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Re: Archery Elk Advice
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2025, 09:42:10 PM »
Obviously.

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Re: Archery Elk Advice
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2025, 11:08:32 AM »
Started Archery Elk in 2017 and my biggest hurdle was that getting within 100 yards was easy and letting go of the fact that I could have killed it with muzzy/rifle. You need to forget that method. Now I don't count it a close call unless within 50 yards. Also it's all about time in the woods with Archery. If you don't have time to devote two weeks in the early season and get out in the late season whenever you can you won't be as successful. My last hurdle is you have to accept the fact you are going to shoot an elk and wound it and not retrieve it, just a fact of bow hunting is wounding. If you can't come to grips with that then just carry a camera and take pictures.

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Re: Archery Elk Advice
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2025, 06:14:31 PM »
If you have been hunting, you probably already have (or should have ) reconciled the fact that you risk wounding target animals with every shot. Nothing about which weapon your using changes that, just different parameters.

Become very familiar with the area your hunting. In terms of success I would prefer to have a few elk in an area I know inside and out, than more elk in a strange area. The way wind moves at different times of day and weather fronts, where the elk go when pushed, feed areas in early vs late season. Knowing about a small spine ridge, or small creek bottom can mean the difference between getting in elks wheel house, or being a hundred yards away from them with no way to get closer.


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Re: Archery Elk Advice
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2025, 11:29:00 PM »
Started Archery Elk in 2017 and my biggest hurdle was that getting within 100 yards was easy and letting go of the fact that I could have killed it with muzzy/rifle. You need to forget that method. Now I don't count it a close call unless within 50 yards. Also it's all about time in the woods with Archery. If you don't have time to devote two weeks in the early season and get out in the late season whenever you can you won't be as successful. My last hurdle is you have to accept the fact you are going to shoot an elk and wound it and not retrieve it, just a fact of bow hunting is wounding. If you can't come to grips with that then just carry a camera and take pictures.

A first post after 14 years, that's incredible.  Way to contribute helping out with some good advice!

 


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