I agree with elknut 1, I would like a forum just for elk. I hunt mostly with a bow, but like this year I sometimes hunt with a rifle. But with that said, I live, eat, and breathe elk, and elk hunting. It doesn't matter what weapon, be it bow, rifle, pistol, black powder, as long as I can hunt elk I am a happy camper. When I am not actually elk hunting I am thinking/planning on the next years hunt. Its been in my blood since I was two years old. Honestly my first memory is sitting in a hunting camp here in Idaho with my mother, and my dad came flying into camp whooping and a hollering because he just killed a raghorn bull elk. It was in the back of the truck and my dad lifted me up and I was amazed and scared at the same time. It was only two years later that I remember sitting on a ridge with my dad and watching some elk feed about 100 yards below us. I also deer hunt and I love a good goose/duck hunt as well. If I had time and money I would love to hunt Alaska. A safari hunt in Africa for the big 5 would be a dream come true, and I think that there needs to be a place to talk about those animals on a forum like this biggame forum. But for the average joe hunter here out west, the number one animal to hunt is the elk. I used to respond on the bowhunter section all the time, but most hunters there are from the east and talk about whitetails. If the subject of elk is brought up, it is about a planned dream hunt, and what state with what guide, or how and where do I start. I sometimes laugh because some of the people who respond, who claim to be experts, and are from back east or live somewhere other than elk country, and they have spent a whole week in elk woods helping someone they knew, who drew out on a elk tag. Now there is nothing wrong with that, but it would be nice to have a site just for elk where new and old elk hunters can focus on nothing but elk, and people can learn from "real experts" who do live day to day around the animals that they love.