Hi PrepHole, millennial here. I'm getting into elk hunting, and I want to know what gear would be best for back country mountains in Idaho.
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Hi PrepHole, millennial here. I'm getting into elk hunting, and I want to know what gear would be best for back country mountains in Idaho.
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thought this was PrepHole related because of the gear threads and boar hunting. Sorry.
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AR platform rifle in at least 7.62. These fuckers need to just give advice tbh.
I've got a rifle I can use. Just looking for gear recommendations, like clothing, backpacks, camping, etc.
Savotta makes good backpacks.
UFPro has some decent clothes. Even the mossy oak realtree stuff you can buy at walmart works for 90% of people
Hi anon,
Glad to hear that you want to start hunting.
I have been hunting now for around ten years. I'm Australia, but am very good friends with lots of international hunters and have decent knowledge of hunting abroad.
Your best bet would be to join a local hunting club and learning from the experienced hunters there.
Alternatively, there are lots of resources available for you. There are lots of YouTube channels out there dedicated to hunting. Here are just a few:
MeatEater (Steven Rinella): https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterTV
Randy Newberg: https://www.youtube.com/@Fresh_Tracks
Desert Dog Outdoors: https://www.youtube.com/@desertdogoutdoors1113/videos
Ron Spomer: https://www.youtube.com/@RonSpomerOutdoors
There are also good books on the subject, like Steven Rinella's "Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering and Cooking Wild Game."
Hope that helps. Best of luck to you, OP.
Thanks. I haven't had the time to be outside as much as I wanted to be until now. Getting into hunting here has been a goal of mine for a while now because my state has a beautiful landscape and diverse wildlife.
You don't have to go expensive especially for your first time. A good inexpensive pack is the filbe assault pack for about $40 on sportsman's guide. Pick up a poncho and liner from them too for around $60 a set. A gps is great, but expensive. Buy the on-x hunting maps and use your phone, bring a power bank from walmart for about $20. Pick up a headlamp, flashlight and a backup headlamp, headlamp should have a red led in addition to the white. Buy a paper map of the area and spray it with camp seal for a waterproof map that will last a couple seasons. Don't forgot a compass. Break in your boots now, should be leather, mink oil the outside to waterproof. Socks should be wool, veep some extras in a bag in your pack. I like to bring 5l of water daily but I'm in a desert. A 3l bladder and or a couple of nalgene bottles will suffice. Or just toss 6 or more bottles of water in your bag. Hunting knife and sharpener. Fire kit should be a minimum of a bic lighter wrapped in duct tape and a baggie of vaseline soaked cotton balls, keep one set in your pocket and another couple in your pack. Mode of transportation and accomodations would dictate other equipment.
>a bic lighter wrapped in duct tape
What's the duct tape for?
Tape is good for field repairs and is also flammable.
Thanks!
This guy knows wtf he’s talking about, this sounds identical to my bros elk kit
Seriously consider cutting your teeth on whitetail or blacktail if it's available to you. Elk are fuckhuge and dealing with the carcass is extremely difficult, basically impossible if you don't have an experienced hunter with you.
Remember, the real work starts after you pull the trigger, not before.
This. Start out small and work your way up. Skinning and butchering an elk by yourself is no easy task, and if you are planning to cape it for a shoulder mount, that adds another layer of complexity.
Id recommend a tikka .270. then just make sure you have the "10 C's of survival" in your loadout. Meateater is probably a good source on elk hunting
here are a couple of factors to consider
>are you hunting private or public land
>how does this affect your hunting laws
other than that anything .308 30-06 will get the job done easy. If for some reason idaho is a straight wall state (i think not) .450 is a safe bet. .357 and
350 prolly works too for straightwalls.
some picks
>AR10, M1A, PTR G3 clone, dsa FAL clone
>Bolt action in 30-06
>surplus k98
>lee enfield if you dont mind sourcing soft point .303 british
You can also do 300 blackout within a reasonable range I guess.
>inb4 muh 7.62x39
>inb4 muh sks
communist fag shit and the cheap sks market dying is the best thing to ever happen
>inb4 muh nugget
same shit.
