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Offline treeclimber2852

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Olympic Elk
« on: September 04, 2015, 10:44:52 AM »
I will be out on the Olympic next weekend and had a question.  If I have a good setup and location, would there be any benefit from using my climbing stand to get up high in a tree?  Or should I leave it at home.  I know from past whitetail experience that the higher up I got, the trickier the shot placement to get the double lung.  With the Rosie's I wouldn't want to risk not getting a clean shot, so am I better off just parking it on the ground?  I loved shooting from an elevated position, but again, this is all new to me. 

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Re: Olympic Elk
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2015, 10:53:43 AM »
IMO leave it...thick steep and nasty, stay on the move, find the elk, get ahead of them, ambush.

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Re: Olympic Elk
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2015, 03:41:40 PM »
I've grown up out here hunting elk. I think in the right spot a tree stand would work good.

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Re: Olympic Elk
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2015, 06:44:38 PM »
IMO leave it...thick steep and nasty, stay on the move, find the elk, get ahead of them, ambush.

 :yeah:

Okay to take it along if you find the perfect spot.  Most elk have home ranges of several thousand acres.  Can take a days, weeks, or months to use a trail again.  Then again they could use the same one for several days.  You never know.   If they are pasture elk and not disturbed then tree stand would work great.

 


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