fun stuff. She has her own binos and sometimes she carries her bow for a few hundred yards and then I carry it the rest of the way. At 3 she got so much cheet in her shoes I carried her all the way back to the truck.
You could be hunting in Central Park or the best deer woods in the country but they will have fun just being with you.
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Sorry, yea they're 13 and 15 (boys) they watched me one year skinning my elk and are wanting to do the same. I have a 5 year old daughter that would like being just in the woods but my cousins on the other hand....well there boys. I told them if they practice everyday and save enough money for a tag ill take them wherever. I do very much appreciate the reply. If anyone else wants to comment or give some advice on somewhere to go that's not a zoo would be very much appreciated!
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672 and 506 are both "zoo's" lot's of hunters. but there are a lot of elk too.
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My suggestion would be to concentrate on deer, not elk. There are lots of areas where you can hunt deer without seeing a lot of people, especially during archery season. Not true with elk, in my experience. Unless you hunt an area that has very few elk.
