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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: shadowless_nite on November 13, 2009, 09:08:49 PM

Title: siouxon unit elk down...
Post by: shadowless_nite on November 13, 2009, 09:08:49 PM: well got a call late last sunday night from my mother inlaw telling me that my father inlaws longtime hunting buddy just put a elk down late sunday afternoon and wanted to know if i was free the next day to help pack out. As a true hunting pal, of course i helped, especially since he put me on my elk in early archery and helped me pack it out. So i owed him one. So i ventured to my inlaws at 7am to have him meet us and take us to the elk....

long story short, it was completely up on a plateau 8 miles from the truck mostly up hill. it rained the whole time and i forgot to get my hunting boots when i left my house and only had my light summer trail shoes on. i got completely soaked head to toe, tore my way to expensive and ineffective rivers west pants on a snag while trying to cross a creek with 50+lbs of hind quarter on my back and not eat dirt at the same time. we got there at 8 and didnt make it out till about 3pm after everything. it took 1 trip with 6 guys total. btw the elk was out of the siouxon unit.

unfortunately the animal was already cut up so i couldn't enjoy it in its entirety but he showed up in the morning with the trophy. with all that said and done it was a awesome retrieval, i had fun and its a good feeling to know that alot of my hunting buddies are putting animals on the ground. the only pics at the moment until i buy a new memory card reader...

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Post by: PacificNWhunter on November 13, 2009, 09:11:07 PM: Great looking bull, love the color of the rack.
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on November 14, 2009, 11:02:04 AM: great looking bull!
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Post by: KillerMiller on November 14, 2009, 11:06:55 AM: :tup:Nice bull!
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 14, 2009, 11:11:15 AM: nice lookin bull
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Post by: Wenatcheejay on November 14, 2009, 11:12:06 AM: Nice
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Post by: Tman on November 14, 2009, 05:31:02 PM: Nice bull.
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Post by: Watimberghost on November 16, 2009, 03:59:06 PM: Thats a good bull, youre a champ for helping out
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Post by: shadowless_nite on November 17, 2009, 12:12:50 AM: Quote from: Watimberghost on November 16, 2009, 03:59:06 PM
Thats a good bull, youre a champ for helping out

i owed it to him for helping with my bull, that and i got a dandy shed out of it on the way out!
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Post by: rackattack on November 17, 2009, 09:09:46 AM: Any pics of the shed you found?
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Post by: vfilbert on November 17, 2009, 04:06:40 PM: love the color, nice job