09-15-2010, 12:11 PM
Keep scouting around the unit while the weather is nice and use a GPS if you have one to mark areas where you have seen elk. That will make it easier to find them when it comes time to hunt. The desert would be a good place to watch. I got mine in August on the desert, just takes some patience to get close enough, or dumb luck. Look for hill tops where you can get setup before sunrise and sit with the bino's and watch. Look for patches of trees as the elk will look for these for shade and shelter. Any water source would also be a good place like along the fields. If you can find a place with water, shelter, a hill top and food all within about 5 miles of each other, that would be a good place to watch. The elk I got traveled almost 8 miles for water ever day.
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