Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: kramman on April 08, 2008, 03:44:18 PM
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not much of an elk hunter but i was wondering when do the bulls lose their headgear?drove around lake quinault last week and saw 3 or 4 bulls that still had their antlers.also saw a 4by5 today driving over snoqualmie
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in western wa,, i have no clue, to be honest. good Q
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I usually find that ost elk drop there horns from april On to about late may...and that is late....but usually anytime. I bet next week those horns will be dropped and waiting to be picked up by some happy bone hunter.....
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the big bulls at north west trek all had no horns 2 weeks ago, but the tiny dink 3x3 ect bulls still had em! none of the deer had horns at NW trek.
also saw a shooter 3pt black tail on fort lewis this past weekend! still had em
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I saw some bulls last Saturday out Boistfort that still had their headgear.
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Typically the older bulls drop first, as early as mid Feb. in some states. Ive seen a lot of deer with new lil spikes starting to protrude. My boss owns a resort at Lake Quinalt, he said most of the bulls had dropped there
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There are 3 BIG Bulls hanging around my house in Cle Elum that have lost their horns and have about 4 inches of new growth just below their ears. One in particular has bases about the size of Chilli cans. He's gonna turn out to be a monster this year.
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the bulls i saw out at lk. quinault were smaller ones 2 spikes and 2 small 3pts. i beat the brush for awhile but did not find any sheds. i did laughmy a$$ off when my son fell into a small creak while crossing wet rocks. i told him he would but of course he didnt believe the old man
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There are 3 BIG Bulls hanging around my house in Cle Elum that have lost their horns and have about 4 inches of new growth just below their ears. One in particular has bases about the size of Chilli cans. He's gonna turn out to be a monster this year.
I guess there was also a 4 by 5 that was hanging with them that hadn't dropped yet, that was as of last week.
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I saw two really nice branched bulls last night that both still had their racks. Didn't have my spotting scope, jut binocs but they were both probably medium 5 or 6 pts. It was interesting because they were both standing within 100 yards of the spot I shot a bull on opening day last year....hope they stay around.............Les
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I saw 4 spikes yesterday that were growing, one was already above his ears.
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I need to dig out two more photos for you guys. One is of a big 6x6 on the left, a bull bleeding in the middle from just shedding and a bull on the right that had brows and thirds already growing in velvet. It was about April 15th. the other is a big 5x5 recessed with headgear May 15th. I think Hornseeker was with me with that bull. That was pre-LF days. I should probablygo srt through groundhogs garage for those sheds, cause I never found them. :)
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PS Ridge...how did you get out of the house?
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I saw 2 rag horns and 1 spike this past weekend in SW washington and they all had there bone. I saw 28 elk and 5 deer,by the looks of the forest and snow it looks like it was a rough winter but the animals looked like they are eating well except for one deer we saw.
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Yesterday evening I seen while scouting for bear, I seen 5 different herds of elk. 2 small rags and a one horned spike were still packing, and several of the bigger bulls had a few inchs of growth. So some are still packing!
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i got a report yesterday of a herd of 200 +/- elk in the blues, some of which were still packing. hopefully i will find out that they are not still packing this weekend because i'll have a few bones strapped to my pack.
:)
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I talked to some of my hunting partners that went east of the mountains this weekend looking for sheds and they seen half a dozen rag horns with their headgear still! Didn't see any big bulls with em' but didn't find any big ones either! haha
