PA Elk
 

Just curious if anyone on here applied for a PA Elk license. If so, good luck... the odds are against you.

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You have Elk in PA?

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Yes. In northcentral PA there are elk. We even have an elk hunting season, but there are very few licenses given out, and there is a lottery-type method for getting an elk license. Very few people get the chance to elk hunt in PA.

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[&o]I sent in for it every year that they accepted them and still no luck[&o]

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That's cool there are elk! I've read of some places in the NY possibly reintroducing Elk (Adirondacks and Catskils). It's very interesting to me. How often do you see elk? What areas in Central PA are the Elk located?

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Western Elk County, most of Cameron County, northern Clearfield County, western Clinton County and southwestern Potter County are the areas where you are likely to see an elk.

The best area is located around Medix Run, Benezette, Winslow Hill and Grant in southeast Elk County.

Dick Bodenhorn
WCO, Elk County

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I sent mine in again this year...maybe I'll get lucky..who knows.

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Hence the name.... Elk county.[&:]

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Back in the mid-late 90s there were years when i would see more Elk inrifle season than deer.

I remember one year i had 2 big bulls milling around for over an hour within 75 yards of my stand.

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I sent mine in again. The PGC claims they work on preference points, I'm not sure if they really do or not but I've been sending in since they opened the season. Hopefully, one of these years I'll get lucky and draw.

I've seen a ton of elk in this area.. most in the Hicks and Medix run areas....

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Your odds of being picked are getting pretty good. They draw 40 to 50 lucky elk lottery winners each year. Just hang in there.

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I forgot about this,till the topic came up...Iwatched an elk enter the woodson a gas line between Dubois and rockton last week...I don't know if there was more of them,but it was about 20 ft.from the edge of the woods when I stopped and watched her walked into the woods..The woods she walked into was all posted and they did some clear cutting there also...

I am sure they will have plenty to eat and will stay in this area if there was more than one elk...

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I've been seeing them around Sabula for about the past three years and one was killed by a deer hunter in Luthersburg several years ago.

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That one was killed back in the mid to late 80s by some young kid if my memory serves me correct.. And I think one was also shot in penfield also prior to that..

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Yeah,I think it was a 13 year old girl that killed the one in Luthersburg.Did you see the elk off of the Rockton/Dubois rd?

I seem to see them in spurts around Dubois.I'll see them for a month or so and then I stop hearing about them.The ones around Sabula were arount pretty regularly.

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Yes,That large right away

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I belong to that lease on the left side of the road headingtoward Rockton.Ihaven't been up there since spring gobbler season and I haven't heard anything about it.There's a meeting this sunday for it.I'll find out if anyone has been seeing any up there.Alot of the guys are up there all the time riding atv's so they should know if they're up there regularly.

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I sent in again.. we shall see..

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I applied this year for the first time, we'll see what happens in Sept.

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ive always wanted to elk hunt here in pa since i started hunting. but just recently i talked to a guy that had won a license and he said that it wasnt all that great. he told me that basically you just walk up and shoot one, so maybe im just gonna stick with deer huntin. im not sure if its gonna b worth all the money trying to get a tag. good luck to u guys who applied:D

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The tag comes cheap. Ten bucks for the lottery. Where the real expense comes in is the cost of a guide. From what I understand the guides charge about $500. a day. Now you say you intend to hunt public. Well good, but a great many of the elk reside on private property. The guides have this land tied up and so you will more than likely have to employ a guide to get close enough for a shot.

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You don't spend alot of time in these parts do you Crazy horse?Some of the units have alot of private land but anyone willing to work for an elk,can find them on public land in Pa.Most of the elk in pa are shot very close to roads,as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of elk are brought in to the check station whole.A good wilderness style hunt is a huge opportunity for those hunters that draw a tag and it doesn't have to cost alot of money.People just have to be willing to work for it.

