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| Little Fish:
Cougar, I'm pretty new to elk hunting, but I do know there is a boat load of information out there to learn from. Asking questions is helpful but you might also spend some time reading through past posts on elk hunting on this website and others. There are plenty of them. There are also several good books on the subject. I have one from Dwight Schuh (Bugling for Elk) and one from Mike Lapinski (Radical Elk Hunting Strategies....). I know there are plenty of others out there as well. Last of all you might want to rent some videos on the subject and learn from them. The earlier videos seem to be a little more educational than the newer and more refined DVDs, but all of them are entertaining. You can rent or buy from Huntflix...they have a huge selection. Good luck. LF |
| bobcat:
Where did you guys see that electronic calls were not legal for deer? I've never heard of that. :dunno: |
| high country:
well guys not to be a bubble burster, but.... in wa we have SUPER short seasons and lots of pressure, so pretty much any video you have seen is just gonna be a dissapointment. I strongly advise that you scout areas and learn where the critters are typically gonna move through, funnels, draws, creek bottoms.....yada yada. If your calling goes south.....and there is a super cahnce of it if you are in a decent area there will be a bunch of call heavy hunters, I would spend every daylight hour working my binos in any topography that might allow an elk to sneak by. I went 10 years without an elk kill in washington and honestly was problt one of the best elk hunters alive.....but in the wrong state. if you were in wyoming or montana you could replay what you saw on the videos and prolly score.....wa is different. since I learned what it takes to kill elk in this damn state I have gone nearly perfect in the last 10 years. I no longer even consider myself an elk hunter, but instead a hunter who adapted to the states overcrowded too short season and found a few ways to make it pay off in the freezer. good luck, sorry if it sounded like a downer.......just being real |
| jackelope:
be sure to check out angry spike productions videos.... aspshannon is a member on here and the videos are all western washington roosevelt elk hunts. be careful getting all hot to call elk...may do more harm than good. |
| Opportunist:
Every time I come across a set of elk tracks I hear my dad saying in the back of my head "turn that set of tracks into an elk" The more tracking you do the better you'll get at it and the more you'll learn about elk and their travels. I do alot of calling but when the bulls shutup I switch right over to the basics. Tracking works for all weapons and seasons, early seasons are alot harder to track but definitely do-able. Alot of the videos out there are put out by call manufacturers so they are of course biased to calling, I enjoy the videos but most are filmed on special permits or private property. ASP videos are good truthfull hunting, on public access areas. I have always told someone wanting to learn to call to watch Elk Fever put out by Larry D. Jones. It is one of the best step by step instructional how to call videos out there. But you've got to start somewhere and learning to track elk is something you must know how to do to hunt elk effectively and the only place to learn that is in the woods. |
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