cohunter14
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This is the place to share your trophy pictures, whether that trophy is the bull of a lifetime or a cow. Let's see them!!
2024 Elk Meat Pole
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cohunter14
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Congrats Dan!!!!
twilliams212
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Nice! Congrats!
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 after doing a grid search this morning. I lost some of the meat due to bone souring. Not exactly how I wanted it to go.
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Congrats on a beautiful bull. I’m sorry to hear about the meat and hope you are at least able to salvage some.
Good on you for giving it all the way and grid searching too. Way too many just give up.
cohunter14
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Congrats Ribo! As has been said, not how you probably would have liked it to go, but way to stick with it!
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 discarding anything that smelled off. We probably tossed 1/4 of it the first day. I had to go home but my parents checked on the meat the next two days in our meat locker. They threw out probably another 1/4 of it that was starting to smell. It looks like I lost the tenderloins, and the two quarters that were on the ground and the neck meat. The other two quarters and the backstraps seem to be fine.
I would like to thank the forester for that area. This was timber company property that is open to the public but the roads are gated and only open for authorized people. He opened the gates so my 70 year old parents could drive in 4 miles to help me look. And then he came in and walked around in the wet brush while it was pouring rain for 2 hours to also help me look for my elk. Then he left the gate open so we could drive back in to look the next day. My uncle came up the next day and brought his dog. His dog found some blood that somehow hadn’t been washed away but she didn’t find the elk. My uncle basically stepped on it trying to walk through some trees. The forester did way more to help someone he didn’t know than anyone could have expected. Thanks so much Ed. I’ll never forget it.
I would like to thank the forester for that area. This was timber company property that is open to the public but the roads are gated and only open for authorized people. He opened the gates so my 70 year old parents could drive in 4 miles to help me look. And then he came in and walked around in the wet brush while it was pouring rain for 2 hours to also help me look for my elk. Then he left the gate open so we could drive back in to look the next day. My uncle came up the next day and brought his dog. His dog found some blood that somehow hadn’t been washed away but she didn’t find the elk. My uncle basically stepped on it trying to walk through some trees. The forester did way more to help someone he didn’t know than anyone could have expected. Thanks so much Ed. I’ll never forget it.
cohunter14
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Wow, that's cool to hear that he was willing to help. Not always the case.
twilliams212
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That's awesome to hear stories about good people willing to help out in big ways. Even though your hunt resulted in losing some meat and included worries of whether you'd find your elk, it sounds like you still had a great experience! I'm sure I'm not saying anything you guys don't already know, but my most vividly recalled memories/experiences while hunting are the ones that had the greatest ups and downs. I always seem to learn the most from those experiences...Anyway, congrats on your bull ribo!
September is approaching it's end and and the last 11 days were pretty special. My wife took her first two elk with a bow and I managed to actually hit one as well. I missed in Wyoming early on and again in New Mexico but connected on one in Colorado. For me personally it was a terrible season for shooting but it worked out the way God intended it, 11 days in the mountains with my wife, 105 miles hiked, 3 pack outs, just gonna say my wife is one bad momma...... It was a great season with multiple call ins in each state. Not sure I want that many tags again but if it happens I'll be more than happy to go for it.
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Actually just ordered another upright from Lowes!!
cohunter14
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Congrats to you and your wife on a heck of a season!!!
twilliams212
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Well, I was extremely blessed during my first ever elk hunt this year. 1st Rifle season in CO, we were hoping to just see elk and possibly here a bugle, but it turned out to be soooo much more than that! We found elk day 1, patterned them, and I stuck with them enough to finally punch my tag on the evening of the last day of the season! This guy walked in to me and grazed a bit standing still at 109 yds, quartering to me. I was shaking so bad at first, I even put my gun back down for a moment to collect myself. Perfect wind and perfect backdrop/cover played a huge part! These creatures are amazing!
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cohunter14
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Heck of a start to your elk hunting career! Congratulations!!!
