It's nice to report another successful hunt. Damon, Giff, and I spent a couple of days camping and hunting together. I will eventually send the story of how it unfolded, but briefly we had a pretty good time. We put several miles on the boots to find the elk, but once we did it was good action.
Damon and I hunted hard on Friday morning but couldn't locate any animals. Giff joined us in the afternoon and we got into lots of fresh sign and Damon had a close call as the sun was going down, but no shots. Saturday morning our area was basically run over by moose (we saw 10 by noon) that had probably pushed most of the elk out of the immediate area. I ended up having a close encounter with a bull that morning but didn't get off a shot. Giff plinked a few grouse with my Daisy and then we headed back out for an evening hunt.
We spread out in some timber and moved relatively in tandem. A bull came over a small timbered ridge to investigate my cow calls. Another raghorn came and stood behind him. I shot him at under 50 yards and he immediately went down. I got mine about three in the afternoon and after getting a couple of pics Giff and Damon went back through the timber and Giff got his just a couple of hundred yards from where I shot mine. Mine was a 4x4 and Giff's a 6x6. It was a lot of fun and the pack out was suprisingly easy between the three of us the next morning. The weather was great and the scenery beautiful.
Anyway, I will eventually write the whole story, but here are a few pics from our hunt.
Austin
1 comment:
I know this is late, but congratulations! I can see how successful you were on those hunting days. Good thing the weather was on your side back then. The kind of bonding men get with hunting is different and special, right? My fiancé once had his experience with this and he couldn’t stop telling me the same story on how he hunted an elk again and again. That was way too cute for a guy like him, hehe. ;)
Jana Christensen
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