Seen alot of moose while elk hunting. Saw one last year that was 11x11 w/ 52'' spread, told a guy about it and he got it . I was hunting a nice 6x6 in same area, that I would call more of a moose area. Seen big moose high in middle fork in my younger years, very common, we just called them mountain moose ,since that is where they lived.Saw a nice 8x8 this year and guy told be about one that I want to horn hunt for, Where I elk hunt.
Fact or Myth of Moose pushing out Elk?
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Ive hunted an area that has had moose move in over the last 5 years and each year we see less and less elk. We use to see anywhere from 20 to 500 elk a day with ample hiking. Last year I saw only moose and very few elk.. I don't know why this is as not too much has changed at least that I know of.
Marble
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Two years ago we saw an elk herd of 50+ at 11500', one cow moose was hanging out with the group and chasing the young bulls around. It was pretty funny.
Rocking R Ranch
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I have multiple pictures of elk and moose on trail cameras from the same location on the same day. A few years ago I was hunting archery in Colorado in a draw unit and was bugling in a bull elk with a bull moose 40 yards to my left staring at me. I continued to move in on the bull elk and the moose never moved.
So, yes...moose and elk will occupy the same areas!
So, yes...moose and elk will occupy the same areas!
I have a favorite spot in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming where I hunt elk. Its an opening where elk come out of the timber to feed on alders and water.
I'd always see moose there all the time, and I always see elk there.
Last fall I watched a Bull, cow, and calf feed while I waited for my elk. Late in the afternoon I shot my cow (elk) dressed it and decided to get it out the next morning.
Early before I got there, another hunter w/a moose tag killed his moose about half way from where I shot and where the elk lay.
If moose push out elk, I haven't seen it.
I'd always see moose there all the time, and I always see elk there.
Last fall I watched a Bull, cow, and calf feed while I waited for my elk. Late in the afternoon I shot my cow (elk) dressed it and decided to get it out the next morning.
Early before I got there, another hunter w/a moose tag killed his moose about half way from where I shot and where the elk lay.
If moose push out elk, I haven't seen it.
