How many of you guys are just sitting your hunt?

[Gerbdog]

Crazy how every hunter knows a guy that did this. Mine was a high school friend's dad. Does it ever really happen or just some story that passes from person to person as somebody who wants to sound cool takes the torch and repeats it?

nah he definitely broke his ribs, i have to assume his story was accurate with how he broke his ribs... i wasnt there but the after math i did see. Given who he is it is zero surprise to me. That said... maybe he just slipped and broke ribs and decided he needed an epic story.....

 

[intunegp]

nah he definitely broke his ribs, i have to assume his story was accurate with how he broke his ribs... i wasnt there but the after math i did see. Given who he is it is zero surprise to me. That said... maybe he just slipped and broke ribs and decided he needed an epic story.....

Right...I had an appendectomy when I was like 10 and throughout middle school and high school I told anyone that saw the scar I got stabbed.

 

[Gerbdog]

Right...I had an appendectomy when I was like 10 and throughout middle school and high school I told anyone that saw the scar I got stabbed.

Id buy you a beer for the stabbed story at a bar any day, i'd keep slinging that story haha

 

[Weldor]

Helping a good friend on his cow hunt, at 77 he's not a spry as he used to be. We'll be sitting as he calls it "a old mans hunt". It works down this way we are 6 for 6 yrs. Elk travel and do their morning stretch like clock work.

 

[intunegp]

Helping a good friend on his cow hunt, at 77 he's not a spry as he used to be. We'll be sitting as he calls it "a old mans hunt". It works down this way we are 6 for 6 yrs. Elk travel and do their morning stretch like clock work.

Unfortunately you'll have to tell that old fella you're not actually hunting.

 

[Z Barebow]

I cannot wait for 2025 Pursuit season.

 

[hereinaz]

Helping a good friend on his cow hunt, at 77 he's not a spry as he used to be. We'll be sitting as he calls it "an old mans hunt". It works down this way we are 6 for 6 yrs. Elk travel and do their morning stretch like clock work.

This is rewarding stuff! I helped an awesome old dude/friend on his bear hunt. It was great. He calls what he does “A gentleman’s hunt”

This old bear just walked in front of him as he was walking from the SXS to the glsssing point a couple hundred yards away.

Heading up to hunt elk with him in a few weeks too. He will climb a little hill and sit and glass. I will process the elk he kills, and pack it for him with a buddy.

What he does has virtually no element of “pursuit” in it. Some people say that isn’t hunting. Of course they is just opinion. Wonder if that opinion will change.

I just hope I have someone to help me hunt when I am old—even if I have to just sit in the mountains.

 

[ozyclint]

And on that note, how can sitting in a tree stand where you've cleared shooting lanes in 360 degrees, cut branches out of your lines of sight and planted the best alfalfa grass etc in these lanes really be considered "Fair Chase"??

......but lying on a grassy knoll and bowling them over at 700 yards is good to go.
Hope you didn't clear the long grass in front of the muzzle? That wouldn't be hunting.

 

[trophyhill]

Shot a cow this year one evening. We were watching a meadow with a lot of sign around it. 2 days later we killed a nice 5pt by moving in on bugles and aggressive calling. Usually do a mix of both on our hunts.

This is a great post illustrating there is more than 1 way to skin an elk. Sitting is just 1 way I've killed elk proving it works in certain situations. I would also say that you shouldn't pigeon hole yourself into 1 way of hunting. Another aspect I've personally learned from others and experience is versatility. The more versatile a hunter is, the more opportunities you will create for yourself. Experience teaches us this more than a post on the forums or reading some great books or listening/watching some great podcasts. You have to have the experiences to get a grasp and understand what you may have read or heard or saw on a podcast.

 

[nwcomechanic]

......but lying on a grassy knoll and bowling them over at 700 yards is good to go.
Hope you didn't clear the long grass in front of the muzzle? That wouldn't be hunting.

