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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2009, 11:56:52 PM »
200 to 300 in a spike only area a couple days before modern opener. Nobody else was scouting this area and there was 25+ spikes in the bunch. Opening morning heading to this area there was people/rigs every where so when light came all the elk were gone, we only saw a some cows and a few rag horns that day. :bash: :bash:
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2009, 12:26:32 AM »
We counted 102 on the rim above the north fork of the Manastash one day.  :)
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2009, 12:33:41 AM »
I have seen over 700 in one day.  400 in one valley.  Here on the wet side, about 150 in one day.
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2009, 07:44:57 AM »
Are you guys seeing the big numbers in large herds? Or multiple smaller herds? I usually see herd numbers of 18-25 here on the westside,the largest herd I have seen in person is 53.
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2009, 07:52:19 AM »
I have been to the feeds station at Jackson Hole multiple times, since I was born there, so about 15,000 at once!! But realistically 2 years ago we drove into the Aurthur Coffin game preserve and came around a corner to about 300 head all feeding through the same valley. When I turned the truck off they got nervous and the cows started mewing and the calf's were chirpping. Then all that camotion got the bulls stirred up and before we knew it we had an elk orchestra. It was awesome!

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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2009, 08:00:27 AM »
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2009, 08:22:29 AM »
Remember guys this was supposed to be scouting or during hunting season not on a family vacation to a game farm :chuckle:
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2009, 09:15:16 AM »
I didn't take the picture, but I've killed several elk within 2 miles all around where this was taken, and I've seen this bunch while hunting.  Projected and marked off, 1,160 in the photo.  
That is in Wyoming.  Photo taken during hunting season.

Here in WA, I've seen as many as 170 in one bunch in the upper Cowlitz Valley between Glenoma and Packwood, maybe 400 in a single day would be the most for W. WA.  I've seen over 700 on West Bar while the modern season was open in the Colockum. 
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2009, 09:39:38 AM »
I have seen 90 head in one herd here on the wetside.  There was 12 branch antlered bulls in the group.   And no, not when they are kegged up during the winter feeding.  It was 2 days before rifle season opened.
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2009, 09:48:43 AM »
Seen well over a thousand (maybe 2,000)in a day back home in Montana, hunting the migration around Yellowstone in mid November.  Another area in Montana, special permit only area, seen probably 500 in a day.

Here in WA, maybe seen as many as a hundred in a day while hunting the blues.
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2009, 09:53:08 AM »
When I saw over 800 it was in one herd in the lower Clockum opening day of Rifle season. I have seen around 200 in one heard and 250 in another during Archery Season in Oregon where I hunt!!!  :)

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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2009, 10:07:04 AM »
I didn't take the picture, but I've killed several elk within 2 miles all around where this was taken, and I've seen this bunch while hunting.  Projected and marked off, 1,160 in the photo. 
That is in Wyoming.  Photo taken during hunting season.

Here in WA, I've seen as many as 170 in one bunch in the upper Cowlitz Valley between Glenoma and Packwood, maybe 400 in a single day would be the most for W. WA.  I've seen over 700 on West Bar while the modern season was open in the Colockum. 

Now that is a lot of elk   :cue:
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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #27 on: May 27, 2009, 10:41:57 AM »
Not counting feeding stations, thousands, of course thats winterrange and not hunting them.  During hunting season.... :dunno:

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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2009, 03:20:52 PM »
During modern season about 90-100.

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Re: How many elk have you seen in one day!
« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2009, 05:04:19 PM »
On the way to lewistown mt. about four years ago at a place called Hay we saw gutpiles everywhere. When we went to the fish and game in lewistown there were several dead cows and we asked what was up. They said about 500 head were crossing from the big snowy mts. over to the little belts and were caught out in flat ground and about 125 elk were shot it was in the papers there and was one of the biggest shoot-outs ever it went on for three days. They said they wrote every ticket imaginable I think it was glad we missed it there were some big bulls shot.

 


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