I hunt from a base camp and mainly tree stand hunt. When the time feels right, I will do some calling. For me calling is partly scouting and partly hunting. If an area is good, I may haul a tree stand to a select location. What is your primary way of elk hunting, and do you have a backup style?
Your Go To Plan
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iccyman001
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- Apr 30, 2014
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I\'m still fine tweaking my ways, but to give my best answer:
In the morning I am \"run and gunning\" with my bow.
I am either listening for bugles and chasing or I am talking with elk and moving towards them.
The evening has been more of a sit in a spot and wait. (Water, Wallow, or maybe food)
In the morning I am \"run and gunning\" with my bow.
I am either listening for bugles and chasing or I am talking with elk and moving towards them.
The evening has been more of a sit in a spot and wait. (Water, Wallow, or maybe food)
cohunter14
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- Jul 10, 2017
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For me, early in the hunt is typically spent covering ground and trying to find some fresh sign or anything that leads me to believe that the elk are in a certain area. Sometimes this is done with binocs or a spotting scope, if possible, but more times than not it is done on foot. I try to do more stand hunting in the afternoons/evenings, although I would actually refer to it as a ground blind as I am not up in a tree...although I\'m not actually in a blind either!
The one thing I have noticed the more I have hunted is that I just don\'t love sitting still that much. It\'s one thing if I am glassing, but if I am sitting on a game trail or at the edge of a meadow hoping and waiting for an elk to come by, my patience gets tested a lot!
The one thing I have noticed the more I have hunted is that I just don\'t love sitting still that much. It\'s one thing if I am glassing, but if I am sitting on a game trail or at the edge of a meadow hoping and waiting for an elk to come by, my patience gets tested a lot!
I guess my go to is run and gun. if talking I will call if they are not I usually travel till I find them. I also spot and stalk and I have also sat water. I\'m a method melting pot I don\'t have a set way I\'ve killed elk almost every way at one time or another. I can do about any approach, but if I have my choice I will be climbing and calling elk to me. just for the kick I get out of it.
