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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: bighunter on October 07, 2010, 11:08:17 AM

Title: late season elk
Post by: bighunter on October 07, 2010, 11:08:17 AM: Does anybody know a good place for a late season elk hunt for muzzy?
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Post by: fair-chase on October 07, 2010, 05:18:40 PM: In the same boat as I struck out in early season. Praying for snow lots and lots of snow.
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Post by: bobcat on October 07, 2010, 05:24:55 PM: Western or Eastern?
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Post by: bighunter on October 07, 2010, 09:07:45 PM: i am eastern washington but i just have no idea where to go late season
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: bobcat on October 07, 2010, 09:42:18 PM: Sorry to hear that. Honestly there is really nothing open for late muzzleloader on the eastside. Nothing that is worth hunting anyway. Don't feel bad, there really isn't much over here either. But at least we do have several units open that have elk in them. The east side has virtually no units open that have enough elk to make them worth hunting. You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.
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Post by: elkhuntindad on October 07, 2010, 09:47:47 PM: sure would be nice if WDFW would actually let us hunt for a while :chuckle:
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Post by: bobcat on October 07, 2010, 09:49:11 PM: If you want a long season and good units to hunt, you need to buy an archery tag.
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: Band on October 08, 2010, 08:44:31 AM: Quote from: bobcat on October 07, 2010, 09:42:18 PM
You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.
Would you say that true of the late archery season as well? I'm looking over my options in the 300 series units for the late season and it appears that the units that likely will hold numbers of elk are closed or at least have a "safe zone" feeding station.
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: bobcat on October 08, 2010, 08:55:33 AM: Definitely less units open for late archery compared to early, but there are still some that should be good. Such as Taneum (336), Little Naches (346), Nile (352), and Rimrock (364).

For muzzleloaders, there is not one unit in the Cascades that is open. Basically they have Chelan and Okanogan County units, and some in the Columbia Basin, and a few south of Spokane that are all private. Nothing that has any real numbers of elk.
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Post by: Little Fish on October 08, 2010, 11:17:57 AM: I think there are a few good areas for late season muzzle loader on the W side, but I don't know much about the east side.
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Post by: vandeman17 on October 08, 2010, 11:24:31 AM: Quote from: Band on October 08, 2010, 08:44:31 AM
Quote from: bobcat on October 07, 2010, 09:42:18 PM
You pretty much have to count on the early season if you have a eastside muzzleloader tag.
Would you say that true of the late archery season as well? I'm looking over my options in the 300 series units for the late season and it appears that the units that likely will hold numbers of elk are closed or at least have a "safe zone" feeding station.

The nice thing about late archery on the eastside is that some of the units open up to cows instead of just spikes or true spikes. It is nice to have that option.
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: bighunter on October 08, 2010, 05:05:31 PM: Ya it would be nice if we had more then a week to hunt. They give the crazy riffle hunters 2 weeks.
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: 400out on October 08, 2010, 05:12:24 PM: Quote from: bighunter on October 08, 2010, 05:05:31 PM
Ya it would be nice if we had more then a week to hunt. They give the crazy riffle hunters 2 weeks.
lets not do that! :bdid: ;)
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: coachcw on October 08, 2010, 08:34:36 PM: If the weather hits at all the late archery hunt sucks , but you can find a decent buck in 346 with a few elk straggling down , 336 has a few stragglers to but they mostly are pilled up in 340 then .
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: bighunter on October 15, 2010, 12:56:12 PM: are areas 203,204,209,215 any good for late season, or would i just be wasting my time? I could really use a freezer full of meat :drool:
Title: Re: late season elk
Post by: WDFW-SUX on October 15, 2010, 12:57:39 PM: wasting your time.