Good job congrats calling one in for your friend to me that's just as good you hunted just like your friend only difference is you didn't pull the trigger.
Thank you for the up date I was curious how your season went
I definitely did feel like the cock of the walk for this kill.
I camp alone and have friends that camp a mile away and some times I join them on hunts. After running into them one morning and listening to all the radio chatter, I just stayed to the rear and watched with my spotting scope. He and number of other people were after a couple herds. This ordeal went on for hours. I would leave, go glass elsewhere and come back and the ordeal was still going on. It’s almost worthy of it’s own thread.
So I went back to a low pressure area that I stalked a herd on the previous day only to find 50+ of cows and calves. I glassed and didn’t see anything, sage is 5’ tall. I cold called. Heads started popping up. I called my friend and he came in hot. Spotted them and made his plan. Some other friends came over. I stuck with spotting since I had the spotting scope and relayed the herd movement. Another friend kept him informed on the radio.
Unfortunately he got winded by the herd and they got to moving away. He was 50yd away and now they are 200+ and moving. I’m 600yd away and call them again, they stopped and looked and he shot. Herd moves. We didn’t know what animal he shot. He shots again. One animal stammers and the herd moves some more. He shoots a third time and and it falls right over. Recovery time.
We were fortunate that he had so much recovery equipment that we only had to drag her ~50yds and then she was brought in the rest of the way with his winch, gutted, and five grown men hefting her into the back of a truck.
So far I’m 2-2 when spotting legal elk that won’t require long and arduous recovery. The one I took two years ago was 80yds from a road.
