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in reply to: Planning an Elk Hunt #31531

Ptaylor wrote: I would really be interested in hearing folks with a lot of elk hunting experience chime in on the above comment. Is it better to stay right there among them, so you know where they are the next day? Or better to back out and give them some space for the night, so you don’t spook them out of the area?

Last season I had put a stalk on some elk, and swirling winds had given me away at about 50 yards. So I backed out for the night even though I still had a couple hours of light left. On my way out some locals were going in to hunt that same ridge, and they thought it would be better to just go after them since I knew where they were?

Thoughts?

anyone else got any comments on wolfing these elk on a horse for 2-3 days at a time? Being close but not right on top of the elk, instead of traveling back and forth everyday from a main camp?

[Cleland]

in reply to: Planning an Elk Hunt #20431

Ptaylor wrote: I would really be interested in hearing folks with a lot of elk hunting experience chime in on the above comment. Is it better to stay right there among them, so you know where they are the next day? Or better to back out and give them some space for the night, so you don’t spook them out of the area?

Last season I had put a stalk on some elk, and swirling winds had given me away at about 50 yards. So I backed out for the night even though I still had a couple hours of light left. On my way out some locals were going in to hunt that same ridge, and they thought it would be better to just go after them since I knew where they were?

Thoughts?

. When I go with my mustang this fall, at the end of the day I’m going to position myself down wind and out of sight of the main elk herd. But close enough to be in the thick of things in 20-30 min come morning. Want to be back 5-6 miles or where I find the elk! I can walk and horse can pack for me if I score.

[Cleland]

in reply to: Planning an Elk Hunt #18220

Ptaylor wrote: I would really be interested in hearing folks with a lot of elk hunting experience chime in on the above comment. Is it better to stay right there among them, so you know where they are the next day? Or better to back out and give them some space for the night, so you don’t spook them out of the area?

Last season I had put a stalk on some elk, and swirling winds had given me away at about 50 yards. So I backed out for the night even though I still had a couple hours of light left. On my way out some locals were going in to hunt that same ridge, and they thought it would be better to just go after them since I knew where they were?

Thoughts?

where did you go last year ptaylor? I would only back off a very short distance downwind and out of sight. I’ll never travel to main camp on a hunt again and back every day. It ruins the best part of the hunting morning and evening. Unless you like getting up at 3 am. I’ll try it closer to the elk next time.i only use one horse that’s why the 2-4 day outing. Got to travel kind of light, I can walk out with my mustang packing for me.

[Cleland]

in reply to: Planning an Elk Hunt #17930

I’m going to either Co.

Or Idaho for elk this fall. Will be hunting on my mustang with Bear Recurve. I plan on dogging(wolfing) the elk on 3-4 day outings! Sleeping among the herd, being there before daylight! Any tips on where to start??

[Cleland]

in reply to: Happy Birthday, Mr. Bear #17908

A late happy birthday to the great Bowhunter Idol!

[Cleland]

in reply to: Southwest DIY Javelina Hunts? #15343

Etter1 wrote: [quote=Smithhammer][quote=Etter1]I can’t speak for Bruce and Kevin but it was one of the coolest trips I’ve ever been on. I really only wanted to experience the desert mountains and I sure succeeded in that.

X 2!!

That country has a way of getting under your skin, doesn’t it?

If I were retired, I would spend all of January out there….every year.. Smithhammer: where at in Arizona was you hunting?

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in reply to: Lake Amistad, TX hunt #51109

ksbowman wrote: Every time I’ve hunted exotics or hogs I’ve always bought the $45 Texas short time hunting tag although I was told it was not required. One time I was hunting outside Plano in the hill country and I came to within 60 yards of a herd of Auodad sheep and I would love to shoot one ever since. Only time I was ever that close to one and they are awesome.

sounds easy enough. You didn’t need the $315.00 general license?

[Cleland]

in reply to: Lake Amistad, TX hunt #51073

ksbowman wrote: West Texas right on the border.

I’m a non-resident bow hunter. What all do I need to hunt Amistad?

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in reply to: Lake Amistad, TX hunt #41449

lbman77 wrote: I forgot to mention what there is to hunt. Besides white tail, Rio Grande turkey(requiring tags, and an upland bird stamp for turkey), and javalina, there’s the exotics: Mouflon sheep, Audad sheep, blackbuck (African Gemsbok), and ferral hog, all of which, have no bag limit.

. Where’s this Lake Amistad and what do I have to do to hunt there? From South Dakota hauling possessed turkeys to Laredo every week.

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