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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: bullrider97 on October 27, 2010, 02:59:49 PM

Title: Late elk season
Post by: bullrider97 on October 27, 2010, 02:59:49 PM: Ok, this year is the first try for late elk with a bow. :yike: Yakima starts 11/24 and Colvill starts 11/25. I am still undecided on where to try. Never been over in Yakima. Hit Colville/49 degrees north in early season, and had some luck, but very brushy.

Anyone with advise on elevation to find them if (when) there's snow? Also any tips for techniques would be great since rut will be over. Many old timers advise they can call elk in year round with a soft cow call, but as I said, late season is new to me.

Any advice would be great......even if someone would let me tag along I would be happy to help pack yours out in exchange for any helpful tips.....and find my own spot to hunt based on any tips given.

Nick
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: Instinct on October 27, 2010, 03:47:09 PM: i know from my first expierence last year in rimrock that they are call shy and their tracks when there was snow was running towards the elk feed station and they are trickey to sneak up on. one way to get em just by talking wth other people is sit in a area have other hunters push em in ur direction... i too is still learning these tricks so i cant really be much of help
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: coachcw on October 28, 2010, 06:42:59 AM: that late season for elk is a pig and a poke. I'd be hopeing that this snow holds off till thanksgiving hunt as low aspossible and hope for late movers .
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: D-Rock425 on October 28, 2010, 11:29:15 AM: Its hard to say where the elk will be in the late hunt.
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: bushmaster on November 08, 2010, 04:25:10 PM: soft huchie to locate, then stalk.If they are in the area, they will "bark" kinda. dont over use! just to locate! :twocents:
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on November 08, 2010, 04:46:02 PM: the hoochie mama should be outlawed... or better tey be on the other side of where I am so the elk run my way....
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: bushmaster on November 08, 2010, 05:00:40 PM: It seems to work well for me in late season, even when others have not. I haven't seen them run the other way from it, any call can be over used.
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: lilswab on November 09, 2010, 09:52:21 AM: One thing I do know is that if you don't use your calls they will never work. In my experience of hunting late is to use the wind and rain to still hunt. I do have my mouth call in at all times to stop an elk if need be

A lot of guys road hunt in the wetside...that must be effective for them because so many do it :dunno:

Good luck!
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: bushmaster on November 09, 2010, 09:56:52 AM: anyone going to 336 24th-30th?
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: vandeman17 on November 09, 2010, 09:58:41 AM: For late season, I have found that if I have a few days, I try to spend the first day or two just covering as much ground as possible to see what kind of sign is around. From there, I pick my places to concentrate on and then still hunt very slowly and methodically because unlike earlier in the season, they seem to be out and about more throughout the day and not just the first and last hours of light.
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on November 09, 2010, 10:06:23 AM: Quote from: bushmaster on November 08, 2010, 05:00:40 PM
It seems to work well for me in late season, even when others have not. I haven't seen them run the other way from it, any call can be over used.

That part of being overused is the key... still prefer a diaghram call myself.
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: huntnnw on November 10, 2010, 11:04:51 PM: I hope for snow and drive till we cut tracks and get on them, moving slowly and using soft mews
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: coachcw on November 11, 2010, 06:52:22 AM: I'd recomend hiking the ridge tops to cut tracks , If you can find a ridge that run east and west , you may catch up . Seems to me when the elk move its manly at night making real tough to trackem down , if you find freash tracks right at first light you may have a chance . if not just add coco mix to the snow and make some track soup.
Title: Re: Late elk season
Post by: D-Rock425 on November 11, 2010, 07:34:18 AM: Quote from: bushmaster on November 09, 2010, 09:56:52 AM
anyone going to 336 24th-30th?
I might be depends on the weather. My trailer is parked at a buddies cabin at elk heights. If we get a lot of snow That's Where I will be.