Bow hunting coastal Roosevelt elk.

[Cbled]

Hey all,
Curious to hear from people that have hunted Roosevelt elk with a bow. What worked in terms of tactics and any things you’ve learned about Rosie’s in general.
I drew a great tag in an area with a big river and lots of flats in the valley surrounded by steep thick forest with some newer clear cuts and some older as well.
My plan will be to get there before the season opens and locate the freshest sign, after that I’m not exactly sure the best approach. The season runs from early October to the middle of December. Pressure should be pretty low.
Any thoughts or advice are greatly appreciated.

 

[welkin]

Look up the tradquest podcast. They have a bunch of episodes on this

 

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

Bugles don't travel nearly as far. 400 yards away they can sound like a faint whistle.

 

[Cbled]

Look up the tradquest podcast. They have a bunch of episodes on this

Thank you, I will check that out for sure!

 

[Cbled]

Bugles don't travel nearly as far. 400 yards away they can sound like a faint whistle.

Thanks man.

 

[WMag338]

This is on my bucket list.

 

[Jason277]

Check out angry spike on youtube. Those boys are the best at jungle hunting!

 

[garrett24]

It really depends on time of year, the biggest of bulls will not be seen in re-prod or clear cuts, they will push cows with them into thick flat drainages or canyon bottoms, hunting the coast is tough you will see a lot more elk glassing clear cuts and those 3-8 year re-prods, however you have to have so many things go right to be able to kill them in there, wind seems to shift every 20 minutes at the coast, my best of luck is finding fresh sign in the thick stuff then using onx to find good topo productive of holding elk then shoot off a sequence of cow calls wait for response, a location bugle and lastly if not response a bugle w/ a chuckle and if no response move on, all about covering ground and finding that bull that is rutty and willing to play the game

 

[drpnw]

thanks for the angry spike and tradquest recs, this is good info.

 

[wide_groupings]

Born and Raised have a lot of Roosevelt content too.

Aside from the obvious stuff about how miserable the terrain usually is, prepare to go potentially long amounts of time without hearing a bugle. Even when you are positive you are around elk. In my experience they just call less, and bugles get swallowed up by the terrain and vegetation. It can be mentally taxing.

 

[chizelhead]

Born and Raised have a lot of Roosevelt content too.

Aside from the obvious stuff about how miserable the terrain usually is, prepare to go potentially long amounts of time without hearing a bugle. Even when you are positive you are around elk. In my experience they just call less, and bugles get swallowed up by the terrain and vegetation. It can be mentally taxing.

For sure.