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Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
04-18-2008, 06:20 AM
#11
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Posts: 2,120
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
Where do you see $6000.00 for a 400 class? I see $5900.00 for up to 340 class than add $2000.00 to that for bigger. Go open range Elk Do a true wilderness hunt and get the full experiance.
04-18-2008, 08:29 AM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kalispell, MT
Posts: 171
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
ORIGINAL: MichiganWhitetails74
Ok guys...I'm not in this to spark up an argument on fenced in hunts....I want you to give me your opinion choice.
Which would you do?
This is not a DIY hunt.....these are guided hunts...
1) A 380 - 400 class bull elk (Guarantee Hunt?)...On a 20,000 acrefenced in ranch.. 6000 dollars.
2) A guided Elk hunt for $4250 with a reputable outfitter.
Check outwww.utahelkhunt.com I'm not afraid to say...I like what I see...and know a guy that hunted with them...MONSTERS.
Ok guys...I'm not in this to spark up an argument on fenced in hunts....I want you to give me your opinion choice.
Which would you do?
This is not a DIY hunt.....these are guided hunts...
1) A 380 - 400 class bull elk (Guarantee Hunt?)...On a 20,000 acrefenced in ranch.. 6000 dollars.
2) A guided Elk hunt for $4250 with a reputable outfitter.
Check outwww.utahelkhunt.com I'm not afraid to say...I like what I see...and know a guy that hunted with them...MONSTERS.
as a westerner, the use of the word "ranch" is used a little too liberally here...
A Ranch is not a high fenced pen for Ek...
Not interested in this hunt....
prefer DIY, and since I live in the West, and grew up doing this stuff, could not imagine any other way to hunt Elk....They are too majestic to put in a fence!!!
04-18-2008, 08:32 AM
#14
Bartender
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 6,634
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
With you and Walt on this one.
ORIGINAL: magicman54494
I wouldn't pick eithor. I'm a DIY guy. I would get much more satisfaction taking a smaller animal on a DIY hunt.
I wouldn't pick eithor. I'm a DIY guy. I would get much more satisfaction taking a smaller animal on a DIY hunt.
04-18-2008, 09:08 AM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
ORIGINAL: magicman54494
I wouldn't pick eithor. I'm a DIY guy. I would get much more satisfaction taking a smaller animal on a DIY hunt.
I wouldn't pick eithor. I'm a DIY guy. I would get much more satisfaction taking a smaller animal on a DIY hunt.
04-18-2008, 09:09 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
ORIGINAL: iamyourhuckleberry
Sorry dude,
I won't spend more than the cost of a resident elk tag-ever. You are more than welcome to join us in September.A OTC non-resident tag is somewhere around $500. I can guarantee you a great time and tons of fun.
Sorry dude,
I won't spend more than the cost of a resident elk tag-ever. You are more than welcome to join us in September.A OTC non-resident tag is somewhere around $500. I can guarantee you a great time and tons of fun.
There are a lot of issues why I go with outfitters from time to time, and honestly it comes down to available time. I just don't have the time to do the research necessary to pull off an equivalentDIY hunt. I have never had a guide though because I don't want someone else telling me how to hunt.I would go free range. I don't have a real reason other than I pondered the same question for some time and just wouldn't feel right about being behind a fence even though it would not be a limiting factor. Either way you go, I hope you have a blast!
04-18-2008, 09:17 AM
#17
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 584
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
ORIGINAL: huntingson
If I lived where you do I would say the same, but since I live in crummy Ohio with our grand total of 1 big game animal the best I can do is a nonresident tag There are a lot of issues why I go with outfitters from time to time, and honestly it comes down to available time. I just don't have the time to do the research necessary to pull off an equivalentDIY hunt. I have never had a guide though because I don't want someone else telling me how to hunt.
I would go free range. I don't have a real reason other than I pondered the same question for some time and just wouldn't feel right about being behind a fence even though it would not be a limiting factor. Either way you go, I hope you have a blast!
ORIGINAL: iamyourhuckleberry
Sorry dude,
I won't spend more than the cost of a resident elk tag-ever. You are more than welcome to join us in September.A OTC non-resident tag is somewhere around $500. I can guarantee you a great time and tons of fun.
Sorry dude,
I won't spend more than the cost of a resident elk tag-ever. You are more than welcome to join us in September.A OTC non-resident tag is somewhere around $500. I can guarantee you a great time and tons of fun.
There are a lot of issues why I go with outfitters from time to time, and honestly it comes down to available time. I just don't have the time to do the research necessary to pull off an equivalentDIY hunt. I have never had a guide though because I don't want someone else telling me how to hunt.I would go free range. I don't have a real reason other than I pondered the same question for some time and just wouldn't feel right about being behind a fence even though it would not be a limiting factor. Either way you go, I hope you have a blast!
04-18-2008, 02:31 PM
#19
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
RE: Open Range Elk /OR/ 20,000 acre ranch?
I think a canned hunt if youre 75yo and have yet to take that monster elk is one thing.....
and also 20,000 acres out west, isn't 20,000 acres out east......and you may run into a fence....
IMO I want to shoot a 400" on open range, not canned/fenced.
a 330" uncanned IMO is bigger than a 380-410 canned.
Course its your money, is it not fenced? just a ranch? private land? if that's the case, do whichever.
and also 20,000 acres out west, isn't 20,000 acres out east......and you may run into a fence....
IMO I want to shoot a 400" on open range, not canned/fenced.
a 330" uncanned IMO is bigger than a 380-410 canned.
Course its your money, is it not fenced? just a ranch? private land? if that's the case, do whichever.