We headed out again this morning at the break of dawn hoping to beat the HEAT... Headed to the Butte to check sign and trail cameras.
My neighbor is a string and stick hunter and has placed a couple of cameras on the side of the mountain.
I continue to be surprised by the amount od sign in the dirty dusty road on the way up the mountain...
The first camera revealed a couple of nice Whitetail - one a real shooter and the other and up and comer...
But disappointingly - no elk on this camera at the mud wallow...
Continued out to the next camera again sign in the road but not near as much as on the way in. Last week, I asked my neighbor to place a camera on the end a Potlatch haul road. The camera was placed off the end of the road on a big game ridge top trail.
At least we got a couple of elk...
We did pull that camera and decided to look for another place for it farther out the ridge. We ended up on a pioneered Potlatch road just below a clearcut on the ridge top. Right at the end of the road two springs had popped out of the cut bank and it appears elk are coming off the ridge top through the CC and down to the road for a refreshing pause. In fact quite a few of them... Be interesting to see that memory card in the next couple of weeks...
