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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: LuckyDog on June 17, 2011, 07:09:42 PM

Title: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: LuckyDog on June 17, 2011, 07:09:42 PM: Just found out that I drew an archery bull tag for the Wenaha West Sept. 1-19. I have never been down that way and would appreciate any info willing to be shared as I start to scout and plan for this hunt. From what I gather it is wicked country with some wicked bulls to go with it!
LuckyDog
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 17, 2011, 07:23:37 PM: It's some tuff country for sure. There is some great bulls in there and there has been a few taken by members here. I would do a search and check out some of the posts from years past.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: oldleclercrd on June 17, 2011, 07:24:07 PM: Edwall huh? I work at those grain elevators in edwall sometimes. Great tag im jealous! Do you have a friend going with you, because it will be a long pack out!
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: mtman on June 17, 2011, 07:28:49 PM: First of all make sure you are in the best shape o your life. Then I would buy a hiking book with all the trails listed. They will dicribe miliage and elevation changes stuff like that. I have hiked in for tipee trail and head into indian coral and have had luck with seeing some big bulls. Put every thing you have into it, do the scouting. You got the hard Part out of the way now go kill a big one.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: LuckyDog on June 17, 2011, 08:01:35 PM: My brother and I drew as a partnership and will be packing meat together. Great tip on the guide book for trails and mileage. My initial thought is thinking about getting as deep as I can and hunting from there. Anxious to get an eye on the country!
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: oldleclercrd on June 17, 2011, 09:33:31 PM: Download google earth and you can get some pretty good close up images of the country. Im telling you there is no better scouting tool than google earth, not to mention you can print off pictures for mini maps that are actual photos taken in 2009 I think.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: oldleclercrd on June 17, 2011, 09:35:39 PM: I forgot to ask you how many points it took to draw your tag?
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: Daytonite on June 17, 2011, 10:19:06 PM: Been going in the west unit several times a year for 18 years now. You can harvest a 380-400 within a mile of the road assuming nobody got him last year. I have seen him the last three years on the same point every time. He hangs out in the same area every september.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: bucklucky on June 17, 2011, 10:36:28 PM: Wich point, I will tell you if he died or not 8)
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 17, 2011, 10:38:21 PM: :chuckle: :archery_smiley: :bfg:
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: jackelope on June 17, 2011, 10:40:40 PM: Quote from: mtman on June 17, 2011, 07:28:49 PM
First of all make sure you are in the best shape o your life. Then I would buy a hiking book with all the trails listed. They will dicribe miliage and elevation changes stuff like that. I have hiked in for tipee trail and head into indian coral and have had luck with seeing some big bulls. Put every thing you have into it, do the scouting. You got the hard Part out of the way now go kill a big one.

Teepee and Indian Corral are in the Tucannon unit, not Wenaha.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: oldleclercrd on June 18, 2011, 07:23:06 AM: :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: LuckyDog on June 18, 2011, 07:59:43 AM: Love to know what road that is off Daytonite! I don't want to tell anyone how many points it took for fear everyone will quit chatting. Truly lucky, 2 points this go around!
Any insight on rut in the blues? Early/Late? Also what seems to be more productive, bull or cow calling?
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: mtman on June 18, 2011, 07:31:20 PM: teepee trail is the border trail between the two units alway trough indian coral to diamond peak.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: jackelope on June 18, 2011, 10:03:23 PM: Quote from: mtman on June 18, 2011, 07:31:20 PM
teepee trail is the border trail between the two units alway trough indian coral to diamond peak.
No offense, mtman, but if you're going through Indian Corral to get to Diamond Peak from Teepee you're taking the long way. Maybe it's a terminology thing and you call it this and I call it that, but I always thought the Teepee Trail leaves from the Teepee campground north towards Indian Corral. Diamond Peak is due east of the Teepee campground. Maybe I have my trail names mixed up and the trail between Teepee campground and Diamond Peak is the Teepee trail, but either way, going through Indian Corral to get to Diamond Peak is the super long way.
Maybe we're both half right/half wrong and someone will correct us. I could dig my maps out too I guess.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: mtncook on June 19, 2011, 10:14:15 PM: Teepee trail down East Butte Creek divides Wenaha East and West. The Tucannon unit is On the north side of the Teepe parking lot. You can stand in one place and throw a rock into 3 different units!!!!!!!!!! The trail to Indian and Diamond from Teepee divides the Tucannon and Wenaha East.

