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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: belkaholic on February 08, 2010, 09:48:22 PM

Title: elk and timber
Post by: belkaholic on February 08, 2010, 09:48:22 PM: i know i might get 100 different views on this but i am wondering, do elk(westside) always go in the timber during the day? i found a area this weekend near whare i always hunt that was full of sign. it had scat, beds, rubs, water and tall thick reprod and brush. but no timber to easily escape to. are the elk there because of the time of year or would the brush and reprod be enough protection? thanks for your input.
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Post by: logger on February 08, 2010, 09:56:27 PM: Reprod is their best cover, You can chase them in circles for hours in that crap and only be 40 yds. from them the hole time.
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Post by: TopOfTheFoodChain on February 08, 2010, 09:58:35 PM: l pretty much live in the reprod in bow season because that's where I find them most often. Hunted muzzy this year, Jan. unit 504 cow tag.... they were still in the reprod most of the time..... :bash:
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Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on February 08, 2010, 11:25:19 PM: +1 reprod. or any thick stuff once season starts, they travel through timber to get to reprod.
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Post by: PolarBear on February 09, 2010, 12:52:17 AM: Reprod or thick alder bottoms.
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Post by: Instinct on February 09, 2010, 09:16:12 PM: just wondering what is a repod :dunno:
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Post by: belkaholic on February 09, 2010, 09:17:07 PM: thanks for your input guys, that makes alot of sence. another question though, if elk have everything,food water cover, will they stay ther a couple days sometimes or do they always move? and i know elk like alder bottems, but why, whats different in them?
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Post by: belkaholic on February 09, 2010, 09:19:16 PM: REPRODuced forrest, a clearcut that now has 10 to 20 ft trees growing and usealy realy, realy thick.
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Post by: Instinct on February 09, 2010, 09:28:57 PM: ahh alright cool thanks didnt know that terminology
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Post by: Alchase on February 10, 2010, 09:33:09 AM: Nothing in this world worse then being able to hear them, smell them, and sometimes see their hooves while looking under the reprod branches and not even being able count them let alone determine sex, lol.

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Post by: rasbo on February 10, 2010, 09:55:52 AM: Quote from: Instinct on February 09, 2010, 09:16:12 PM
just wondering what is a repod :dunno:
definition reprod...The bane of every hunter..A place the wind is never right,a place where something three times your size can walk away within feet,only to hear it laughing at you,at not see it..Its a great place for spotting asses for brief moments.Its a black hole of microcosm's that suck you in,like the pretty gal at the end of a bar only to let you down..
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Post by: colockumelk on February 10, 2010, 09:58:19 AM: Quote from: belkaholic on February 09, 2010, 09:17:07 PM
thanks for your input guys, that makes alot of sence. another question though, if elk have everything,food water cover, will they stay ther a couple days sometimes or do they always move? and i know elk like alder bottems, but why, whats different in them?

Don't know anything about alder bottoms. But for your first question elk can and will stay in a secure bedding area for a week. If...........

They are not pressured or spooked in their bedding area. You can bumb them where they feed and they will still come back, but if you bump them in their beds they will leave it and not come back. Bedding sites are chosen by 1. the lead cow of the group. Bulls do not pick the bedding sites because they go where the hot cows are. Cows pick the bedding sites based on good bedding sites from years past that they remember. And also one that is close to feed and water and is far enough from humans that they don't get pressure. If they can find cover, feed and water in a 1/4 mile area than that's as far as they'll travel. Or they may have to travel miles to do this. It all depends on the terrain.
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Post by: belkaholic on February 11, 2010, 09:55:00 PM: good info guys, thanks. and i love the stuff about the black holes called reprod. :chuckle:
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Post by: ribka on February 11, 2010, 10:08:19 PM: Good info Colockum

Have been in reprod within feet of elk/deer and no shot opportunity. Stuff is tough to hunt in but once human pressure starts( hunting season) look to the thickest nastiest areas for animals
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Post by: NWBREW on February 11, 2010, 10:20:52 PM: Quote from: rasbo on February 10, 2010, 09:55:52 AM
Quote from: Instinct on February 09, 2010, 09:16:12 PM
just wondering what is a repod :dunno:
definition reprod...The bane of every hunter..A place the wind is never right,a place where something three times your size can walk away within feet,only to hear it laughing at you,at not see it..Its a great place for spotting asses for brief moments.Its a black hole of microcosm's that suck you in,like the pretty gal at the end of a bar only to let you down..

You must have the same dictionary I have. ;D
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Post by: Alchase on February 12, 2010, 12:14:52 PM: Alder bottoms, are usually down in a wet lows area like creak bottom or seep spring. Usually very thick and difficult to navigate through. Compound that with Willow, nettles, or Devils club (Oplopanax horridus) that all grow near each other and that they are always wet, and you now have probably the nastiest place in the world to have to recover an elk from. And it is a good bet that is exactly where they will run to, Lil.