With just under a half hour until dark, we pick up the blood trail. It’s sparse at first then gets pretty good within 50 yards. Soon I can track it easily at a walk. We go about 150 yards down the hill, and as I crest a small rise my dad hisses at me as the bull is bedded 40 yards in front of me...
Like greased lightning dad whips out his Hoochie Mama (no I’m not kidding). I blew my diaphragm call softly once directly away from the bull and signaled him to slowly and softly let out a few calf calls. Immediately the bull bugles 100 yards below me and I hear elk moving our way. Sure enough...
At this point, I am relatively certain this is the 330 type 6 point that I have heard tell of and have gotten excited enough to go after him. My dad is back at camp in jeans and Romeo’s as I race back in and tell him “I need a caller.” My dad had just called in his first elk the week prior for...
I don’t have much to write about as far as hunting goes for those first few days. I was mainly just in scouting mode and didn’t really go on any major stalks.
The morning of September 29th we went back out looking for a herd that had one of the older bulls we had seen in it. From the pictures...
Scouting days: for 3 days I covered as much ground as I possibly could in the unit. As luck would have it, one of my recently acquired hunting buddies got a tag for the unit directly adjacent and shared camp with us, along with my uncle (from my mom’s side this time, I have a lot of uncles as...
Next on the list a week and a half later was the big ticket item for me: it was finally my time to hunt a Wyoming type 1 tag in a unit that we have been lucky enough as a family to hunt a couple of times, including last year. I have been looking forward to finally getting the opportunity to do...
Day 4: The next morning I’m able to go out for one last hunt before hopping in the car back to Vegas. Dad heads to the low country and we saw the water bull going to water at a similar location as the previous day and he hopes to catch him on that pattern. The bull is a no show though, as one...
Day 3 I take my dad and uncle both back up the same ridge to the benches, and like clockwork at daylight I have one of those same 2 bulls fire right back at my first bugle. This time we get the setup mostly right, and I back off quite a ways. Within 3 minutes the bull is once again closing on...
That evening, my dad set up on the glassing location from day one to try and turn up some more elk. I took my uncle up the mountain to try and rustle up the big bull from the AM. As we got up onto the benches below the mountain, I let out a location bugle. It was immediately met by a bull about...
Day 2 starts with us driving out to glass some higher country where we have seen elk in this unit before. As we round a corner near where we were yesterday, a beautiful 6 point bull takes off from the side of the road up onto a knob. It is about 10 minutes before daylight, so we drive around the...
Next up a couple weeks later was another trip back to New Mexico, this time for an archery elk hunt with 2 other uncles and my dad in a slightly easier to draw unit. I spent the trip doing one thing I’m usually pretty good at: forgetting to take pictures. With that in mind, I’ll do my best to...
One of my favorite parts about this forum is reading about other folks experiences in the woods, so I am finally getting around to doing a recap of my busy fall spent hunting with family. I spent more time in the woods this fall than ever before and learned some pretty valuable lessons. The most...
Thanks for bringing this thread back up, I had not seen it and love seeing great animals taken on more attainable tags.
2013 Wyoming 0 point general unit
Standard scoring for every league I have ever played (including this one last year I thought?) is 4 points passing TD and -2 for interceptions.
I have mostly played ESPN, and it appears that the +6 and -1 might be Yahoo standard. It’s my fault for not looking into it before the draft.
It does...