{"id":1603,"date":"2014-12-25T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2014-12-25T11:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T18:00:23","slug":"archery-for-roosevelt-elk-hunt-in-southwest-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/archery-for-roosevelt-elk-hunt-in-southwest-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Archery for Roosevelt Elk Hunt in Southwest Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1605\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2220-1024x221.jpg\" alt=\"Willapa Hills\" width=\"800\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2220-1024x221.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2220-300x65.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five days on a late archery elk hunt in southwest Washington with Mike Jenkin&#8217;s <a title=\"Upfront Outfitters\" href=\"http:\/\/upfrontoutfitters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Upfront Outfitters<\/a>. This was a wet and challenging hunt. I didn&#8217;t end up taking one but had a great time trying. We alternated spot in stalk in lush mossy fern carpeted rain forest and then hiking and even mountain biking logging roads into timber land. Old growth, new reprod and clear cuts.\u00a0 On Wednesday, in the middle of the hunt, while hiking through a dense forest I was thinking it would be crazy to find an elk in here.\u00a0 An instant later Mike whispers to get down, there&#8217;s an elk across a stream in the distance. That was probably the most exciting\u00a0 moment. We tried to move tree to tree and gain the edge of the stream for a 40 yard shot but the cow busted us at 60. We did see elk in the distance several times later days hunting the timber land, never able to get close. Several stands were sat that looked very promising and we were seldom hiking without seeing lots of sign, fresh droppings, rubs, and beds. The week proved a much needed workout and if I ever do take a Roosevelt elk with my bow it will be that much sweeter. The hunt has me considering the benefits of doing a little mountain biking in the off season.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pics on flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsk6RaRJ2\" target=\"_blank\">Pics on flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2219.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1604\" src=\"http:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2219-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking on Elk Hunt\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2219-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_2219-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Five days on a late archery elk hunt in southwest Washington with Mike Jenkin&#8217;s Upfront Outfitters. This was a wet and challenging hunt. I didn&#8217;t end up taking one but had a great time trying. We alternated spot in stalk in lush mossy fern carpeted rain forest and then hiking and even mountain biking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,36,81,89],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting","tag-archery","tag-carbon-element","tag-elk-hunting","tag-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseanbrowne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}