First of all hello all, This is my first post on Rokslide. I am 32 years old and I live in small town Minnesota. I am addicted to the outdoors with my drugs of choice being hunting and fishing. I am not new to western hunting, but I am definitely a novice. I have 3 sharptail grouse hunts, 1 Wyoming antelope hunt and 1 mule deer hunt under my belt. All of these hunts I have had my Dad with me on each one of these hunts and he has done well, but they definitely kicked his butt as I prefer to walk rather than drive around when I hunt, so I leave the truck before sunrise and return to the truck at sunset.
Now to my question. I owe my father everything I am because he made sure I was well introduced to hunting. He taught me morals and ethics of hunting and respecting wildlife. It is because of him that I am able to be the hunter and fisherman I am. With that said my father has always talked about going on an elk hunt, I remember this since I was 9 years old. He was focused on making sure we were financially taken care of and has never been able to do it. This is where I come in and making sure my father gets what he has been dreaming of. I have been easing us into western hunts with the most complex being the mule deer hunt this last fall, both of us were successful. All the hunts listed above were organized by me. I used every resource I could find. I absolutely love the planning and prep work required for a successful hunt. I had maps laid out everywhere with highlighter lines and post-it notes all over. The hunt I want to plan for is a 2021 elk hunt. My father will be 65 in 2021, he is by no means overweight and he is in okay shape. We have a good chance for him to get good cardio and leg strength by the time we are elk hunting, but I still want it to be bearable for him. I plan on doing all the grunt work of carrying gear, taking the extra steps to find the animals and if we are lucky I will be packing out the animal, though he may help with this I don't want him to over do it. He hasn't hauled out a deer in the last 10 years as I figure I owe it to him to do this. This will be a gun hunt as he struggles shooting his bow at distance. He also prefers to gun hunt. We will have 2 points in montana and no points anywhere else. I am looking at DIY public land, no guides. Our standards are low, if we see 1 we will be super pumped. We enjoy the experience and the possibility of shooting something. We have/will have the gear needed. We also would be able to spike camp. I am not familiar with what the terrain in the areas of a lot of states looks like, so I am asking for your help finding an area that would be possible for my father to hunt both physically and possibility of draw. I did see an episode of fresh tracks where Randy Newberg was hunting prairie elk. As this is TV I don't know how realistic this is. I am not looking for your unit and gps cords, actually I really don't want that at all. It would ruin the next 2 years of planning for me. I am looking for a general area based on the type of terrain I am looking for, for my dad.
Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this and help. It means a great deal to me,
workethic
Now to my question. I owe my father everything I am because he made sure I was well introduced to hunting. He taught me morals and ethics of hunting and respecting wildlife. It is because of him that I am able to be the hunter and fisherman I am. With that said my father has always talked about going on an elk hunt, I remember this since I was 9 years old. He was focused on making sure we were financially taken care of and has never been able to do it. This is where I come in and making sure my father gets what he has been dreaming of. I have been easing us into western hunts with the most complex being the mule deer hunt this last fall, both of us were successful. All the hunts listed above were organized by me. I used every resource I could find. I absolutely love the planning and prep work required for a successful hunt. I had maps laid out everywhere with highlighter lines and post-it notes all over. The hunt I want to plan for is a 2021 elk hunt. My father will be 65 in 2021, he is by no means overweight and he is in okay shape. We have a good chance for him to get good cardio and leg strength by the time we are elk hunting, but I still want it to be bearable for him. I plan on doing all the grunt work of carrying gear, taking the extra steps to find the animals and if we are lucky I will be packing out the animal, though he may help with this I don't want him to over do it. He hasn't hauled out a deer in the last 10 years as I figure I owe it to him to do this. This will be a gun hunt as he struggles shooting his bow at distance. He also prefers to gun hunt. We will have 2 points in montana and no points anywhere else. I am looking at DIY public land, no guides. Our standards are low, if we see 1 we will be super pumped. We enjoy the experience and the possibility of shooting something. We have/will have the gear needed. We also would be able to spike camp. I am not familiar with what the terrain in the areas of a lot of states looks like, so I am asking for your help finding an area that would be possible for my father to hunt both physically and possibility of draw. I did see an episode of fresh tracks where Randy Newberg was hunting prairie elk. As this is TV I don't know how realistic this is. I am not looking for your unit and gps cords, actually I really don't want that at all. It would ruin the next 2 years of planning for me. I am looking for a general area based on the type of terrain I am looking for, for my dad.
Thank you all very much for taking the time to read this and help. It means a great deal to me,
workethic
