seeth07
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There is no doubt that New Mexico is very quickly rising to the top of our favorite state to go to. Seems like at least once a year we are headed to this great state and this year it will even be twice. This time around we are headed to a new area of the state - the Jemez Mountains. The season already opened on Sunday so I'm a little behind but we leave today and should be setting up and ready to do some road scouting by tomorrow evening.
I flung a couple hundred arrows over this last weekend while at bear camp and I'm feeling good and comfortable with it after a summer of being a bad sportsman and not practicing nearly as much as I should. On two previous elk hunts with the bow I got excited and shot the first cow on the second morning on an either sex tag that ran past at 5 yards instead of waiting for the big bull to keep coming. On the second trip I passed up on some smaller bulls/cows without any regrets of eating that tag in the end. This trip we will have a full 10 days to hunt which will include my wife helping as well as my cousin/girlfriend for this first weekend. I'm going to be patient and really soak in the experience and the expected beauty I'm envisioning of those mountains. Might even take a mid week break and drive around in the Caldera as I hear it is a fantastic place to be in the fall. May even see some elk in there. We are excited and ready to go!
I flung a couple hundred arrows over this last weekend while at bear camp and I'm feeling good and comfortable with it after a summer of being a bad sportsman and not practicing nearly as much as I should. On two previous elk hunts with the bow I got excited and shot the first cow on the second morning on an either sex tag that ran past at 5 yards instead of waiting for the big bull to keep coming. On the second trip I passed up on some smaller bulls/cows without any regrets of eating that tag in the end. This trip we will have a full 10 days to hunt which will include my wife helping as well as my cousin/girlfriend for this first weekend. I'm going to be patient and really soak in the experience and the expected beauty I'm envisioning of those mountains. Might even take a mid week break and drive around in the Caldera as I hear it is a fantastic place to be in the fall. May even see some elk in there. We are excited and ready to go!
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