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RIFLE SEASON BULLS..PA

With all due respect, Pennsylvania is not the Rocky Mountains, but the hunts are fair chase. Usually if you don't have a Guide, your chances are quite reduced. The guides do a lot of research on where the animals are and have access to the areas hunted. Just like the West where a guided hunt chances are much better than an individual who is not very experienced or is not in a limited drawer area.
 
I'm in the PA elk territory quite a bit.
I don't know of any privately owned hunting ranches per say for elk.

For the most part I hunt either state forests or state game lands.

There are certain places that you can go and watch the elk almost every morning and evening.

If an elk wanders onto private land, well so be it.
 

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std7mag said:
I'm in the PA elk territory quite a bit.
I don't know of any privately owned hunting ranches per say for elk.

For the most part I hunt either state forests or state game lands.

There are certain places that you can go and watch the elk almost every morning and evening.

If an elk wanders onto private land, well so be it.
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They dress up any yard. Wonderful beasts.
 
It's like that here in Michigan . They are not pressured like out west and are bigger than most I have seen out there . The only exception to that would be the elk winter grounds at Goose Wing Ranch south of Jackson Wy .They get sneaky here at home but I certainly know where and how to find them . Now if I could only draw a tag !!! 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
Smokey Joe said:
Thanks for posting Frank.
Awesome bulls
Far as the elk in the background, maybe they were thinking like plains in Africa.
The lions have their meal, we can relax and go back to eating.
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Yeah, who knows..the vast majority of the grass areas are on reclaimed strip mines not farm fields... actually very little farming except on the eastern edge where most of the problems are starting ymto occur regularly..
 
lancetkenyon said:
We have killed plenty of head honchos with a harem. Not once have I had the ladies stick around to see their dead boyfriend get handled by a human. Another bull will gather up those honeys within 12 hours during the rut.
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Actually saw this happen in the High Cascades once. Some hunters down in a draw pushed the elk right back out into an alpine meadow where the hunter had killed a bull 10~15 minutes earlier. They just stood around in a confused state for a minute or so and took off another direction.
 
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..a couple of really nice bears, both in the 700+ live weight category...gotta love drivin' those mountain Laurel and swamp thickets...no room for fancy high velocity rifles for this type of bear huntin', don't need no fancy scope either, lucky you can see 15 yards...
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Been hunting for bears in North Central Pennsylvania a long time. We've killed a few biggest was 400 and I thought it was a prehistoric beast. Saw a 600 pounder in the back of a pick up truck at a bear check station once it did look like a prehistoric beast. Those pictures were going around. I think it said it weighed 700+.
 

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