Has anyone from TGO or know of someone who got an elk hunt in TN

[my82cam]

As I look into putting my name in the hat for the TN elk draw, I began to wonder if anyone from TGO, or anyone you know, got to be one of the lucky 4(or have enough money to be the 5th that purchased the tag;) that got to hunt them .   I went to Utah for my first elk hunt in 2013, and I can not stop thinking about elk hunting.  I put in for the Utah muzzle loading tag, will probably take 5-10 years to get anough points to get it.  I am also going to start putting in for TN elk in the off chance that I get lucky!! 

[Rightwinger]

Nope

[DaveS]

Nope. I don't see a single remote chance of me winning an Elk tag in TN.

 

Dave

[ShaunM]

Wish I would win one lol.

[Wiljo05]

I have a better chance of hitting one going down the road than winning the draw

[R_Bert]

Don't shoot the pets.

 

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Here is Elly all growed up

 

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Edited February 16, 2014 by R_Bert

[my82cam]

I know the chances are slim to non to draw it. Do they do it by a points system or just a luck of the draw each year?

[my82cam]

Do you really have a pet cow? That's crazy

[R_Bert]

Do you really have a pet cow? That's crazy

 

Of course she is not "mine", but I have spent a few days next to her on the hunting stand. That bull was 50-75 yards away all day, the cow was 25 yards or less.

 

 

Along with them, there is a whole population that is relatively tame - nosing in backpacks, UTV/ATVs, wanting back & belly scratching. Over the years we have had several poke their head in a tent blind.

 

This one will eat a apple out of your hand, and bed down a few feet from you, neither are spooked by gun-shots (at deer & turkey)

 

Bottom line for TN elk hunting IMHO, if it ain't spooked and running, it's probably not a sporting kill.

 

(the cow has a birthmark, so we have been able to easily identify her since the season she was born)

Edited February 16, 2014 by R_Bert

[whiskey]

I have put in for it the last few years. I don't expect to win, but since it's free, I do it anyway. 

[my82cam]

You never know, people have pet bears,coons....why not an elk? Lol

[my82cam]

You never know, people have pet bears,coons....why not an elk? Lol