Originally Posted by las
A friend in Isaho, his brother, and his dad all hunted elk off horses they could shoot from. trained them themselves. Said the elk would often not spook from a mounted person like they would from foot hunter. And their horses would often tell them of elk they had yet to see themselves.


My family has run stock in Idaho since 1904, and I beg to differ...
Horses clodding up a stream bed over rocks will spook elk in a frikken heartbeat!
But I've only 68 horses right now, and killed more elk from horse than not...

You can no more tell someone how to do something you've never done, than you can come back from somewhere you've never been...