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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Dbax129 on November 21, 2014, 08:35:36 PM

Title: Late season strategy/hunting styles?
Post by: Dbax129 on November 21, 2014, 08:35:36 PM: I went for elk with a bow this year purely so i could experience hunting the rut. I did not tag out however, so I am wondering, how you you guys hunt late season for elk with a bow? I am hunting western washington in a unit where its legal to take a cow or a 3pt min bull.
I have only truck scouted the unit a few times and located some animals while doing that. I saw them pretty consistantly in one or 2 areas from the road and am thinking of how to get to those places on foot. I certainly cant get at them from where i originally spotted the animals because they would see me coming across from the other side of the cuts 1/2 mile away. I was thinking just creep through the timber to get to the spots i saw them come out at and sit 50 yards inside the timber from where i would see them in the cuts. That may put me in their travel rout too the food or it may allow me to glass the edge of the cut from a place better suited to start a stalk from.
No matter what. I cant wait to get out there.
Title: Re: Late season strategy/hunting styles?
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on November 22, 2014, 09:05:13 AM: If you seen them constantly there then that's exactly what I would do...make sure wind is in your favor from the direction you think they will come from...other wise your going to have to spot and stalk or find fresh sign and track then down