What did you learn elk hunting this year?

[Oak]

Someday soon I can tell everyone what not to do when you encounter an ATV somewhere where it shouldn't be!!!!!!!!!!!

179 days?

 

[Dinkshooter]

179 days?

Have to go count the hash marks on my cell wall first.

 

[Oak]

Have to go count the hash marks on my cell wall first.

Maybe there is still some hope?

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2012/dec/05/hunter-earns-reward-turning-gate-busting-atvers/

 

[Dinkshooter]

Maybe there is still some hope?

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2012/dec/05/hunter-earns-reward-turning-gate-busting-atvers/

I wonder if mine would count?

I did join BHA just the other day!

 

[Oak]

I wonder if mine would count?

I did join BHA just the other day!

The jury is still out. Ha.

BHA has a dedicated reward fund for aiding the conviction of law-breakers who abuse public hunting and fishing areas with motorized vehicles.

 

[dustinf]

Someday soon I can tell everyone what not to do when you encounter an ATV somewhere where it shouldn't be!!!!!!!!!!!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8

 

[lbirch]

I learned that I can sleep on the rocks after a 4 mile hike uphill.

 

[worm]

Don't make the wife hike from Coon Creek Summit to the Bruneau river. Her toe nails are still bruised.

 

[T Bone]

I learned a few new ones.

16 year old son freezes up solid when there is a bugling/pissing bull at 8 yards.

Hunting big country while injured stinks.

13 year old son can shoot under pressure.

Tag soup is OK.

My favorite past time in my elk area is spotting sheep.

.277 bullets kill elk very handily.

Drop camp hunters from Nebraska are afraid of their own shadow while on the mountain.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

T-Bone, every one of those sentences read like chapters of a good book.

 

[Sytes]

I learned regardless the outcome - tag soup or tag filled, time spent in the outdoors is a slice of heaven on earth.
Merry Christmas all!

 

[chuckyd313]

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I learned regardless the outcome - tag soup or tag filled, time spent in the outdoors is a slice of heaven on earth.
Merry Christmas all!

Never has there a truer statement been spoken!!

 

[Zach]

I learned that I'd rather pack an elk out for an aging uncle who may not have many hunts left rather than shoot my own elk.

 

[FishN4Eyes]

I learned regardless the outcome - tag soup or tag filled, time spent in the outdoors is a slice of heaven on earth.
Merry Christmas all!

True Dat!

 

[Straight Arrow]

Tracking elk all morning with only a fleeting glimpse from time to time, then finally cradling my rifle on a solid rest with a steady sight picture ... only to hear, then watch "my" elk dropped by a Kentucky hunter near his ATV on a logging road ... I learned to happily share the exuberance and excitement of the first elk taken by a NR hunter on his first trip west. Expecting to be disappointed and angry, I could not help but smile at the sight of this guy dancing a jig and grinning from ear to ear.

 

[glass eye]

I learned DO NOT buy an OTC NR rifle tag when the weather is hot.

 

[Duck-Slayer]

I learned that my wife can shoot a cow elk at 306 yards using my pack as a rest....

AND.....

She can pack with the best of them.....
Matt

Front quarter/backstrap boned out....

The Kill.....

Shot from the dead tree at the top of the ridge, the little small dead tree........

 

[lbirch]

Nice TC encore pro hunter right there.

 

[Duck-Slayer]

Nice TC encore pro hunter right there.

Very sweet, topped with a Vortex Viper 6.5x20-50 w/ turrets, I got a antelope in Wyoming at 480 yards... Thing is super accurate w/ 28" fluted barrel...
Matt

 

[Art Vandeley]

Go out Saturday night,drive to hunting area in morning, fall asleep in pick up and miss first light. Wake up and spot a nice bull from the pick up, walk up the hill and shoot said bull, call in friends to help pack it out an be back to watch football Sunday night .