It really sucks to come on here and talk about unsuccessful hunts, but I hate it when guys dont update their hunts. So my buddy and me went over for the first seven days of the season. It was some of the toughest hunting I have ever been a part of. Those elk only need to move about fifty yards before they are out of your life forever. We jumped a great bull on tuesday but i couldnt get a shot. Even though i jumped him twice at about fifty yards. The country is just so thick. Then on friday we went in behind a gate and sat for a little while. Another hunter came in behind us so we hurried ahead. Having never been there we didnt want him to get to the "good spot." Well i jumped off of a stump that i had been glassing a drainage from and rushed ahead. About five minutes later we heard a gunshot, then there were three more soon followed. I just couldnt believe my ears. I ran back to see what he had shot or shot at. Well to my surprise he was standing just at the stump where i had been glassing from. He shot a giant 6X6 and to make it worse they basically had to park at our camp to pack it out because that was closest spot. Could not believe it. Well what are you going to do, i guess thats hunting. Would love to hear how everybody else did. I had other run ins with elk, but by far those were the two closest stories to pulling the trigger. Oh yeah, not to mention every time my buddy would drop me off somewhere it seemed he would see a small bull as he drove to pick me up somewhere else.
