Re: Free Gear Friday (3/1/19)

[BuckyHunter13]

Trust your instincts. If you?re seeing fresh sign and it feels ?elky?, slow down and consider how elk might use the terrain to their advantage. Hunt your way off the mountain and avoid switching over to ?hiking mode? and shutting off hunting mode or you just might blow a great opportunity. Elk are not always as far as possible from every road and human access. Sometimes they?re just holed up in overlooked spots (that are usually overlooked for good reason, because they suck to get into.) My buddy missed a nice bull 100 yards from the truck in 2014, the bull was chasing cows.


Biggest thing is don?t quit, don?t let doubt creep in, and keep hunting.

 

[Baileyjk]

I?m a rookie, but my biggest lesson I?ve learned is do your best to get an accurate location on the bulls before making a play. Both my encounters I screwed up by inaccurately guessing how far away the elk bugling was.