meomako,
Lost fork is some good country, you should do well. You wanted a story about the area. 2 years ago i was hunting whitetails by Ackley lake, jack knows where that is, good, flat, wide open country with whitetails and antelope, not a tree in sight, lots of wheat stubble fields in between the snowy and little belt mountains, you can see all the mountains jack refers to in the distance, including the twin sisters. i heard lots of shooting to the south all day long, pretty steady, and moving from east to west which i thought to be kind of funny, anyway, later in the afternoon my buddy and i took a ride in that direction to see what all the commotion was all about. I was looking out the window as a drove, scanning the countryside for deer. when i see a small herd of elk bedded down in a wheat stubble field. Imagine my surprise, the bunch had a small bull in with it, i had filled my tag with a nice bull on opening day a couple weekends before, so i just sat watching them(this was not elk country). Eventually a game warden wandered by and stopped. seems a large herd of elk, 500 head or so migrated from one mountain range ta the other a little early, The area is open to elk, so there was quite a commotion going on for a few days. The elk herd took a pounding, with some large mature bulls taken out of the bunch. I guess it's rare, but happens ever now and then. They had to run the gauntlet of about 20 miles or so to make the mountains to the West.Elk have a pretty tough time hiding in winter wheat stubble fields, they kind of stick out like a sore thumb.