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Offline jayrod9528

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First Elk!
« on: October 30, 2014, 10:35:32 AM »
This is my second year Elk hunting. Hunting in GMU166 opening weekend was frustrating to say the least. Wind, rain, and snow and no animals not even a deer or chipmunk. Weather finally cleared up on Monday and I announced at Elk camp "Today is the day!". left Elk camp and walked in about a mile when there sits at 600 yards a lone spike Elk now cows no other bulls just one spike. I got down the hill as fast as I could. I got to 360 yards and that was as close as I was going to get. BOOM! lung and heart shot. So pumped to have my first Elk.
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"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted..If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job." Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 10:40:08 AM »
Nice job!  :drool:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2014, 10:41:12 AM »
 :tup:   nice!!!!
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2014, 10:47:46 AM »
Congrats!  :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2014, 10:52:51 AM »
That is how its done !! Congrats! :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2014, 10:53:02 AM »
nice work. got my first this year itrs pretty exciting . kinda takes the pressure off the rest of the season for deer etc.
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2014, 10:57:02 AM »
Congrats! My first was a spike as well. 
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2014, 11:00:54 AM »
awesomeness  :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2014, 11:18:14 AM »
Well done. Nice hat.
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2014, 11:26:50 AM »
Congrats!  One of the best tasting big game animals there is - a spike elk!  :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2014, 01:01:59 PM »
Congrats!!  You may shoot some bigger and some may be smaller, BUT, one thing is for sure, you'll always remember, THAT, one.  Congrats again. 

For what it's worth, that hat sure would look a lot better if it had some pinstripes..... ;)
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2014, 01:05:18 PM »
nice job congrats
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2014, 01:06:31 PM »
Nice leagule bull elk!!!! :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2014, 01:06:57 PM »
Right on!!  :tup:
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Re: First Elk!
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2014, 08:36:50 PM »
Congrats! :tup:
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