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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652247
08/17/22 10:49 PM
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Sure hoping so. Leaving Friday for work then be home hopefully around September 2nd and start trying with the bow while on R&R. Been a few years since I got one.


The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Sask hunter] #7652250
08/17/22 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Sask hunter
Yea I will be. Hoping to make it 5 elk in five years after this fall. Speaking of which I should load up some 338 win mag shells some day soon


I’ll be taking my 338 win mag. Loaded some 210 Barnes TXS shooting great!

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652251
08/17/22 10:55 PM
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Anyone here familiar with the significance of south pass, and the green river country. Especially to the history of fur trading in America?





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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Diggerman] #7652255
08/17/22 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Diggerman
Originally Posted by arcticotter
Yep. Got my South Dakota rifle tag this year. 20 years preference!
Shot a bull 2 years ago with my bow.

Did you get the unit out your back door?


Yes I did. Go out about 4 nights a week scouting. Also running 13 trail cameras.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652276
08/18/22 12:33 AM
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Leaving next Sunday aug 28th for Colorado. Will come back sept. 17. Hunting OTC in a unit that I've had some success in.

Good luck everyone!

Ol dad


"I season my food with hunger"
Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652285
08/18/22 01:13 AM
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Yup, I try and put one in the freezer every year. Didn't get one year before last, first time I hadn't killed one in quite a few years. I guide for elk so I'm busy guiding pretty much all of the season around here, but there is an area down south that has a late rifle season. Been going down there the last few years, not as good of elk hunting, but a fun area to hunt and the season dates work out to give me time to hunt. Used to hunt a more local area that had a five day longer season than where I'm guiding, so I got the last five days and the couple days I have off between hunters, but the other area gives me up to 11 days and a trip with the wife, also some decent mule deer hunting there at the same time.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652310
08/18/22 06:29 AM
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I'm not able to get out there this fall, but I've had some success in Idaho before. The area we hunt is beautiful but brutal. Crazy steep terrain and thick cover. Success rates for archery are in the single digits, so I was pretty fortunate to have called in this guy. He popped up over the ridge at 45 yards and I buried an arrow into his adam's apple. He only went about 150 yards, but as I was following the blood trail I had a MONSTER bull come out of the alders - bugling and then destroying a small tree - all within 40 yards of me.

It was amazing.

I've heard people try to compare turkey hunting with elk hunting as there can be so much interaction and calling involved with both. Yeah, it's the same thing - to the extent that a 20-ish pound chicken walking up to you can produce the same overwhelming experience that a 750 pound bull elk can. Until you've been close to one, you cannot imagine how large they are and how loud they are.

Best of luck to those of you who are lucky enough to be hunting them this year. I'll be back out west next fall.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652441
08/18/22 10:30 AM
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Yes, we hunt mainly private now, we work for a rancher, but hunt on NF during archery season.
We have limited bull hunting access but can hunt cow elk for months and have run of the place.

Have taken a couple of good bulls on the property, the best was a wounded bull.
We have taken a bunch of cows off the place.

All Wyoming elk. Our cow tags are basically OTC because of the lack of private access in the area. We can get 2 cow tags and a bull tag.

My wounded bull and some cows.

Good luck this fall.

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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652497
08/18/22 11:54 AM
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Great pics ^^^^

Great bull

Love the looks of that country


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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: HOYT archery] #7652501
08/18/22 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by HOYT archery
Nope, tried again for a Kansas bull tag but didn't draw one. So I added another preference point to the bucket. Maybe one of these days.

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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652502
08/18/22 12:00 PM
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Good luck to all that go .And be careful

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652547
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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652548
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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652552
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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652590
08/18/22 02:13 PM
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Yes! Montana I have a either sex tag and 2 cow tags. Yes I killed them before hunting in my back yard.


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Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: arcticotter] #7652882
08/18/22 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by arcticotter
Originally Posted by Sask hunter
Yea I will be. Hoping to make it 5 elk in five years after this fall. Speaking of which I should load up some 338 win mag shells some day soon


I’ll be taking my 338 win mag. Loaded some 210 Barnes TXS shooting great!

I use the 225 ttsx in mine

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7652959
08/18/22 10:45 PM
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Yessir. Our rifle season starts Sept 17 for bulls but I prefer to eat cows. As far as I'm concerned they are the best table fare there is. My season don't start for my cow tag until Nov 1 and is good til Dec 20. I usually shoot a elk a year unless work gets in the way.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: arcticotter] #7652963
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Those 210's are deadly poison for elk. I used to use a 338 win mag but I've started using my 26 nos with 142 lrab's and it work pretty good to.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7653016
08/19/22 01:03 AM
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Will be going after them with my bow here in a couple weeks. Always seeing cows and spike bulls in the front yard.

Re: Anybody going elk hunting this Fall? [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7653052
08/19/22 06:14 AM
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I will be heading to Wyoming in a couple weeks. Hope to get one.

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