Jasonclay Report post Posted January 5, 2008 I for one am looking real hard at moving on top of the rim. GF has 22 so screwed up that I will bet you $100.00 someone will be shot this year. They added 265 more tags after adding I think 200 the year before. In 2 years there will not be an Elk to be found. Mike Yeah... and as far as cow tags there are way easier hunts above the rim, too. It may not be any further for you to try the White Mountains, units 1 & 27. They are very good elk units as well. Good luck on the draw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msgbarney Report post Posted January 5, 2008 What is anyones thoughts on 28/31/32 unit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted January 5, 2008 "I like to camp close to where I hunt. During an archery hunt, it has been nice sometimes to listen to the elk bugle at night and take off straight from camp." I've never understood why elk hunters want to camp in the middle of elk country. I drive around to watch elk 2-3 times a week from May to November, and every year I see camps in exactly the same spots where I had been seeing elk. Incidentally, there are no elk in units 1 and 27, or for that matter anywhere within 100 miles of my place in Greer. Bill Quimby Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soazarcher Report post Posted January 5, 2008 28/31/32 .......Extremely difficult at best Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted January 5, 2008 Bill, The incident I remember most vividly was when I was camped in the camping area at Russel Tank in unit 9 for an archery elk tag. Elk were bugling from all points of the compass, and I chose to follow the bugle that the wind favored. On another rifle elk hunt in 9, I was watching the elk in Peterson Flat before sunrise. As a Jeep drove along a road 1/4 mile from the open flat, the elk ran back into the trees. I feel that the sound of vehicles and atvs will often drive the critters into cover before they are seen. Since roads tend to go through most meadows/clearings, I tend to not hunt these as I figure a hunter driving to his spot, or a roadhunter, will drive the animals out before light. THus, I like to look at topos and google earth to find roadless clearings to walk to. I agree about camping in the clearings. My camps are usually in the trees so the elk and deer can feed the clearings at night. A quiet camp can be very unintrusive. I recall someone scouting a 190 muley in unit 7 one summer/fall several years ago. He had the buck patterned coming to one clearing to feed. Opening morning, he found a camp in that clearing. Fortunately, he still found and shot the buck, whose antlers were rubbed black from charred trees of the Hochderfer fire. Doug~RR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues79 Report post Posted January 5, 2008 What is anyones thoughts on 28/31/32 unit? It's tough. I just got off the hunt myself and didn't see a thing. I was in all 3 units, spent 10 days hunting and didn't see anything. I won't do it again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billrquimby Report post Posted January 5, 2008 Bill, .... I feel that the sound of vehicles and atvs will often drive the critters into cover before they are seen. Since roads tend to go through most meadows/clearings, I tend to not hunt these as I figure a hunter driving to his spot, or a roadhunter, will drive the animals out before light. THus, I like to look at topos and google earth to find roadless clearings to walk to. Doug~RR Finding and walking to roadless clearings is a good strategy anywhere, but the areas in unit 1 where I spend most of my elk-watching time get a lot of traffic and the elk are used to seeing and hearing vehicles drive past them night and day. What they're not used to is hearing voices and the sounds of people setting up camp, slamming doors, etc. They move out even before they start smelling the campfires. Two years ago I was seeing a really big bull cross the road after sunset on a certain trail, then spend the night in a certain cienega. If I got there at first light, I'd watch that bull leave that cienega and cross the road at exactly the same spot it had entered it. The trail that bull used was at least six inches deep, which should have been a clue to anyone who calls himself a hunter that elk were using that path a lot, but come the day before the season a group of wanabees parked their camp trailer, two pickup trucks and an ATV and its trailer smack dab on top of it and used a chain saw to cut up a pile of dead wood. I would bet they also built a big fire and listened to a radio after dark, and then wondered why they couldn't find an elk anywhere near their camp that year. Bill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
