What is your favorite sign to find?

[mandrroofing]

I\'ve always heard a good test is if it sticks to your boot, it\'s fresh. If not, pay no attention to it. Anybody ever heard of that?

What i gage it by is if i can very lightly run my boot accross the top and it easily smears that\'s not a sure thing but they kind of gave me the idea that they were there in the last few hours and if there\'s steam rising off of it,now were talking!

 

[cohunter14]

My experience on elk crap is that when it is a form of a pile (like a small cow pie) the grass hasn\'t froze yet.
Later after a few hard frosts the grass cures on the stem and that\'s when elk pellets arrive.
All about moisture in the food source

That makes perfect sense to me. We don\'t find a whole lot of fresh \'piles\' during rifle season, mainly just pellets.

 

[JohnFitzgerald]

Scat can be less than a day old and the elk can be miles away. Only true way to be sure is a response to your location bugle.

Hunting an area that you are 100% sure holds elk is a big part of the overall battle.

Just my 2-cents