elknailer
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This year in Colorado unit 61 it was between 6-8 miles every day for15 days. I'm 73
With an density of 4-5 elk per square mile in that unit, it is likely you missed some elk over the 15 days of your hunt.This year in Colorado unit 61 it was between 6-8 miles every day for15 days. I'm 73
That’s the equivalent to just over 7 mile by 7 mile square. That’s about 28 miles in the AM and and again in the PM. 56 miles a day. Every day. All without breaking a sweat.I usually cover 50 square miles before 10 am and then again in the evenings and I don't even break a sweat. Seems like there's more and more guys that go Elk hiking these days. I'll let my eyes do the walking until I find what I'm looking for and pattern the herd then make my move.
Reading isn't your specialty is it, reread what I wrote and think about itThat’s the equivalent to just over 7 mile by 7 mile square. That’s about 28 miles in the AM and and again in the PM. 56 miles a day. Every day. All without breaking a sweat.
You truly are an Uber elite Rokslide hunter.
Of course we do. The bulls either want to play or they don't. If they don't, I keep hiking until I find one that does. I've very rarely ever gone a day while elk hunting and not gotten into elk. People put too much thought into this mileage and hunting thing. Just go out and do what you can do, and hunt the way you want to hunt......or hunt within your limitations. Some people like to sit all day, and some like to be on the move from the time "I" get out of bed. And not everybody is looking for "any" elk. The way I hunt generally weeds out most of the elk I'm not interested in.I bet a lot of these guys walk past a lot of Elk.
Great explanation.I’m gonna say that the majority (not the vast majority, but the majority) of people who make this claim are full of it. That being said, 10 miles can mean a lot of different things in different terrain. If you’re getting off trail in rough terrain, 3 miles can easily be a 8-10 hour day. I checked out a spot awhile back that took me 9 hours to get 6 miles (4,000 feet of climbing) using a patchwork of game trails. On a moderate trail, you can easily knock out 10 miles in 5 hours. But, if you are actually “hunting”, you aren’t knocking out miles, you are stopping , starting, listening, glassing, calling, evaluating and trying to be quiet.
Put this on the scale of UL thru hikers: 25-30 miles a day is dark to dark hiking with sub 25# packs, eating meals on the go. If you are effectively hunting, 10 miles is likely all you can effectively cover in one day and that’s in relatively moderate terrain. So, when people rattle off about covering 10 miles a day for 9 days in a row, either they weren’t spending much actual time hunting or they are exaggerating.
being a fool who kills a bull every year is fine with me i personally think it's foolish to assume what others do and why without even a little information, but i'm not that surprised with the current mentality inn this country.... trying hard is for fools, and effort is for idiots.... never know what the hell you'll read on the internet, haha.If a hunter walks 10 miles in a day he’s a fool. He’s running ridges or bottom trails. He’s not side hilling benches in the elk zone. He’s definitely passing up elk unless his spot sucks so bad there are none. He probably hasn’t hunted the area enough to know when to slow down. Most likely he’s in a new area and that means he’s in exploring (scouting) mode not hunting mode. No doubt that at the speed it would take to cover that much ground there’s no way a guy could see an elk before it sees him. When someone says they covered 10 miles I just laugh and think wtf did you do that for?!?!? 16 miles… lmfao… it’s time to put miles on your truck not your boots. I probably average 3 miles a day. I’m hunting.
it was the opposite for me, i used to cover a lot less ground, but more pressure, low biomass of elk and a huge reduction in access over the years, if you want to stay among elk, there are lots of days of covering ground to cut fresh sign.I also think that there’s a curve to how many miles guys cover. Over the years you should be learning things enough to shift gears.