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Originally Posted by capper
Hey guys wanted to ask the experts (and the peanut gallery) about elk hunting, Specifily your experience on crown land hunting. This coming season will be
My first year attempting to locate and harvest an elk. The zones I’m currently spreading time learning about include 521,522,360,357. So basically valleyview,grand prairie and surrounding areas. My question is around how a person chooses a specific area of crown land to begin scouting. Each of these zones have crown land and private land and have very similar topography. Generally the thought is elk live in high country and come Down to the fields as the snow gets deep. These wmu don’t really have much for montains, more foothills if anything so really so this logic probably isn’t valid? I’m going to make the assumption that the elk in these wmu stay in the deep bush much of the year and end up in the fields once the snow falls? I’m also curious on how effective beginner elk callers are? I’m spending more and more
Time with my bow in hand and am truly looking forward attempting to make some calls and even better yet hear a response ...I’ve hunted moose for years and was realitivly sucseful at calling right away. With deer I seem to have limited to little success. Any advice will help!
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Well for starters, elk are the easiest/ hardest animal to hunt. Yes they tell you where they are most of the time (if you can entice them with calls) but bulls in bow season will be herded up. With exceptions to satellite bulls trying to sneaking in a poke or two on the cows. They'll have dozen sets of eyes on you guarded by their cows. Closing the gap between them and the cows is your objective. Decoys work well in open country.
It might take you yrs to learn their language and habits before harvesting one. But their is always some short of luck involved. I hunt in one of them zones and our group of 8 usually takes 2-4 bulls a yr. Last couple yrs have been slower and not seeing many herd bulls over 300" like in be past. Lots of hunting pressure and hack hunters pushing them around. I hunt both archery and rifle season, you can almost guarantee after first day of rifle season you won't hear a peep out of them hunting around crown/farmland. So get on them early. Patience and learning what turns them will get you within bow range. Sometimes it's just the right tone that makes them go wild, others it's completely staying quiet and still.
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