Anybody going elk hunting this Fall?

If so, which state? Have you had any success in the past?

Hopefully, If I get to go it will be in Nevada watching the first come first served tags, I got a cow tag off it last year and filled it so hoping for a repeat.

Yep. Got my South Dakota rifle tag this year. 20 years preference!
Shot a bull 2 years ago with my bow.

tryin colorado this year with the bow.
tagged an OTC archery bull in utah last year.

Maxed out on points for the Pa, lottery draw. Not holding my breath

Yes, WY, and yes.

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Pa Elk drawing is this weekend. 178 tags and over 104,250 put in.

Tell ya on Saturday.

Yes , OR , and yes ......... archery

I’m not, but please for those that do, take plenty of pics and keep notes of the hunt. Once y’all are back to civilization I want a huge write up with pics…and make me feel like I’m there!! And pics of the country you’re hunting along with the elk.

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

Second that.

Third that

Yes. I will hunt my backyard where I shot a cow last year.

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.

Did you get the unit out your back door?

usually hunt Colorado but this year an old freind invited me on a hunt in Wyoming, I got lucky and drew a cow tag.

Didn't get my controlled tags this year --- so I am trying to decide if I will go general season or just make an extended deer season. General elk ends about the time trapping starts so not sure I will be ready for either.

Last time I went, I had to lead my horse to a rock to stump jus to get back in the saddle. Mountain hunting is a younger man’s game. And a skinnier man’s game as well. Sure is fun though.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Great pics ^^^^

Great bull

Love the looks of that country

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Good luck to all that go .And be careful

Horns full of weeds

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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.

I use the 225 ttsx in mine

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.

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.

Will be going after them with my bow here in a couple weeks. Always seeing cows and spike bulls in the front yard.

I will be heading to Wyoming in a couple weeks. Hope to get one.

Good moisture in our mountains right now and it's been down into the 40s at night here in town.
Which part of Wyoming?

Burn scar up above town got a huge rain and some debris flow last Saturday.

I wish I knew someone with a Wisconsin elk tag because it'd be interesting to follow their hunt prep & progress

Colorado OTC next week for 7 days, hope to score again.

I wonder if this is the same bull.?
Either way both are slammer bulls!! Good luck

My kind of hunter! If I ever decided to go, the first legal bull is getting an arrow!

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