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<blockquote data-quote="HARPERC" data-source="post: 849656" data-attributes="member: 30671"><p>Build points elsewhere! You've set yourself a difficult goal, heavy cover, not many elk, lots of hunters. First realize your odds aren't good regardless of how you put in the time. I think time in and flexibility are the main points. Hunt the entire season if you can. I'd hunt clear cuts early and late in the day. If the woods are full of guys let them keep the elk moving. Midday I'd go in after them. This serves verifying elk are in and around where you choose to sit on. If not move. In the timber slow way down, then slow done some more. My guess is your hunt is post rut. The bulls that did all the breeding are wore out. Start out high and hunt down along the creeks looking for spots with enough food, H2O, and cover that elk don't have to move much, and is deep and dark enough nobody else is dumb enough to follow. A cow call helps cover some of the noise. A .308 isn't ideal in the extremes of this kind of hunt in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>Last, I'm speaking from way more failure than success, building points elsewhere is a bigger part of my strategy these days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HARPERC, post: 849656, member: 30671"] Build points elsewhere! You've set yourself a difficult goal, heavy cover, not many elk, lots of hunters. First realize your odds aren't good regardless of how you put in the time. I think time in and flexibility are the main points. Hunt the entire season if you can. I'd hunt clear cuts early and late in the day. If the woods are full of guys let them keep the elk moving. Midday I'd go in after them. This serves verifying elk are in and around where you choose to sit on. If not move. In the timber slow way down, then slow done some more. My guess is your hunt is post rut. The bulls that did all the breeding are wore out. Start out high and hunt down along the creeks looking for spots with enough food, H2O, and cover that elk don't have to move much, and is deep and dark enough nobody else is dumb enough to follow. A cow call helps cover some of the noise. A .308 isn't ideal in the extremes of this kind of hunt in my opinion. Last, I'm speaking from way more failure than success, building points elsewhere is a bigger part of my strategy these days. [/QUOTE]
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