I agree with you, thats why I hunt with a bow

 

[nwcomechanic]

This is a great post illustrating there is more than 1 way to skin an elk. Sitting is just 1 way I've killed elk proving it works in certain situations. I would also say that you shouldn't pigeon hole yourself into 1 way of hunting. Another aspect I've personally learned from others and experience is versatility. The more versatile a hunter is, the more opportunities you will create for yourself. Experience teaches us this more than a post on the forums or reading some great books or listening/watching some great podcasts. You have to have the experiences to get a grasp and understand what you may have read or heard or saw on a podcast.

Totally....100%....True...

 

[nwcomechanic]

i end up doing a combination of both in a hunting season. Usually its a day or two of hunting hard in steep hell holes chasing bugles and then im usually beat up enough i sit on a wallow for a day .... unless im hearing bugles.... its always chasing when there are bugles

Midday im gonna be sitting on a well used game trail and taking a nap and eating some lunch.

This is what I have found to be what gets me closest, the combo method!

 

[Deadfall]

I have done elk hunts a few times, only saw some the last time I went (Watched a hunter across the valley stare the opposite way of them for an hour. If he only knew to turn around and hike through a small crop of trees!) But I feel like most of my hunts are just long hikes holding a bow. Not complaining, but I think my restlessness plays against me sometimes. I always hear about these guys chasing a herd or a bugal, but how many of you guys just find a nice field with some sign and sit out the days there?

I do both. If I think elk are around I'll sit tight for a couole days. Pretty impressive what you see at 2 in the afternoon. Animals usually up by 1 ish milling around in timber. Lots and lots of times they come to timber edges looking around.

 

[Deadfall]

Especially in heavy hunted areas sitting and glassing is very productive tactic. Sit for an hour or 2, glass hard. Eyes start dancing then get up and move. Sit down and repeat.

 

[Jason Snyder]

I’ve killed elk with both the pursuit method and the non hunting method. They each have their place in the toolbox and an appropriate time.

 

[nwcomechanic]

You've been hunting less than 10 years. And want to tell people what the meaning of hunting is?

Reading comprehension not the best maybe? But that’s okay! No not trying to tell anyone what the ‘meaning of hunting is’ hunting means something different to everyone that participates in it, what I’m saying is that people have a skewed definition in their mind of what hunting is. Hiking a couple hundred yards from your living room to a ladder to then sit in a tree stand all day is not hunting..

Also remember nobody can control who they were born to, where they were born, or what kinds of morals, ethics and values your family instilled in you. Not a choice just the way it is. Started hunting as soon as I could. But yeah look up the definition and try to comprehend the words that are there, that’s all I’m doing.


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[nwcomechanic]

Unfortunately you'll have to tell that old fella you're not actually hunting.

lol someone’s feelings got hurt cause they’re probably a tree stand hunter… not trying to hurt feelings but it’s a simple definition. You’re ambushing, trapping but not hunting specifically.


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[nwcomechanic]

This is a great post illustrating there is more than 1 way to skin an elk. Sitting is just 1 way I've killed elk proving it works in certain situations. I would also say that you shouldn't pigeon hole yourself into 1 way of hunting. Another aspect I've personally learned from others and experience is versatility. The more versatile a hunter is, the more opportunities you will create for yourself. Experience teaches us this more than a post on the forums or reading some great books or listening/watching some great podcasts. You have to have the experiences to get a grasp and understand what you may have read or heard or saw on a podcast.

Experience is key by far!


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[nwcomechanic]

I’ve killed elk with both the pursuit method and the non hunting method. They each have their place in the toolbox and an appropriate time.

Absolutely agree, just have to be willing to adapt and sit still, or adapt and get up and chase.

 

[nwcomechanic]

Just remember folks, not trying to start an argument, just responding to the title, the title says right there, "just sitting your hunt" which isn't very descriptive, but "just sitting" is not hunting according to the literal definition of the word.