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Offline ian_padron

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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2019, 11:39:09 PM »
513 and 516 are packed in September. Hunters and hikers everywhere.

If you're a crazy mofo or have access to horses, there are plenty of bulls in the deep snow in November up high. Snowshoes mandatory.

If I wasn't so obsessed with chasing deer all season in ID and WA, that's how I'd hunt elk around here.

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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2019, 05:16:44 AM »
To many people watching born and raised, and not enough backcountry in W WA to support it.

Did you ever fill your Nooksack tag?
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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2019, 05:18:29 AM »
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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2019, 06:37:28 AM »
To many people watching born and raised, and not enough backcountry in W WA to support it.

Did you ever fill your Nooksack tag?

I’m not a fan of that series personally too much talking, get to hunting hahaha. Unfortunately I did not. It was a great hunt had some close calls but just couldn’t seal the deal.


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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2019, 08:32:15 AM »
Lewis River might have some opportunity for that.

All I can find for Lewis river is by woodland and then It runs into a lake.

Why don't you get a good map and then outline the GMU boundary with a highliter? You might try a Gifford Pinchot National Forest map.


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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2019, 04:34:36 PM »
If by backcountry you mean hauling 100's of pounds of meat straight up a wet hillside, in super thick brush, out of some deep hell hole, check out the 600s.
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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2019, 05:10:22 PM »
If by backcountry you mean hauling 100's of pounds of meat straight up a wet hillside, in super thick brush, out of some deep hell hole, check out the 600s.

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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #22 on: February 01, 2019, 05:41:16 PM »
If by backcountry you mean hauling 100's of pounds of meat straight up a wet hillside, in super thick brush, out of some deep hell hole, check out the 600s.

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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2019, 06:47:37 PM »
not trying to put words in anyone's mouth but i believe what he is saying is that unless you specify a drainage in a certain GMU that any other information you post is "useless" ?  :dunno:
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Re: West side elk question
« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2019, 08:05:42 PM »
It depends on your definition of "backcountry".  There are places and times where you can hunt with few other hunters around, in a small area. There is no vast area away from roads and trails that few hunters will be in with many elk. But you can find pockets that hold elk that other hunters don't go into, but it might not be that far off the road, just to thick for people to walk through. And it can be just as difficult to get a bull out of a hole in thick brush 1 mile from a road when there is no trail as it is packing meat 12 miles down a hiking trial. You just have to redefine "backcountry" and then there is plenty of it on the west side.

 


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