A couple years ago I hiked in to a heavily travelled OTC unit in the dark and found a small camp with two tents and a couple horses tied up in the one meadow in the drainage with a small stream that runs through it. Walked through the camp in the dark and about 50 yds later in to the trees I was on the only group of elk I encountered that season. Ended up calling one in that came in around behind me silent, didn’t get a shot but it was the first time I had actually ever called one in.
The elk didn’t seem to mind the camp that was in the middle of their overnight hangout.
The elk didn’t seem to mind the camp that was in the middle of their overnight hangout.