just courious, I was over on a 24 hour a fellow over there was lucky enough to get an elk hunting on the coast of Oregon. Well it got me thinking about one of the worse hunting trips I have ever been on. My buddy talked me into putting ion for a muzzleloader deer tag for the Trask unit and we could get elk tags and hunt deer and elk at the same time. Anyhow we get uo there and unhitch the trailer the weather is decent it isn't raining yet. We head back to town. The next day we head back up there and it is raining we start hunting the next day and it rains every day oh then it starts snowing I spent more time on my ass sliding down those hills. It was horrible rain snow wind cold. I think I'm going to start to crying.

John

Quite a change from Az, ain't it?

DB

I had a hunting trip to AK or was it hell. All are arrangements fell through as we hit the Ancorage airport.

I spent a bundle to hunt caribou in Labrador....a float plane hunt. They dropped us off the morning of September 11, 2001. The plane didn't come back for a week. 9-11-01 we will not forget for many reasons!!!

Then I booked a lion hunt in Utah.....it was during the 5th worst snow storm in Utah history.....I (and my Labrador) spent the entire five days snowed in a ranch bunkhouse the entire time. Never saw more than a lion track.

Thankfully there was coal to keep me warm.

That was the only good thing we had a nice trailer to sleep in. I can only imagine a how shittier it could of been if we were in a tent.

John

I think you might have been talking about my hunt. It’s not always raining snowing sleeting or windy on the Oregon coast just this season all that bad stuff quit for three days that’s when the fog rolled in so thick you couldn’t see thirty yards in front of you. And it stead there and didn’t lift till it started to rain again. One thing about hunting here you get to but your equipment to the test. Oh and by the way I’m about three mile from the Pacific Ocean so that would be salt air in that fog. And the evening I got this it froze out.

Yep your the one nice bull! but you can keep the coast I haven't been back since. I stick to the east of the cascades. I'm from central Oregon I think the people on the coast call us flatlanders or something like that.

John

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Welcome to the Oregon coast.
The worse the weather the better the hunting. It makes the wimps stay home! You had a nice
dry trailer - don't complain! The largest elk
live around the Trask and Wilson units. Now you
understand why they can live long lives. They live where people don't want to go. It grows on you if you let it. It may be wet, but it's good hunting.

Old Elk Hunter,

What's that tag situation for those areas? Any furriners aloud to hunt without springing for some high dollar guide? I have an 06 I am itching to give an outing in the land of it's fathers.

The second Coast elk season is the one to hunt. You can buy the tags over the counter and you don't need a guide. But be prepared to go into the deepest hell holes to find these big bruisers. Like my buddies say you will see an elk 400 yds away but you have to go 2 miles to get him. I don't know of anyone that makes a living guiding for elk on the coast then again I never looked into it anyhow so there might be someone over on the coast that does guide.

John

Had a ML elk hunt in Colo that was similar. Luckily I scored the first morning because the next day it started to rain and rain and rain. We were in a tent and by the 4th day, my goretex boots had given out and I don't think I had a dry piece of clothing. I remember sitting under a scrub oak getting pelted with hail listening to the thunder and thinking "This is fun?"

i have had many unsucessful, wet, cold hunts, BUT keep in mind the old saying
"A bad day hunting, beats any day at work"

I have relatives in both Oregon and Washington they all tell me that it rains 13 months out of the year. I also have an Aunt that lives in the Dakotas (North or South I dont remember). I still want to hunt there even though I don't have 4 wheel drive and cant stand the cold weather.

Larry, nice bull! did you get him on your property, and did you use a .300 Wby???

hope all is well w/you, good hunting,
Craig Nolan

Not near as bad as the other stories here but, I'll never forget the day the so called outfitter in CO dropped two of us off in a saddle at around 11,500 feet at daylight and came back at dark we saw about one chipmunk and the wind must have blown over 40 mph through that saddle. Not an Elk in the Country as far as I could tell (heavily pressured spot). I still get chilled just thinking about it.

Reloader

Thanks Craig yep got him on the Ranch one shot right trough the lungs. Was I using my .300 Weatherby?? Of course I was loaded with 180 triple shocks I just love using that gun.