Elk Hunting in the Bitterroot

• Sep 17, 2017

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BigHornRam

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Been a few years since I hunted this spot. It's always been a good one



About a minute after I took this picture this morning, a bull bugled across the draw and started chuckling his way down the ridge. Game on! I'll just loop my way to the left, get on the ridge, and get after them.

A little while later and in to fresh tracks, I ran into this......





Blow down was a little more intense than last time I was here.

Bitterroot Elk 1. BHR 0.

 

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• Sep 17, 2017

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I can relate to that this summer I took my boys to a place we used to pack in and hunt the downfall was so thick we never made it in spent the day crawling climbing through it .

 

• Sep 17, 2017

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There are no elk in the Bitterroot. mtmuley

 

• Sep 18, 2017

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Good luck!

 

• Sep 18, 2017

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Pack out looks like it could be a problem.

 

• Sep 18, 2017

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I used to trounce around the Darby area. Beautiful country and saw some nice bulls

 

• Sep 18, 2017

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mtmuley said:

There are no elk in the Bitterroot. mtmuley

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I saw a calf once near Lolo.

 

• Sep 19, 2017

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mtmuley said:

There are no elk in the Bitterroot. mtmuley

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The elk I was tracking came from Granite County. Damn transplants.

 

• Sep 19, 2017

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Highground said:

I saw a calf once near Lolo.

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You must be mistaken. It was probably an alpaca, chupacabra or wolly mammoth. There' no way it could have been an elk calf. They were extirpated centuries ago.

 

• Sep 19, 2017

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Looks like a cools spot BHR

 

• Sep 19, 2017

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BigHornRam said:

The elk I was tracking came from Granite County. Damn transplants.

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Ahh, narrowing down your spot. mtmuley

 

• Sep 19, 2017

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406LIFE said:

You must be mistaken. It was probably an alpaca, chupacabra or wolly mammoth. There' no way it could have been an elk calf. They were extirpated centuries ago.

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Mmmm..mammoth steaks. Just follow the bugles...

 

• Sep 20, 2017

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mtmuley said:

Ahh, narrowing down your spot. mtmuley

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It's not "my" spot. It's everyone's. It's on public land.
There are a 1000 more spots just like it in the root, and most of them rarely see a boot track.