pennsylvania elk hunting
 

has anyone hunted Penn. elk ?? equal chance lottery for non-res.!!!!

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

No, never applied. I've seen more wild cattle in pens. Cheap meat though if you get drawn.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

I apply every year. The places where you see all the elk walking around in town aren’t open to hunting. Most everyone I talk to says trying to hunt them in the areas that they can be hunted isn’t as easy as most think.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

I apply, but don't get drawn. I know some folks that have cabins up in PA elk country and they are still wild animals. It's not like hunting them out west though.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

I'm too cheap to pay the $10 for the chance to be drawn.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

Not according to any of my coworkers who work in the area. Wild, hardly.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

So why aren't they wild? Is it a restoration program like Minnesota has? We have two very small herds that were reintroduced decades ago in the far nothern part of the state and that they have limited hunts on to control destruction to farmland, etc. Sounds like the rifle hunters are usually very successful. I've always thought it would be interesting to get drawn and try archery tackle.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

OK, you're right. My friends are liars.[8D]

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

I know a guy who has a cabin up there and is a guide for people during the elk season.From everything he has told me, they are pretty damn tame.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

I read the article on one getting caught up in horse bridles/lead lines on his rack in the PA Game News. They had photos of it walking right into a Construction site, and right up to the workers (who were seeking refuge on top of their skid steer:D). I couldn't say if this is how ALL of the Elk behave in PA, or where they hunt them for that matter, but this bull was certainly not phased by people.

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A few years ago we went camping up near Bennezette (sp). We where out riding around looking for elk. Found a nice 4x3 feeding. Some guy from another vehicle got out and went right up behind the bull to get a picture. The bull spun around and was about to gore the guy but the guy jumped in behind a tree. I think he checked his shorts immediately after that. Although some may not be as wild, I wouldn't just walk up to them.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

As a member of the Rocky Mtn Elk foundation I keep apprised of elk restoration projects. Penn is a huge success story especially considering how little contiguous wild forest lands are available in the midwest and east coast. If you look at where elk live out west for the most part they call home the huge tracts of national forest and wilderness..

Consider yourselves lucky to have such a magnificent animal to potentially hunt.. after hunting whitetails most of my teen years in the midwest then moving to Montana and now Washington, I find that there is no more challenging and rewarding hunting than Elk. $10 is a cheap ticket for a try.. Don't expect though that using your typical whitetail tactics are also going to work for elk.. if they're anything like western elk you're going to have to work your butt off to get one.

RE: pennsylvania elk hunting
 

Must be my coworkers that are liars, and everyone else here saying the same thing. Define your friends, wild?