Looking For 2016 Potential Hunting Partners for SW WA area

Wish we were closer ... Well if you are ever up this way Joe let me know.
I have a few nice spots for deer and grouse / small game.
Andy

 

Hope you find someone Joe

 

yep just down from the border...
And you are welcome eh ... damn I did not just say that!
LOL
Andy

 

What unit do you usually go Joe?
I want to try going around the Indian Heaven area next year.
I usually go with another member here but our schedules are always screwed up with young kids.

I won't know until later this year, but I may be able to get out.

 

I use to love hunting, back in the days my dad was still around. He loved hunting. Since he passed, my rifles have since retired. I liked the kill shot, just everything after I did not. Way too much work for my tastes. I got a few pairs of leather boots I can toss on BBQ. Pour sauce on. Grass fed for me, please. Git R Done

 

Washugal isn't bad, I'm just getting tired of hunting in a sea of orange.

Some jackwagon spilling out if the bar is going to make me his trophy.

I've been seeing too many people mixing alcohol with hunting.

 

Not meaning to add negative vibes to the thread, but Elk hunting for the past 10 years, is an "at risk" sport. Grass fed for me, thank you.

 

Yeah it gets pretty sketchy in the woods, which is why I wouldn't mind having more options for a hunting partner.
The thought of going alone makes me think twice.
No way I could haul an elk out be myself any how.

 

Any guarantee if I commit as a faithful partner, that hair is in the truck?

You got a winch?

 

You pretty much answered that with a previous reply to CC, with, "no luck in two years."

What I was meanin is I purty much like a guarantee they'll be meat in the back of the truck when I go. That's hard to do if you don't know, haven't known or scouted the area for some time.

 

Private lands are the way to go, for sure. Myself, I always liked hunting in the somewhat upper elevations where I would walk the ridges. Many times when coming out to a landing where a logging tower had been, there was a vehicle. I would back on out and head out the road a ways, and stop. Most of the time the vehicle would leave (road hunters) within 10-15 minutes, and I'd drive in. I can't tell you how many times I bagged a nice deer that the others did not see.

 

I just like getting in the woods. Meat or not. I hate spending money to not have something to show for it, but going out in the woods is the best medicine for me.
The old saying, a bad day hunting/fishing is better than a good day working has always been true for me.

Getting out hiking, sucking fresh air, and being away from society's BS is such a needed release for me.
That's my therapy.

And if I happen to get some yummy food, that just a plus.

 

absolutely true. The people that brag they get one every year usually have access to private property or have been hunting the same spot for many years.

I’m like you Joe, I live in the city and don’t have access to private lands. I've been hunting since a teen and have done OK but don’t get one every year. Haven’t got a deer in the last 6 years in fact but done ok with elk... deer are much harder. Absolutely essential is scouting and find where the animals are using. If you cant get out scouting buy 2 or 3 trail cameras and put em out come June and check them every 30 days right up till opening day. Keep moving them till you find them loaded with pics then hunt that area.