Any Advice on Elk Hunting Montana/Colorado

Sweet! Let us know how you like it when it comes in.

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I'll do a review video of it when I first get it, and after the trip. I'll post here and on my site.

 

Congrats Paul! Don't make me said I told you so, though. Lol.

It will be a great pack for you!

 

So I can get the 4000 and if I run out of room you can carry the extra right

 

I was going to trick you by telling you that the 4000 is bigger than the 5000, and that you'd have to carry extra weight.

Isn't it traditional that the younger hunter carries everything for the grizzled veteran hunter? LOL.

 

Why do u think I hunt with a partner to help film, make them carry all that stuff

 

I ordered this book awhile back. It was still in printing so the shipment was delayed. I had baseball tryouts with my son today, when I came back, the book was sitting on the table waiting for me.

BackCountry BowHunting- A guide to the wild side. - Cameron Hanes.

Looks like I've got something to do for the rest of the weekend.

Nick, I'll send it your way when I'm done with it.

 

Enjoy reading it. I thought it was a very good book.

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X2 I have it and it is a great read..got myself hooked on bagels because that book.

 

I was hooked before that. My favorite Back country breakfast is a Bagel with precooked bacon and peanut butter. Good stuff!

 

Gotta have the honey on it too!

 

Forgot about that. I always carry a few little packages of honey in my day pack. Those things are instant energy in the middle of the day.

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That other fantastic thread got me thinking. The elk skeletal structure is different than deer. The below pictures illustrate how far forward the leg and scapula extended. This allows the hunter to really crowd the "V" or crease. I like to aim about a third of the way up the body and about four inches forward.

 

I forgot the bottle of honey I had in the cooler at base camp. Went through that little bottle last season on just about every thing at night by the fire. Mostly on apples.

 

My one gallon prepacked zip lock bags had an apple, trail mix, granola bars, sweet n salty almond or cashew bars, salami, nutter butters, bagels and the large water bladder was good dark to dark. Nothing like sitting in the spaces between just catching your breath and looking around.

 

My whole life I was told to shoot behind the front shoulder(by my dad). We started to really look at the bone structure of deer an elk and changed our way of thinking. The last 4 or 5 years we started aiming straight up the front leg. As your pics show.

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Ok. Here's a question for you experienced elk hunters.

I'm going over some Topo maps, I've got the information for migration corridors, Summer ranges, winter ranges. If the goal is to get into the woods the first week of the season. (Late Aug- Early Sept). Would you recommend I concentrate on the migration corridors? The summer ranges? or both.

If both, should I consider one more important than the other considering the dates I've mentioned.

 

It has arrived.....I'm not opening it until tomorrow. I don't have time today, I'm working on things for little league. I know if I crack open the box, the night is over.

But here's the box.....enjoy.

 

Open, Open, Open, Open.....

 

Tomorrow Grasshopper.

Great hunter must practice patience.

-Signed Confucius