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Until they opened up the late mule deer draw hunts you could drive up through Joe Watt and see herds by the hundreds all day long. A few years of the late season seemed to slow it down. I went just a week earlier than now last year with snow already piling up and didn't see but 1 elk and it was a dead bull being loaded up after being shot from the road. The guys said they seen 2-3 other bulls with it. I am not aware of a tag for elk in 340 that time of year but they had some paperwork it looked like and being up in the middle of nowhere, I was not about to be much nosier than asking to look at the animal. Maybe that is why they aren't all over down low these days?
Anybody been up to oak creek lately?