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Title: First elk!
Post by: Duckgtr on September 16, 2018, 10:34:10 AM
Tuesday afternoon i planned on deer hunting is what I told my buddy Seymour because we hadn't seen any elk since sunday. We left camp around 230pm and parted ways about 3/4 of a mile from camp. I go walking up out all these fingers and dead ends and end of legal shooting light is coming so I start to make my way back to meet up with Seymour where we parted ways. On the walk down still during legal light I see tan cruising up the road feeding towards me. At first I thought it was a doe until the big dark head moved and realized I had elk feeding towards me. No real cover to be found so I get in the drainage ditch next to the road next to a fern that had a piece coming out in front of me so I'd have a window to shoot. The elk keep moving closer just about when it reaches my window I try to pull my bow back but can't due to excitement. I retry and get it back just as the cow reaches my window and only 10 yards away! I take aim she faces me feeding and no shot. She then eats on the far side of the road giving my a quartering to me shot within the last 5 minutes of legal shooting light! Don't be silly I sent it! My arrow went all the way to the fletchings so I knew penetration was good. Of course the rest of the elk scatter. I back out to go to camp and find blood so I mark it and continue to camp to get us food as Seymour had a 2 mile hike to get to me so chow was important to us because we knew we had a long night. After I got back because it took an hour we start to look for blood and proceed to do so the next few hours until we were at a loss and couldn't find blood any more. So we break to eat around 1130. Before we eat I ask  Seymour if he wants to see where I was when I shot and on the way up bedded in the drainage ditch was a cow so I cover my head lamp and back off. We're hoping it's her and try to figure out what to do to finish her quickly but there wasn't a way  with how she was laying In the ditch and we weren't exactly 100%  sure it was her so we sat for 3 hours in the rain, wind and Misty fog waiting. We go to check her at 2am Wednesday morening and she had expired and the real work began. The next 4 hours was spent skinning, gutting quartering her for the pack out. After 5 hours of packing we had her all in the truck by 130 pm Wednesday.

She was my first elk and I really wanted to get it with my bow. Granted it's not a bull but since I started elk hunting last year I had my mind set on taking the first legal animal I had an opportunity to shoot. Can't eat antlers any way!
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: CedarPants on September 16, 2018, 10:52:09 AM
Great job!  Way to stick it out until the wee hours.
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: hawks33 on September 16, 2018, 10:52:47 AM
Congratulations! You'll never forget your first.
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on September 16, 2018, 11:22:46 AM
Congrats :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Pinetar on September 16, 2018, 11:27:20 AM
Nicely done, Congrats!
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: huntnfmly on September 16, 2018, 11:32:48 AM
Very cool congrats.Thanks for sharing
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Post by: redi on September 16, 2018, 11:37:07 AM
Nice first elk. Congrats.
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Sandberm on September 16, 2018, 11:38:56 AM
Great hunt, thanks for sharing. You are certainly tenacious for staying up all night. Congratulations.  :)
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Post by: TikkaT3-270Shortmag on September 16, 2018, 11:42:19 AM
What broadhead? Rage?
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Post by: Bob33 on September 16, 2018, 11:54:10 AM
Well done! Every elk is an accomplishment.
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Post by: Mfowl on September 16, 2018, 12:02:57 PM
 :tup: Congrats! Thats awesome!
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Post by: Milkman on September 16, 2018, 12:16:50 PM
Awesome! Congratulations.
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Duckgtr on September 16, 2018, 12:46:46 PM
What broadhead? Rage?

Rage hypodermic +P

Thank you everyone. It was a long nerve wracking night just waiting.
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on September 16, 2018, 12:51:15 PM
Congrats!
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Post by: Hoythunter on September 16, 2018, 01:27:50 PM
Way to go! 
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Post by: Dan-o on September 16, 2018, 02:32:54 PM
Love the tenacity             :tup:
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Okanagan on September 16, 2018, 03:56:40 PM
Love the tenacity             :tup:

Double ditto to that!   You've got what it takes to be an elk hunter.  Congratulations!

Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: gonehuntin68 on September 16, 2018, 05:39:54 PM
Good job!
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: bowhunterforever on September 18, 2018, 05:51:11 PM
Nicely done :tup:
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: Cootkiller on September 19, 2018, 03:51:51 PM
Nice work, very exciting.
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Post by: elkoholic1 on September 19, 2018, 11:47:35 PM
 :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: First elk!
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 20, 2018, 05:58:37 AM
Nice job. Thanks for the story and pics.
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