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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Karl Blanchard on January 18, 2012, 08:07:34 PM

Title: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 18, 2012, 08:07:34 PM: So my name is coming up on the vacation calendar and early archery season is all booked up this year (national guard guy had to take the last three weeks of september for training this year :bash:) I am trying to figure out if muzzy elk is gonna start on saturday Sept. 29th, or saturday Oct. 6th? Conventional wisdom points to october 6th due to rifle rut hunts running up to the 30th of september but we all know that wisdom and wdfw are not to things commonly found in a sentence together. Anybody have any pearls of knowledge for me? Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: JimmyHoffa on January 18, 2012, 08:16:27 PM: east side or west side? I think early muzzy elk on westside would more than likely be the Oct 6th guess. They usually have an early muzzy deer season that has to run the week before, and follows the end of the high hunt by the weekend.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: bobcat on January 18, 2012, 08:18:07 PM: I'd say it would have to be October 6th. As Jimmy says, they have to squeeze the early muzzleloader deer in there before the elk season starts. This year it was October 1st and that is the earliest it will ever be.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 18, 2012, 08:39:33 PM: sorry forgot to mention eastside. Early muzzy deer always overlaps the second weekend with the opening weekend of early elk. I think you guys are right though the 6th is probably the day.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: bobcat on January 18, 2012, 08:43:01 PM: East and west is the same. Yes it has to be October 6th unless they totally revamp the hunting seasons this year. Which they can't because of the budget problems. They're supposedly leaving most everything the same.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: colockumelk on January 19, 2012, 05:45:48 PM: Doesn't matter brother your hunting archery with me. Cockum archery cow tag. Opening day boom cow down. :tup:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: colockumelk on January 20, 2012, 08:46:19 AM: Well I lied. Just got done with a training meeting. Looks like I will be hunting with a smoke pole for elk. So instead looks like Im gonna draw a bull permit and kill myself a 350" 6x6 :tup:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: bullseeker on January 21, 2012, 11:07:29 AM: hunt the muzzy season with your bow.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: 400out on January 21, 2012, 02:04:06 PM: Quote from: colockumelk on January 20, 2012, 08:46:19 AM
Well I lied. Just got done with a training meeting. Looks like I will be hunting with a smoke pole for elk. So instead looks like Im gonna draw a bull permit and kill myself a 350" 6x6 :tup:
:tup: that's the spirit :tup:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: Karl Blanchard on January 21, 2012, 02:31:41 PM: Quote from: colockumelk on January 20, 2012, 08:46:19 AM
Well I lied. Just got done with a training meeting. Looks like I will be hunting with a smoke pole for elk. So instead looks like Im gonna draw a bull permit and kill myself a 350" 6x6 :tup:
I don't think you have the points to draw a Blues tag so you might want to lower your expectations ;)
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: 400out on January 21, 2012, 02:33:14 PM: Quote from: BLRman on January 21, 2012, 02:31:41 PM
Quote from: colockumelk on January 20, 2012, 08:46:19 AM
Well I lied. Just got done with a training meeting. Looks like I will be hunting with a smoke pole for elk. So instead looks like Im gonna draw a bull permit and kill myself a 350" 6x6 :tup:
I don't think you have the points to draw a Blues tag so you might want to lower your expectations ;)
that's how he's going to kill a 350 6x6 :tup:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: colockumelk on January 21, 2012, 03:37:14 PM: Oh I dont need to draw a branch bull tag in the blues to kill a 350" bull there. Even the spikes in the blues score 350. :tup:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: fishunt247 on January 21, 2012, 04:01:49 PM: Muzzleloader elk is always the first saturday in October, always.
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: igotbigbulls on January 21, 2012, 05:01:13 PM: Quote from: colockumelk on January 21, 2012, 03:37:14 PM
Oh I dont need to draw a branch bull tag in the blues to kill a 350" bull there. Even the spikes in the blues score 350. :tup:

liar liar pants on fire. how dare you!
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: colockumelk on January 21, 2012, 05:25:06 PM: Quote from: igotbigbulls on January 21, 2012, 05:01:13 PM
Quote from: colockumelk on January 21, 2012, 03:37:14 PM
Oh I dont need to draw a branch bull tag in the blues to kill a 350" bull there. Even the spikes in the blues score 350. :tup:

liar liar pants on fire. how dare you!

I know you are but what am I. :tung:
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: igotbigbulls on January 21, 2012, 05:40:43 PM: i killed all the trophy spikes up there! better luck in the colockum
Title: Re: muzzleloader elk season?
Post by: colockumelk on January 21, 2012, 07:19:35 PM: Quote from: igotbigbulls on January 21, 2012, 05:40:43 PM
i killed all the trophy spikes up there! better luck in the colockum

That's impossible you don't have enough bullets to kill all the trophy bulls in the Blues there are so many there.