keeping elk in an area where elk usually are not around

[huntingyearround]

So I set up a new spot a weeks ago on my buddies land roughly about a 1000 acres  and I set up one camera with a salt lick and pickee another area with awesome deer highway in it. I didn't have my other feeder ready so I only stuck a salt lick out there for a week came back yesterday put the feeder and camera up and this morning I got a funny feeling I needed to check my camera so after work I went and checked my camera and sure as hell there was a nice bull elk.....keep in mind elk are seen in this area maybe once every 10 years so I was wondering how do I keep this elk in the area tell sept when archery starts?

I will post the pictures here soon

[CedarPants]

Unit 130?

[6x6in6]

It's kind of like dating multiple women.
Find them, keep them entertained, and the bull will try to swoop in and steal them away.  He swoops in, you kill him.

OK, that last part would not be advisable in a dating situation. 

[huntingyearround]

Yes 130 not a spot you would usually ever see them.....ha I love the dating advice

[huntingyearround]

And my computer crapped out so I will get the photos tomorrow at work....also I threw up just a crappy tasco so its hard to tell if he is a 6x5 or a 5x5 or a 6x6

[Mudman]

You don't.  Get the cows there!  I have a theory that bulls summer in peoples back yards and most don't know it.  I have found a few spots that a bull would summer and nobody ever knew he was there in between the farms.  Come late August they always leave unless injured.

[huntingyearround]

When I was driving out of my area today I stopped at a little pond and on the other side of the pond was what looked like a cow but I couldn't tell a couple hundred yards out...what I can conclude is about 100 yards from where my camera is there is a swamp like area that could be a nice wallow if I can get the cows in the area....mybuddy did say the bulls do pass by through here and by september they typically make there way to the wild life refugee

[CedarPants]

Some of the places I wish I could hunt in 130 ...... the elk are there more often than the landowners realize 

They do move around a lot out there, but in the areas I try (unsuccessfully  ) to gain access to each year they tend to move through more frequently than other places.

How to keep them there though - I don't know.  You said your buddy had 1,000 acres and that you got a photo of this bull over a salt lick ........... that's a pretty good sized piece of land and while he was drawn to the salt lick I'm guessing something else drew him to the land in general.  Food source?  Water?  Cover?  Travel corridor?

I'd focus on what possibly brought him there in the first place and come up with a strategy from there 

[brianb231]

Unless you got some hot cows tied up I would say good luck. I know that does not help but they will only be thinking with the little head that time of year!

[vandeman17]

Maybe get some montana cow decoys and put them around and spray the heck out of them with cow scent and you can fool him. 

[HighCountryHunter88]

i spent 6 years hunting that unit for everything i could while in school, those elk will not slow down on their little 2 week walkabout cycle they do. there is feed everywhere, and they know they are safe on the refuge and on certain pieces of private. even when they are hunting the refuge they dont let you into where the elk are holding.

[Bullkllr]

Simple:

Elk+rope+fancy lassoing+tree= tag filled first thing opening morning!

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

If there isn't water on your buddies 1000 acres? I would make sure there is a constant supply of fresh water even if it meant drilling a well!

[huntingyearround]

There can't throw a rock with out hitting a pond as wepl as silver lake with 3/4 mi. shore there is plent of water but I think highcountryhunter88 is on to something with the two week elk walk around  and I fear that due to being in the military and getting ready to leave for 3 weeks to germany he will simply move on. Although if he does stick around 

[Dan-o]

Have you tried a 300 Win Mag?

That should keep him there......