Posted on 02/21/2022 10:23:17 AM PST by LiberalismDestroys
Elk hunting is immensely popular in Utah, so popular that it took fewer than 10 hours for all 17,500 of Utah's elk hunting permits to be scooped up last season. But while Utahns know when it's hunting season through a set calendar, a recent study suggests Utah elk also seem to know when it's hunting season — and where to go to seek refuge until it's over.
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It’s easy. They are all smoking behind the club…
Maybe they’re disguising themselves as moose.
Silly journalistic prattle. They’re not ‘smart’, but they are well trained. Same thing happens with deer in these parts - at the sound of the first rifle shot in fall, they’re in full on sprint to the nearest haven. Brother once followed one of these ‘races’ in a car - 16 miles non-stop to a state park.
This is news? Game understand hunting pressure? This is OLD news, baby. I can save them millions on their next study by telling them that the biggest trophy bucks hug the most remote and difficult terrain. I don’t mind a small low 6 figure fee for that “study” conclusion. How do I contact BYU and collect?
They leave the hunting zones and regs in an outside news paper rack...anybody can read them. And elk see pretty good at night.
There was one bull that would keg up in a small spot inside city limits when the rut was over. He wouldn’t be seen until the day his antlers dropped. I’ve found quite a few small areas where a bull obviously spent extensive time, waiting out hunting season.
I hunted for elk with a muzzleloader in Colorado last year. We never saw a single elk. No fresh sign.
Oh, good grief.
This is a short, but very interesting article for people like me, who don’t know much about the Elk.
Plain language is used, not the sterile notations of a numbers cruncher.
That hasn’t been my experience. I climbed up on a big log after sunset one season and had a herd milling about me, though I took no precautions to avoid being seen. I moved around quite a bit. Full camo, of course.
The Elk are in league with the Crows. The Crows do aerial patrols and warn the Elk. The Crows are the spawn of Satan.
Thier also in cahoots with the chipmunks that start chirping at the first sniffle
It wouldn’t be hard for the elks to outsmart Utah hunters who do stupid s**t like parking on the East Canyon exit Westbound and shooting OVER the interstate at the Elk into the mountainside on the East side.
Always charming to see some idiot (in the bright orange vest!) aiming his rifle...straight across oncoming traffic
By reading the regs, they know you cannot shoot after sunset or before sunrise.
Half hour before sunrise or after sunset. That’s why I was up on the log. Hunting was over, and only the hike home remained. I figured I’d see what it took to spook them, but they didn’t pay me any mind.
One of the herds in north Idaho used to camp below our bedroom window. Would show up after the season ended and spend much of the winter there. Paid us very little attention.
Used to be a big herd, locally. More land was opened up to hunting, and the State (Oregon)trapped a number of them and sent them off to the Great Smoky Mountains.
[[Are Utah elk outsmarting hunters?]]
Yes, they have studied ventriloquism and have learned to throw their bugles off i the distance, usually near a tall cliff- causing hunters to plummet to their demise while chasing the sound
Not difficult in a state that elected Mitt Romney a second time.
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