Post by: Vek on November 19, 2012, 09:27:45 PM
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1198.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa460%2FJ_Vek%2F2012%2520Elk%2FIMG_00233.jpg&hash=da2e34054ea2da5c3723837a4afeac841dde795b)
Actually, I left a few more for the next guy dumb enough to hunt elk alone in there:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1198.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa460%2FJ_Vek%2F2012%2520Elk%2FIMG_00146.jpg&hash=eb33c375f9ea15fc2dfeecf48a147f4aa552c2ab)
Dana externals are good rigs:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1198.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa460%2FJ_Vek%2F2012%2520Elk%2FIMG_0048.jpg&hash=17a6d6ca4045e536bd222268129a71dca5a1ec61)
Post by: dupedc on November 19, 2012, 09:53:05 PM
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Post by: Vek on November 20, 2012, 12:37:14 PM
The big group I saw while hiking in. I was whipped, and backed out of sight a bit and dug a camp out of the hillside. The next morning I followed the trail up and over to the next ridge north in order to determine their whereabouts, only to find them bedded on the trail. I spooked them off into a hole that I wasn't mentally prepared to hunt. I grieved the probable loss of my opportunity and made plan for the next day to hike straight up the ridge from camp to a high spot and try find others. The next morning, just after leaving camp and heading up the ridge, I spotted the subject bull very near where I was the previous day, in the open, feeding. The big burn offers little cover, but he was paying too much attention to food so I made it over. He died about 100 vertical feet below the trail. That was Tuesday, and I got the last load to the trailhead Friday at noon.
I don't think his body was all that big. My two big loads of hindquarter+shoulder each weighed about 80 lbs.
Rifle: 30-06 rem mountain rifle in ti stock. Scope: 4x leupold. Load: 130 TTSX over way too much R15.
I hunted the same clump of mountains from the opposite side back in '04, saw elk everyday, and shot a 4x raghorn. I'm not convinced the Frank is a lost cause for elk, but I might be fortunate in that I've twice stumbled into where they are.
Post by: MountainWalk on November 20, 2012, 12:51:35 PM
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Post by: kentrek on November 20, 2012, 05:32:15 PM
oh an congrats :chuckle:
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Post by: actionshooter on November 20, 2012, 06:49:55 PM
Looks steep too. :chuckle:
Congrats!!
Steve
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