We had a great hunt!!! We didn't kill anything, but saw some true monsters and chased elk every day. It was a difficult hunt, and we worked hard. There was water every where! Every tank, creek, and drainage was holding water. This caused the elk to spread out over the entire range. Sitting water would have been a waste of time. For the most part the elk would bed in the higher ridges and move down to the lower country at night to feed and rut. As soon as it began to get light the elk would move back into the higher country to bed. If you got behind the elk when they were moving that was pretty much it. The key was to figure out where they were moving to and from and cut them off. They would bugle back to cow calls, but then move in the other direction. I personally used calls very little, and usually only to locate bulls.
