Post by: MuleDeerCrazy on December 02, 2012, 06:38:10 PM
We get a late start and already somebody parked there when we get to "our" secret spot. Hurry up to another spot to take a peak at daylight and hadn't been standing there 5 minutes when some guy walks right up on us and scared the bejeezers out of us. Besides scaring us dude, why would you slip out to the only glassing spot when you can see somebody is already sitting there... oh, and he passed up an easy cow right there a few days prior cause too nasty of a pack. Told him my daughter had a tag and don't think he believed us, he said, "You have a tag"... about 50 times. He then informed her not to shoot one down there cause that would be a horrible thing to do to your dad. I assured him it would be fine, we'd just pack it out on the old road 50 yards beyond the edge of the clearcut... he didn't seem to happy to find out about the old road:)
Anyway, it's raining and nasty, but I finally think I see a couple cows on the far side of the canyon. We run around there, park at the tank trap and slip down that ridge. First spot, nothing. Second spot a little further down, nothing... wait, there they are feeding back in the timber. She gets set up with the .257 Weatherby Mag, bipod down. Not the best set up, laying in a patch of little wild blackberries, rain blowing sideways into our faces and the elk filtering in and out of the timber 400 yards away. She's having a heck of a time finding them at all, let alone getting settled for a good shot.
They are slowly filtering out of view on into the timber and it's not looking like she's going to get a shot. I must admit I thought about pushing her out of the way and taking the shot myself, but only for a second... I should probably get some sort of patience award or something:) Anyway, I'm about to give up and she says "I got her." I adjust the turet for 375 yards to compensate for the downhill angle, zoom it up a little and tell her to take the shot when she's ready. I get back on her with the binos and wait again. Seconds seem like minutes... wait, they were minutes... BOOM!
Do you see her dad? Where did she go? I'm not sure, I think she might have dropped right there? She assured me that she dropped her right there! Uhhhh, maybe? We sit there for a while and never see anything move. We go back to the truck, grab the pack gear and drop into the hole to see if we can find her. We're slipping and falling and clawing our way through the nasty reprod. the whole way down and it's steeper and nastier than it looked... boy this is gonna be a fun pack out! We get down there and sure enough, one shot high in the shoulders, dropped her right where she stood.
Five hours later we were dropping the last load on the tailgate... one of the worst packs I've ever had, but we got her done. An exhausted little girl didn't think much of packing, I guess she thought it was all fun and games til that cow hit the dirt:)!
...but it's a good exhausted!!!
Post by: shootnrun on December 02, 2012, 07:19:07 PM
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Post by: Bshiftbc on December 02, 2012, 07:31:09 PM
If those two pictures don't sum up elk hunting I don't know what does.
:yeah:
Well said!
Post by: Jason on December 02, 2012, 07:33:32 PM
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Post by: YellowDog on December 02, 2012, 08:18:28 PM
Great story!
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Post by: SniperDanWA on December 02, 2012, 10:14:50 PM
Very nice!!! Congratulations to her!!
X2 :tup:
Post by: GEARHEAD on December 03, 2012, 12:14:29 AM
Post by: MuleDeerCrazy on December 03, 2012, 07:49:03 AM
I'm grown up now three daughters of my own
I let them drive my old Jeep across the pasture at our home
Maybe one day they'll reach back in their file
And pull out that old memory
And think of me and smile and say
It was just an old worn out Jeep
Rusty old floorboard, hot on my feet
A young girl two hands on the wheel
I can't replace the way it made me feel
And he'd say, "turn it left and steer it right,
Straighten up girl, you're doing just fine"
Just a little valley by the river where we'd ride
But I was high on a mountain
When daddy let me drive
It's just an old plywood boat
With a '75 Johnson with electric choke...
Post by: BNAElkhntr on December 03, 2012, 08:09:01 AM
Congrats to your daughter! Like another guy said, those pictures sum it all up!
:tup: Dittos It was great when My Daughter scored as well
Post by: buck man on December 03, 2012, 08:30:01 AM
Post by: PlateauNDN on December 03, 2012, 08:35:53 AM
If those two pictures don't sum up elk hunting I don't know what does.
:yeah: :tup:
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