The adventure starts now... Or should I say ordeal

[Aeon]

I'm up scouting for what might be the best hunt ever or the worst. Late season archery elk who's idea was this?


Weather forecast for tomorrow 50mph wind and rain/snow

I'll be updating this with pics and video as I go


Stand by

 

[Lungpopper]

Good luck on your "ordeal" sounds interesting.

 

[ilovesprig]

Good luck Bill..............I'm sure those elk have met their match...............


ps....Leaving for Montana in about 2 hours.....Hope I get that kind of weather.

 

[MJB]

PLEASE!

Get your head in the game you have it easy with that new RV........

And for me.......if you pass on one the first day that you would take the last day..........well we all know the answer

Good luck and fling some arrows for us

 

[Bonejour]

Good luck Bill!

 

[Aeon]

Wind is ripping, no clouds yet

 

[mike387]

Good luck man!

 

[BOWUNTR]

Good luck.... I'll be watching this... Ed F

 

[Aeon]

Well weather was the star today. Saw some elk and even snuck up on this dude, to many people on the unit today. I'm glad my hunts not for another two weeks.

 

[Bonejour]

Nice!

 

[Aeon]

recap from scouting week one!

The bad...... well it was a interesting weekend with nasty wind on sat and snow on Sunday. The gen rifle season opened on Friday so there was a huge number of people in the hills. I did not see a lot of elk! Habitat was good with food all over the place, the animals will be scattered top to bottom. Water is very plentiful so once again no concentrations near food or water.

The good.... The unit has a lot of elk and sign was all over the place. My cameras will give me a good idea of how i am going to hunt this place. If i get some daylight action on the cams i suspect ill be sitting in a tree quite a bit. This area is super easy to get around on and i do not expect a big pack out job to recover a critter if shot.

It feels odd to me to be up in elk country hunting and not have the rut not play a factor. I am approaching them as if they are a mule deer instead of elk. if they start to group up that will change but right now they are not. I hope that the gen season deer guys are as lazy as they looked on opening weekend and since deer numbers sucked they will not be back and the area can relax a bit.

Back at it this weekend for scouting weekend number 2, stand by for game cam pics I HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bonejour]

Thanks for the report Bill. You going to bugle or cow call?

 

[Lungpopper]

Good luck Bill.

 

[Aeon]

i do not think i will bugle, I have watched elk bugle in new Mexico in January but it was random and seemed pointless. They are not rutting at all this late in the year and with the kind of pressure and random calling that casual hunters use here it wont work.

I am going to try some cow calling this weekend. I have never elk hunted a place like this where they are around so many people all year long. This place is just a mess of people and elk and i am guessing the hand held cow calls ( hoochi mama ) gets used way way to much. I can see the elk just fearing any sounds at all. I have been using the carlton ( used to be HS ) 2.5 reed call for 15 years and can make just about any sound a elk can make so ill see if it works.

 

[Bonejour]

Good luck.

 

[CMPeterson]

Good luck, and hope you WHACK one!

 

[NBK]

Get em'

 

[Sdbirds]

Get one dude. This is makeing me want an elk tag more then ever

 

[gteam]

Good luck! Very cool updates.

 

[Aeon]

skipping out of work now and heading back up to scout ..........stand by for game cam pics