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Join up anon.
baseball bat
Use for marching stick
Use for bonking anyone who ask why you have a baseball bat
You will finish with more then you started if done right
im also in idaho. get a .308 or .30-06 and a handgun of your choice. I like .357 but 10mm is great too. even 9mm with hardcast 147gr will be sufficient
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get you some orange hi viz and an emergency beacon, you may never need it but Idaho is a big, empty place. Garmin is good for that
Game bags: contractor bags if you're cheap, Ovis for pro-am tier
Camel Bak
decent clothing- wool socks, duck trousers, Nike Dri Fit or equivalent shirts, a set of merino longjohns. Icebreaker and Minus33 make nice woolen goods but tend to attract a lot of fags and hippies, so maybe just regular Smartwool.
windbreaker with hoodie, whatever you like just waterproof. and its my bias showing off here but Carhartt is one of the best outwear coats you can get for hunting, esp with the hood. Don't forget your hi viz tho. I use tape on mine but a vest over the coat is good too
Some other fag can talk to you about bags, I just carry a Jansport I got at the mall for day trips, and boots are entirely up to you but don't pinch pennies here, Merrell is basically the bottom floor for outdoors boot, only go up from there.
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This is a series made by an oldfag hunter, as near as I can tell it's pretty good. Seems like what you're looking for.
Just went on an unsuccessful early season elk hunt
>AR-10 with 5 rnd mag
>fuckhueg Vortex scope
>Camelbak with 10Cs, snacks, rangefinder
>old army assault pack with kill kit, medical kit, bone saw and spotting scope
>fixed blade and Razorpro knives
>tarp for sitting on
Spent some time on a water source, the rest stalking but only saw some scat and heard some bugling.
Good luck, stay safe and don't get lost.
>unsuccessful early season elk hunt
>>AR-10 with 5 rnd mag
well that's your problem right there, sonny. them durr and helks don't like those tupperware plastic guns of yours, they want to be shot by a Real Rifle with Real Wood and Blued Steel just like your pappy had, I tell you hwat
Plastic AR-10? Mine's 100% metal except for maybe some gaskets in the scope.
My pappy's durr raifu was a shotgun because lol east coast nonsense and he never taught me to hunt because he was a shitty hunter.
>vegetarian: ancient Abenaki word for bad hunter
Don't buy the Walmart field dressing kit the knives are utter dogshit. Prolly don't buy the chinkoid ones off Amaxon either.
A lotta dude around here like the Havalon line of knifes, blades are disposable/replacable
This
I literally use a small knife that is really just a handle with replaceable razor blades
Keep in mind you aren’t killing the animal with the knife, just extracting the meat, you don’t need a blade longer than 2 inches for this task
Tip with the Havalon knives or any other type of knife that uses replaceable blades:
Get your blades from a veterinarian or hospital supply shop. They are much cheaper and work just as well as the brand blades.
Also make sure you bring some tweezers to clean out meat and other gunk from your knife. You don't want that stuff to dry and get stuck in the little nooks and crannies of your knife.
How do you keep your water from freezing?
Get a 30-06, 7mm rem mag, or .300win mag/wsm. Actual elk hunter over here, if you’re hunting out west you’re going to want glass on your rifle. 4-12 is a really good place to start with that. In terms of gear, one thing I haven’t seen is good boots. Spend the dough, it’s worth it. Good pack is also worth it. And rope, you can make shelter, drag meat, lift quarters onto a branch for processing, put the meat in a tree for when you’re packing out, and have a nice day when you don’t see elk.
>Get a 30-06, 7mm rem mag, or .300win mag/wsm
Yup
>hunting out west
>glass
>good boots
Definitely
>Rope
>have a nice day when you don’t see elk.
>Actual elk hunter
100% Confirmed
Good luck out there this season!
>and have a nice day when you don’t see elk.
Jej. Ain't that the truth.
>and have a nice day when you don’t see elk
Oh you might see elk, but they're 2000 yards and moving away from you up the ridge. Good thing it's only a 2+ hour hike over there, you'll definitely still have a shot. ;_;
I was gearing up not too long ago for cold weather backpacking and just a list of some of the shit I've gotten:
Aclima woolnet base layers
Hestra wakayama gloves
Patagonia R1 fleece (if you have a buddy in the military, just have him get you a waffletop if possible. its basically the exact same thing)
>Aclima
I'm a huge sheepfag and was looking at these. kinda don't feel like paying $200 for underwear but i'm interested. how are they
I haven't given enough use as its just now starting to get cold in the mornings. I bought them on sale in the summer for 127 shipped from Varuste. This thread is what made me want to try them:
https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/fishnet-base-layers-they-work-and-you-want-them.242971/
Rifle of choice
Some spare mags/ammo
A high power sidearm like 10mm, 45 ACP, 357 SIG or 44 magnum
Food and water
A knife and multitool, not one or the other, both
Binoculars
This belongs on PrepHole as fags previously stated but nobody fucking cares so here’s some advice
Carry only what you need and nothing you don’t, stay lightweight because it’s gonna suck packing out elk alone, it’s heavy and your on the clock to get the meat out of there before it spoils, not that much of an issue in winter but it’s still fairly warm during the day currently
>backpacks
For backpacks get something that you don’t mind getting blood on, I personally like Osprey for my ultralight backpacking, and the mystery ranch 55L Terraframe for packing out animals, I can put the meat in a drybag and stuff it between the frame and the bag itself, the system works very well and is light for being a mystery ranch bag.