mtncook
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: CedarPants on June 20, 2011, 08:01:02 AM: I hunted the Wenaha east and west for a few seasons recently (modern) and saw good numbers of elk. 2 game wardens stopped in our camp one afternoon and provided a TON of information (where they were bugling in September, what times of day they were bugling, where they would look in October if they were us, the camps that had tagged out, etc). Best info I have even been given, very friendly couple guys that seemed to genuinly want everyone to enjoy themselves. I can't for the life of me remember their names, but with a little research I'm sure you could figure out who they were and contact them.

I didn't tag out that year, but the wardens informed us that they had stopped by 5 camps that same day of people that had branch antler tag - and all of them had good bulls hanging. Same with archer season.

Good luck to you! Great tag in a great are
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: jackelope on June 20, 2011, 10:00:56 AM: Quote from: mtncook on June 19, 2011, 10:14:15 PM
Teepee trail down East Butte Creek divides Wenaha East and West. The Tucannon unit is On the north side of the Teepe parking lot. You can stand in one place and throw a rock into 3 different units!!!!!!!!!! The trail to Indian and Diamond from Teepee divides the Tucannon and Wenaha East.

mtncook

I don't know if I'm goofed up or not now...is there more than 1 Indian Corral down there? Because the Indian Corral on the map that I know is closer to the Lick Creek unit than it is to Wenaha East.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: BLUEBULLS on June 20, 2011, 12:18:21 PM: Quote from: jackelope on June 20, 2011, 10:00:56 AM
Quote from: mtncook on June 19, 2011, 10:14:15 PM
Teepee trail down East Butte Creek divides Wenaha East and West. The Tucannon unit is On the north side of the Teepe parking lot. You can stand in one place and throw a rock into 3 different units!!!!!!!!!! The trail to Indian and Diamond from Teepee divides the Tucannon and Wenaha East.

mtncook

I don't know if I'm goofed up or not now...is there more than 1 Indian Corral down there? Because the Indian Corral on the map that I know is closer to the Lick Creek unit than it is to Wenaha East.

mtncook is right, the trail along indian corral is the dividing line. Still pretty far from west wenaha though.

west wenaha is a small area with very few trails that aren't very long. It is very thick in spots which makes it tough to navigate some areas, steep too.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: jackelope on June 20, 2011, 02:11:19 PM: Great. Now I'm even more cornfused.
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The trail to Indian and Diamond from Teepee divides the Tucannon and Wenaha East.

I guess maybe I just figured it out. Does it only make up a very small portion of the border then go north to Indian Corral? I guess that's how it works. I just went and looked at a map. The trail to Indian Corral heads north from Oregon Butte though where the trail to Diamond Peak continues east. The trail to Indian Corral only makes up the border for that brief period from Teepee to Oregon Butte...The actual area referred to as Indian Corral is nowhere near the Wenaha units...do I have this correct now?
Geez I hope so anyway, otherwise I'm going to lose sleep.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: jackelope on June 20, 2011, 03:35:45 PM: I got it now.
I think.
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: mtncook on June 20, 2011, 06:37:49 PM: You almost have it. Indian Corral is the head of Trout creek which joins third creek. But Indian Corral is just across the trail from the Wenaha East unit. Like I said earlier that trail divides Tucannon and Wenaha East. This all a long way from the first post asking about Wenaha West.

mtncook
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: oldleclercrd on June 20, 2011, 09:17:24 PM: :jacked:
Title: Re: Wenaha West Archery Bull Tag
Post by: Map on June 20, 2011, 11:04:45 PM: Best of luck to you!