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Elk can be tricky...
If you're not seeing them, are you seeing sign? Not 2 year old rubs, but are you seeing last nights sign? A lot of it?
If not, find a new place.
I found some fresh rubs since last week and some fresh tracks but that is it.
i have spent some time each of the last 4 weekends in the woods, and i found fresh elk sign for the first time last sunday morning. elk bow is over after this weekend, so hopefully they will be close to the same place this weekend. is anybody else hunting with stick and string this year?
Is there a lot of clear-cut units in that area?
Are you in a heavy pressured area with a lot of hunters? Preferably gated hunts are the best.
Get on google maps and look over the area where you seen the sign. If there are only a few clearcuts in the area, start checking the others, they most certainly are using a clearcut for feeding.
The elk we get into have been staying out in the units until late in the morning, 10-11AM, and once the heat starts to pick up they slowly feed into the timbers edge, not going far from the unit, if not right on the edge, and then feed back out once it starts to cool around 5-6PM.
Between the 3 guys in my hunting group this year we've filled my tag and one other. Last tag had an opportunity last Saturday, did not pan out.
Last chance for him, took Friday off from work to head out with him to get him an elk.
Good luck All.