101 Elk

[Jeremy Leaf]

I hunt Mule deer in 101 every year.  Lately I have seen more and more elk sign in an area I hunt but I have never seen an elk there.  Has anyone located elk in any numbers there?  Sure would be nice to get away from the crowds and be able to take either sex with no antler restrictions. It looks like around 13 are killed every year in 101 so the odds don't look to good.  I plan on putting up several trail cams if the snow ever melts.  Maybe something will come around.

[piledup]

Are you sure they're not just cow tracks? I've hunted there for as long as I can remember and I have never seen an elk up there. I've heard that there are some in there but they are only in a certain area and are not spread out through the unit.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I sure ran into a lot of Moose sign last time I was hunting there !
did not see any Elk sign, but that is just where I was......

[Jeremy Leaf]

Moose could be what I was seeing.  All I saw was poop and tracks.  Like I said I have never seen an elk there but I hunt the area really hard for a month a year between me and my son.  I figured it was a long shot. 

[1Shot2Kills]

Are you sure they're not just cow tracks?

Do cow and elk tracks look that similar? "off to Google Images"

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

As far as I have seen, cow tracks are more "splayed" as in the tips of the hooves seem to point more outward than an Elks.
I know when I was seeing Moose sign, I thought it was Elk, until I found some Golf Ball sized droppings, more round than Elk also, although the Elk sized stuff looked close to olive shape, like "normal" elk pellets.   

[piledup]

Are you sure they're not just cow tracks?

Do cow and elk tracks look that similar? "off to Google Images"

I haven't taken a "really" close look at the difference between the two tracks before but I've kind of noticed that small cows "kind of" have the same tracks as elks. 

As for moose and elk tracks, I can pretty much tell the difference between them.

[JKEEN33]

Depends on where in 101 you are. I hunt right on the border of 101 and 204 and I have seen one cow elk in there a few years ago. Not sure where it came from and haven't seen any since, but it was there.

[huntnnw]

There isn't a ton,  but in a particular area they are there every late season

[Slayerz]

I have hunted elk in 101 during archery season and have had luck finding them and missing them (mis-ranged)!!

[belkaholic]

my dad lives in the 204, next unit west of 101 and he has about 50 elk that come straight out of Canada down by his place for acouple weeks or more and then move back north. it is possiable that you are seeing elk tracks.