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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: murph13 on October 15, 2010, 05:49:23 PM

Title: Vail Access
Post by: murph13 on October 15, 2010, 05:49:23 PM: Does anyone know which gates will be open tommorrow. I walk in from a closed gate and was wondering how long it will take for the masses to get to my area. If the only open gate is the vail side, I will be alone for quite awhile. Thanks
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: 7mm ed on October 15, 2010, 05:54:21 PM: the steamplant gate will be open and i think thier opening northfork 6am
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: BlackRidge on October 15, 2010, 06:16:42 PM: Quote from: 7mm ed on October 15, 2010, 05:54:21 PM
the steamplant gate will be open and i think theyre opening northfork 6am

Yup, around an hour before shooting light
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: murph13 on October 15, 2010, 06:25:45 PM: Hey thanks guys, sounds like the rigs will be rolling in shortly after shooting light then......not what I was hoping for......
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: Hunterman on October 15, 2010, 08:45:03 PM: You'd better be in line yesterday if plan on hunting before noon...

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: pwdr-brnr on October 15, 2010, 09:02:48 PM: maulqueen gate opens @ 6:00 a.m.(thats where game check usually sits) a lot of weyco,. employees are already camped in there..good luck to all
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: Ridgerunner on October 15, 2010, 11:38:57 PM: CAn't wait to hear the report, one of these years I need to check it out for myself, I hear all the stories about how crowded it is, just doesn't seem like it could be all that popular but maybe it is.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: bobcat on October 16, 2010, 04:51:24 AM: Well out of all the hunters in the Puget Sound area, probably half of them that don't go to eastern Washington, go to Vail. That's how crowded it is. :o
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: 7mag. on October 16, 2010, 04:47:09 PM: I'm glad I've never been there. Sounds like a great place.....to avoid.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: BigGoonTuna on October 16, 2010, 05:27:07 PM: never hunted it, but i can remember driving up to the skookumchuck river to look around on a weekday morning during modern season :yike: it reminded me of the banks of the puyallup river during a humpy run.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: trapperguy22 on October 16, 2010, 07:43:54 PM: does anyone know are they opening north fork sunday morning?
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Post by: Rdnkgirl88 on October 16, 2010, 08:48:40 PM: nope. they only open the main line and the E 150 gate.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: toothfangclaw on October 16, 2010, 10:17:46 PM: I was there today. It was busy, no doubt, but it didn't seem as bad as I've been reading.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: bobcat on October 16, 2010, 10:29:39 PM: Quote from: toothfangclaw on October 16, 2010, 10:17:46 PM
I was there today. It was busy, no doubt, but it didn't seem as bad as I've been reading.

So how many deer did you see?
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: PolarBear on October 16, 2010, 10:35:22 PM: I saw one Jeep in Rainier with 4 guys in it and a tiny deer on one of those trailer hitch mounted cargo baskets that came out of Vail.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: toothfangclaw on October 16, 2010, 10:59:32 PM: Quote from: bobcat on October 16, 2010, 10:29:39 PM
Quote from: toothfangclaw on October 16, 2010, 10:17:46 PM
I was there today. It was busy, no doubt, but it didn't seem as bad as I've been reading.

So how many deer did you see?

No Bucks, just 8 does in one small area.
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: Rdnkgirl88 on October 17, 2010, 04:16:19 PM: Over the 2 days saw 13 does and a coyote. Anyone know how many deer came out of there this weekend?
Title: Re: Vail Access
Post by: bankwalker on October 17, 2010, 04:27:57 PM: saturday had 34 deer come out at 4ish when i left.

i seen 5 deer, one spike which i passed on