Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Getting away from the orange. A hard truth.

I applaud 340mag for hunting that hard. I don't, but I am older. The stupid elk don't frequent those nasty areas and they taste just as good as the smart elk.

I ride my mules to within 1 mile or so where I hunt, never into the area I am going to hunt and try not to screw up someone else's hunt. Go shoot an elk ,go back and get the mules. Ride back and process the carcass. Pack it back to camp.

Got my little pack mule within about 10 ft of that 5 point dink bull I posted above,last year.



I had left the mules way down in the trees below this meadow and worked the timber above it the meadow below the rocks. Have to confess though, I could only ride back up to within about 30 yards of the kill site.