So campers, there is an old poem that says “In the springtime, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to elk country scouting”. I may have the words mixed up a bit but I like this version better than the original.
Are you going to head into the elk woods and do some scouting this summer? What is your game plan while there? Checking elk pops via some glassing, checking sign, checking bull quality, clearing some access trails down/up to some “spots”, dropping some trail cams and attractant (if legal in your elk state of course), hang three rolls of orange engineer tape on branches so I don't get lost walking to/from a wallow spot, prepping a few tree stand sites, cutting/splitting/stacking some firewood for base camp, stashing some gear (again, if legal in your elk state) for backcountry hunts, clearing blow down off the one horse road to your preferred base camp site, scout a few new spots in your general area that you haven’t been to yet, check to see if that ˝ case of leftover beer is still chillin’ in the creek, popping a few reflective trail tacks in firs on the way to a deep spot or two, etc.?
Or perhaps “no, I don’t need to do any stinking scouting, I’ve hunted my elk area for years….. There is no reason to stink it up with my foul city stench”.
Thought this would be a good thread for the old salts to chime in on and the newer cats to learn a bit from. I’ve actually had hunters ask me what I do when I go scouting.
