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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: 10Key on January 05, 2023, 10:36:30 AM
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Stopped in on our way back west on 1/3 to see if they moved in. There were probably a 100 or so concentrated near the hay shed and some others out and about...but not a single antler. Do the bulls not come in with the cows? It sure seems early for them to have dropped antlers already.
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I’ve seen bulls there into March, so they must have just been out of sight.
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I'm sure they are there.
Probably around the corner and out of sight
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A friend was there last week and sent me pics with bulls.
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Thanks, the bulls probably heard my three kids fighting in the truck and then scattered...typical
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Thanks, the bulls probably heard my three kids fighting in the truck and then scattered...typical
Wait! What? Ur kids fight? That’s weird. Never happened before to me.
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They’re there. Only about .001% have dropped. Just out of signt
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I was there 12/31 at 7am the feed truck showed up around 8:30. was a descent amount in there that day with around 25 branch bulls and doz or so spikes.. after feed truck left had 8 more branch bulls show up...
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Directions
A Thorpe off I 90 right in Thorpe cemetery road?
Then Joe watt rd? Is that off of Thorpe cemetery road?
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Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.
Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know
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Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.
Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know
Ahh, that's another subject, burning pallets!! IDIOTS!! :bash:
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Wonder what they're feeding them...
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Thorp Cemetery Road and continue for 3.0 miles. Take a slight left onto Watt Canyon Road and follow this for just over a mile before arriving at a large gravel parking lot on the left-hand side.
Watch for nails in the parking area
Sledding folks used to burn pallets up there
Don’t know if they still do but hell it could be a homeless camp now for all I know
👍thank you for the direction and heads up on the nails
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Wonder what they're feeding them...
Used to feed them alfalfa. Not sure now...
Back in the day I would spend my winter's feeding them goofy things. Bulls would grab grass right out of your hand. You could literally pet them.
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Alfalfa, likely grown across the road from my house.
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Back in 90's and maybe into the early 2000's we used to sell alfalfa to a hay broker that delivered to the feeding stations, 3-string bales. It was a sweet deal for us as we would sell them 4th cutting hay from older stands that had just a hint of grass in it. Being that it had grass in it, it was not desirable by our normal market, export to Japan. Price was equal to or $5/ton more too if I remember right.
Wife and i usually take a late Jan/Feb Sunday drive up to Oak Creek, then have a lunch/dinner in Yakima, hit Cabelas, maybe a thrift store or two. Never been to Joe Watt, so perhaps we will go there this year. Thanks for the info guys. :tup:
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Take good binos with ya. Its not like oak creek
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Take good binos with ya. Its not like oak creek
Will do, thank you.
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I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)
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I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)
What was a spike doing looking through your binoculars?
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:chuckle: :chuckle:
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The spike was looking for a male friend
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I saw one spike looking through my binoculars, but I can't see him in these pics that I took yesterday afternoon.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515162.jpg)
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/profile_pictures/18539_1674515144.jpg)
What was a spike doing looking through your binoculars?
:chuckle: :chuckle: I almost spit out my coffee!