>clothes
Winter is coming, so layers, no cotton.
>camping
If your a beginner, Idaho in the winter may not be your best option
If you are experienced but just need advice on the region I’m not too familiar with Idaho so listen to the other anons
t. NW Montana anon
>Carry only what you need and nothing you don’t, stay lightweight because it’s gonna suck packing out elk alone
That said, redundancy is God when it comes to necessities. Murphy's Law and all.
I used to be that way, 2 is one and 1 is none and all
Now I just don’t care, I pack light and try to enjoy life, will it get me killed at some point? Quite possibly, but I just don’t care
I put together a kit for ya
The taser is for angry park rangers
Just buy a Savage Axis in .308 Anon. You probably aren't experienced enough to shoot past 300 yards on a game animal anyways (neither am I).
Even if you aren't taking long-range shots while hunting (which you shouldn't), you should still invest in a good rifle.
Facts don’t buy a shit rifle. Out west sometimes all you have is 400+yard shots. I don’t know how much y’all have hunted out west, but I’ve taken 50 yard shots on elk in late season and the farthest was 618 on the rangefinder. You aren’t making a 400 yard shot, let alone a 600 yard shot, with grandpappys pos Spanish Mauser or a shitty savage arms axis. The only reason I made that shot was a .72 MOA rifle (yes my autistic ass measured), shooting sticks, and stupid amounts of time reloading shells for that gun. If that rifle was trash and the other two were the best ever made, non of it would matter.
>shitty savage
Savage is the default platform of choice for budget long range precision shooting right now. They've always been well above their price class in accuracy, the biggest knock on the base models is the plastic stock
You are correct and I should have been more clear, I’m not saying all savages are shitty. But if you have a shitty one it won’t cut it unless you are within a couple hundred yards. Savage does punch above its weight in terms of accuracy, but I wouldn’t trust a $400 rifle from Walmart to make a 400+ yard vitals shot. Get a nice savage if that’s what you want.
I'm getting into you. You.
>there is never too much kinetic energy
kek
>jesuschristhowhorrifying.jpg
that was excessive to say the least. and $7 a pop to disintegrate gophers? no thank you
Go camp and hike in whatever zone you want to hunt in before you put in for tags, cause the backcountry can and will fuck you up quickly. Merino will save your ass literally and figuratively. Know how to make accurate shots up and down steep angles, and bring friends. And rope. And whisky.
t. ID anon
Embrace alpaca.
what the fuck happened to this board
It will never recover from 2016
My elk experience is limited to NM but some of this should apply.
Rifle: tikka T3X (or other bolt action) in 30-06, 7mm rem mag, or .308. With a good scope. Don’t worry about spending a shitload of money I’ve gotten the job done multiple times with a $300 Nikon prostaff scope. They don’t make them anymore so maybe check out vortex idk much about scopes these days. My first elk I killed with .30-06 it did the job fine but I was at 250 yds. If you’re shooting longer distances I’d recommend the 7mm rem mag. I like using shooting sticks too. Up to you. Some other anons have mentioned AR10 in .308 or another hunting caliber. That works fine too but I like bolt actions for hunting.
Binos: vortex makes decent binos for the price. I’d recommend shelling out for the combined bino rangefinder (about $1100). But if you’re trying to save money just get a set of binos and a separate rangefinder
I like elk hunting in a base layer (underarmour), pants, sweater, then a goretex rain set over them. Add/subtract layers, gloves, hat as needed. Get some good wool socks. You’ll need comfy hiking boots as well, break them in beforehand.
If you have the fortune of driving/ATV and camping nearby I’d recommend a small sawzall and batteries. This is a luxury though and makes processing and butchering a lot easier. Get those white game bags for storing your meat.
Camping cushion/stool can be nice too if you’re gonna be sitting on some cold ass hard ground.
A big backpack for packing out meat if you end up quartering and humping it all out.
A small backpack to help you carry your other shit: knife, snacks, water etc.
Enjoy!
Bring paracord too, and a headlamp.