Pony Soldier
WKR
Yesterday was the last day of one of the worst hunting seasons I have experienced. I say a lot of it was caused by the chronic high pressure that sat over us giving warmer temperatures than we experienced a lot of the summer.
For some reason the elk avoided all the higher elevation habitat for nearly all of the season staying closer to the wintering grounds. With no snow it made it very difficult to impossible to find them.
The last few days we started to see a mass migration out of the valley bottoms (ranch land) back to the normal range. On top of that they seemed very spooky and took off running and traveled two to three drainages running. Almost like when you have heavy predator volumes.
I did have on a long scan where I cut a wolf track at my beginning and A mtn lion track in the middle with no elk or deer tracks in 4-5 miles.
The only other change I saw was an endless amount of rzr/ quad traffic in places I had never see them before. It was like an effort to turn the national forest into a dirt bike track with severe amounts of destroyed creek crossings and wetland destruction.
Granted the severe lack of snow, I never saw a blood trail Or sign of anyone killing anything and hardly any gunshots. Tough year for 28 days in the field on horseback.
For some reason the elk avoided all the higher elevation habitat for nearly all of the season staying closer to the wintering grounds. With no snow it made it very difficult to impossible to find them.
The last few days we started to see a mass migration out of the valley bottoms (ranch land) back to the normal range. On top of that they seemed very spooky and took off running and traveled two to three drainages running. Almost like when you have heavy predator volumes.
I did have on a long scan where I cut a wolf track at my beginning and A mtn lion track in the middle with no elk or deer tracks in 4-5 miles.
The only other change I saw was an endless amount of rzr/ quad traffic in places I had never see them before. It was like an effort to turn the national forest into a dirt bike track with severe amounts of destroyed creek crossings and wetland destruction.
Granted the severe lack of snow, I never saw a blood trail Or sign of anyone killing anything and hardly any gunshots. Tough year for 28 days in the field on horseback.
