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Offline WapitiTalk1

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Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« on: June 23, 2021, 08:16:23 PM »
Ok, let’s roll with the 1-2 elk hunting pearls (tips) 2021 edition. Share a few elk hunting tips, from your experience, that may help somebody out for this falls elk hunt.  And 3, 2, 1 let’s go….
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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2021, 08:31:34 PM »
Wind is everything

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2021, 08:39:28 PM »
Don’t be too quiet.
If you aint hunting, you aint livin'

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2021, 08:41:30 PM »
No trout about that JR. Yep You can sometimes fool an elks vision and ears, but absolutely never their sense of smell. Possibly the best point of light on this topic/thread.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2021, 08:52:15 PM by WapitiTalk1 »
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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2021, 08:46:24 PM »
Wind is everything

Hunt uphill from truck/ camp in morning, back down after the thermal shift.
Always a down hill haul out.
Bonus!
One shot. One kill!

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2021, 09:02:07 PM »
Odds are against you for killing an elk from your sleeping bag.....  Seriously, if you're out in the woods there's always the possibility of tagging one.


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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2021, 09:09:44 PM »
Odds are against you for killing an elk from your sleeping bag.....  Seriously, if you're out in the woods there's always the possibility of tagging one.


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Another pearl. If your hunting in Elktember, be out after dark locating and up and at em at the butt crack of dawn getting below them, working up into them, working the morning thermals.
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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2021, 09:11:21 PM »
Not only can elk smell you but you can smell them too. Use your nose!

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2021, 09:19:07 PM »
Be aggressive.
Don't always call and wait.  Call and move, get where they don't expect you to be.

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2021, 09:29:34 PM »
Someone else knows about your “spot”


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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2021, 06:30:48 AM »
Don’t be too quiet.
You just might sound like a predator.

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2021, 06:40:22 AM »
Lots of good info, now just put it all together where elk are.  But first, wait over 26 years to draw a tag, ok, just kidding.  My bit of advice, don't play the points game!!!  either hunt out of state OTC or hunt OTC in your own state, don't wait till your old to draw.  Agree, the wind is very important, but you need to be where elk are.
“In common with”..... not so much!!

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2021, 06:42:46 AM »
Hunt where the elk are NOW!
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The American Soldier and Jesus Christ. One died for your freedom, the other for your soul.

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2021, 06:51:49 AM »
Don't leave elk to find elk.

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Re: Hey, I’m giving you pearls here.
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2021, 07:50:51 AM »
Persistence is a virtue. You may not see elk day 1-4 but on day 5 there they are standing in front of you so make the most of every opportunity. I'm a firm believer hard work trumps talent. And of course a little luck never hurts.

 


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