Grays River Area

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Drew out for the Grays River area in North West Wyo. archery hunt for elk. What can I expect to see as far as good bulls. Any of you archers out there hunted this area before? Just woundering about the numbers of elk and the quality of bulls one might see.
 
That is a good area for deer or elk in my opinion. That Star Valley area over to the Grey's is beautiful country!
 
I deer hunted over there in 2002. Bumped into a couple elk hunters on the road, but none seen in the field. I climbed up to some high elevations and saw some elk. Not a high density, but some big bulls. They were way the hell up there in some difficult to inaccessible places. One I watched with my spotting scope in the same exact meadow 3 evenings in a row. Nobody was hunting him. He had like 8 cows. At night there was not a lot of bugling even with cold weather. I could hear this same bull go back and forth with one other bull in a basin about 2 square miles. Saw 90% deer droppings and only 10% elk on my whole trip. I think you will find some up there but don't be too picky. And stalk conservatively so as not to bump them if posssible. Not like AZ where a guy can move from bull to bull with ease.

I could not imagine trying to stalk the bulls in the places I saw them. A tremendous amount of uphill effort for one chance. There are a lot more deer hunters to mess you up than elk hunters. You'll probably need to backpack in wherever you go due to all the deer camps down low. Even a downhill pack out of that place will be tough, it's so steep everywhere.
 
Thanks Zim for the information. Sounds like I need to be in top shape to hunt this area. We plan to go in on horseback.
 
I think no doubt the lack of water in that whole area makes it tricky. I'd call the CO or biologist and keep asking around because I bet there are some areas there that hold a lot more elk than others. I about had a heart attack just looking straight up how high some of those bulls were. Pull your maps and look for lots of water. Might be an area, maybe medium elevation, where there may be fewer deer hunters to contend with.

Zim from NW Indiana
 
I've hunted there several times, but it was some time ago.
I crossed the little Greys in a boat out of Alpine Wy.I didn't get a bull but saw a monster 6x6 killed.
I have backpacked above the Greys river,crossed the river and killed a good Black Bear and a decent 4x4 muley.
I used to rent horses and hunt out of Swift Creek near Afton and killed decent Muleys there.
I never killed a bull there though,I was mostly Muley hunting.
 

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