ELK HUNTING THE MISSOURI RIVER BREAKS

Elk Hunting the Missouri River Breaks

Last weekend my partner in crime and I went up to the legendary Missouri River Breaks in Montana to try and fill my cow elk tag on my year long quest to bag the Montana Big 5 (Antelope, Deer, Elk, Bear / Wolf & Turkey). You are at a disadvantage when you’re bow hunting for a cow elk, because you can’t really call in a cow. Mainly I went to do some scouting before rifle season, because even though I grew up in Montana I had never hunted the Breaks before. It’s a good thing that I did, because they don’t believe in road signs or cattle guards up there. I must have opened and closed about a 100 gates. I hate to report that I didn’t even see an elk, but I did see a lot of rabbits in fact if you are a rabbit hunter this is the place to be. However I did meet a lot of interesting people. Some were very friendly, some not so much. The first stop we made was on Ranch A, we spoke to the rancher and were informed that there were no elk on his ranch, and that they were all over on the neighbors Ranch B. So we went over to Ranch B, and talked to the owner who informed us that there was no elk on their ranch, and that in fact they were all over on Ranch A. She also told us to try to go up Devil’s Creek onto the C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. The C.M.R. allows elk hunting on the refuge but on August 29^th they close all the roads except the main ones in order to discourage hunters from going into the back country. There is a perfect example of your tax dollars at work! So we went up Devil’s Creek, but still didn’t see any elk, so we came back down to look for a block management area. We got completely lost, since there are no road signs. We would probably still be lost if we hadn’t ran into a nice couple who were also elk hunting. They told us to go south and hunt a BMA (Block Management Area) that has plenty of elk on it, and that there were no elk up on Devil’s Creek. We walked all the ridges on this BMA and saw four mule deer does and one spike back in a stand of real thick timber about two miles from the road, only to find out later that usually there isn’t any elk on this BMA until rifle season, and that we should hunt Devil’s Creek in bow season. If you are sensing a trend here, so was I. The only consensus of all the people we talked to is that there are elk running all over the place. This may or may not be true, there just were no elk running all over the place wherever we were at. Although we did run into a gentlemen on Devil’s Creek who had shot a nice bull early earlier in the week it was starting to get late, so we opted to head back to town and console ourselves with pie and coffee before heading back home.

There is a reason they call elk the ghosts of the forest, after all they are pretty hard to find. In the fall issue of the RMEF’s (Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) magazine Bugle they have an article on how to field judge a bull. I didn’t bother to read it, because if I see a legal bull this fall I won’t be wasting time trying to field judge it.

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P.S. I need all my followers out there to write and / or email RMEF and tell them that they need to put me on team elk.

Good Luck & Good Hunting!