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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2013, 11:15:34 PM »
I have hunted the panhandle alot....the best advice is to pick an area u wanna hunt...go over in summer and camp and just get to know the area and check out other areas around there. Then go over and hunt it..u will learn so much just hunting it. There is elk all over in the mountains of the panhandle

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2013, 11:16:25 PM »
also put in for a LE tag its only $14.75 to apply and no points in ID so u never know u might get lucky..the LE units are far supperior

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2013, 08:21:37 AM »
I am not a fan of the panhandle. It is to brushy for me. To much like hunting western wa. If I was going to hunt elk in ID this year I would be down in the southeast corner.
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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2013, 08:38:02 AM »
I have some honey holes you can hunt until I move back out there, then you need to erase them from your memory.  :):)  Actually some of them are so steep and so thick you will need to erase them from your nightmares.  :)
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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2013, 08:56:27 AM »
I have some honey holes you can hunt until I move back out there, then you need to erase them from your memory.  :):)  Actually some of them are so steep and so thick you will need to erase them from your nightmares.  :)

Send those my way.  It is funny how every time I drop into some of the steep nasty holes I tell myself I will never be back there.  Then a day or two later I find myself in that same dang hole crawling to get out.

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #20 on: January 08, 2013, 09:13:20 AM »
I have some honey holes you can hunt until I move back out there, then you need to erase them from your memory.  :):)  Actually some of them are so steep and so thick you will need to erase them from your nightmares.  :)

Send those my way.  It is funny how every time I drop into some of the steep nasty holes I tell myself I will never be back there.  Then a day or two later I find myself in that same dang hole crawling to get out.


Hey, its my thread. I get first dibs on the GPS coordinates  :chuckle:  :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #21 on: January 08, 2013, 09:22:48 AM »
I showed a guy from this site one of my spots.  I had hunted it hard for 3 years, seen a few elk, had bulls screaming their heads off at 25 yards and could only see feet and tips of antlers.  Never released an arrow, almost always into elk.  The first weekend he hunts up there, he's hiking up the trail , hears a bull bugle, cow calls, it runs in, 15 yards broadside, there is a hole in the brush right over the vitals, zips an arrow through and kills a nice raghorn 5x5.  Are you kidding me.  :):)  Better to be lucky than good, but this guy was lucky and good.  :)
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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #22 on: January 08, 2013, 09:41:24 AM »
One thing I will say, I'm a fat guy, so tend to stay with in 2 miles of my rig or camp.

Ask Norse, you can take down there but I will be slow and sweating my balls off on the way out , but I will get there and back, but I don't, just give my wife the GPS coords and tell her I'm finally happy.

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #23 on: January 08, 2013, 10:06:48 AM »
I have some honey holes you can hunt until I move back out there, then you need to erase them from your memory.  :):)  Actually some of them are so steep and so thick you will need to erase them from your nightmares.  :)

Send those my way.  It is funny how every time I drop into some of the steep nasty holes I tell myself I will never be back there.  Then a day or two later I find myself in that same dang hole crawling to get out.


Hey, its my thread. I get first dibs on the GPS coordinates  :chuckle:  :chuckle: :chuckle:

Sounds like it is not an enjoyable area so maybe we can team up on it since I hunt by myself and when something hits the ground it will be a nightmare getting it out.  I really want to experience that nightmare though this year.  I seem to be able to get bulls on trailcam pretty easy just the hunting part has been difficult the last couple years..   :bash:

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Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2013, 10:11:20 AM »
That is normal man.  I had nice bulls all summer on my trail cam, come archery season they disappeared!! They came back later in the season and then October they were gone again.  Talking with old timers up there the big bulls separate from the herd and head up high to rest until the snow pushes them down lower.  Makes sense to me cause we saw the herds, and only spikes and rags were with the cows.  I'm gonna expand my search area this year and did out where these boys go to rest up!

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2013, 10:14:51 AM »
I have had good luck in the Headquarters area, lot's of room for hunters. And really think about the special permit draws, like someone already said if you have a hunting license they are cheap to put in for. Put in for unit 18 for archery, lots of elk there and it hasn't been completly inidated with wolves yet, at least it wasn't when I drew there a few years ago. Idaho kicks butt, more animals and less people, but colorado has a ton of elk and they seem to be getting bigger! I would really try Colorado first if you can.
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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #26 on: January 08, 2013, 10:16:36 AM »
here is what ya got to look forward to.. :tup:

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2013, 10:21:51 AM »
I dunno.  :dunno:  Looks like a little piece of paradise to me.   :tup:
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Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #28 on: January 08, 2013, 10:39:30 AM »
here is what ya got to look forward to.. :tup:

I would love to find an area that open!!! Is that further south?

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Re: Idaho info needed for elk.
« Reply #29 on: January 08, 2013, 10:42:56 AM »
here is what ya got to look forward to.. :tup:

I would love to find an area that open!!! Is that further south?

ya its pretty southern

 


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