Harder to kill bulls or gobblers?

[huntelk1]

I've been chasing both for a long time and I think sticking turkeys is tougher.  Hunting them is so similar,  I just can't wait for turkey season!

 

[nclonghunter]

I have hunted turkeys a lot longer than elk. I have been in some great turkey patches and had several gobblers talking and responding. Seems pretty easy at times.
With my limited elk time it's a hard call for me, since I have never been in an area that had the number of elk, like I have turkeys.
I also never physically trained an entire year for turkey hunting, just so I could get to where I could kill one. For me I would have to say elk are harder to kill due to the total amount of effort put into making it happen. Turkeys are alot easier to carry out also...

 

[Jimbow65]

Finding turkey is easy in the broken patchwork of farms and woods where i live, almost any patch of wood has turkeys within earshot. Hunting turkey in the northern "Big woods" "mountains" of PA is a lot closer to Elk hunting.

Calling in turkey for me can be as frustrating as elk: hang ups, strutting just out of range, Gobbling as the walk away.
Elk are physically more demanding.

 

[Jimbow65]

I think if you were hunting turkey with a bow without a blind they may be tougher. You can't get away with any movement with a turkey.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

Elk are more physically demanding, and quite a bit more scarce than the turkey population where I hunt turkeys.

My vote goes for bulls harder than gobblers, but reserve the right to change my mind this spring when a boss gobbler makes me want to pull my hair out.

 

[firstcomefirstserve]

i can say turkey are challenging trying to get an arrow in the sweet spot... ive harvested alot of turkeys with a bow and now the quest for that elk awaits me this fall....agree with you guys on phisically challenging for elk terrain, living in ky is alot of flat ground...if a turkey could smell thaat would be the challenge.....