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[Bullhunter]

Has anyone while hunting ever had someone that you have no idea who they are stop and talk to you and show you where the elk are?


Last year i had a guy here in Idaho stop and talk to me.  After talking with this man for about an hour about elk hunting he told me that he had spotted a bunch of bulls and that he was too old and the area was to steep for him to hunt.  He then told me to follow him and drove me about ten miles through the mountain roads and stopped on top of a ridge.  He then got his bugle out and started calling the elk.  To my amazement there were three different bulls responding. 


After showing me where they were the man said that he was going to head home and have a beer.  I said thank you very much and he went on his way.  I did get into the elk that day. I had a little raghorn come in but i passed him up.  Wish i never did because i didnt tag out but thats hunting.

 

[MATT STRAW]

Thats happened to me. I was fishing on the yakima river when i lived in Wa. an old timer was walking his dog and we began talking about elk hunting. He eventually told me which burger joint to park at and cross the highway go across the river and go up this draw there are alot of elk in there. He even said that if anybody else is in there its his little brother, "dont tell him i told you". i never did see his brother and i moved before the next hunting season but i found elk that summer in there.

 

[Bullhunter]

When i moved from Oregon I let some random person know where the elk were at.  He was hunting with his young son and i wanted to pass some knowledge on so that his son could be successful in his first hunt.  Well at the end of the week i had a vehicle pull up in front of my home and it was the man with his son with a huge 6x6 in the back.  Sure enough his son had shot this bull on the last day of the season.  They were kind enough to bring me some meat.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

On my first ever elk hunting trip I was hiking out to a new area when some guys on horses came by and asked if I had seen anything. I told them I had seen a herd about a mile from here. They joked around about how I probably did not want to tell them exactly where, but I pulled out the gps and gave them coordinates.
One of the guys ended up shooting a cow.

 

[Garrett Weaver]

There's been a few times we will fill a tag but there were more than one buck in the area we saw and point people in the right direction if they ask, and after we filled our tags.

 

[Bullhunter]

Im sure people like to keep things to themselves but as a hunter i feel that if im not going to go after those animals that i have spotted then why not share it with someone else.  Also another example this year when i was bow hunting for muley's i came across some antelope hunters that said that have been out there for two days and havent spotted an antelope.  Well fortunately for them i just spotted to groups of antelope with some big bucks in them so i had them jump in my ride and i took them right to the antelope.  They both tagged out and i even helped gut them and drove them back to their campsite along with the antelope. 

As a peson i feel that if you give info as a good jesture it will be passed on later life.

 

[Fullabull]

My first year hunting here in WA I found this road that had a gate (but you could walk behind it). Close to the entrance was a camp that looked empty. A guy pops his head out the trailer and says hey. We start talking and I tell him it's my first time hunting elk in WA and he says, "you wanna to on a hunt?" Uhhh, sure! Next think I know he takes me to a couple spots that they have hunted for years and shows me around.


We get back to his camp and we sit and chat for about an hour and he says lets go I want to show you another spot. He leaves his bow behind because we were just going a ways behind his camp, I told him hey look, I'm leaving my day pack behind and I don't know why but I always have luck when I do that so you should bring you bow! He goes, no we won't be to long anyway. OK... So we walk about a quarter mile and a cow runs accross the road we are walking on. I tell him SEE! I told you, go get your bow! He goes running back to camp and just as he comes back, a bull crosses the road at the same point. He goes, here you go....NO NO NO I tell him. You are the one showing me around, you go in about 75 yards or so and I'll try and call that bull to me. He says ok and 15 minutes later he shoots the bull that was coming to my calls.


It was great! I had a new friend in elk country. He introduced me to the rest of his brothers who all hunted there and every year since we meet up with them. He has told that story so many time I think half the elk hunters in the area know it

 

[Mountain Bowhunter]

I hope I meet some people like that out there.  I've had some old timers point me in the direction of where they've spotted some big deer

 

[Mark Z]

A few years back my daughter drew a unit 13 New Mexico youth tag. I went scouting a few weeks prior (1300 mile drive each way) and checked out an area a friend of mine told me about. It was bordered up against the Southern Cross Ranch (Hunter Specialties / Prime Time Bulls had the lease). While there I met an elderly couple riding horses. Chatted for some time, told them what I was up to. They offered no advice. Finally I asked, if I was in the right spot or should I be looking someplace else? The elderly woman smiled and told me she previously had been employed by the ranch to watch elk from that same road in the middle of the night with night vision optics and then call the guides early in the morning with the location of the larger bulls. Ya buddy, we were in the right place. Nice lady.

 

[Kmbingham92]

Happened on the Bookcliffs last year, had a couple guys ride into camp that had spotted a 170 class Muley under a tree on the side of the road. They were hunting elk. We put a stalk on him as there was a well pad just above him but my buddy hurried his shot as the deer stood up and he missed.

 

[wapiti_will]

Once I'm done hunting or I've tagged out, I'd be more than happy to help out another hunter (as long as they don't rub me the wrong way).  You always get a few bad apples out there. 
Took a few buddies last year for there first elk hunting experience and put them in my favorite hunting spots.  They all filled their tags, so that was cool and gratifying to me knowing I hooked them up.