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Any Elk Hunters?

My season started yesterday but I'm stuck swamped at work. Going to try to get out tonight for dusk, same with the rest of the week. Got a Cow rifle tag. The rut in Idaho was late so really hoping I get lucky and call in a Bull with Cows. Looking forward to hopefully a sleepless night packing her out down a nasty steep single track motorcycle trail on my bike in the dark. I hunt solo so its chitty when I get one down.

Anyone get a elk or out there elk hunting this season?

Full that freezer brahs
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After hearding joe rogan talk about having freezers full of elk meat, i'm so jelly.
Would hunt elk / deer/ wild boar if i could.
Heck, would even try and take out a moose.

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Would love to but I don't think I can afford to get into it
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i didn't know idaho was a good place for elk hunts. Good luck OP
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Op I’ll pay you to take me on a hunt in Idaho srs

Will also pay for some elk protons
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No better meat than Elk. Im going to try my hardest to fill my freezer with elk this year.

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Originally Posted By 15thPeak⏩
Would love to but I don't think I can afford to get into it
How expensive is the initial start up?
Rifle + hunting license is all you need no?
I imagine free meat / steak / beef jerky every year for years to come, will easily pay for itself?

Are you allowed to hunt them with a cross bow? Brb look up youtube tutorial on how to build one.
Shoot an elk, hit it with a club. Same thing.
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Originally Posted By gixxer0.6g⏩
No better meat than Elk. Im going to try my hardest to fill my freezer with elk this year.

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Furk mirin. I’m stuck in GA for the next month then off to CA until eoy. No elk. Fml
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
After hearding joe rogan talk about having freezers full of elk meat, i'm so jelly.
Would hunt elk / deer/ wild boar if i could.
Heck, would even try and take out a moose.

Love wild meat. Mirin hard!
Ohh ya, sitting in the garage pounding beers looking up at 200 pounds of meat aging in the garage is one of the better feelers.
Originally Posted By 15thPeak⏩
Would love to but I don't think I can afford to get into it
It does add up for sure but not as bad as you think. I've been using the same rifle since I was 12, my trusty old 7mm mag I bought for $125 in 1992. The smaller items add up but once you have it all, you are good for a long time. I upgraded my hunting pack this year which was $480, really hoping its blood stained within the next week. Next year I need new boots. Always something but worth it.
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Originally Posted By gixxer0.6g⏩
No better meat than Elk. Im going to try my hardest to fill my freezer with elk this year.

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I'm in Boise but hunt about an hour from my house. Our hills are full of elk. Well they used to be but the fuking wolves are destroying our population. I got my wolf tag ready, I would love to pop one of those fukers. Or the entire pack if I could legally.
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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
Ohh ya, sitting in the garage pounding beers looking up at 200 pounds of meat aging in the garage is one of the better feelers.
Meanwhile i'm buying the cheapest chit tier meat at walmart because i'm sick of chicken breast but can't afford quality steak.
Originally Posted By Berts⏩
It does add up for sure but not as bad as you think. I've been using the same rifle since I was 12, my trusty old 7mm mag I bought for $125 in 1992. The smaller items add up but once you have it all, you are good for a long time. I upgraded my hunting pack this year which was $480, really hoping its blood stained within the next week. Next year I need new boots. Always something but worth it.
Can you give me a full run down? What it cost to get started, the license, the stuff you need.
How do you process the meat? do you bring the entire animal to a butcher? Do you carve and cut / clean it yourself?
How does the meat preserve? Does it suffer from freezer burns or does the taste diminish sitting in a freezer all year?
I had frozen steaks turn grey in the freezer before.

Mirin hard srs.
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
How expensive is the initial start up?
Rifle + hunting license is all you need no?
I imagine free meat / steak / beef jerky every year for years to come, will easily pay for itself?

