Kentucky Elk

I’ve been applying for 8 years as resident PA, haven’t drawn, but a buddy applied for any elk and got lucky a few years ago on his first entry and scored a cow tag. For the low price of each pa and ky, even with the odds against you..why not try?
 
I wouldnt necessarily call PA elk a hobby herd. It is managed and around Benezette it is no different than Estes Park. While we don't have the mountains and wilderness area of the western US if you would choose you could take your Elk tag and go 2 to 3 miles from a road and hunt multiple herds of Elk that are as afraid and wary of people as any other wild animal.

No it is not the same western experience but the animal (if you choose to hunt them away from the infrastructure dedicated to elk) is just as difficult if not more so.

I would imagine Kentucky to be the same but don't have any first hand experience.
 
If I was going hunting PA it’d be opening of deer season in a stormy Kromer hat. Same as I do in Mi. I love going to town in the afternoon and again that night seeing the buckpole loaded down and everyone gathered for raffle and hot cider and all that.
Or I’d be hooking up with some boys who do a bear drive up a mountain and I’d go do a PA bear hunt with them. That’d be some badass PA hunting.
 
Im willing to take my chances on Kentucky because it costs basically nothing to do so. I will likely never draw a tag but there is always that small chance.
 
When I was in college at Clemson, a fellow grad student was doing her phD project on elk in KY. We went up around Hazzard and darted a few and put collars on them. THis was 16 or so years ago and there were big groups of them then. I think I remember the biologist telling us how hard it was to draw a tag even back then. That was my first time seeing an elk. I remember looking out across the strip mine at the herd and thinking that they weren't that far away. Wasn't until we darted one did I realize just how big they were and what I thought was 100yds was more like 2 or 3. Very cool experience. Wish I could find the pictures.
 
I been putting in for about 8 years with no luck yet. But like everyone else it's cheap enough to apply plus I also own a very small piece of land up there in bell co that's only about 20 minute ride from public land that I been told has elk on it but I have never seen one there. But I only been there 2 times both times was trail riding on 4 wheelers
 
N2TRKYS said:
You can hunt elk every year in KY, if you have the funds.
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The outfitter I used for my son’s youth tag has a Commissioner’s tag for sale this year. Any legal weapon, writhing that season, open for all seasons. Pretty nice tag as you can hunt anywhere, not limited to any one LEA. I am sure it’s well over $10k for the tag alone, not including guide fee. But if you’ve seen the bulls they have pulled down there you’d think it was money well spent.
 
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