Walked into my honey hole yesterday around 2:30 due to having to work on my wife's car first
but what goes around comes around because I was into elk within 45 minutes. I found a herd with a really nice 5x5 but I didn't see him right away all I was seeing was small bulls and cows so being that I was still looking for my first archery elk I was happy with a cow so I took a 60 yard quarter away shot at a fat cow and as I released I heard the string hit my coat sleeve and the arrow went wide right
. The herd of 40 or so kinda scattered but still didn't quite know what was going on and that's when the big boy popped out at 60 yards standing quarter in toward me and I let one fly and it looked like a perfect shot but the last 20 yards I watched the arrow die out and drop just below him and into a branch
needless to say I was very disappointed at myself and figured I had blew my chance. The elk went into the timber and I knew there was a old skidder road behind the timber in the direction they were going so I hauled butt that way to cut them off and on my way as I was rounding a corner I cought a glimpse of a elk head eating in the old grassy road I was on so I notched a arrow, drew back, took a deep breath and settled my 30 yard pit on the vitals and let her fly. Perfect shot!! She ran 100 yards and died. I shot her at 3:30 pm and I was done cleaning meat and crawling into bed this morning at 3:30 am. Thanks to ruttnbuck for helping me quarter her out and packing out. It doesn't get any better then that!!
