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I got a text message with a picture from my nephew, he bagged a cow elk east of Roseburg, OR. He just got a CVA ML rifle this summer, and I sent him some Bullshop .50" 460 gr conicals that he loaded with 90 gr of one of the Shockey powders. Range was 60 yds, and he got both lungs and broke the off-shoulder. He was out around Glide.

The good news is I have a ML elk tag for the Sitkum 224M hunt in December, and we are going to do that hunt next.

jim

That entire Roseburg area is good. The cascade muzzle loader tag is a good one. You should have a great hunt out there in sitkum. I nuked a nice bull out there around 10 years ago.

Excellent area.

I gotta buy an ML and go looking down there.

BMT

I hunted the High Cascade buck hunt with this nephew a couple of years back, the only critter I saw was a spike elk. That season came at full moon, so I was not surprised. We were in the Lake Lemolo general area.

My nephew suggested I apply for the Sitkum tag which I drew first time around with zero points. That surprised me, but maybe the tag price jump helped.

I have been looking with google earth, and it is mostly green in Sitkum with some clearcuts thrown in for good measure. My nephew has been scouting, and thinks we have a good camp site and hunt areas.

jim

Back in the day there was a clearcut that we took quite a few elk out of. Bow hunting mostly and one of my largest bulls on the tioga 2nd season rifle tag. That cut has been to brushy to hunt for at least the last 10 years.

That entire area is jammed packed full of elk. Cow calling from the cuts toward the timber has worked for me there more than a few times. That big bull came to a cow call the week of Thanksgiving. He followed a spike out into the clearcut and gave me a suicide pose.

The timber is more open than you'ld suspect. The elk trails in the timber near the cuts can be amazing.

Your gonna have a good time.

Mike

Mike,

I sent your post to my nephew who has been doing the scouting. I am looking forward to this hunt, not just because I have a ML that hasn't killed a critter and a new knife!...thanks...jim

Mike,

I shot a cow elk with my ML, and am back home with 345 pounds of cut and wrapped meat. We had backstraps last night, which were superb.

The elk were in small groups and we found this one in a clear cut off the Burnt Mountain Access Road, and were able to stalk to a shot through the trees at the edge of the cut.

thanks for the help...jim