We have some nice bucks around here. I might shoot one of them if I ever start passing on bucks like this one. 6th buck I saw in 3 1/2 days. I saw one bigger but couldn’t get a shot. This one looked good enough to me this morning. Now I can go back to work. Yay.
I guess I would chalk that up to bad luck. If I saw elk at last light I would be right back there in the morning.
I was on a ridge that had elk sign all over it. As I was working my way up it I heard a wolf howl further up the drainage. A couple minutes later there was a stampede of elk going...
That’s a nice buck. Our mule deer live in terrain you would expect mountain goats to be in. That place looks like you could walk for hours and still see camp.
Congratulations. It’s not supposed to be like this. There is supposed to be years of frustration and blown opportunities before you get your first elk. Are you working on plans for next year?
That’s funny. My dad says he’s busier now too. He still makes time for fishing. Before he did it on weekends. Now he does it whenever he can as long as it’s not on a weekend.
In his defense he’s old. We went out today. Hiked 7 miles. Lots of elk tracks but no elk. We got almost to where I thought elk would be and we saw a truck parked at the bottom of the hill we were headed to. A forester was counting trees. He said he hadn’t seen anything. That’s probably the end...
My mom had an any weapon tag this year. My dad went with her several times. The season ended today. They saw a lot of sign in a couple areas but no elk. Lots of people. My dad has the same tag I had. It has a short any weapon season that starts tomorrow. He’s going fishing instead. I’m going...
Is anyone hunting for anything around here? It’s been awfully quite for a while. I’m going out for deer starting in about a week but I won’t get too serious about it until the rut which for us will be around early to mid November.
Thanks everyone. We cut up the whole elk and brought all of it out like we normally would. It all looked fine when it came off the carcass but I could smell that it wasn’t all fine in the game bags. We got it home and broke everything down and started smelling the meat as it came off and...
Here’s mine from yesterday. I thought I hit him well but after waiting 1/2 hour I tracked him and jumped him about 60 yards from where I shot him. I was able to hit him again as he was leaving but it wasn’t a good hit. Then it began to rain. I lost the blood trail and the tracks. We found him...
Thanks. I’m pretty sure his best antler days were behind him. I’m not much for antler scores but I’m guessing he would only score 100-110. He’s got pretty nice mass all around and he’s 20” wide but pretty short tines. I thought about passing on him until he got closer and I could see enough of...