Matt, as you know I work for a telephone co. My company is also in the elk areas and my coworkers say it's dangerous when the bulls are around because they'd set up their ladders on the poles and the bulls would come over to investigate, they said they'd have to get down and run the bulls off in fear they'd hook the ladders with their antlers.

As they are hunted, they may start to fear humans but right now they get so much attention that they do not fear humans. Humans are around them all but constantly. They may run but they run just out of harms way and then stand there and look at you just like you said this show showed. You might not be able to pet them but you can walk up to them within bow range. I have a friend, Ray Smith who owned River Valley Game Calls and now works for the NWTF. He got his guiding license for PA elk when we were still running our outfitting business. He also said you can walk right up to them.

There very well may be a few shy animals but again, they don't fear humans. Why should they. They've been treated like pets from the get go.

They do need culled however as they can overpopulate very quickly and if you ask alot of farmers and others in that area they said there is no real place for elk in PA anymore. Now I don't believe that, I love that they are here, I love that they can be "hunted" but don't ever think that shooting a PA elk, even with a bow has any resemblance to hunting them out west where one scent module reaches their nose and they will run over the mountain.

Sorry Bry, aint calling your friends liars as you put it, just statinf the facts as I know them from first hand experience from my acquaintances.

I watched a WNEP elk "hunt" and I thought it was such a joke. They played it up like a real western hunt and played up the sneak, the stalk etc.... the elk in the background stood there and watched them come. It was NOT a hunt, it was a cull shooting.

That said, again, glad it's possible and it's very cheap, fantastic meat if your lucky enough to get drawn. The hardest part about the "hunt" is getting drawn, then getting the right management area, then finding accessible lands within the management area THEN hoping the elk are actually on that land so you can walk up and shoot one.