What is the nastiest place where you have found elk
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elkantlers
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I watched this bull get shot one morning and it ran right to a road and died.
They had just got it gutted when a crew came by with a mini ex.
Right place at the right time.
They had just got it gutted when a crew came by with a mini ex.
Right place at the right time.
BigHornRam
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A cougar was nibbling on this guy when we finally found it. At least it wasn't a grizzly.
Definitely several in deep holes or terrible deadfall/bushwacks like others have mentioned. There’s a specific canyon face (cliffs basically) that I see a herd of cows feeding on in the spring (eating biscuit root maybe?) that is more of a mountain goat face than an elk slope. Not sure there’d be much usable elk left if one lost its footing there.
BAKPAKR
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LOL. When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of a solo bowhunt I did below that mountain. I was young and full of vinegar then. I slept inside a burned out cedar tree in the bottom that my brother and I had found on an earlier hunt. It was hard to sleep because bulls were bugling all around me that night.
When I got back to the trailhead, elkless but fulfilled, there was a guy at the truck next to mine. I wasn’t paying any attention to him but he started a conversation by saying, “How did you plan on getting an elk out of there?” I am pretty sure he said something about the necessity of having a knife and a fork. The sun was in my eyes, and at his back, so I couldn’t see his face very well, but the voice was familiar. I asked, “Are you Glen Berry?” (Glen Berry made elk calls and VHS videos at that time and he had a very distinctive voice). It was him.
Unfortunately, there was an early ice storm several years later. I heard that someone found 27 dead bulls in the drainage I had hunted. I don’t know if they ever recovered.
