New Alberta Elk Opportunity

The problem with these " extra opportunity hunts" is this: You may have 30 trucks chasing a herd...then the shooting starts from all around you at day break, and it quickly turns into a gong show.

Not my kind of hunting...
 
AbLonewolf said:
The problem with these " extra opportunity hunts" is this: You may have 30 trucks chasing a herd...then the shooting starts from all around you at day break, and it quickly turns into a gong show.

Not my kind of hunting...
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Exactly. Wear kevlar camo for the "friendly fire"

I think if there was a way to limit the # of hunters and increase the # of "hunts" it likely would be better. And elk are pretty adept at figuring out what gunfire means, so taking a few over more times increases the chance more of a reasonable amount of herd thinning, which is the whole purpose.
 
I don't know; 2700 sq. km, 8000 elk, 125 hunters.

Haven't been on the hunt yet but I imagine it'll be a lot like hunting antelope was in the 80's when it was common to have 2 or 3 herds of over 50 in a 6x4 mile pasture. Just spot the elk, use other hunters to your advantage to get in front of the elk and pick one out. That's just a guess, will let you know after my hunt in Jan.

Personally I picked out my cow from the road on the way home from wainwright; might be tough finding it again out of 8000 elk though; but I've got four days. :rolleyes: :)
 
Yeah - I remeber those speed goat days lol.

Elk are adaptive though - change directions on the fly and from what I have heard might bunch up in greater numbers.

And they restrict the areas u can go - so u never likely have access to all.

Who knows - hope it works out, or we'll see some type of gov't cull...
 
AbLonewolf said:
The problem with these " extra opportunity hunts" is this: You may have 30 trucks chasing a herd...then the shooting starts from all around you at day break, and it quickly turns into a gong show.

Not my kind of hunting...
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That sounds like Sid Marty's description of the late season hunts on the Ya Ha Tinda in days gone by. ;) Buddy did a Cypress Hills hunt one year, about the same.

Grizz
 
My son and I are applying separately which will increase our chances a little of drawing a tag. Moreover, I have a priority 10 at this time for the Bull Elk Special License, it will give me a little insight of what kind of bulls are on the base.
 
I had my tag for the first week of the hunt this year. Got my elk in an hour on the second day from a heard of about 2000. I shot my elk and wandered up to the heard before they wandered away... Before coming back to me. There arn't scared by gun fire nor people and trucks.
 
Jager627 said:
I had my tag for the first week of the hunt this year. Got my elk in an hour on the second day from a heard of about 2000. I shot my elk and wandered up to the heard before they wandered away... Before coming back to me. There arn't scared by gun fire nor people and trucks.
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I wonder how long that will last lol
 
Thanks, I'll be applying for that draw.

I have some leave to burn, and know the Suffield training area very well.



I was a helper the first year they had the hunt, elk got smart after being shot at in the previous 3-4 weeks, very few elk harvested in the last group...

early groups were near 100% successful.
 
That time of the year should make harvesting an Elk less difficult, particularly early in the season.

I have an antlerless Elk tag on agricultural land [and adjacent public land] this year.

It started Dec 1, and runs through to the end of February. Have not gone out yet, since my contact says the Elk are
a bit scarce in his area yet. They will bunch up and show later....then I'll go.

Regards, Dave.
 
Well I heard of camp Wainright giving you gut bags. But that was a long time ago, around 1980. There were biologists who wanted it collected for some kind of study. That was deer though.

Ya, weird question I know, but how much would that suck if they were doing this?
 
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