What is the nastiest place where you have found elk

[utah400elk]

My first mature bull was 3.25 miles from the truck and over 2400 vertices feet each way. I was young and in incredible shape…that hunt humbled me. 13 miles the first day and another 13 the next. Two day total was 26 miles and almost 10K vertices up and 10 K down. Definitely a marathon hunt.

 

[Bill Zent]

Finding them is not hard when you hunt......Hells Canyon five miles down the Nee Me Poo trail or the thickest dead fall in Idaho's wilderness. But the hard part is the several trips getting the meat out on your back!

 

[mtmuley]

It was a rough recovery. mtmuley

 

[zpooch]

What is the nastiest place where you have found elk

California

 

[jryoung]

California at the reservoir

 

[Nick87]

I shot a bull one time somewhere between Mtmuley and the Dutton ranch. It’s was something like 1k elevation gain in 3/4 full of deadfall’s. All I remember is chanting to myself “let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor” all the way to the top

Holy Christmas you killed him at the bottom of the train station.

 

[D4570]

It was tough to pack with all the picnic tables in the way

 

[Outlaw99]

Holy Christmas you killed him at the bottom of the train station.

Kinda….. was by far one of the most bizarre hunts I’ve ever been on…someday I should do a write up on it. It’d be an entertaining read. It had poached mule deer with pickups, water and vinegar mixed, loaned out painkillers, all while lodging in an unpaid lodge….. so messed up

 

[Nick87]

Kinda….. was by far one of the most bizarre hunts I’ve ever been on…someday I should do a write up on it. It’d be an entertaining read. It had poached mule deer with pickups, water and vinegar mixed, loaned out painkillers, all while lodging in an unpaid lodge….. so messed up

Look forward to the story.

 

[cgasner1]

Kinda….. was by far one of the most bizarre hunts I’ve ever been on…someday I should do a write up on it. It’d be an entertaining read. It had poached mule deer with pickups, water and vinegar mixed, loaned out painkillers, all while lodging in an unpaid lodge….. so messed up

If I loan you a pain killer you can keep it

 

[Forkyfinder]

Shot one within a stones throw of the bottom of the draw in the shady area of this picture. From the truck to the bottom was .78 miles in a straight line.

Took me 21 hours to get that bull out by myself.

First and last time...I'm not going to even look there if I draw again.

Buzz, is that somewhere in southern wy?

 

[Outlaw99]

If I loan you a pain killer you can keep it

So now you can appreciate the insanity that was this hunt lol.

 

[kiwi hunter]

You beat me to it. My son killed a cow elk many years ago now. It was the worst game retrieval, nothing else is really close.

Fiordland NZ. Straight up n down in places.

 

[BuzzH]

Buzz, is that somewhere in southern wy?

No

 

[WildWill]

No

AZ?