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Based upon the trending threads , yes please.
But honestly most people don't have time for Hunttalk unless they areworkingslacking so interest will pick up next work day.
I don't really know who that is.Only if its not about Matt Rinella.
Oh. There's an elk.
A pretty good elk. Where's the spotter?
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He's the only elk I see. He's a nice elk, but I'm trying to talk myself out of going after him.
I eventually get my coffee and breakfast going and decide I need to look elsewhere that afternoon.
I was thinking the same thing…
I am all ears…….The marathon
I'm more prepared this time. Fully planning to be there more than a week, but hoping a couple "scouting days" will bring me quick success on a nice bull. Maybe even that 7x7 that I've been thinking about.
After getting groceries and a pizza, with an appropriately crowded front seat @TOGIE,
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I arrive in time for a quick glass, but I see only deer. There's more snow this time.
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A different moon phase, cartoonishly bright and up all night, lights up the scattered snow left from the last storm.
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I still have yet to set up this tent I borrowed. I'm still thinking mobility, so I sleep in the truck, and plan to glass from nearby in the morning.
A glorious sunrise, as I've come to expect every day, gets going as I park it in the snow with the big glass.
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I'm looking around, back and forth, all over, really not seeing anything except deer, getting a little concerned, why aren't there 30 bulls wandering around... hmmm.
This is way harder already.
I'm giving it all the patience I can, I've been sitting here for 30 or so minutes, everything is within 2-3 miles of me, the sun is peeking over the hills, but it all looks barren of elk. Any elk should be shining.
Oh. There's an elk.
A pretty good elk. Where's the spotter?
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He's the only elk I see. He's a nice elk, but I'm trying to talk myself out of going after him.
I eventually get my coffee and breakfast going and decide I need to look elsewhere that afternoon.
Up higher where I've never been for the afternoon, there are deer tracks, some elk tracks, and lots of snow. Also cat tracks.
Sunset is nice.
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I catch a glimpse of a mountain lion on my white knuckle drive out right at dark. It's only the second wild lion sighting I've ever had.
That evening, I'm back to my front seat bed where I slept the previous night. I barely make it up in time to glass at first light the next morning, and see 0 elk, 0 deer, and generally get discouraged.
I decide I have to have a better place to sleep if I'm going to really grind this hunt out, so I get the tent set up with a great struggle. It's feeling a bit like home already.
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Driving around, I'm able to find a couple new glassing spots, and even see some deer out feeding midday.
I found these guys and gals trudging through the snow, even more dejectedly than me.
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Damn their heads must feel cold.
I bounce and slide my way back to my magic 30+ bull spot. I find a bunch of elk, which improves my mood, but they're all on private.
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It starts to snow as the sun sinks towards the horizon, and I call it a bit early to avoid getting stuck far from my tent.
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I cook myself a nice Alaskan elk steak, some peppers, and potatoes for good luck. Tomorrow is time to go after that bull from the morning before, and eating elk helps you kill elk, right?
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I wake up at 430 the next day. Coffee, a giant bowl of cereal. And is that a frozen banana in your pocket? Yes. Yes it is.
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I get going in the dark. It's pretty cold, so I walk fast, barely able to see the mule deer I jump in the draws on either side of me. I'm going to make a big loop to get full downwind of where I saw the bull, then try to glass him up from close.
Quick sunrise pic
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I really thought I'd have this area to myself, but between shooting light, and sunrise, as I'm about to drop down into a saddle where a ranch road crosses, a pickup with a guide and 2 clients comes creeping up the road. Dang. IT!
They drive passed, just a hundred yards in front of me, and park a quarter mile off to my right and then move farther down the road into a canyon. I'm 3.5 miles into my hike and 400 yards from where I want to glass from. They're going a different way, so I continue towards my glassing knob. As I'm getting to the knob, a side by side motors up the same road and blazes behind me, then they take a road that follows the rim towards where I started the morning. WTF. Seriously. How do this many people have private access to this spot? I make a big circle around and above where I had seen the bull. No elk tracks in the snow at all, just deer, and a few tracks from other hunters.
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Probably a wolverine....
No kidding. Anyone who passes that bull isn’t wired like me.
I'm not wired like any of you good elk hunters, it's just my lot in life.No kidding. Anyone who passes that bull isn’t wired like me.