Are you allowed to hunt them with a cross bow? Brb look up youtube tutorial on how to build one.
Shoot an elk, hit it with a club. Same thing.
Depends on the rifle and scope. You can go big dawg but for entry, $500-$1000 would get you a decent set up. I'm only set up to shoot up to about 400 yards. After that I don't feel good about it. Last thing I want is to wound a elk, have it run off, die and I never find it. You will get roughly 200-300 pounds per elk. If you get one every 3 years thats 100 pounds a year ish. I like Elk better than beef so figure roughly $500 in "free meat". After saying that, in the grand scheme of things, I think its cheaper to buy 1/2 a cow locally and have it butchered. I do that on years I don't get a elk. I really try to not buy store meat other than chicken. I usually also buy 1/2 a pig and have it butchered how
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Went at the start of archery season. My brother had a bull tag. Was too fukking hot so no movement during the day. We were hunting up in the pan handle a little south of Wallace, then checked out some spots around Prichard East of Coeur d’Alene. Almost glad we didn’t get one on our first spot. Hiked 3 miles up a fukking mountain with a 70lb pack and some meat packs, didn’t want to imagine hauling all the meat out. I’m a chef with lots of experience butchering whole animals and wouldn’t really want anything to go to waste. We called in some deer during the night but didn’t see any elk. My brother saw a bull a few weeks into September but we called it cuz of the heat and lack of response to cow calls so just went to go swimming.

Good luck boyo.
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
Meanwhile i'm buying the cheapest chit tier meat at walmart because i'm sick of chicken breast but can't afford quality steak.



Can you give me a full run down? What it cost to get started, the license, the stuff you need.
How do you process the meat? do you bring the entire animal to a butcher? Do you carve and cut / clean it yourself?
How does the meat preserve? Does it suffer from freezer burns or does the taste diminish sitting in a freezer all year?
I had frozen steaks turn grey in the freezer before.

Mirin hard srs.
If you are a resident, like I am in Idaho, its like $30 for the tag, I can't remember but its cheap. Ideally you need a range finder for a couple hundo, gun, ammo, backpack, thats about it. Gas to get where you are going and lots of ambition. I process it all myself into roasts, steaks and grind my own burger. A buddy has a commercial grinder so I can make sausage, beef sticks, etc. He also has a massive dehydrator for jerky. I vacuum seal all my meat so its good for a couple years. The worst part is packing out all the meat from the field and processing it all. For me solo, its a full day of getting the meat home and 2 more days processing it. I do prefer solo hunting though. Less people to get in my way and scare away a potential freezer filler.
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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
I'm in Boise but hunt about an hour from my house. Our hills are full of elk. Well they used to be but the fuking wolves are destroying our population. I got my wolf tag ready, I would love to pop one of those fukers. Or the entire pack if I could legally.
Yup. Another failed liberal tree hugging idea.

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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
If you are a resident, like I am in Idaho, its like $30 for the tag, I can't remember but its cheap. Ideally you need a range finder for a couple hundo, gun, ammo, backpack, thats about it. Gas to get where you are going and lots of ambition. I process it all myself into roasts, steaks and grind my own burger. A buddy has a commercial grinder so I can make sausage, beef sticks, etc. He also has a massive dehydrator for jerky. I vacuum seal all my meat so its good for a couple years. The worst part is packing out all the meat from the field and processing it all. For me solo, its a full day of getting the meat home and 2 more days processing it. I do prefer solo hunting though. Less people to get in my way and scare away a potential freezer filler.
You live a great life brah. That's it. Would kill for jerky and fresh elk meat.
Heck, bring the bones with you too to make broths. Broths can be made into amazing sauces.
Bet those burgers are insane too. But to process all the meat yourself, you have to be real good when it comes to carving an animal.
And also not be faint of heart when you remove all the intestines etc.

How expensive is half a cow? Is the meat better than store bought?
Do they turn it into steaks and everything when you have it butchered?
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
You live a great life brah. That's it. Would kill for jerky and fresh elk meat.
Heck, bring the bones with you too to make broths. Broths can be made into amazing sauces.
Bet those burgers are insane too. But to process all the meat yourself, you have to be real good when it comes to carving an animal.
And also not be faint of heart when you remove all the intestines etc.

