Elkmentor?
- Thread starter cnelk
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Lark Bunting
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- Sep 14, 2016
- 710
Embarrassingly enough, yes. I have been tasked to teach my son to hunt... Therefore, I have to learn everything I possibly can about hunting and pass it on to him...or at least allow him the opportunity to come wander around the woods in pursuit of animals with me.
No pressure here... :crazy:
No pressure here... :crazy:
I believe I am. I will share what I know about elk with anyone I know of. I will challenge conventional wisdom to try to get people to consider that there are a lot of things published that I don\'t believe are well founded. Maybe they are just not universally true. I enjoy an elk hunting dialog with knowledgeable people like cnelk. I enjoy sharing information with a person that is just hoping to embark on their first elk hunt. I am sorry that I have very limited opportunity to personally take newer hunters out and hunt with them, but will do what I can there. I just have to be careful not to overload camp and our hunting area.
Stringunner
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- Mar 13, 2014
- 146
I feel I\'m an elk mentor and mentee! I have been tasked (joyfully) in teaching what I have gained onto my two sons who are up and coming elk killers, my 4 year old can now often spot a water hole before I do. :clap: I also started as a mentee of my dad but that has sort of morphed now into a mentor role with some things, yet I still learn a great deal from him as well... On these forums however, I still find myself in the mentee category more often than not. Undoubtedly Swede in the past several years (unknowingly until recently) thanks to his book, has been my biggest mentor and for that I am eternally grateful...though he may not be so happy about it... :shock:
I believe I am both. I willing share anything I can to whom is interested and still yet learn from others as well. I have taken several new elk hunters out their first year and when they harvest a animal they become hooked for life. That\'s the part that drives me to help where I can. We are too few and need more people that view elk hunting in a better light and for that I am grateful!
cohunter14
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- Jul 10, 2017
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\"flystrait\" said:
This is exactly where I am at...while there is a fair amount that I can give from my years in the woods, I also love trying to learn more. I have introduced a bunch of people to elk hunting and have taken them on hunts as well. But I look at elk hunting as I do anything else...the second you think you know it all, someone else will come along and show you that you don\'t. Might as well accept that and try to give as much as possible, but try to continue learning at the same time.
Buglemaster
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- Aug 25, 2017
- 334
I\'m a \"mentor in training\". When I put that book bull on the wall, I\'ll have that mentor man card tec1 certificate. Until then, I\'ll continue to share the stuff I\'ve learned over the last 45 years & take good notes from other like minded hunting lunatics like everyone on here. :lol:
I really do enjoy this place! :thewave:
I really do enjoy this place! :thewave:
Stringunner: I am more than happy to have you around. I feel al things have turned out very well. I may still get even with you for moving into the area you no hunt. You will wonder about your decision when I shoot an elk, and invite you to help me carry it out. 
JohnFitzgerald
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- Mar 31, 2014
- 1,108
I think everyone here is in some way a elk mentor.
Bob Frapples
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- Mar 10, 2014
- 367
Except me, if johns a parasite, I\'m afraid to ask what I\'d be considered.
To Whom It May Concern:
Right now many elk are having a great time. The snow is leaving the foot hills and the Spring grasses are emerging on the lower South slopes. The harsh winter is past. The mature bulls, and spikes like me are moving out of the Winter range on our own. The cows are feeding well in anticipation of delivering their calves. Last year\'s calves, are just starting to see there is a circle to life and even the weather. For a while I remember thinking the weather only got colder and harsher, now as a spike, I know it comes back, and I know it will get really warm again, and not long after that there is trouble. REAL TROUBLE!
Even now if those darn Elk Mentors are plotting and planning ways to kill us. Life would be great if they would just mind their own business. The worst part is those crazies blat every perceived vulnerability they have discovered we have. Mentors! *&%$#@ They use stealth, trickery and outrageous techniques to get shots at us with every imaginable weapon they can come up with. The Mentors are recklessly sharing dangerous information and making preparations for next September and Fall. I just hate it. I should be a rag horn soon and some mentor @%$#& will want to hang a tag on my new head gear. I wonder how far it is to the nearest sanctuary or National Park.
Right now many elk are having a great time. The snow is leaving the foot hills and the Spring grasses are emerging on the lower South slopes. The harsh winter is past. The mature bulls, and spikes like me are moving out of the Winter range on our own. The cows are feeding well in anticipation of delivering their calves. Last year\'s calves, are just starting to see there is a circle to life and even the weather. For a while I remember thinking the weather only got colder and harsher, now as a spike, I know it comes back, and I know it will get really warm again, and not long after that there is trouble. REAL TROUBLE!
Even now if those darn Elk Mentors are plotting and planning ways to kill us. Life would be great if they would just mind their own business. The worst part is those crazies blat every perceived vulnerability they have discovered we have. Mentors! *&%$#@ They use stealth, trickery and outrageous techniques to get shots at us with every imaginable weapon they can come up with. The Mentors are recklessly sharing dangerous information and making preparations for next September and Fall. I just hate it. I should be a rag horn soon and some mentor @%$#& will want to hang a tag on my new head gear. I wonder how far it is to the nearest sanctuary or National Park.
elky McElkerson
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- Mar 13, 2014
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i\'m not. but i promise to be (once i figure what the heck i am doing)
elkmtngear
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- Aug 9, 2017
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I\'m somewhere in the middle. I\'ve \"mentored\" guys on past hunts...but realistically, I\'m just a public land raghorn whacker!
Like Dave said, when I finally lay down that 350 herd bull...I\'ll put on my full blown mentor hat :dance2:
Like Dave said, when I finally lay down that 350 herd bull...I\'ll put on my full blown mentor hat :dance2:
JohnFitzgerald
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- Mar 31, 2014
- 1,108
\"Bob Frapples\" said:
I think everyone who\'s stepped foot in the woods to chase elk has something to share. How about blown oppertunites? What about bugling times and location?
To me Bob, you just as valuable as everyone else.
Billy Goat
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- Sep 5, 2017
- 332
YES! I\'m most certainly a mentor.
unfortunately, I think all I\'ve done is confuse the hunters, and save the elk in doing so..... ;P
shane
unfortunately, I think all I\'ve done is confuse the hunters, and save the elk in doing so..... ;P
shane
Bob Frapples
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- Mar 10, 2014
- 367
\"JohnFitzgerald\" said:
Wellll, That\'s nice of you John, buuuuut, Ive yet to step foot in the elk woods on my first hunt. I have been elk hunter lurking for about 2 years now and applying LE for 5 now. I promise after this september Ill be able to tell folks a lot what not to do. I guess for now I\'m a paper elk mentor.
