Does this cross your mind?

[Coveyleader]

You're up in your elk spots in August, or say a week or two prior to the season, and it's a ghost town, I mean empty, not a soul. You in sit in your camping spot no atvs or trucks passing by, no headlights off in the distance, just quiet. Ears ringing. You wake up in the AM, same thing, have coffee a bachelor herd of mule deer are watching you, maybe a herd of elk feeding back into the trees, and you say to yourself..............

"If we could hunt right now, we'd be done in two days"

 

[justinspicher]

All the time, all year.

 

[Axlrod]

If it was easy everybody would be doing it!

 

[ElkNut1]

Can't say that I have! But I certainly understand your point! Good luck this year!

ElkNut

 

[KHNC]

I've been E-scouting trying to find your spot. Hopefully its full of elk mid september.

 

[Coveyleader]

I've been E-scouting trying to find your spot. Hopefully its full of elk mid september.

Good luck…….. I’ll narrow it down, it’s West of the big river, East of the crazy state full of libs.

 

[Rob5589]

I see far more animals when I can't hunt them.

 

[Andrew12gauge]

And then opener comes and it’s lifted diesel trucks and quads running everywhere and we all wonder why the deer and elk we scouted all summer aren’t out lollygagging around in big open meadows anymore. Then a week later everybody goes home, the woods become quiet again and the animals calm and start acting normal again.


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[Coveyleader]

And then opener comes and it’s lifted diesel trucks and quads running everywhere and we all wonder why the deer and elk we scouted all summer aren’t out lollygagging around in big open meadows anymore. Then a week later everybody goes home, the woods become quiet again and the animals calm and start acting normal again.


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The pressure in my main area doesn’t stop until 4th rifles closes, it’s heavy.

 

[Next Ridge]

I get your sentiment, but don’t think about it like that.

 

[Maverick1]

Nope. The closest thing to that is I mostly bow hunt. And I “used to” see animals far off in the distance and think “that animal would be dead if I had a rifle”…….that was a couple of decades ago, when I was 12 years old and first starting out. Now I am experienced and find myself in the right spot more often than not. And I don't really do much scouting right before the season now, unless it’s a premium tag, in which case I am happy to find areas without elk. Because that means I can cross an area or two off my list of spots to check out. Which is a good thing!

 

[madtinker]

This morning I found myself 50 yards from a bull elk…and all I had was a turkey tag. “If only I had been in this situation in October.”

 

[5MilesBack]

It wasn't that long ago when it WAS like that even during the archery season.

 

[Pony Soldier]

Between May and August the elk have no fear of me, my tractor or even my dog. To push them, I have walk them a mile or two from my field. They will stand and stare at me till I get within 40 yds of them. Often I have to spread the piles of elk poop in the lawn before mowing.

However when I start to cut hay they clear out except for midnight visitors. Then they come to do combat with the bales.

By early sept they pull out and the search is on. The local idiots show up and bugle from the road with their diesels running. They can't seem to to understand the concept of summer range vs winter range.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I see far more animals when I can't hunt them.

Fact.....................

 

[BRTreedogs]

A couple years ago we had to stay until the day after season closed.
Everyone else had pulled the day before.
Hadn't seen a single doe in 2 weeks along the road.
Well the day after season on the way out we saw a couple.
She just looked at us like no NO everyone is gone. This is our week break.