Good topic folks and we each have our own strategy. If you go elk hunting, then go elk hunting, stay in the woods all day and learn your quarry. Sometimes its easy to get bored with a hunt after a few days but you got to hunt it with the same intensity as you did the first day, but stay in the woods, you'll get more elk there than back at camp.
To ambush or not, yes I most certainly do, and I also stalk. I believe in being in my ambush spot an 1 1/2 hrs before sunrise. I chase two seperate elk herds here and one is on the Tobbacco Plains and the other I hunt in the revenes and Mt tops up to 7500 ft. My strategy is different for both herds. It depends if its the peak of the Rut or if your hunting a Bull thats been bumped a time or two, but you got to be able to meet them on there turf and as said earlier,... move slower than half fast, and maybe even slower, they blend in with the scenery so good and remain absolutely motionless, that its difficult to see them. I just can't wait for that BULL to come screaming in on me this Sept., I'll greet him with a 125 Thunderhead. Later folks, Bobby<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>