However, you can use the same calls for a Roosevelt that you do to call in a Rocky Mountain elk or a Tule elk. A mature Roosevelt weighs between 1,000 to 1,100 pounds. The Roosevelt elk looks somewhat different from the Rocky Mountain elk - darker in color and with slightly smaller antlers and larger bodies than the Rocky Mountain elk. Because the country Roosevelts live in is so thick, you just about have to get the Roosevelt elk in that close for an archer to have a chance to take one. Most of the time, we can get the elk to within 20 yards of the shooter. Then I try to get myself or my hunter in the right place to take that bull when he comes in to us. The way I hunt them is to, first of all, find a bull that will respond to calling. You can have an encounter with a Roosevelt elk where the bull comes within 10 yards of you, and you still may not be able to get a good bow shot. The country they live in is pretty much straight up and down, and they like to get down in the deep timber in the drainages where they live. I believe the Roosevelt elk live in the roughest terrain of any of the elk species. At the peak of the rut, if you can call very well, you can just about bet on seeing a Roosevelt coming to your call and wanting to fight. Roosevelts tend to be much more aggressive than Rocky Mountain elk or Tule elk. I’m often asked, “What’s different about hunting Roosevelt elk?” I love to hunt the Roosevelt elk during the rut because I like the show they put on for hunters. I hunt Roosevelts primarily in Oregon because the state has over-the-counter tags for archery elk on the western side of Oregon and over-the-counter tags for Oregon residents who want to hunt them as well.
The states of both Oregon and Washington have herds of Roosevelts. However, the zone that has the largest number of tags available in California is the Roosevelt zone, although there’s only 35 tags that can be drawn to hunt the Roosevelt elk. You can’t buy an over-the-counter tag to hunt any elk in California. But the California species have a limited draw. Roosevelt Elk: One of the Most Difficult Subspecies of Elk to HuntĬalifornia is the only state that has all three subspecies of elk required for the North American 29. He’s taken 12 elk, and he’s called in many more for his clients. His guiding service is called Just For Hunting. So, we talked to Parrey Cremeans, a hunting guide from northern California, who has been hunting and guiding in the far west since 1988. We wanted to take a closer look at these far western elk, and what’s required to take them. California is the only state that has both the Roosevelt and the Tule, as well as the Rocky Mountain elk. The same is true about the Roosevelt elk and even more so the Tule elk.
Although, there’s some public hunting for the Osceola, it’s fairly well restricted. Actually hunting the Osceola isn’t any different from hunting any other turkey however, the area where he lives in Florida is very small. In the turkey-hunting fraternity, one of the toughest turkeys to take in the Continental U.S.
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