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I had that hunt last year. Saw bulls every day of the hunt. The hard part is getting in archery range with crunchy snow on the ground. Pm me and ill share some spots that you will find bulls.

Same tag here. Dont worry. Ill leave you a decent bull : ) haha well thanks, hopefully we have a wet year and a good rut.. Some good bulls will be hitting the dirt. I hope so. Last year 7e had awsome antler growth but the rut was real slow to kick in. I hope its a little earlier this year. I took some video of a bachelor herd of about 75 280-320 bulls. There should be a lot of good shooters in there this year.

Same tag here. Dont worry. Ill leave you a decent bull : )

My first son was born three weeks ago. Im already thinking about building up mom's points for him and what his first rifle should be. I can wait to have a little hunting buddy.

I've draw early archery elk tags like clockwork every third year. I'm sitting on 12 lope points and I know I have a long way to go before I draw my 10 or 5b antelope tag. I would trade in a heart beat!

I have had 14 elk tags in the last 16 years. This year is my 5th bull tag in that time. I always put a good bull tag as a first choice and an easy to draw cow tag as my second. I hunt elk nearly ever year and every so often i get my first choice and get to chase bulging bulls.

Thank you.

What does a tag cost?

I would get a single reed call and start practicing with it now. I think mine is primos. So many guys stop by walmart the night before their hunt and just start blowing. Its quite comical and you can easily hear the difference between an elk and an inexperienced hunter. Watch videos on YouTube and pay attention to their calling sequence and sounds and watch how elk react.scouting is kind of moot. I would start no more than a couple weeks before your hunt. The bulls only start coming out of their deep cover locations a few weeks before the rut. Dont worry too much about finding bulls on an early archery hunt. You will find them. Just start a good hour before sunup in the dark, locate a bugle and move in. Sometimes calling isn't nessicary and just put yourself ahead of where they are going.

Way to go!

Either archery or rifle bull for me! He'll ya!

Who pissed in your wheaties?

Class act bc777. And dont hate everyone from A3. My cousin is one of their guides and I have personally seen him handle the same situation,(someone walking down a trail with his camera) much better than whoever you dealt with.

The only thing the poindexters that work in the I.T. department hunt for is their pocket protectors and Star Wars action figures. Ha.. Pretty big generalization right there... I work in IT and don't hunt for pocket protectors or action figures. Thats because you keep them neatly organized in your star trek trapper keeper. ....... just kidding

One of our family friends is one of the commissioners. Last year he told me what day the would start hitting cards. Eight days after the day he said they started hitting cards! No one in the game and fish ever knows for sure.

Cats are real easy to black out with a catch pole. About 10 seconds with the pole cinched down tight and they could have taken that trap off a sleeping cat. I'm really surprised the g&f guy messed around with it awake. Catch point to the back legs or head plus chain length of 5 feet or so is double the distance of those rinky dink catch poles. Very dangerous.

Mabey guys should be on this forum for more than a day before telling us what needs to change

I think it depends how far their summer and winter ranges are from each other. Some units it can be less than a mile or it could be 10 or more. My cousin is a guide and he found a bull last year that he found the year before 28 miles away! I think that was more about breeding than any thing else that caused that bull to travel that kind of distance.

One year elk hunting I walked off red butte in 9 with a full pack of antlers. I've been back a couple times and there is nothing but quad tracks all over that hill and all over the rest of 9. Around Skinner ridge used to be good for antlers but again, recently I've found nothing but quad tracks. This year I'm going to hit the thickest steepest nastiest places in 5bN that I know in hopes of finding some decent antlers.

Same here in Flag. The buyers are out.

Most trappers rebait only about once every week or two, or at least I do, so its not uncommon for the bait to look dry. Their should be an Id on it but its not required to be visible when the trap is set. Only g&f can start handling the trap to find the Id. Cages can be checked from a long ways away so odds are the traps are being checked evenif there are no fresh footprints around.

3c here, helping a bud on his first elk hunt ever.

Simple solution. Split 10 into 10n and 10s with 10n being the big bo. Then issue 0 elk, antelope and deer tags for 10n. The ranch higher ups would be kissing so much g&f butt. Sure they could fight it in court but that cost money and time. I think they would just back down. G&f needs to grow a pair and play hard ball.

Not on private land and there are a lot of reservations that allow them.

Where are you located?