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<blockquote data-quote="Red Sparky" data-source="post: 981801" data-attributes="member: 37223"><p>I live here in NM and have hunted elk in ponderosa pine forest, juniper/ pinion and sagebrush areas. One area the elk would come on top of the mesa close to sunset and feed and rut all night there then head down into the canyons to bed for the day. Another area the elk would drop into the canyon bottoms evening and night and return to the mountain tops and canyons for the day. In the juniper/pinon sagebrush area I usually see them on the edge either going into the trees morning and coming out of them in the evening. Where they bedded was about two miles from where they would come forage for the night.</p><p></p><p>What I have learned is if you can find the food source then you can pattern where they are going/coming from. Sit high and glass to find a herd to pattern and then make a plan to intercept them. You do not want to blow them out as they can cover country and in a hurry. One year I had about 6 cows come running past me with their tongues hanging out and a very identifiable bull. I shot him and when we were headed out the forest service road we ran into another hunter who had shot at him, three miles from where I killed him about 30-45 minutes before I shot him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Red Sparky, post: 981801, member: 37223"] I live here in NM and have hunted elk in ponderosa pine forest, juniper/ pinion and sagebrush areas. One area the elk would come on top of the mesa close to sunset and feed and rut all night there then head down into the canyons to bed for the day. Another area the elk would drop into the canyon bottoms evening and night and return to the mountain tops and canyons for the day. In the juniper/pinon sagebrush area I usually see them on the edge either going into the trees morning and coming out of them in the evening. Where they bedded was about two miles from where they would come forage for the night. What I have learned is if you can find the food source then you can pattern where they are going/coming from. Sit high and glass to find a herd to pattern and then make a plan to intercept them. You do not want to blow them out as they can cover country and in a hurry. One year I had about 6 cows come running past me with their tongues hanging out and a very identifiable bull. I shot him and when we were headed out the forest service road we ran into another hunter who had shot at him, three miles from where I killed him about 30-45 minutes before I shot him. [/QUOTE]
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