Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 09:51:22 AM
Anyhow… we left the truck at about 4pm on Friday in the bright sun and near 60 degrees at 8000 feet. To my surprise… I glanced over across the canyon…and not 5 minutes from the truck, in the bright sunshine, a spike was feeding on the open hillside.
Lady Luck is seeing her first elk while on an elk hunt!
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Zoomed View… spike is right in the center. Shortly after, 3 cows and 2 calves bolted out and they all ran down the hill to the left. Guess they didn’t like us looking at them. I expected to hear a bugle with them all scattering like that, but we didn’t.
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A little further in, Lady Luck and I posed for some scenery shots. The country in the background is where our tent would be set up for the next three nights. Hopefully, the six elk we just saw weren’t all of them!!
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And a selfie… just because. One thing I did know, was that elk or not… it was going to be a great weekend. Lady Luck loves the mountains as much as I do and any lack of elk or kills would not hamper our enjoyment of this trip!
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About two miles in we made a creek crossing. Some might wonder whether she was up to the rigors of hunting elk in the mountains. Well, I wasn’t worry… earlier this summer she covered 32 miles in the BigHorn Mountains of Wyoming, single track trail mostly… 6500-8500 feet… in six hours. The only real question was if I’d be able to keep up with her!
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Another mile past the creek crossing we found a nice spring with good water and a decent flat spot in a grove of Spruce. When we entered the grove, momma and kiddo moose got up and trotted off… the hunt couldn’t have got off to a cooler start. Already saw elk… TONS of fresh elk sign and a pair of moose in just the first hour away from the truck.
We pitched the little two man Marmot, collected a few rocks for a fire ring and dawned a couple sweatshirts to fend off the evening chill. Not a cloud in the sky, but at 8500 feet this day, the high temp never got out of the 50s. The evening would be cool. We grabbed our food bags, some cord and a beaner and headed a couple hundred yards away to find a good branch to keep the food out of camp!
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After I got the food hung, I popped a diaphragm in my mouth and gave a couple mews to see if anything was close by. Before the echo settled we had three bulls bugle from three different directions… it was going to be dark soon. It was the first night…
This first day couldn’t have been going any better. Her first elk hunt… and she was experiencing what it took me several seasons to experience and countless days afield.
With one hour of light left we grabbed our bows, I through my pack on and told her to leave hers…we wouldn’t be going far. I tossed her headlamp in my pack. We headed over to the food bags and I gave another mew… no answer. Waited 3-4 mins and gave another cow call. Nothing… Didn’t have much to lose, so I pulled out the tube and gave a mellow locator bugle.
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After 30 seconds of silence an elk answered about 200 yards up the hill from us. The answer was tough to describe… mix between a cow call and a bugle. I told her it was probably a spike, but that there were certainly other elk up there. The area we hunted is brow-tine bull or antlerless… We were both willing to shoot a cow or a bull!
Anyhow, I whispered that we would close some ground on these elk, get setup, then start a calling sequence… so we started up the hill to put on about 75 yards… after about 10 steps I heard crashing and saw a tan body running through the timber ahead! #^%@$#^#$%#^... Frick. NOT the first time I’ve done that, and it wasn’t the last either! We went ahead and creeped up the hill to where we saw the elk running and stood around whispering about how we blew that opportunity… but that we were still having an awesome first night. After a couple mins of whispering and bantering the quiet was interrupted with a “bark” from about 100 yards in the timber. I jumped… she giggled at me for startling and asked what the heck that was. I explained how it was a bark/alarm call and probably was a cow… and that basically every elk within about a mile radius was now on high alert because of this call. About every 20-30 seconds this elk would bark… I would mew back to it to try and calm it… it continued to bark, maybe 10 times, when I decided to bark back. I had a barking contest with a 5 point bull one time and as I barked at him he slowly approached and barked back at me. I never did get a shot up, but it sure didn’t scare him off…
Anyhow… the next time the elk barked it was noticeably closer… so I started mewing/calf calling again. Becky and I were hunkered pretty close to a bushy fir tree and just smiling and enjoying the acoustical drama… when it barked again and was maybe 65 yards from us right on the timberline of the park we were standing on the edge of. Then he stepped out. I had to raise the binos to see if he was legal (brow-tine) and I quicly determined he was. However, I didn’t get very excited because he was on high alert and still barking… I figured it would be a cold day in hell that he ended up within 30-40 yards of us… which is about what I wanted to shoot.
