Also it was an absolutely perfect heart shot, literally center of the heart. No pics unfortunately, I wasn’t very good at taking pictures this hunt. My new favorite, cheese/elk heart so yummy 🤤
Matt
This is the only time I lit the msr pocket rocket the entire season.
We returned the next morning to the exact spot we sat down and decided to call it. I followed blood and tracks for maybe 80 yards and he was piled up! He was stiff as a board, he had died probably while we were walking from the spot we jumped him to where we stopped, we definitely would have...
Onto the tracking job…. Found that arrow right away, soaked in blood. We then proceeded to track him, this is the first elk out of 14 that I have not seen fall within sight of the shot, which I was immediately shocked about… so weird, we followed blood for 100 yards then I got fairly nervous...
So that afternoon around 5:30 or so that bull across the way started bugling on his own. Time to saddle up and get it done! I grabbed the Bino harness and bow, I started paralleling him down the ridge, I gave out maybe 2 bucks and he was in his way, I may have pissed him off a bit lol, as soon...
The first morning of hunting was a little bit of a slow start, rolled out of bed about the time it was getting light, as I like to glass and bugle from camp just in case. And this morning I’m glad I did, had a bull coming up the opposite finger ridge from where I was camped. So I glassed and let...
Not entirely sure as I was not with (my goats don’t have that maintenance) he was riding his other horse as that one was following, he heard it fall looked back and was rolling down the mountain 😬, we figured he tripped then took a stick in the leg and came back out when he was rolling. FYI he...
My buddy brought his 2 horses, let’s just say it reaffirms I will not get horses anytime soon 😂. Between the 2 wrecks on the way in and this nasty injury coming back from watering them, I’d say horses are not in my future.
Matt
the first evening was fairly demoralizing, it was a Dad and young son that had camped where I wanted too, they came out of the bottom about the time we got done with setting up camp. They had been hunting the area the past few days. Oh well I guess. That first evening did not produce a sound or...
It was a great hike in, minus someone was camped in the spot I had planned to camp. I figured they were there for the weekend with no pack stock around. Talked to them later that evening and my hunch was correct. A Quick Look at OnX showed a nice bench about 400 yards down the mountain to the...
This particular hunt I wasn't sure it would happen. My injuries from my car wreck back in 2007 have been flaring up on a regular basis since I have turned the big 4-0 lol. Luckily the VA fast tracked a SI injection at the beginning of Sept. Wish I could have gotten it a bit sooner to have a...