How expensive is half a cow? Is the meat better than store bought?
Do they turn it into steaks and everything when you have it butchered?
For me its about $3/lb for my beef cut and wrapped. If I remember right 1/2 a cow is about 200 pounds. You get a variety pack of roasts, steaks and burger. I very much prefer it over store bought. I do that same with a pig. I think 1/2 a pig this year was $1.50/lb and I got about 75 pounds off it. It was 300lbs live. The bacon and sausage is amazing.
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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
For me its about $3/lb for my beef cut and wrapped. If I remember right 1/2 a cow is about 200 pounds. You get a variety pack of roasts, steaks and burger. I very much prefer it over store bought. I do that same with a pig. I think 1/2 a pig this year was $1.50/lb and I got about 75 pounds off it. It was 300lbs live. The bacon and sausage is amazing.
Half a cow should be closer to 400 broski.

On topic-I have hunted elk, and deer for that matter as well as a variety of birds but I just kinda don’t anymore. I’ve got a herd of about 50 elk that reside a couple miles south of me but I just turn my friends loose on them, harvest a handful every year and they hook me up with some decent meat. As disgusted with myself as I am by saying this the fact is I just don’t seem to find the time to do anything that doesn’t make me money.
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have you had any close calls with getting messed up by wild life
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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
Anyone get a elk or out there elk hunting this season?
sup fellow idabrah? didn't get to fill my archery tag but rifle is open now and will probably bag one this weekend. what unit are you stomping around in?
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Originally Posted By SmillironS⏩
Half a cow should be closer to 400 broski.

On topic-I have hunted elk, and deer for that matter as well as a variety of birds but I just kinda don’t anymore. I’ve got a herd of about 50 elk that reside a couple miles south of me but I just turn my friends loose on them, harvest a handful every year and they hook me up with some decent meat. As disgusted with myself as I am by saying this the fact is I just don’t seem to find the time to do anything that doesn’t make me money.
I go with a steer which gets you about 400 pounds, 1000 pounds on the hoof.

I don't blame ya a all, I like the thrill of the hunt and all but meat is meat. That's always my #1 objective.
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Originally Posted By howimliving⏩
sup fellow idabrah? didn't get to fill my archery tag but rifle is open now and will probably bag one this weekend. what unit are you stomping around in?
I need to get into archery. I might do that next year. What rifle elk tag you have? I'm stomping around unit 39-1, basically WW2 up there but its close to home and I have decent success. I ride a ton of single track dirt bike all summer and I am willing to hike my arse off which gets me away from 95% of the hunters up there. They are all lazy and fuk and basically road hunt.
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I love elk. Last time I hunted was almost a decade ago and it was wild turkey, boar. Now I just fish occasionally because wife hates guns. Although her liberal mind is changing lately.
I probably banged your mom.

Eat the whole animal like a real man.
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Originally Posted By OT2000⏩
I love elk. Last time I hunted was almost a decade ago and it was wild turkey, boar. Now I just fish occasionally because wife hates guns. Although her liberal mind is changing lately.
My wife also is not a fan of guns. She also doesn't want to be a part of killing animals but she is stoked as fuk when I come home with meat. She has the good end of the deal.
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Originally Posted By Berts⏩
I go with a steer which gets you about 400 pounds, 1000 pounds on the hoof.

I don't blame ya a all, I like the thrill of the hunt and all but meat is meat. That's always my #1 objective.
Maybe I do it different but processed weight is usually around 60% of hoof weight but a 1000 lb steer should be damn good eating regardless. I try to grow more be up to 3 years old, 30 days corned before kill and they dress out between 8-900. Absolutely the best beef on earth, if the process were easier I’d sell to Steakhouse’s.
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Jelly. Elk is delicious. Too bad I'm stuck in dat dere dirty south.
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One day OP, one day. Until then I'll be filling the freezer with whitetails.
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Yes I hunt early season elk in Arizona. Just got done helping on 2 hunts an archery and a muzzleloader. Was the worst hunting I’ve ever seen this year here. They weren’t talking at all. Still got it done though
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
After hearding joe rogan talk about having freezers full of elk meat, i'm so jelly.
Would hunt elk / deer/ wild boar if i could.
Heck, would even try and take out a moose.

Love wild meat. Mirin hard!
Joe organ hunts $30k private ranches for elk
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