The next five minutes was great. This Ding dong bull would walk about 10 yards toward us, bark, then turn around and walk to the edge of the timber… stop… bark… then turn and walk towards us… bark… turn around…etc. He probably did this about ten times. We were well hidden behind a tree, that unfortunately blocked any shot opportunity at him! I kept whispering to Lady Luck, that he was way to suspicious… it was highly unlikely he would come far enough to clear himself of the branches of the tree we were behind. Nonetheless… we both knocked arrows and stood stock still to see what would happen…
Then he turned and headed into the meadow like he’d done 10 times before… but this time… he didn’t stop. He kept walking slowly, looking our way. There was a small grove of three trees in the middle of the meadow and he walked behind them. When… IF… he came out, we would have a clear view of him. BUT… he could be anywhere from 35-80 yards away… I was not going to shoot past 50… and Becky would not shoot over 30. She whispered that he was going to be too far if he appeared from behind the trees. I agreed and she gave me the ok to take the shot if I wanted it. He slowly walked out and at full draw I whispered that he was too far… then I noticed the log laying in the meadow that he was nearly standing on… I had looked at that log for several minutes before he showed himself… and I kept thinking it was about 35 yards… he couldn’t have been 2-4 yards behind the log… I put my finger on the trigger and whispered “or not” to Becky… the bull stopped, I put my 40 pin in the sweet spot and squeezed.
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Right in the middle of the above pic, I am standing, barely visible with my arms up in the air. It ended up being 34 yards from where I stood to where the elk was.
zoomed in to me
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Right in the middle of the above pic, I am standing, barely visible with my arms up in the air. It ended up being 34 yards from where I stood to where the elk was.
The zipped toward him, he “jumped the string”… but not before the arrow got there… then he ran straight away into a patch of timber. Lady Luck smiled and told me I got him. I asked if she was sure and she said, YEAH… you hit him… the arrow hit him in the chest. I immediately started cow calling and threw out a quick bugle to try and calm him. About that time we heard some branches breaking… I called some more. Then we heard the wheezing and coughing… Then silence. We both looked at eachother knowing what that meant and Lady Luck said, “so we have to wait a ½ hour right?”. I explained (as she was FRESH out of bowhunter ed) that yes, that is a very good guideline… and we did NOT want to bump him, but I was pretty dang sure he was dead. However, we would not go running over… I did want to sneak over to where I hit him and look for the arrow. When we got over there I walked around with my eyes to the ground… couldn’t see any arrow or any blood… Then Becky whispered, “He’s right there, I think he’s right there”… She pointed through the trees…
The tan body is BARELY visible through the trees in the middle of this pic.
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Sure enough… he had went through a stringer of trees, across the spring, into the next park… then went down.
Looking back to where I shot from. He was standing just on this side of the log… I was just at the edge of the timber.
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We headed across the spring… and I got my first good look at my first archery killed elk… This had been a long time coming. I have had a couple screw ups… and hundreds of very close calls… This time it came together. I’ve killed a few nice six points… with a rifle, including an awesome 380 bull… but I am no prouder of any of them than I am this little guy…
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Gotta take a break... and will get a few more comments and shots up...
Sorry so long... but this hunt is really the hunt of a lifetime for many reasons... him being my first archery bull just one of them!
Post by: Coltsdad on September 22, 2014, 09:56:27 AM
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Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 10:15:07 AM
Me and My first Archery Bull….
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Different View
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Me and Lady Luck… undeniable.
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Darkness set in quickly and a pack of wolves started howling to the south. I figured they were a mile away and had no clue what we were doing. It was magnificent… and eery…. At the same time.
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I knew I had a bit of work to do, so I got a fire going and Becky collected a pile of wood…
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I got a chance to try out the Havalon replaceable blade knife my dad got me for Christmas. I was skeptical… Im not anymore. With about six blades total I dismantled this elk, deboned him and skinned out his head… Loved it.
Anyhow, while poking around the insides to see what damage the Muzzy had done… I pulled out a piece of arrow… and a lung…
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I also took a moment to get the tenderloins out… Mmmm Hmmm!
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And in just a little time… not much was left. We hauled the legs and a couple bags of meat… and head, over to a patch of timber about 100 yards away from the carcass… laid them up on deadfall logs… then piled some dead limbs on top to try and keep them safe for the night.
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Then we started on our very short trek back to camp… a mere 350 yards down the draw along the spring!
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The moon made an awesome rise over the mountain to the east… Becky’s headlamp to the right….
