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Post by scooter on Apr 11, 2014 20:11:09 GMT -8
Hello Idahomen!
I am in a group of 4 hunters coming from Pennsylvania this September for a DIY backpack elk hunt. Since were are backpacking we will be driving in from the south end of the unit to a trail head and hunting from there. We aren't looking for anybody's honey hole but would greatly appreciate any tips or information about this part of the unit. We have been scouring the internet trying to find any information and reading all articles on the area, but there just isn't much out there.
Thanks!
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2014 9:48:45 GMT -8
Thanks for joining the forum! When I get a few seconds, I'll come back here and give you my $0.02.
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2014 15:19:36 GMT -8
Not sure exactly where you will be heading in, and what general area you're thinking about, so it's hard to enter into much specifics. Generally speaking - here's what I would do. Look on the maps for the most remote areas able to be found, particularly ones with high ridges and bowls to glass down into. I would hike in on the main trail as quickly as possible, and then once in the wilderness, get off the trail and head to a remote and promising looking area. There will be other guys in there with horses, and horse hunters mainly stick to trails. Good topo maps will show where those trails are. I guess the bottom line for me is this - get away from traffic areas. This will require you all to be in really good shape because it may initially mean going up and down a couple of ridges before you get somewhere remote. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that it will be steep. But I think this approach really offers the best odds of success. It is often easy to settle for just getting a little ways away from traffic areas because the land feels big enough. But the truth is for the Middle Fork that elk numbers have dropped, making their populations per square mile pretty small. So I would get like a mad man as deep into the wilderness as possible, camp in a location that will keep the wind at a minimum, yet in a place not too far away from the top of a ridge where you can get up early to glass. You will be spotting and stalking for the most part, but at least you have the added advantage of locating bulls by bugle, assuming you are going in there during the first part of September. Get a wolf tag, as you never know...
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