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......

[huntingyearround]

I prefer a 7mm.

[HighCountryHunter88]

water wont keep them. the refuge is like 45% water. lol

[huntingyearround]

here he is crappy camera but its something

[HighCountryHunter88]

honestly unless there is snow and you permission on the right piece of ground that they are crossing every day to get to an alfalfa stack rifle season is hard.... september and early oct is your best bet since there are a handful of small herds moving around even all the way over to spangle and bulls will bounce around locating cows. the big boys with stay with the little migration and the cows and the young bulls will kick around a little bit more than normal

[huntingyearround]

Yeah I will have to take it day by day even if he moves on it will always be a good converaation. Starter

[huntnnw]

Like mentioned above the only way to really keep elk is winter and lotta feed available..Salt becomes less important to the elk day by day now..if there is no cows around come Sept U can gurantee that bull will be looking for a date

[huntingyearround]

I dont see the cows making thier way over to my area they have to cross I-90 to get on to the land but I guess if the bull is here maybe someday the cows can swing by

[HighCountryHunter88]

I dont see the cows making thier way over to my area they have to cross I-90 to get on to the land but I guess if the bull is here maybe someday the cows can swing by

is our ground to the north of I90?

[huntingyearround]

it borders I90 but it is south

[CedarPants]

Based on your description of distance to Silver and being south of I-90, I think I have a fairly good idea where you are at.  Salnave road shouldn't be too far west of you, and for what it's worth I see elk out there south of 90 between Granite and Salnave a decent amount of times each year (see them from I90).

I don't think they hang out there any longer than they do other places, but they seem to move through the area just like they do everywhere else out there

[HighCountryHunter88]

that is one of the smaller bands that hang around, there was a really nice bull in that area but he got smushed by an 18 wheeler..

[CedarPants]

A young 5 point was hit this morning as well on 195 just south of town

[huntingyearround]

Wow! How far south?

[huntnnw]

I see a dead elk almost everytime thru the clear lk to fish trap exit

[CedarPants]

Excelsior Rd

[Lunchbox1981]

huntingyearround, where in Germany will you be?  There are a few members on the boards here in Germany.  I am one.  Stuttgart to be exact.

[huntingyearround]

Lunchbox1981 Oberammergau to be exact the closest big city is Munich....are you in the military?

[Lunchbox1981]

I will send you a PM