teej89
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Talking about summer already right?! anywho... FINALLY convinced my old man to come elk hunting with me next year. Figured he has 10 good years of mountain hunting left l want to make the best of it(and my mom wants his moping arse outta the house but that's a different story lol)
I got my vacation bumped to 4 weeks and plan on using 12 days of vacation to hunt MT, either all at once for rifle or splitting it for archery and rifle.
We decided we're going to take a week in the summer to go and scout the unit we end up deciding on/obtain tags in.I had two general questions on this:
1) Is there any literature that'd help me out with summer elk scouting or preseason elk scouting in general. My dad has all of Randy's shows on DVR at home and every time I go home he "shows me a new one" he just recorded but it typically turns out to be another one we've already seen but I still watch it. He doesn't have memory loss lol he just gets so excited because I live far away and don't see him much.
2) If we do rifle, is it worth it to go out there because the elk will be in the high country in the summer and when rifle comes the winter will push them down lower. Or should we just use topo maps, or is actually getting our feet out there on the land and getting a hands on feel going to help us more in the long run
I got my vacation bumped to 4 weeks and plan on using 12 days of vacation to hunt MT, either all at once for rifle or splitting it for archery and rifle.
We decided we're going to take a week in the summer to go and scout the unit we end up deciding on/obtain tags in.I had two general questions on this:
1) Is there any literature that'd help me out with summer elk scouting or preseason elk scouting in general. My dad has all of Randy's shows on DVR at home and every time I go home he "shows me a new one" he just recorded but it typically turns out to be another one we've already seen but I still watch it. He doesn't have memory loss lol he just gets so excited because I live far away and don't see him much.
2) If we do rifle, is it worth it to go out there because the elk will be in the high country in the summer and when rifle comes the winter will push them down lower. Or should we just use topo maps, or is actually getting our feet out there on the land and getting a hands on feel going to help us more in the long run