What "non-traditional" areas have you hunted or want to hunt

[bald9eagle]

Places like Texas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, West Vigirnia, North Carolina, Northern California, and Kentucky all have huntable numbers. Have you ever hunted any of these or wanted to?

[Fridaythe13th]

Minnesota had a season for a couple of years. Not sure what happened to the population. No season for quite a few year now. Maybe them lovable wolfs got to them, like they are getting to the moose.


As far has hunting non-traditional states not me I like the mountains.

[Indian Summer]

I've never hunted any of them although I'd love to hunt my home state of Pa just for the memory. Ok and maye for a crack at a 400 inch bull.

But to be honest I already know it won't be as exhilarating as hunting anywhere in "real" elk country. Half or more of the allure of elk hunting is the mountains themselves. That and testing yourself to see what you are really made of inside and out in hills that don't lie. If that weren't the case and it was about nothing but killing it would be hard to impossible to keep pushing yourself around in the hills to get it done. I'm not so sure that a dead elk alone is worth the time and effort let alone the money. Obviously there is something more.

When the subject comes up of with everything included how much do you figure elk meat costs per pound? My answer is who the hell cares! I get way more for my money than meat and horns! I get $5000 worth of happiness and contentment and my elk meat is free! To hunt somewhere without that aura just doesn't push my buttons.

But give me a tag and I'll squeeze it in!

[Swede]

I would be interested in doing a more desert type hunt. Nontraditional States would be great, but I would be interested in seeing some of the places like Lefty has hunted.

[CurlyTail]

I am hunting my home state of Nebraska this season. Tags are resident only, and one per lifetime for Bulls. Success is 87% and the Elk tend to be huge. Needless to say - I am excited!

It is the craziest Elk hunting I have ever heard of - and certainly not ideal. The Elk move out of the rough hills into the corn field pivots in August when the corn gets shoulder high. They then knock down a half and acre of corn and set up shop in the middle of the corn field until harvest. They bed, feed, and rut in the security of 9ft. tall corn. They come out to water, and move to adjacent corn fields. Supposedly very responsive to calling. I have 5 weeks, and can use Bow, Muzzleloader, or Rifle.

Nobody is much of an expert hunting them as you can only do it once, and all the hunting in my unit is private land. It is hard to say what the landowners hate more - Elk, or the disruption to their ranching/farming from the Elk hunters. It is a weird hunting situation for sure.

One landowner told me that the Elk did 50,000.00 damage to her corn field last season - but she does not allow hunting and likes the idea that they have a safe refuge. The going rate for hunting is a 500 tresspass fee, and 150 per point if you harvest. That is 1400.00 for a sucessful hunt - which takes a lot of the fun out of it for a hard core DIY guy like me. Luckily, I have been able to line up a spot to hunt for free and we will see if that is a mistake or not.