Once you've found a place worth hunting, what the other guys said is good. But not wasting your time where there aren't any elk is pretty important. If you can drive around an area (truck or 4 wheeler) checking water holes, springs, and wallows, watching for tracks along and crossing the dirt roads, stopping to look and listen and talking to other scouters or hunters on an earlier hunt for a few days before hunting, that can be time well spent. Once you find an area with elk, leave it alone. Don't mess it up by camping in the middle of it or exploring every nook and crany on your 4 wheeler. Hopefully nobody else will either, but you can't control that. When it's time to hunt, come back as quietly as possible, and park as far away as you can and still have the time and legs to get to and from the hunting area. A lot of times the night before the season opens people will start moving into an area and banging around making camp, running around on 4 wheelers, and generally ruining everything. That's why it's a good idea to find some rougher, more remote country a couple of canyons away from the roads if possible, where you can hunt if that happens. You can also simply hike into one of these hideout areas before everybody else gets out and starts making a commotion, and they can push the elk to you. But you have to know the country, because you will either be hiking in the dark or backpack camping since the day before. I think elk have become quite wary of people on 4 wheelers. I only use mine for scouting, and getting within a mile or so of where I want to hunt in the morning. Also for hauling out the meat it is great.
You want to confuse him.
I'd thought I'd picked an original name "Gila Dog", has a ring to it.
