If your going in blind How much time do you spend in an area before you go look to another spot if your not seeing elk or fresh sign? How many miles will you cover in a day looking in that area? The areas we are going into there are not any glassing areas. What areas are you trying to hit first to get an idea if there is elk there? Like do you just hit all the saddles and see if there is fresh sign if so keep looking around? If there is open meadows do you check those out first? Creek heads? ponds? Any low spots on the side of a mountain that might be damper? The areas I have picked are pretty large and you could spend days in them to check out real good.
We went in 2016 and had a hard time finding water. Creeks on a map had no water. Some spots it was damper and had good feed but no water. Areas we found water had no sign at all. So it was kinda tough since we would need water too when we got into spots. We did find fresh sign in a few spots. Nothing real great though. Not sure if this year we start there with it being a even dryer year. Or do we start out in other areas and keep looking till we find the spot?
Also we found fresh elk sign in a lot of areas but it was all from just a few elk. Not what I have seen before from hunting another state where there was a lot of obvious sign. Seemed real scattered and light. This is the first few weeks in colorado.
Devising a game plan and hoping you guys have some tips to narrow down my searching.
Thanks!
We went in 2016 and had a hard time finding water. Creeks on a map had no water. Some spots it was damper and had good feed but no water. Areas we found water had no sign at all. So it was kinda tough since we would need water too when we got into spots. We did find fresh sign in a few spots. Nothing real great though. Not sure if this year we start there with it being a even dryer year. Or do we start out in other areas and keep looking till we find the spot?
Also we found fresh elk sign in a lot of areas but it was all from just a few elk. Not what I have seen before from hunting another state where there was a lot of obvious sign. Seemed real scattered and light. This is the first few weeks in colorado.
Devising a game plan and hoping you guys have some tips to narrow down my searching.
Thanks!