Finding them?? Gawdam, half the season, the bulls are screaming at you to come shoot them, the other half they stand out like a big yellow school bus and the cows are in big bunches are in the wide open! And all the time they are as big as a billboard to shoot! Hahaha
In all fairness I think they are special. Yes they are just big deer. And living with them and fixing fences and having to having to deal with them gets old. Working one over, even the small ones is never just a piece of cake. But there is something majestic about a big bull that never gets old.
I can't answer this question because I always hunt on public land. But the reason I like to hunt elk more than other big game is where they live during the early seasons when they're in the rut.
I'd rather spend a week or more camping up where elk live and go home with my tag in my pocket than shoot one in a hayfield.
