Your elk goals 2022?

[Geewhiz]

1. help my wife get her elk
2. help my brother get his elk
3. have a NR buddy coming to try for his first elk. Really looking forward to this hunt!
4. help out anybody else that I can manage to fit in

 

[MTWop]

Spike camping in solo 8-12 miles. Looking forward to phone/media free time, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, eating crap freeze dried meals, putting my sore feet in a cool mountain stream, not running into grizzlies again (for a 4th year in a row!), having a snort of bourbon before bed and hopefully having some close encounters with screaming bulls.

I’ve taken a few bulls out solo, including the last one in my avatar. I can’t imagine packing a bull out 12 or even 8 miles back solo. A mature bull will take four trips with about a 70 lb pack for me. Do you have horses or friends lined up when you dump an elk? I’m not sure where you’re hunting, but here in MT can be up in the 90’s during September. The meat will spoil sooner than you think and that would ruin the hunt, so just something to think about. Good luck and definitely be safe!

 

[Trackselk]

Leave our 5 mile in camp for the "haven" as we call it to shoot something bigger than my biggest (315ish), which surely exists up this narly mountain. The elk are so thick up there that it looks like a band of sheep have torn up the ground, but I better hurry and go get one, because I'll be too old to get it done sooner than I'd like. I have pack goats to do the hard work of getting the meat out. But, who am i kidding, I'll probably shoot the first spike I see like last year, as I don't like tag soup much!

 

[Elkangle]

With 5 weeks and 2 tags...wana give it my all and find something special

 

[tom338]

Son and I each have a cow and a General tag. Hope to get 3 elk. Thats very high expectations for where we hunt. Also have 2 deer tags. So if elk are scarce my switch gears and find a couple deer. Anything legal will do.

 

[RCB]

Get one.

 

[grfox92]

Kill any branch antlers bull with my bow.


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[Intelligent Ape]

I am trying to get my first elk during archery in CO either sex. I would be so happy

 

[400orBust]

I’ve taken a few bulls out solo, including the last one in my avatar. I can’t imagine packing a bull out 12 or even 8 miles back solo. A mature bull will take four trips with about a 70 lb pack for me. Do you have horses or friends lined up when you dump an elk? I’m not sure where you’re hunting, but here in MT can be up in the 90’s during September. The meat will spoil sooner than you think and that would ruin the hunt, so just something to think about. Good luck and definitely be safe!

Thanks MTWop. People definitely need to consider what you've said as it is true. I'm experienced and only hunt in MT (MT native) so I know the conditions and I've taken most of my elk out solo. The miles I stated was my planned distance in to get away from people, but I didn't say it would be all on my back. The place I'm starting with this year I'm mountain biking in with a little single wheel trailer behind my bike. I have to push most of the way in but I can mostly coast out. I can do it in 2 maybe 3 trips.

 

[APTOutdoors]

Hopefully get my first Colorado elk, I've got OTC bull and a cow tag in my pocket. I had call exchanges last year, but no dice. I've also got two new hunters with me this year, one of which has been in camp with me a few years and has a had a chance to learn, the other is brand new. It'll be fun, but maybe a little stressful.

 

[Shawn_Guinn]

Scrambling a bit with fire closures had my spots closed off and thought it would be a fire drill no pun intended but NFS reopened some of the woods that I figure out last season so I’ll focus my work there and if that’s a wash find new spots in the unit. My Tactacam is in the line of fire literally but I’m more worried about the folks that have homes in the area just hoping they can be saved. Still strange to watch a fire start and spread 25 yards in front my camera. My goals as always fill my freezer again elk is my primary protein source for the last 2 seasons would love another notched tag.

 

[MTWop]

Thanks MTWop. People definitely need to consider what you've said as it is true. I'm experienced and only hunt in MT (MT native) so I know the conditions and I've taken most of my elk out solo. The miles I stated was my planned distance in to get away from people, but I didn't say it would be all on my back. The place I'm starting with this year I'm mountain biking in with a little single wheel trailer behind my bike. I have to push most of the way in but I can mostly coast out. I can do it in 2 maybe 3 trips.

Nice work! I’ve biked in with a burley bee and then a bob trailer multiple times but never sealed the deal on an elk. I have multiple friends that have done this and it always makes for some fun pack out pics. Definitely take plenty if you get lucky this year. Good luck!

 

[Hickory1991]

Fill some coolers with elk meat. My son, son-in law, and myself will be trying very hard to accomplish our goals. Good luck to all.

 

[Fridaythe13th]

Shooting a 400" plus that means all 3 of us will have to fill our tags. Others than that eat some steak, ribs, and pizza around a camp fire.

 

[smokinbobf4]

I am honestly really only hoping to hear a few bugles and be within shooting distance this year. The last few years haven’t been real great for that! Haha


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[isocyanate]

Goal is to pack a legal bull and a cow out between me and my buddy in CO. First rifle.

 

[Coveyleader]

Change of goals, back is messed up….. new goal, hunt.

 

[EJDXT21]

Have fun, kill an Elk, and don't die!

 

[AZxp]

Hope one of my 380 bulls doesn't take a 10ile jaunt one day. And if they all do, that one of those rez bulls comes over for some public land cow action.

 

[Sundy]

To find elk, fill my OTC tag and make it all 8 days in the backcountry as planned, unless we all tag out.