Moosie
Grand poopa
Alright Enough dinking around….
So Thursday after work I let my wife get some things done and we got to a late start. I met Wylee on the road and we took off with Grand visions of elk the next day. Little did we know….
We woke tbone up around 11:30PM and started talking hunting. He told us all about his week and what they saw and were they were at. Wylee and me derived a plan and got to sleep a few hours before the long days hike. We drove 30 mins to our destination and the hike began. Hiking up a hill in the dark in a new area kind of blows but you know you just need to keep heading up… and up….. and up….
Just after daylight I see some elk and We bail off the ridge to take a peak. It is just 2 cows. Drat !!! then I look back and see some horse guys. So the hiking starts. We could have outhiked the horses but we crossed path with a decent 4 point buck with some Drop times. Wylee pulled out his camera and we got a picture or two. It was far off so you can’t see much.
We continued up and starting to see elk in the canyon we set a plan. Just then behind us came the horse guys. I do have to say that of all the hunters we met in the hills these guys were some of the nicest ones. We told them what our plans were and they worked around us. We kept up behind them until they tied up their horses and we passed them. We then talked to them and laid out our plans. We were not going to ( Or Wylee wasn’t going to let me shoot) a spike again this year…. (Or so he thought ) So we tell the guys good luck and we head out. We bump the elk side hilling and could have laid the hammer down on a spike or two but didn’t.
Glassing the far ridge we saw a cow. Another, another, 10 more, 30 more , 5 here, 8 there. A Spike here another there. What the scrud ?!?! Were are the big bulls ?~??~? 150 cows and a few spikes and looking over a 2 mile canyon.
We watch some elk on the top of the ridge in the snow and head up. They start to bed down so we work around the hill we wer within 200 yards or them and him and me were tiered of pushing snow so we each found a tree to get under. Not expecting to have gotten in the snow I didn’t wear the gators so the feet were wet and cold. We tried to sleep and rest but were both cold so we pushed on.
Place I tried to nap:
Can we turn back yet ??!
It wasn’t 10 mins until the elk were going every were. They bailed down the hill and right into the other guys. BOOM !!! BOOM !!! and about 9 more shots happened and 2 spike elk were down by them. Congrats to the nice men we met !!!
As the elk come pouring over we saw about 40-50 bailing through the Hills. I threw the Pack down and Laid the 300 across it 1/2 laying in the snow. Of all the elk there was one spike in it. We let him go again too.
So up the hill and to the top we made it up. Then the trip down began. Once we realized were we were at we knew we’d need a lot of time to get out. We slowly came down looking for elk.
Wylee was the first to spot a cow below us and we heard a Bugle. I say a Bugle but it sounded more like a creeking door with a high pitched Whhheeeeeeeeeeeeee AH ! Knowing Tbone watched a 4 point Bugle in there days before we were off. We knew the elk would be working around and sure as heck, here they came. But the bull turned out to be a Little Spike. Range finder set, Ahhhh an easy 200 yard shot. After Wylee knocked the gun out of my hands we headed down the hill with Darkness fastly approaching. 2.5 hours later we were out.
Tbone had pulled up stakes and headed out so We couldn’t visit with him much unfortunately. We set the next days plan changing it 3-4 times and then deadeye270 came into camp. We talked for ½ hour and went back to the original plan. We had a few last min lazy plan but we went back to the good ol’ Get some elk plan that was a Early wake up and hard hike in plan.
So Thursday after work I let my wife get some things done and we got to a late start. I met Wylee on the road and we took off with Grand visions of elk the next day. Little did we know….
We woke tbone up around 11:30PM and started talking hunting. He told us all about his week and what they saw and were they were at. Wylee and me derived a plan and got to sleep a few hours before the long days hike. We drove 30 mins to our destination and the hike began. Hiking up a hill in the dark in a new area kind of blows but you know you just need to keep heading up… and up….. and up….
Just after daylight I see some elk and We bail off the ridge to take a peak. It is just 2 cows. Drat !!! then I look back and see some horse guys. So the hiking starts. We could have outhiked the horses but we crossed path with a decent 4 point buck with some Drop times. Wylee pulled out his camera and we got a picture or two. It was far off so you can’t see much.
We continued up and starting to see elk in the canyon we set a plan. Just then behind us came the horse guys. I do have to say that of all the hunters we met in the hills these guys were some of the nicest ones. We told them what our plans were and they worked around us. We kept up behind them until they tied up their horses and we passed them. We then talked to them and laid out our plans. We were not going to ( Or Wylee wasn’t going to let me shoot) a spike again this year…. (Or so he thought ) So we tell the guys good luck and we head out. We bump the elk side hilling and could have laid the hammer down on a spike or two but didn’t.
Glassing the far ridge we saw a cow. Another, another, 10 more, 30 more , 5 here, 8 there. A Spike here another there. What the scrud ?!?! Were are the big bulls ?~??~? 150 cows and a few spikes and looking over a 2 mile canyon.
We watch some elk on the top of the ridge in the snow and head up. They start to bed down so we work around the hill we wer within 200 yards or them and him and me were tiered of pushing snow so we each found a tree to get under. Not expecting to have gotten in the snow I didn’t wear the gators so the feet were wet and cold. We tried to sleep and rest but were both cold so we pushed on.
Place I tried to nap:
Can we turn back yet ??!
It wasn’t 10 mins until the elk were going every were. They bailed down the hill and right into the other guys. BOOM !!! BOOM !!! and about 9 more shots happened and 2 spike elk were down by them. Congrats to the nice men we met !!!
As the elk come pouring over we saw about 40-50 bailing through the Hills. I threw the Pack down and Laid the 300 across it 1/2 laying in the snow. Of all the elk there was one spike in it. We let him go again too.
So up the hill and to the top we made it up. Then the trip down began. Once we realized were we were at we knew we’d need a lot of time to get out. We slowly came down looking for elk.
Wylee was the first to spot a cow below us and we heard a Bugle. I say a Bugle but it sounded more like a creeking door with a high pitched Whhheeeeeeeeeeeeee AH ! Knowing Tbone watched a 4 point Bugle in there days before we were off. We knew the elk would be working around and sure as heck, here they came. But the bull turned out to be a Little Spike. Range finder set, Ahhhh an easy 200 yard shot. After Wylee knocked the gun out of my hands we headed down the hill with Darkness fastly approaching. 2.5 hours later we were out.
Tbone had pulled up stakes and headed out so We couldn’t visit with him much unfortunately. We set the next days plan changing it 3-4 times and then deadeye270 came into camp. We talked for ½ hour and went back to the original plan. We had a few last min lazy plan but we went back to the good ol’ Get some elk plan that was a Early wake up and hard hike in plan.
