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Title: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 01:23:00 PM
Post all Toutle bulls, past or present, here! I'm headed out for the Toutle for the whole next week, so hopefully me and my dad will both be able to add pictures to this list. Want to see some nice Roosies that have come out of that unit to get me even more excited before I go (if that's even possible)!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bearmanric on November 03, 2011, 01:27:43 PM
All packed taking a shower then heading for some state land around the 4100 to camp. good luck every one. Rick ;)
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 01:28:27 PM
Good luck Rick!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bearmanric on November 03, 2011, 01:49:34 PM
I drive a slate Grey 09 Toyota Tundra the has RRcalls stickers on the back. good luck with you and your dad. Rick ;)
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 01:53:00 PM
I'll either be in a 2007 black F150 with an NRA sticker on the back or a 94 red Pathfinder with a tire on top. If I see your truck, I expect to see a nice rack hanging over the bed.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Elkrunner on November 03, 2011, 02:44:53 PM
I'll either be in a 2007 black F150 with an NRA sticker on the back or a 94 red Pathfinder with a tire on top. If I see your truck, I expect to see a nice rack hanging over the bed.
nice rack hanging over the bed? Is he taking his woman to the mountains with him :dunno:
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 02:50:12 PM
Which ever way you choose to define rack leads to a good picture.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Ripper on November 03, 2011, 03:02:51 PM
I will be right next door in Coweeman. I'm staying at the Timberland inn, that's camping for me now day's. Driving a big full size fire engine red Siverado with a matching canopy.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 03:03:39 PM
Good luck Ripper!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Elkrunner on November 03, 2011, 03:12:50 PM
Which ever way you choose to define rack leads to a good picture.
I hear that...Maybe we can get a thread going sort of the like the hotties with a bow...Racks with a Rack!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Wake1 on November 03, 2011, 03:13:41 PM
I will be in a Green F350 with a RMEF sticker and Bulldogs football sticker . Hope to see some big bulls hit the ground. Good luck everyone.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Elkrunner on November 03, 2011, 03:13:47 PM
All kidding aside, I wish you all the best in you travels.  Be safe and bring home some good memories and hopefully a nice trophy.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 03, 2011, 03:16:24 PM
Which ever way you choose to define rack leads to a good picture.
I hear that...Maybe we can get a thread going sort of the like the hotties with a bow...Racks with a Rack!
I like the way you're thinking, I'll see what I can do. Hopefully after next week this thread will be full of bulls and/or racks!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Arteman on November 03, 2011, 11:40:52 PM
Not to many nice Rosies come out of Toutle, you would think a controlled unit like this would have 300+ inch plus bulls running around but that's not the case, you would be fortunate with a 250 class bull.  Typical bull you will get will be just a decent 5, genetics just aren't there.  Live here and hunted every inch of that unit my whole life.  You will however see a ton of elk, and if you don't wear a blind fold you should end up killing a bull.  The better bulls I've seen in that unit have been on the Kalama River side, Coweman Lake area, Elk Mountain and those surrounding areas.  Good luck to you all, ill for sure be checking in on this thread to see what comes of it.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bearmanric on November 04, 2011, 06:40:16 AM
I'm heading into the unit now will be camped around the 4100 5500 area. went in in the dark last night was up high a speck of snow. going to camp low. good luck tomorrow. Rick ;)
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Fishnclifff on November 04, 2011, 09:38:18 AM
There are some 350 class bulls in there. High up.
We've seen 2 and never got within a half mile of them before the disappear.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Antlershed on November 04, 2011, 06:33:21 PM
Good luck guys. I'm headed down right now with my dad (he has a tag). We will be camped down by Silver Lake in the campground on the hill. We saw a nice 5x5 last Sunday that we are hoping is still in the same area.  :tup:
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bearmanric on November 04, 2011, 07:46:46 PM
Camped on the 4640 up off the 4100. Laying here dreaming.Seen a spike calf and cow up close this evening. Snow up high. Good luck guys. Rick
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Coweemanslayer on November 17, 2011, 08:16:28 AM
Not quite sure what happen to this site in the past few days and all the posts but here is my mine and my brothers toutle bull. What a hunt!!!
6x7 is mine and the 5x5 is my brothers.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: FSTaxidermy on November 17, 2011, 08:37:04 AM
Sweet bulls, Coweemanslayer, Congrats!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Fullabull on November 17, 2011, 08:39:54 AM
Very nice work  :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bearmanric on November 17, 2011, 02:35:50 PM
Glad to see your brother get one. was nice seeing yours in person. I decided on a spike.Rick ;)
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Whitenuckles on November 17, 2011, 05:32:44 PM
 Congrats!!!
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: SniperDanWA on November 17, 2011, 05:57:58 PM
Nice buys guys.  Congrats
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: iceman91m on November 17, 2011, 06:26:16 PM
nice bull coweeman
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Ripper on November 17, 2011, 06:38:20 PM
I believe I saw this bull in the back of your truck either Sun or Mon. Nice one.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: pips4bucks on November 17, 2011, 11:16:40 PM
I was scouting for a cow down there last weekend for my late archery tag.  We spotted a spike off the 4100, about 150 yards off the road.  We sat there watching him for around half an hour.  Do you think anyone with a bull tag in there pocket would drive by?  Heck no!  There were a couple guys that stopped, had bull tags, but for a different unit.  They got lost on the maze of logging roads. 

Bummer deal, I couldn't even give a bull away...  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: bobcat on November 17, 2011, 11:21:07 PM
I bet a lot of people get "lost" in Toutle unit when they don't have an elk permit for the Toutle. 
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 21, 2011, 08:36:16 AM
My raghorn 4x3 and my dad's spike from Toutle. Story will come later now that the site is back up, once I get some of this work done! Passed up the biggest bull I saw on opening morning and spent the rest of the week kicking myself. Anyway, meat in the freezer and a fun hunt (curse the weather). Long story to come later.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Ziptie on November 21, 2011, 09:13:15 AM
I hunt with 4 guys that are a bit older (65 to 74) and they got bull tags for toutle.  I got late cow tags (same unit), I went out to help pull elk/ scout for my cow.  We scouted hard and had many nice bulls patterned.  After deer season they (I do not know) started running helicopters breaking up the herds, and spooking them badly.  It was a bit of a kick in the stones because I started scouting the state land in July.  We still did ok but did not find the bigger bulls (5 to 7 point) again.  Good luck
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: CavemantheHunter on November 21, 2011, 09:28:07 AM
I had the same problem. Scouted in the summer, located at least 4 nice bulls, but came back to find the herds severely spooked and could not locate the bigger boys. The weather didn't help, neither did the litany of people hunting the roads. I did not realize that they had given out a bunch of tags for October 1-7. The total tag count for the Toutle was around 823, that seems really steep to me. It made for a tougher hunt than I expected, but in the end, I was just glad that I did not eat tag soup.
Title: Re: Toutle Bulls
Post by: Arteman on February 03, 2012, 11:07:03 PM
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