Mountain View Elk??

[andersonjk4]

Unless you have a big bull tag or have access to private land, this unit is pretty rough to hunt for spikes.  Don't get me wrong we have taken spikes in this unit and will probably do it again, but that's with a rifle and getting within muzzy range of a spike in this country will be really tough.  But as stated before.  The early responses to this thread do share some good areas to check out.  I don't mean to discourage you from hunting there I'm just trying to give you an honest assessment. 

[MarkyMark]

I've been there scouting 3 times. Hard to find spikes. I saw one. Most the elk I saw were on private land on the way up to the national forest. Wear good shoes and lots of fluids.  Beautiful country!

[ELKBURGER]

Seems like pretty tough hunting to only be limited to spikes only.

[zike]

You might want to check out the west side of the unit. I knew people who used to hunt around Saddle Butte and did pretty well. Of course that was years ago and the hunters seemed to be tougher. I knew camps that started at Hoggback dropped down to the bottom and climbed back out at Park Ridge. I don't think anybody is doing that anymore.

[MarkyMark]

There were signs posted last summer about a 4500 acre controlled burn for last season SW of Big Butte but not sure if they did that or not.

[n_mathews13]

I have heard it's a tough place, don't mind that so much. I'm just trying to find a place to elk hunt and not deal with to many people, I'm fine with workn for my elk. Just not to sure where to start lookn

[zike]

I don't think you'll have to worry much about other hunters in MV. Except for a horse camp or two,  not many people hunt it. You might check out area west of Cougar CK rd. There's a narrow ridge with finger draws running into the main canyon.

[MarkyMark]

Oh sure you just gave up my honey hole.... Just kidding.

[n_mathews13]

Thanks for the tip, I plan in going this weekend I hope.
On a side note , just got my bear rug back from taxidermist ! Can't wait till hunting season

[MarkyMark]

I saw some nice elk down there three weeks ago when I was visiting a buddy.

[andersonjk4]

There were signs posted last summer about a 4500 acre controlled burn for last season SW of Big Butte but not sure if they did that or not.

They did the Little Butte/Big Butte controlled burn last year during modern rifle elk season.  Didn't amount to much.  There was a big cloud of smoke for one day from the north side of little butte and some sporadic clumps of burnt patches around the south side of little butte, but if they were going for a ground clearing burn of the whole area then they failed miserably.  However this was in the Lick Creek unit.  There have been signs up for the last 3 years about a controlled burn in the M.V. unit but they haven't done it yet.  The burn area map shows them burning a pretty significant chunk of the public ground in this unit.  If they ended up doing this controlled burn during a hunting season it could really mess things up for people.

http://www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/!ut/p/c5/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDfxMDT8MwRydLA1cj72BTUwMTAwgAykeaxRtBeY4WBv4eHmF-YT4GMHkidBvgAI6EdIeDXIvfdrAJuM3388jPTdUvyA2NMMgyUQQAyrgQmg!!/dl3/d3/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnZ3LzZfS000MjZOMDcxT1RVODBJN0o2MTJQRDMwODQ!/?project=34241 

[n_mathews13]

Headn up this weekend to check the cam's. Thinkn I may head over to mt view if I can

[huntnnw]

saw no signs up about a controlled burn in Mt view 2 weeks ago