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It has only been 3 or 4 years since they started it. Even out west you can wait alot longer to hunt some states. I can't wait until they draw my name this year:D

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I use to hunt that area for spring turks untill i found another place to hunt them...You paying 300 a year for that lease???Thats what the other side by the water treatment plant are charging,well about 2 years ago anyway...I thnk it was beers who was in charge of that property..Some old woman owns all that property and they are leasing it off her to pay her property taxes if I understood it correct..I think its 3000 acres she owns from what I heard..

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Lastyear in PA i drew a cow Elk tag. I took a cow on the second 2 last day of the season she weight a little over 550lbs. A nd next time i go elk huntin i'm quarterin it out in the woods. Goin down the mountain was horrible with a cow elk.

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Congrats cowboy!:D was it a lot of fun or what? id like to hear about it.

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I applied this year also( Bull Only). If I were lucky enough to get drawed, I'd get a guide.

Once in a lifetime thing, I want the best chance of getting a nice bull and it would be nice having the extra help getting it out.

Unless one of you kind gentlemen would like to guide me for free, LOL!

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:DIt was a blast to hunt elk in PA. It was my first time to ever hunt Elk. The year before i shot a bear then i shot an Elk. And i'm only 17. Here the link of every big game animal i took in PA. http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=7233840&uid=3517591 P.S. if Any draw an Elk Tag i will guide for free i have a cabin in Driftwood PA. If i can get time off of school. Or give imformation where to find a big Bull or Cow. I'm up there every weekend.

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:DAnd when huntin season come around everyone fight at huntin camp hunt with me. only reason is because i took albino doe and a big tom my first year huntin and a couple years after i took a bear and a cow. and every year i take a couple does with my flintlock. it's just because my lucky watch i own. Its a sheirk2 watch from Burgar King. it very lucky my dad took a big sow wearin it and then 2hr let when he gave it to me i took a boar and when ishot my elk i was wearin it. I never go huntin with out it. :D

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smokeman,That lease runs from the Rockton/Dubois road all the way to Orner's and the interstate.It's about 3100 acres if you add in the three other pieces that aren't adjacent to that property.There's 125 members and everyone pays $200/year.I pretty much just use it for turkey hunting.I never stepped fot on it last year during deer season.If it were up to me,it would still be open to the public.

At one time Chagrin land corporation owned it and they let anyone hunt their land.This other company bought it,cut most of the good timber and now they lease it out.

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when is the drawing

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Drawing is Sept 23 at the Elk Expo. Good luck!
Here is my 2005 Bull.

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Beautiful bull! What did you use to take him?

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Thanks. I took him with a Winchester 30-06, 180gr nosler partition at 100 yards.

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did he drop right in his tracks or run? Those noslers do some good work!

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I'd do it in a heartbeat. But I've also heard that's it not really hunting...I mean like out west elk hunting. There are viewing areas where people watch them all year. Then some get tags go to the viewing area and pick out the one they want.

You guys who have done it, tell the story, and straighten us out if incorrect.

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The viewing area is off limits to hunting. No, it's not like out west. You dont have to hunt above 8000 ft above sea level. You can walk in, not pack in but it's not exactly pick out one and shoot it either.

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ccm352
He was broadside at 100yds. The shot was just in front of his right shoulder, it went through and blew the heck out of his left shoulder. He bedded for a while and then tried to run on 3 legs without much luck. I actually have the projectile that was lodged on the inside of his left shoulder. It stayed pretty much intact.

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gr8atta2d, I have not hunted out west to give a good comparison. What I can tell you is that it is not like hunting whitetail deer. The viewing areas are off limits, which is where some the biggest racks are hanging out. Some of the animals out of the viewing areas have contact with humans so they are not as spooky as a western elkthat maynever see or smell a human.

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Nice elk there Stone Mtn.!

I'll bet that is one beautiful mount.

Did you employ a guide?

And would you mind if I ask how much they charge?