Elk

The Bridger Wilderness Area continues to produce some of the best Trophies and the highest Bull:Cow ratios in the state. We hunt nearly exclusively in the Bridger Wilderness and I can offer the advantage of three Deluxe Base Camps, high Wilderness spike camps or Day Use Hunting from the town of Pinedale. Our Base Camps are among the most deluxe and comfortable camps that you will experience. In addition, we have a Day Use Permit that we can utilize from our Elk Hart Park Pack Station when needed. " BURNT LAKE BASE CAMP: This is a drive in base camp complete with cabins on the shore of Burnt Lake and a wood Cook/dining cabin. We utilize this site as our Trailhead to the Wilderness and our other Base Camps. In addition, the camp site provides some ideal late season Elk hunting.

HORSESHOE LAKE BASE CAMP: This deluxe Wilderness Base Camp is located about 4 horse hours from our Burnt Lake Base, in the Bridger Wilderness. This ideal location allows us access to Elk and Moose hunting during the early season and until we get snowed out of the high country. We are strategically located between two migratory elk routes to the Fall Creek Feed Ground to the North and the Scab Creek Elk Feed Ground to the South!

BLACKS LAKE BASE CAMP: This deluxe non-Wilderness Base Camp is located about 50 feet from the Wilderness Boundary. The Base Camp is located about 2 ½ horse hours from the Trailhead and offers great hunting opportunities for Elk, Deer and Moose. This is as deluxe a pack in Base Camp as you will find with individual wall tents (2 hunters/tent) large cook tent and even offers a heated ‘outhouse’ tent.

We are fortunate to be able to advertise that we will have Left Over 97 type 1 and type 6 licenses in July available through a lottery computer drawing. We are currently booked for our Bull Elk Hunt for 2025 so any openings will be cancellations and you should coordinate with me for that potential.

• Area 97 historically had 5 active base camp Outfitters but now only has 2. I have been fortunate enough to buy out two operations while one is simply out of business.
• The overall Elk herd continues to grow & the Game and Fish is issuing 225 type 1 Any Elk Licenses from Sept.20-Oct. 31 and an any elk General Season from Oct. 1-15.
• If you are not lucky to draw that license in the January drawing, we will have Left Over 97 type 1 licenses in July that are on a lottery issue basis.

My hunt dates are booked extremely well and consider that we run about 80% return or direct referral clients, my overall dates are limited. I do still have a few dates available in 2025, 2026, 2027 and quite a few dates available in 2028 (please call or email with specifics). It is currently taking at least 5 preference points in order to draw our Regular Elk License and 2 preference points in order to draw the special license (these numbers can vary). I would be anxious to help you with the preference point system and would insist on actually entering your license application for your specific hunt year.

The 2024 hunting season marks my 48th year as a Wyoming Outfitter in the Pinedale area. I am fortunate that my daughter Nycole Pollard, serves as my foreman and co-outfitter, former Guide of the Year recipient and one of our top summer and big game guides. My son, Travis (also received the Guide of the Year Award for Wyoming), leads our experience elk and moose guides. Our Elk Herd is currently in the best shape, both quality and quantity, that I have ever seen.

If you have been looking for that true Wilderness horseback Elk Hunting experience, the Bridger Wilderness is the place and the Bald Mountain Outfitters are the right people!!
The Elk Hunting Weeks that I can offer include:

• Sept. 10-17 Archery Hunting Week. This is the ideal high Wilderness (Horseshoe Lake) archery elk hunt with lots of action on those charging bulls. We take all archery types: Recurve, Compound, or Crossbow hunters.
• Sept. 19-26 and Sept. 28-Oct. 5, and Oct. 7-14 are what we consider our rifle bugling hunt weeks. Some years the Sept. 19 wek will present the best bugle opportunities while some years we will see either the Sept. 28 or Oct. 7 week presenting the best bugling bulls. All of these high-country Wilderness Hunt (Horseshoe Lake) weeks produce high kill success rates and higher opportunity rates.
• Oct. 25-Nov. 1 Rifle Elk Week: Although we can see snow anytime during the entire elk hunting season, this hunt week almost always will present the advantages of hunting elk in the snow. We will typically see more elk during this week than any other hunting week and historically take some great bulls during this week. We will normally be hunting from our Blacks Lake Base Camp and/otr our Burnt lake Base Camp depending on the weather and elk movement. We will typically hear bull elk bugles, but they are not usally coming to our bugles and cow calls like they do in the earlier hunt weeks.
• Nov. 3-7 & Nov. 8-12 Rifle Cow Elk hunt weeks.

HUNT PRICE: $7500 TO $7950/HUNTER DEPENDING ON THE HUNT YEAR BOOKED. THERE IS A 5% TAX ADDED TO THE HUNT PRICE. EARLY BOOKING OF YOUR DATES IS ESSENTIAL TO JOINING US ON ELK HUNT.

Some Specifics for your Hunt Planning:

• 6 Days of Hunting(8 day total with pack in and pack out): (pack in and pack out days are not included in your hunt days)
• Meat processing, taxidermy, travel to Pinedale, your hunting license and personals are NOT included in the hunt price
• Meat and Trophy packing to the trailhead is included in the hunt price
• If you plan to fly Commercially, I would recommend that you look into both Salt Lake (4 car hours from Pinedale) and/or from Jackson Hole (2 car hours from Pinedale);
• If you are flying, I would recommend that you plan to rent a vehicle, preferably a 4 wheel drive;
• We are still extremely fortunate to not be seeing any Wolves or Grizzlies in our Hunt area.

SPECIAL COW HUNT - November 1 - 20 Click here for more information.

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