We drove down to the farm Tuesday night, Wifes Uncle has a bull tag. We had been seeing elk all over the place up untill about a week before the opener. On the way down, got a call from the Uncle saying a good size bunch of elk were back, down in the CRP feeding.
Good deal! Opening Morning Uncle, his 9yo son and I are up and in position to intercept the elk as the move back to timber. Around 0730, here the come. Two branch bulls first, with around 30 elk close behind. 3 more bulls are in the group of 30! We are getting ready to deploy the shooting stix for Uncle and wait for them to get into comfortable range. WAIT! What the heck! All the sudden the two bulls in front STOP, and the main bunch cluster up and begin to turn. Two "men", Trespassers, begin running up one of our fence lines between us and the elk!
The elk turn, and run towards the neighbors property. No shots fired, the elk run off, I have no idea what these two people were doing. I glass them as they ran off, did not see any rifles in hand, but they were eventualy picked up by a truck driving around on the neighbors place. We did not see any more elk, but did have a great day together in the outdoors. We did see a LOT of mule deer, that was good to see after a rough deer season on the farm. Another neighbors family killed 3 bulls, all 5x5's. In closing, Trespassers really tick me off!
