2023/2024 update !!! Norris Road Elk Hunt

[2rocky]

I watched a similar bull cross I70 just before the C470 exit… guy on a bike doing ~110mph came flying up the left lane and got impaled on his rack.

Most gruesome accident I’ve seen.

I heard of the Inyo county Postmaster who went head to head with a cow elk outside of Lone Pine, CA on a motorcycle .

Lone Pine Postmaster Dies in Motorcycle Accident

Some time in the early morning hours Sunday, 47-year-old Phillip Royal, Lone Pine's Postmaster, sped into an elk on the Lone Pine Narrow Gauge Rd. He died from

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But in all seriousness, I think if FWP wanted to stop this BS of Road/flock shooting, they would make these public road adjacent areas Walk in by permit and set up a reservation system. Might not change the overall behavior, but at least they could write tickets before someone wounded 3 elk.

These shootfests happen in less visible places too. I recall the NE corner of Oregon all the landowners were pingponging the elk between each other all on private.

I think there is a huntin Western Wyoming near the Elk refuge known fondly as the "firing line"

It's not just a Montana thing.

 

[Flylo]

If you were really embarrassed, you wouldn’t have admitted that you go there on a public forum !

Touché

 

[Deleted member 28227]

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I've shot bigger bulls than this lady, but only about two...might take me a few days and a couple cold smokes to get over.
Seriously though, this is why (despite enjoying seeing people's trophy rooms) the relationship to the mountains, the experience, the hard work, learning about the animals, etc. is as much or more a part of a trophy as the physical thing.

When I first started hunting a decade ago I was enamored by the big antlers on folks walls... a decade in I don't even ask the stories anymore, 9 times out of 10 they're underwhelming and/or I feel like I'm gonna get roped into a DNR sting operation.

At this point, with a few exceptions, when I see any muley over 180 or bull over 320 on someone's wall I just assume it was poached, high fence, or shot on a big private ranch. Nothing wrong with the last one just not the hunt I'm interested in hearing about.

 

[2rocky]

Make sure you got your Prill playlist downloaded, gotta rep the home town hero while blasting from the highway.

was this the IG princess doing "real Montana cowboy " pictures you were roasting a few years ago?

 

[Irrelevant]

this lady

Bold move cotton

 

[Deleted member 28227]

was this the IG princess doing "real Montana cowboy " pictures you were roasting a few years ago?

Shame the APR is killing those cowboys...

 

[2rocky]

When I first started hunting a decade ago I was enamored by the big antlers on folks walls... a decade in I don't even ask the stories anymore, 9 times out of 10 their underwhelming and/or I feel like I'm gonna get roped into a DNR sting operation.

At this point, with a few exceptions, when I see any muley over 180 or bull over 320 on someone's wall I just assume it was poached, high fence, or shot on a big private ranch. Nothing wrong with the last one just not the hunt I'm interested in hearing about.

What's the difference between 350 and 400 inches?

About $20,000.

After hunting Utah, I really get it. EVERRRBUDDY knows where there are 400 inch bulls and they might be able to get you on that CWMU if you got the cash. Usually when locals talk about the big bull or buck they got, they are talking about guiding a client to one they found. Meanwhile they are shooting cow elk and does in the late season. Reminds me of ranchers selling their nice steer calves, and butchering the heifer that lost her calf this Fall..

 

[Elkmagnet]

When I first started hunting a decade ago I was enamored by the big antlers on folks walls... a decade in I don't even ask the stories anymore, 9 times out of 10 they're underwhelming and/or I feel like I'm gonna get roped into a DNR sting operation.

At this point, with a few exceptions, when I see any muley over 180 or bull over 320 on someone's wall I just assume it was poached, high fence, or shot on a big private ranch. Nothing wrong with the last one just not the hunt I'm interested in hearing about.

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[westbranch]

Make sure you got your Prill playlist downloaded, gotta rep the home town hero while blasting from the highway.

Man he stole that from Wheeler Walker Jr's "Redneck Shit". I won't post a link to that music video...

 

[The Hedgehog]

At approaching 10k views in a day I bet the highest concentration of hunting retards in the gallatin valley is located on the OnX screen grab in post #69.

 

[FREAK]

At approaching 10k views in a day I bet the highest concentration of hunting retards in the gallatin valley is located on the OnX screen grab in post #69.

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You’re going to single handedly break OnX.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I went and looked it up just to see if I could figure it out , took only a few minutes to find the spot in the picture

 

[Straight Arrow]

I've shot bigger bulls than this lady

Not certain, but I'd bet the cowboys did all the shooting.

 

[The Hedgehog]

At approaching 10k views in a day I bet the highest there's an EVEN HIGHER concentration of hunting retards in the gallatin valley is located on the OnX screen grab in post #69.

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Corrected above post.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

I think there is a huntin Western Wyoming near the Elk refuge known fondly as the "firing line"

It's not just a Montana thing.

I drive by it twice a day, it lasts for weeks. Sometimes it goes fine, sometimes it gets ugly. Sometimes great families get to fill their tag, sometimes terrible hunters make a big mess. I choose not to be involved either way.
It could easily be confused for the Great 3/4 ton Convention of 'Merica. Looks like a Ford sales lot parked along the river.

 

[MNElkNut]

I am anxiously awaiting the report of how many trucks are parked there. And how many have a bag of Donettes on the dash.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Forget 'bout it, MT Rookie. I rushed out there at zero-dark-thirty, but couldn't find a parking spot!

 

[The Hedgehog]

A friend of mine used to hunt Dehann's occasionally on that stretch of highway, to the south along Turners. There's never been a shortage of idiots out there after elk, but this guy was one of the more astute, less trigger happy types. I cleaned a few extra big bull Europeans for him over the years, one in particular. Gotta love Montana.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Forget 'bout it, MT Rookie. I rushed out there at zero-dark-thirty, but couldn't find a parking spot!



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Thanks for the tip , Im just now getting to Columbus, time to turn around and head back to Billings, maybe someday I’ll get my hands on a Rocky Mtn bull to hang with my Rosie’s !

 

[2rocky]

If you like the excitement of road shooting elk, come to CA and Hunt the Refuges...