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I haven't done a lot of elk hunting (I've mostly hunted deer and antelope), but I have some land in Montana and I've caught elk on my game cams. I know what deer and antelope scat look like, but when I was on my land last week I saw a lot of scat in the snow that was obviously recent, but I couldn't tell if it was mule deer or elk. Is there anything in particular that is unique to elk that would distinguish it from deer?

For example, here are a few pics of the scat I saw. There were tracks that I knew were from the local mulies, and the scat around those tracks was smaller in size and quantity, but I couldn't tell whether these were just from larger mulie bucks or, hopefully, elk.