Elk tactics

[Muleyhunter970]

I got an otc Colorado elk tag after tagging out on a mule deer. I’m hunting a unit I’ve hunted and killed elk in before, however it’s a pretty low elk density unit. This year there is very very few elk around with no snow. I’ve been hunting since Thursday and have been in elk every day, however they’ve all been cows and spike bulls, I believe I’ve been seeing the same group of elk. My question is do I keep hunting the same few canyons where I have been seeing the elk or should I move to another area and start from scratch. The area I’m in is also hunted be about 90% of the state of Texas, so the few elk around are very pressured.

 

[shootnrun]

Have you still hunted every patch of timber?

 

[Caseknife]

Is it branched antler only?

 

[mtnbound]

I got an otc Colorado elk tag after tagging out on a mule deer. I’m hunting a unit I’ve hunted and killed elk in before, however it’s a pretty low elk density unit. This year there is very very few elk around with no snow. I’ve been hunting since Thursday and have been in elk every day, however they’ve all been cows and spike bulls, I believe I’ve been seeing the same group of elk. My question is do I keep hunting the same few canyons where I have been seeing the elk or should I move to another area and start from scratch. The area I’m in is also hunted be about 90% of the state of Texas, so the few elk around are very pressured.

By now, the bigger bulls are likely in sanctuary areas, so in the area you are in, are there any deep, dark places that you look at and think "I don't want to go there". If so, go there; if not, move and find them.

 

[Muleyhunter970]

Have you still hunted every patch of timber?

It’s very thick oakbrush where the elk are, you can still hunt a few old logging roads but other then that your bushwhacking. Ive been told that later in the season mature bulls split away from cows, with the pressure do you think they would be in the same drainage?