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?

 

[Potsie]

I killed a raghorn many many moons ago in a place called Rochat Hole. Took me three days to get it all out, and just made it to football practice Tuesday afternoon.

When I told my dad where it was he just shook his head and said “Good luck. I thought you had more sense than that.”

 

[sclancy27]

We shot a cow and a spike between ~6-6.5 miles miles from the road over the last weekend of season a couple yrs ago. That kinda sucked.

I haven't killed an elk there, but the worst pack-outs I could imagine would be in AZ. That is some steep, rocky ass shit.

My brothers bull this fall we had to pack 8-900' vert to the top then 3.5 miles and ~1700' ish drop back out. That took 11-12 hours or so total hiking.

If you can't tell I'm very stupid.

 

[longbow51]

We had a place in the Scapegoat we called "The Hellhole". Lots of blowdowns and impossible to navigate. Elk loved it.

 

[brockel]

This one wasn’t the longest at just at a mile but it was definitely the one I questioned my sanity on. It had been sleeting all morning. The bull came off private onto public into this pocket of cedars. The only problem that I didn’t find out until he was dead was that the only good way that didn’t require jumping sink holes or sliding down a gumbo butte was also to come in from private side. Add to misery that as soon as I shot him the sleet stopped and it started down pouring and did that the entire day of packing him out. One of the loads I’d climbed almost to the top of the ridge just to lose traction and slide all the way back down. To add insult to injury it was literally the toughest elk meat I have ever had.

Back in my long barrel days

 

[mtmuley]

It was a rough recovery. mtmuley

Then, I found a chain hoist that I forgot about. mtmuley