Just wondering if anyone has actually found elk just cause they were able to smell them and tell which direction they were in since they can be quite the smelly animal. I know the first elk i shot i smelt them and i walked upwind and sure enough there was a herd of 20 elk and i took a cow out of the herd.

Yeap happens all the time...Most experienced elk hunters can catch that smell like it was bacon cooking.

Yah i know when im walkin threw the bush and i catch their sent it starts to get the blood pumpin.

Darn right you can smell a bull. Works well in dark timber.
Dan

That's exactly the reason that I refuse to wear any of those scent wafers that smell like elk and I refuse to spray cow urine on any of my hunting cloths because if you do that, you're constantly THINKING that you're smelling elk, where as if you just go odor free, then when you think you smelled elk, you probably did. Happens often.

Hunting elk with your nose is a great way to hunt them. I do it all of the time.

Man this sucks! I don't get to hunt elk this year!!!!![:@]Oh I know the smell Very well!

You can also smell mulies in the thick willows during the rut.It's neat in -20 or colder seeing steam moving up a mountain knowing it's really a herd of elk and intercepting them.........................Harold

Yah mulies are stickin buggers during the rut too, definitely caught the scent of them before.