Washington State, Peaches Ridge Any Bull Tag Archery

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Washington State, Peaches Ridge Any Bull Tag Archery

Anyone hunting this unit #336 ?
Any info to share ?
I have scouted Little Naches unit # 346 for a peaches ridge tag for any bull and have not been impressed,I'm thinking about a change of location.
 
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Have you scouted below the Pacific Crest? My experience during the hot summers is that the elk go where it is damper and that is to the west in both districts 346 & 336. Also they like to go down into the shady canyons below the roads. Most of their activity is at night and I only see elk out in the open just before daylight and just before dark. Most of the Naches is busy with jeeps and motorcross bikes crawling and blasting up and down the trails. Sometimes it seems as if there a no elk around, but when the cooler weather hits and the gear heads go home for the summer the elk are more visible. Until the third day of the general season. Then they're no where to be found! I'd suggest getting to some high point where you can see a lot of country and glass in the real early and late minutes of the day.
 
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Absolutely agree, the scouting I've done has not been very far into the unit 346,
I know 336 fairly well and agree about the canyons, lots of guys stay on the roads, I have never been "lucky" enough to kill an elk near a road.
I've carried them all out on my back.
Thanks for the info though. I will be in camp for archery in 2 weeks and have an "any bull" archery tag for 336 and 346.
Hopefully with the late start this year the 8th of Sep we will get some buglers to work.
 
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Well......how'd everyone do in the archery and "early-gun" tag? We're leaving saturday for the monday opener. We need some luck though;)
 
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Well.....we saw 5 spikes during the branched antler season for the 98 tag holders. We didn't shoot any spikes, we were holding out for the big boys, but they didn't present themselves. We found 2 dead , relatively fresh kills though. One had the horns cut off already, and the other one was a nice 6x6 about 2 weeks old. At least the coyotes and crows were eating them. I'm trying again this weekend, hopefully the weather change will help. We were hunting low in the Little Naches drainage. Anybody else do any good?
 
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Someone stuck a 6X and couldn't find it ?, that sucks, I chased a 6X for a week and nver could get in on him, then after 3 spikes right in front of me, and hunting alone anyway, stuck a nice 21" spike about 450lbs on Quartz creek. 6 hours all packed out. went to winthrop and hunted mulies last 2 weeks, no scoire, but more deer in the back of trucks than I have seen ever, my buddies got a nice 21" 4x4 and a 23" 5x5 been a good year and still have late buck blacktails to go !
 
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Great job on the "slingin'". I admire any archery hunter who kills a elk in Wa State...that's some serious work! I'm heading out tomorrow for the last of the bull tag. Hopefully I'll cut some fresh tracks in the new snow. It's been a great deer season over here. My cousin and I were done in a few hours with nice low 20" wheatfield deer, and alot of my friends have had good success too. I just saw a picture of a Conconally monster...17 points and 30"'s wide. Any quartz creek tips? thanks, snit
 
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Did you report those dead bulls to the game department? They will not be able to catch any poachers, but they could use the info for a total of mature bulls killed this year.
I hope you let us know how you did this weekend. I had to leave my area early in the season. The day the weather changed and brought some cold temps and snow. I had to hunt for a spike and even though the country is great for elk, I didn't see anything. I love camping in elk country, but I wasn't too thrilled about being limited to a spike.
 
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When I left the pickup friday morning it 9 degrees with 4-5"'s of fresh snow. The elk had been bailing out of the Little Naches all night and heading up over Manashtash. I was able to track down one small bunch, but I could only see the calves (probley mama's and babies). 10 hours later when I got back to the pickup it had warmed up to 21 degrees!!!

The next day a friend took my cousin and I into an area in the Taneum unit. As we were sittin' in the crew bus, drinking coffee, and waiting for huntin' hours to start, my friend was telling us how the elk always used to come out of this unit he had logged and bail over into a steep timbered hill on the other side of the spur road we were parked on. Just then a cow does exactly as he said. I thought to myself to get my gun ready, but we were leaving the pickup in less than a minute or two. 1 minute after hours, just as we finished coffe, out comes a 6x6. I reach in the back and my cousins "junk" (as well as mine) was piled on my rifle. My cousin steps out and drops him right in the middle of the road! He's the luckies guy I know. This was his 3rd elk, and all have been loaded whole in the back of a truck! After dressing him out, we drug him with the pickup to a nob, and just then a couple guys came by and the 5 of us barely drug it into the truck.

Sunday I hiked in behind a gate in the upper Taneum about 2 miles. Fresh snow, and really cold out but I only cut one track. We walked it out until it was just too steep, plus he was in a couple of hundred acre clear cut that had been replanted about 10 years ago. It was just impenetrable, so after 5 hours I hiked out and went to the same ridge that my cousin shot his bull on the day before. It was just howling out, and the snow was drifting my footprints over in less than 5 minutes, and I kept cuttin' fresh tracks going from the timber to the re-prod, but I was always just behind them. When I turned back, there was fresh tracks in MY tracks less than 5 minutes old!!! I just couldn't win, but I did pass up 5 spikes for the season and as the season ended I was satisfied that I hunted as hard as I could. 10 days out of a possible 14, and I saved the life of a big bull (that's what I'm telling myself anyway).
 
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MM:

Nice job on the spike! I agree with Snit. Anybody who gets the job done with a bow has something to be proud of. I'm not a bow hunter, but I did spend about 10 days in the field helping my buddy who drew the Quinault master hunter tag last year. That was a blast getting into that many bulls. He didn't score, but the action was awesome as we got into some serious bulls.

Snit: A great hunt and a good story. I know whats its like to hunt 10 days on a permit elk hunt and come home empty handed. I drew a bull permit for the Dickey back in 96. Holy crap, it took me 6 days to find a live elk! Oh well, thats why they call it hunting. My buddy was one of the lucky boys who drew the early A tags this year. Talk about lucky. The dude only had 1 bonus point. Anyway, he connected on a 6x7 that grossed 338, and netted
314 due to a broken g2. He said he saw about a dozen branch bulls in 3 days, with 4 of them being shooters.
 
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If you're like me it'll take a while to get over this years hunt. Even though I was limited to a spike and I had only a few days to hunt, I feel like I'm missing out on a whole lot of living. To add insult to injury, I didn't get a Montana tag this year and snow is flying and the temps. are cold. No snow and warm weather greated me on my last two Montana hunts. Since I have family living there I'm going to visit during Thanksgiving week and take some hikes, maybe scout some country for next year.
 
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snit, did you guys have any bull tags?? i hunted those same areas all i saw on the taneum was 2 bobcats, 8 cows with calves and a rag horn bull. congrates to you guys!!!!

Garrett
 
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Thanks guys
I appreciate it, I had the best hunt, lots of animals to see and try and get in on, even turkeys which surprised me, great to see.
The spike was my 3rd with a bow, 2 spikes and 3pt got a 5x5 with my rifle and a cow with a cell phone,now thats a story I'll share, Taneum creek has an irrigation flume that comes down into the old heart K ranch area, elk washed down it and I found a cow with 2 broken front legs, on private no hunting posted land, used cell phone and called the game cop who shot her in the head and I tagged her (last day of season) so free meat !
 

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