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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: smoon on June 16, 2020, 01:27:15 PM

Title: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: smoon on June 16, 2020, 01:27:15 PM: Finally drew my first tag ever, it only took 23 years. Going to be a good challenge and a lot of pain involved for sure. since I don't live far away, i'll be doing my homework and getting in there as much as possible this summer.
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: hunterednate on June 16, 2020, 01:47:56 PM: Congrats! Extremely rugged and challenging, as it sounds like you know. Gorgeous country though. You're going to enjoy your scouting trips. Keep us posted how it goes.
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: elkontherun on June 16, 2020, 02:52:24 PM: Great tag along as you get good weather. Here is the one I got out of there 2017
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: smoon on June 16, 2020, 03:11:24 PM: Quote from: elkontherun on June 16, 2020, 02:52:24 PM
Great tag along as you get good weather. Here is the one I got out of there 2017

Nice Bull, did you have a good pack crew?
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: Dark2Dark on June 16, 2020, 06:28:21 PM: (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200617/eba25ed6c4a2fb8646f7b25f3ce4c3b5.jpg)

Might as well help a guy get excited. This was my bull last year, during the ML bull tag. Something to keep in mind was this was a week or two earlier and our first couple days looked like this:

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(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200617/9dc0066b40a5b4a2d3db6534a16b122c.jpg)

Luckily, we were mostly prepared to survive it!
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: smoon on June 17, 2020, 11:56:13 AM: That's a nice bull Dark2Dark, Thanks for the encouragement. I like how you say mostly prepared lol. A guy should definitely be able to have a small fire to stay warm in those conditions.. Did you camp out of Snow or Shovel?
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: jstone on June 17, 2020, 12:47:22 PM: That is some awesome looking country
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: Dark2Dark on June 17, 2020, 01:01:23 PM: Quote from: smoon on June 17, 2020, 11:56:13 AM
That's a nice bull Dark2Dark, Thanks for the encouragement. I like how you say mostly prepared lol. A guy should definitely be able to have a small fire to stay warm in those conditions.. Did you camp out of Snow or Shovel?

Yeah, they were pretty adamant about no fires when I asked them. Including no backpacking wood stoves.

Honestly, there is such little burnable wood in there, it wouldn’t have been easy, even if there wasn’t six inches of snow covering everything.

We had the clothes, tent, bags, etc to stay warm. My buddy was wishing he had a better sleeping mat for the conditions, it was difficult with the water filter freezing, the ramrod of my muzzleloader freezing, gaiters freezing, etc!

Probably the thing we messed up on the most was not having sunglasses for the snowy conditions once the high elevation sun came back out!

We camped at Shovel. Snow would have been better, for sure, as we hunted closer to there. The hike up out of Shovel every morning, and even down into it in the evening sorta sucked! Snow would be the same if you were hunting back towards Shovel.
Title: Re: Norway Pass Rifle Bull Tag
Post by: RGB on June 19, 2020, 07:06:32 PM: Quote from: elkontherun on June 16, 2020, 02:52:24 PM
Great tag along as you get good weather. Here is the one I got out of there 2017

I've always loved that shot with the goat in the background.