It was a bit of a gamble, your right about that. The wallow sat next to a pond and it had fresher sign around it's edges. The fresh bear sign was enough to convince me to sit, and I figured the elk had to come back sometime and freshen it up. Turned out my instinct was right.
2012 MT, Public Land, DIY - After hunting silent elk in the thick jungle of Northwest Montana, we decided to sit a wallow that hadn't been used much recently, but had fresh bear tracks in it. An hour later this guys stepped out at 8 yards. A biologist aged him at 9 or 10 years.
Elk hunting is one bad@$$ sport! The battle that goes on between the elk and hunter is simply the best. This was only my third year bowhunting elk and again DIY on public land. This season started in the Missouri Breaks for 5 days but ended without an elk. At that point the decision was made to...
Thanks for the heads up. Simply stating that some guys can shoot extremely accurately at long ranges. I swear when I looked in the mirror yesterday I looked like Ulmer. Good thing you straightened me out.
70 is my max on an elk even though I'd feel confident out to 80 under the right conditions. Those conditions are very rare and I had to pass on a 70 yard opportunity the other day on a mature bull because the conditions weren't perfect for that shot. Honestly if you practice a lot with your...
I think these tags are beneficial overall. Yes it allows rich-azzes to buy a hunt basically wherever but that's a lot of money that helps us the hunters. Well maybe more so if we had the right people running our FWP.