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Some trail mix for dinner… a little water… and in the bags to try and get some rest. We needed to get up early to try and find Lady Luck her own elk! Sleep was fitfull… I was excited. Bulls were bugling around the camp in most directions… I looked at the time… 4am… and a bull was bugling downstream from camp…. C’mon sunrise….
Post by: jackelope on September 22, 2014, 10:21:13 AM
Keep it coming!!
Post by: KevinClimbs on September 22, 2014, 10:23:18 AM
Post by: skeeter 20i on September 22, 2014, 10:29:49 AM
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 10:44:08 AM
We rolled out of the bags and I started a quick fire so Becky could start off the morning warm. One thing she does not do, is handle cold real well. She’s tough, and she’ll take it, but I just wanted to do all I could to keep her happy! It wasn’t hard, she is easy going… and like I said, Tough.
As we warmed our hands by the fire and downed some granola and jerky, a bull bugled about 400 yards down from camp. Game On! We snuck out of our patch of spruce and surveyed the situation. We had to get through about a 100 yard meadow to a timberline… at that point, I figured we would set up and I’d try and call him in. We snuck down, got to the timberline… then slowly headed in to find a spot to set up…. Crash, boom… thundering hooves… flashes of tan. #$*@%#*@^^#@&*#.... Remember when I said it wouldn’t be the last time I did that. I was NOT lying! This bull had closed on us (forgot to mention I threw out a cow call call from camp after he’d bugled, just to get a better location on him… )
Well, we worked at getting back on him, but finally the wind shifted and he snuck off… It was a pretty morning though…
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Plus… we knew we had to get back and had a lot of work to do. Boning him out… skinning the head, then packing the meat about 1.5 miles back towards the truck and finding a good spot to stash it until Monday!
We found the meat undisturbed
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Then we decided to look again for my arrow. We started by going back to the site of the hit… I couldn’t see an arrow OR blood anywhere. We ended up going back to the carcass and working backwards toward the shot/hit…Just a few yards from the carcass was a good splash of blood… 10 feet from it… a small splash of blood… after that, working back towards the shot… I could track him… and found maybe 5 tiny dots of blood! I was very disappointed with the blood trail. Holy smokes. I hit him what I would consider perfectly… he must have moved right at the hit, cause it ended up exiting high and a little back. It seems like the entry would have poured blood out!
Oh and we did find the front half of the arrow
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Anyhow… Havalon…working up some meat.
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Lady Luck helpin out…
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Boning out front shoulder… I heard my knife blade hit steel… I knew what it was…
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Post by: elkboy on September 22, 2014, 10:57:39 AM
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 10:57:53 AM
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We made it to where I wanted to hang him…
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Still smiling… even after the second load…
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That evening… we headed up the hill past the carcass to cross the ridge and get into another canyon we call Whisker Biscuit Hole… long story short… a buddy drew on a bull at 10 yards and the noise the arrow made being drawn over the biscuit stopped that bull in his tracks behind the small fir that he used to shield his draw movement… he ran straight away after standing stock still for a minute!...
Anyhow… there were elk up there too…
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And the beauty of everything around us was amazing… it always is…
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That evening we had 4 bulls bugling from various directions. None were hot… I tried to coax the closest toward us… but darkness settled in and we trekked back to camp and past the carcass with our headlamps on… nothing had touched it yet… a full day after its exposure.
Post by: MADMAX on September 22, 2014, 11:04:50 AM
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on September 22, 2014, 11:23:52 AM
Post by: mulehunter on September 22, 2014, 11:30:30 AM
Good Write. :)
Post by: Netminder01 on September 22, 2014, 11:46:29 AM
Congrats!!!!
Post by: FSTaxidermy on September 22, 2014, 12:16:42 PM
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 12:39:48 PM
The morning ended up pretty quiet. We had one bull half heartedly answer a couple times, then shut up. He sounded like a herd bull and he was in thick timber. I knew as crunchy as it was, we’d have a slim chance at getting in on him with a bunch of cows looking in the direction of every twig snap… so we headed north across the main creek and into some country that I’ve gotten into elk quite a bit in the past. Well…it was a real pretty walk… with our bows… hehehe…
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The most exciting part of the morning was putting a couple Judos on and shooting at mole hills, rotten stumps and clumps of grass. Becky was hammering everything from 10-30 yards. We took some time to enjoy the sights, explore, appreciate the diversity of the area… I broke out the camera for some macro work…
Wild Dandelion… Agoceris I believe..
