How many people here have ever hunted Roosevelt Elk? Would you like to take on the challenge? I could go every year, but choose to hunt their Rocky Mountain cousins. Killing a good Roosevelt bull is rarely easy. Very few people can do it frequently. If you know their haunts you have a good chance. Wandering around calling is a long shot at best.
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Hunting Roosevelt Elk
- Thread starter Swede
- Start date
I\'ve read about them quite a bit. They sound a lot more like hunting WTs than hunting the Rocky Mountain variety. I have struggled enough to hear a vocal Rocky Mountain bull so I doubt I would try any time soon. I would like to hunt the Pacific Northwest someday though. I\'ve flown over it a few times and been on some islands in SE Alaska that is probably similiar type country so I would dearly love to have an excuse to make tracks out in that country. I\'d just like to have some experience with some bulls that talk a little bit before I tried one of those first.
I hunted them once back in the mid 90\'s. Just east of Tillamook. From what I saw of the area, there is not 20 square feet of flat ground in the whole county. That place was vertical and like a jungle.
Absolutely the best stump shooting I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. Those huge, old rotten stumps are just begging for an arrow.
Way lots of berries of many varieties also, we ate good while wandering around.
Absolutely the best stump shooting I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. Those huge, old rotten stumps are just begging for an arrow.
Way lots of berries of many varieties also, we ate good while wandering around.
elky McElkerson
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- Mar 13, 2014
- 2,038
they are on my brothers hit list. i\'d love to help him make it happen...but i hate hunting in rain..gah.hate it!!
rosie are in oregon right? in the rain forest?
we want to take them with a bow only.
rosie are in oregon right? in the rain forest?
we want to take them with a bow only.
Olympushunt
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- Jun 30, 2014
- 234
\"elky McElkerson\" said:they are on my brothers hit list. i\'d love to help him make it happen...but i hate hunting in rain..gah.hate it!!
rosie are in oregon right? in the rain forest?
we want to take them with a bow only.
Cliff I wouldn\'t let rain deter you from hunting Rosies. I lived for a number of years on the Oregon coast and if you were to hunt the first 10 days of the archery season....I would say you have about a 90% chance of not seeing one drop of rain. If you hunt the last 10 days of the season...deeper into September your odds go up quite a bit but still..overall it should be a fairly dry hunt. I agree with you....I HATE bowhunting in the rain. Gun hunting is a different matter but I still prefer to be dry. I don\'t care how good your rain gear is...you WILL get soaked. It\'s not so much the rain as the wet foliage you are wading through.
I also know guys who snicker at the idea that calling is a poor or difficult option. They kill Rosies very often by calling. I know some who argue they bugle just as much as any other elk you just don\'t hear them as much due to the typical dense vegetation. You have a bull screaming 200 yards away in Eastern Oregon you can hear him quite well.....on the coast you very well might think there is nobody home. Rosies are a very cool animal. Typically they have dark chocolate antlers and HUGE bodies. They look like dang horses! Much bigger than the same age Rocky. I know there are people who will say BS on this but I have a buddy who took a dandy Rosie years ago and they pulled 460lbs of MEAT off it. That is cut and wrapped meat....ZERO bones. But they also take everything to the point a buzzard would be pissed off at what\'s left over. He gets so mad I leave the liver in the gut pile. I do because...well....it\'s guts!
Rosies are on my hit list also. They are an intimidating animal due to the terrain but they also typically don\'t roam like Rockies so if you find their home turf and they are not messed with you will find them there day after day. My buddy would say....\"I know of this bull hanging out in this clear cut you wanna go see him?\" I said you can\'t just \"go see him like he will be standing there waiting for you!\" He takes me to the clear cut an hour before dark and sure enough he is there just grazing away. That was before season though. I know of places too where I was glad I was wearing hip waders when winter steelheading due to the amount of elk droppings. But they are like ghosts...similar to coastal blacktails. They vanish in a second. We hunt with guys (Swedes friends) who get frustrated at having a bull screaming at them 15 yards away with no shot due to dense vegetation. A very cool animal indeed and a huge feather in a guys cap who can take one with a bow and arrow.
Stringunner
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- Mar 13, 2014
- 146
Olympushunt, now you are enticing me to head your way to do some scouting!!!! Rosies might be fun one of these years.
Olympushunt
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- Jun 30, 2014
- 234
\"Stringunner\" said:Olympushunt, now you are enticing me to head your way to do some scouting!!!! Rosies might be fun one of these years.
You\'re more than welcome to come over. I\'ve got more places to scout than I can do in a lifetime. Swede gives me a hard time with all my ideas. lol
He tells me we can\'t scout them all! Why not? :mg: Most of the places I think would be dandy Rosie spots (places known for big bulls) I haven\'t been to in 10 years or more though. Some are nasty enough they would require hiking in and spike camping it.
