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Post by duff on Nov 2, 2007 12:20:11 GMT -5
Any advice? Any one been there? Just thinking of heading over there for a day or two and figured someone might be able to steer me in decent direction.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by hoosieroutdoorsman on Jul 6, 2008 5:41:38 GMT -5
Chinook is a decent place but there are a TON of doe there,,and I think they only allow 5 hunters in the woods
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Post by duff on Jul 8, 2008 6:44:12 GMT -5
Well I spent a few days there this past archery season. Saw no deer while hunting, plenty of sign though. If I don't have any private ground again next fall I will be back. The reason they don't allow more then 5 in the woods is because there is not that much woods. I might even go back for quail, lots of upland habitat!
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Post by 76chevy on Jul 8, 2008 14:56:59 GMT -5
they really only allow FIVE hunters on the place at a time?
It is something like 2500 acres right?
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Post by duff on Jul 8, 2008 21:58:55 GMT -5
Not sure about that either. I know for the turkey draw they only let a few in...It might be 2500 acres but what isn't upland cover with very sparse trees is some of the roughest toughest hunting I've experienced. Really not much woods it wouldn't take many people to be a crowd.
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Post by jajwrigh on Jul 8, 2008 22:24:34 GMT -5
A few seasons back I was hunting some private ground near Brazil and we drove through Chinook at night. We spooked several does and a decent buck...
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Post by hoosieroutdoorsman on Jul 9, 2008 3:54:41 GMT -5
I turkey hunted there this spring and was my 1st time to be in the place and was let down to see they only allowed 5 people a day to be in there. duff is right there is alot of open pasture and ground but the woods areas are small, if you go all the way to very back you come to a gate and have to walk about a mile through some great bird hunting ground to get to the woods,,then it is some of the roughest hills and hollows you ever saw, if you got a deer back there you would have a heart attack dragging it out,,lol. I saw 11 doe in about 2 hours in the front part, never saw 1 buck though.
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Post by sgtwal on Nov 15, 2008 13:24:08 GMT -5
Right across the interstate to the south is a couple square miles of strip mine and some huge corn fields. The highway crews pick up a ton of deer along that little stretch. If I was a deer hunter I'd try to get to the area along the highway. But that's WAAAAAAYYYYY back off the access roads, behind the long lake.
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Post by duff on Nov 15, 2008 21:18:17 GMT -5
That place is one unique place for sure.
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Post by Sleazy E on Nov 20, 2008 9:25:38 GMT -5
I actually killed my first deer at chinook..... (Ohhhhhhhhhhh so many years ago) it was really not hunted hard back then.... this was the same time period when the people that owned the flats and all that old mining property around FWA would allow people to hunt... It is hard to get a deer that is for sure.... almost all open ground.... the only reason I managed to get one there was because we were walking out and as soon as we hit the grass field we saw 3 does running right for the woods... they were still a long way off.... so we ran back in and set up on different ridges and waited... the ran in below me and I managed to score a hit on a button buck.... They are right you get a deer back there and it is a drag and a half to get it out... by the time we got the deer to where we could get the truck to it I was glad I got the small BB instead of the full size doe...
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Post by bookert on Sept 10, 2009 19:26:41 GMT -5
I've hunted it many times. I've never heard about only allowing 5 hunters at a time though. It's a self-check station and there have been more than 5 on the sign-in sheet several times. I tend to hike in pretty deep with my climber and I have always seen deer. In fact, the two biggest deer I have ever seen in the wild have been at Chinook. After openning weekend, the crowd drops off dramatically. I've gone out during the week and had the place to myself.
Turkey are pretty thick as well.
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Post by slugger33 on Mar 20, 2013 21:48:33 GMT -5
i had a friend shoot a 200+lbs buck on the south side of the mine ground near Riley, i have fished chinook some, but have not hunted, saw a few nice turkeys there last spring, and one nice 6 point by the long lake but thats all i know, would like too try coyote hunting up there some time
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Post by sgtwal on Sept 8, 2013 19:41:04 GMT -5
Be sure you are on the FWA, the whole Chinook mine isn't in the FWA.
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Post by bookert on Sept 19, 2013 20:01:06 GMT -5
I used to hunt it regularly a few years ago. They didn't have any restrictions on the number of hunters at that time, but there were rarely more than a few of us out during bow season. It is thick with does, but I also saw two of the biggest bucks I have ever seen in person. My only advice is to get deep into the woods and avoid the high traffic areas. I normally hiked over a mile into a little stand of hard woods in the middle of a bunch of pines. Always saw deer and very few people.
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