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SubAlpine Fir
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Buckwheat
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Lichen and Mathews
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After I was done staring at the ground, I looked up to see Lady Luck doing some work on a tree…
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She done good…
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While poking around looking for Judo targets… we stumbled on this little wallow… First one she’d seen.
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And down the trail we went… to go have a snack and get ready for the last evening hunt….
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Post by: jackelope on September 22, 2014, 12:55:34 PM
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2014, 01:05:45 PM
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 01:16:16 PM
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Becky was in a perfect place between two alleys…
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We did not hear a single elk that night… saw a few mule deer… but it was suppressingly quiet… our last night. We wanted to hunt for a couple hours the next morning, but after considering the work we had to do (packing out all the meat), the drive we had home… getting everything squared away and getting to bed and to work Tuesday morning… we thought better of hunting Monday morn… so, we built a fire Monday night and shared a bottle of wine… and enjoyed eachothers company. Becky was tickled with the hunt… I was on cloud nine…
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We woke before light and broke down camp. Got packed up and started down the trail!
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Above pics are after we went by the meat stash… Becky loaded the backstrap bag on her pack full of camp gear and I grabbed the head/horns… Neither of us had light loads…
We crossed the creek and headed up the hill… and a roaring bugle came from the other side of the saddle from us. It was the first bull we’d heard yet that was really fired up. I told Becky we should get up the hill about 200 yards, drop our stuff, then try and move in on him or call him in. We got up there, dropped our packs and gave a couple cow calls. He Roared back, but seemed quite a ways away. I wanted to head back down the hill and get near this saddle where I figured he’d bring a herd across to shade up for the day. It was silent for a bit, then I gave out some cow calls and he answered. He didn’t sound far this time. I hurried Lady Luck along the ridgeline and told her to get ready… as she was moving up 75 yards ahead of me he roared out a bugle that made me smile. I LOVE those big, loud, challenging bugles… damn! Anyhow, I thought he was going to come walking right through the saddle… and Becky was set up right on it… he didn’t. The prob was… as many of you know, a saddle in the mountains, at 8000 feet… at 8:30 in the morning… is a fickle winded SOB… the wind pretty much blows in every direction at once… I should have thought of that. We shoulda pulled way out of there and tried to call him in away from the saddle… The next time we heard him bugle.. .it was a good one and he was 300+ yards away…
The real kick in the nutz… was when we got back to our packs… and the elk skull… there were fresh elk tracks basically on top of the packs! That bull, or a satellite… went RIGHT up to where I initially cow called from!!
We hiked out to the truck with a smile on our faces. What a great trip.
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We emptied our packs and headed back in… I wanted to make 2 more trips. We’d each pack about 45# each load.
This pretty girl of mine says, “I don’t want to come back again, lets just pack heavy loads and get it over with!” I was really reluctant. Ive done it a ton of times and hated every one of them… but..well… you know… when a girl… scratch that… Lady… tells you “lets just pack a heavy load” you cant exactly tell her “No, its too hard”… So off we went. The loads were not nice. My hips ached in the first minute. We had 1.5 miles to go. 1 mile of it uphill. After three sit downs on logs… we made it. I got home and weighed the meat bags and our packs. Her’s was 77# total. 5’3” hundred and something pound Lucky Lady packed 77# out… It was impressive! Mine was 104#. It sucked.
That… was that! Me and my bull one more time…
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Post by: brianmtsinc on September 22, 2014, 01:23:19 PM
Really great write up! What an amazing trip!
Congrats,
Brian
Post by: boneaddict on September 22, 2014, 01:23:53 PM
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 22, 2014, 01:26:14 PM
Post by: Woodchuck on September 22, 2014, 01:36:22 PM
Post by: Hornseeker on September 22, 2014, 01:49:52 PM
Yes Pianoman... I wont be letting go of her... I want to get her an elk and or deer in the worst way this year!!
Oh...and I sorta left a little out:
The broadhead I found in his front leg... leg bone shot, not scap... stainless snuffer I believe. screw in. No shaft, it screwed off... pretty cool! I presume the elk was a spike when he got that broadhead lodged in him... definitely was not this year!
Post by: Bronson on September 22, 2014, 03:30:35 PM
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Post by: bowhunterforever on September 22, 2014, 03:44:59 PM
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Post by: X-Force on September 22, 2014, 10:09:33 PM
Post by: Lunchbox1981 on September 23, 2014, 03:43:14 AM
Post by: runningboard on September 23, 2014, 04:11:17 AM
Post by: nw_bowhunter on September 23, 2014, 06:08:10 AM
Post by: quadrafire on September 23, 2014, 09:09:22 AM
Congrats on a great experience. Looks like you found a Dandy in Lady Luck :tup:
Thanks for taking the time to document the adventure. Nice Photos!!!!!!!
Post by: boneaddict on September 23, 2014, 10:04:33 AM
Post by: quadrafire on September 23, 2014, 10:11:55 AM
Hey Quad, at what point do we start harassing him for using training wheels? :) At least he is headed in the right direction now with an archery kill.I know, Right.........
I'm still waiting for him to get back in the long bow biz. I was in the queue for one. Hope this new lady steers him back. ;)
Post by: MLBowhunting on September 23, 2014, 10:36:09 AM
Post by: dreamingbig on September 23, 2014, 12:10:17 PM
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Post by: Hornseeker on September 23, 2014, 01:21:40 PM
So... I am looking for a new house as we speak... when I get it... I'll get my tools put back together... Carpsniper is probably gonna be number one bow off the press (although... Lady Luck may trump him... sorry dude)... and I'd still like to get hold of that over and under Mike...
As far as bowhunting goes... I reckon I'll have my LB in hand again next season. Was real happy to get this one under my belt, but at the same time...sorta heart broke I wont have an elk tag in november.
Doug... you need to get on some Idaho and or Washington elk!!
Post by: quadrafire on September 23, 2014, 02:17:38 PM
:dunno:I've still got it
and I'd still like to get hold of that over and under Mike...
Post by: dupedc on September 23, 2014, 09:34:54 PM
Post by: h2ofowlr on September 23, 2014, 10:06:15 PM
Post by: Vo2max on September 23, 2014, 10:07:17 PM
Post by: Boogieman509 on September 23, 2014, 10:17:19 PM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on September 23, 2014, 10:27:56 PM
:dunno:
So... I am looking for a new house as we speak... when I get it... I'll get my tools put back together... Carpsniper is probably gonna be number one bow off the press (although... Lady Luck may trump him... sorry dude)...
Weak :chuckle:
Congrats on your bull. Sounds like a great time.
Post by: hunting4sanity on September 23, 2014, 10:51:46 PM
Post by: bearpaw on September 24, 2014, 05:41:30 AM
Post by: boneaddict on September 24, 2014, 07:10:19 AM
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Doug... you need to get on some Idaho and or Washington elk!!
I tell myself I am giving them a couple years to grow up. (soccer will be over by then) that and I need to shake this mule deer bug. I have it something fierce.
Post by: cedarriver on September 24, 2014, 07:57:36 AM
Post by: lokidog on September 24, 2014, 10:14:48 AM
I've done the overloaded pack as well, both hind quarters and leg meat of a CO bull. Luckily my multiple mile hike was all downhill, though I started at about 11,500 feet. I was also much younger than I am now. :rolleyes:
Post by: Hornseeker on September 24, 2014, 05:58:27 PM
Gonna try and get Becky into one this weekend!!!
Post by: JBar on September 24, 2014, 06:11:52 PM
Post by: iRem on September 24, 2014, 07:25:01 PM
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Post by: goldenhtr on September 27, 2014, 08:36:01 AM
Post by: boneaddict on September 27, 2014, 09:55:24 AM
Post by: Taco280AI on September 27, 2014, 10:42:43 AM
Post by: goldenhtr on September 27, 2014, 07:26:09 PM
I sent him an email Golden to see whats up. Check back in a bit. They are worth seeing.
Looking forward to it. Hope he can get the fixed. Just reading the story got me going. Had to go check the regs again to see when I can get back out. Looks like it may be unit 163 late hunt. Anyone hunt this unit, know what the terrain looks like. Going to google earth it tonight. Have a friend in Cheney I think has hunted it may meet him down there.
Post by: quadrafire on September 28, 2014, 07:07:01 AM
Wanting to see the pics as wellWitness protection program contacted him and said it wasn't in his best interest to have his pics posted on the web ;)
Post by: Hornseeker on September 28, 2014, 11:57:01 AM
Post by: goldenhtr on September 28, 2014, 09:58:44 PM
Post by: Todd_ID on October 01, 2014, 11:22:30 PM
Post by: clindsayrun on October 02, 2014, 09:23:20 AM
Thanks for sharing.
Post by: Elkstuffer on October 02, 2014, 11:53:12 AM
Post by: Widgeondeke on October 08, 2014, 05:53:34 PM