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Rio Chama/Humphries (unit 4) Near Chama, NM
Welp!! here is the story about my elk hunting...Friday, the day before the second season elk hunt starts here in NM, my 3 cousins, my brother louis and i rode all day on horseback to get to know the area better!! We saw probably around 20 bulls and a lots of cows! Nothing big than 6x6's but we saw 2 big 5x5's probably even a 6x6. We decided to leave the area and come back the next day to see if they were still there...
Went back to the corral and loaded the horses and headed back to our cabin, about a 15-20 min drive with the horse trailer, usually 10-15 min drive but...the another hunter stopped by to greeting us...his brother have a tag also, said that was last weekend hunt, 4 hunters out of 10 hunters bagged an elk...the area where i hunt only issued 10 tags. both hunters that we met lives only 14 miles from the area where we hunt, we felt good cause we had seen some good bulls then saturday morning we got up at 3am, saddled up the horses. I felt that my hunt will be good. We started to ride out to the Humphries at 3:45 am, rode for 2 hours in the dark with full of moon...we rode to the same area where we saw the bulls the day before. We got to the area around 6 am and then decided to walk to get away from the horses, cause of noise, smell. My brother and cousin chuck sat on top of the hill, my other cousin rick, mario and i went a little way down from them, probably 150 yards.
I tapped my cousin rick because i saw some elk moving and they said, where...I pointed them to the direction where they were at. THen i set up with my backpack on the ground for a good rest for rifle, i shoot with .300 weatherby with 180 federal premium bullet. The elk were just about to go into the heavy timbers and my cousins started calling, Chuck did the bull bugle, 2 cousin did the cows.One bull were very aggressive, I saw 3 good bulls, 2 of them were smart, they didn't come or answer to our calls. the bull that was aggressive became very angry, bugled, stomped on ground, trashed the tree, I told rick, " I think i'm gonna take that bull" then finally that bull decided to check us out. From 1 mile we could see the bull bounce, jump and hear him bugle. It came closer, closer around 215 yards then all of a sudden the bulls knew something was wrong, he stopped fast, sniffed and then turned broadside. I clicked off the safety and pulled the trigger, The bull just stood, then looked back real slow, I put another bullet in the chamber for another shot and shot again just in case I missed, then the bull only stepped 2 steps, and went down fast! Rick jumped on me, said awesome, awesome and baddest thing we've done! i got up and said "damn" It's great to see that reaction! I didn't even look at the antlers, only the chest when bull came and turned broadside for me to shoot, We walked up to the elk and we exchanged high 5's and hugged, something like that! of course we took several Pictures (probably many) I shot at 7:10 am, the rest of it, you know, quareting into 5 piece and stuff, we finished around 9 am and headed back to the truck..good thing it's still cold up there and back to the truck at 11 am..we put all the meat in the cooler and headed to the bacin for the skinning part..
called my wife and my son to tell them that I'm coming home. They were very excited to have me back home! we stayed at the cabin till Monday just to kick back and ate some of the fresh back staps! what a great hunting experience!! my wife was home waiting for me with my 15 month old son dressed in camo ready to take pictures with me !!
so so so sorry the story is too long! Thanks for reading..
VINIHUNT
Welp!! here is the story about my elk hunting...Friday, the day before the second season elk hunt starts here in NM, my 3 cousins, my brother louis and i rode all day on horseback to get to know the area better!! We saw probably around 20 bulls and a lots of cows! Nothing big than 6x6's but we saw 2 big 5x5's probably even a 6x6. We decided to leave the area and come back the next day to see if they were still there...
Went back to the corral and loaded the horses and headed back to our cabin, about a 15-20 min drive with the horse trailer, usually 10-15 min drive but...the another hunter stopped by to greeting us...his brother have a tag also, said that was last weekend hunt, 4 hunters out of 10 hunters bagged an elk...the area where i hunt only issued 10 tags. both hunters that we met lives only 14 miles from the area where we hunt, we felt good cause we had seen some good bulls then saturday morning we got up at 3am, saddled up the horses. I felt that my hunt will be good. We started to ride out to the Humphries at 3:45 am, rode for 2 hours in the dark with full of moon...we rode to the same area where we saw the bulls the day before. We got to the area around 6 am and then decided to walk to get away from the horses, cause of noise, smell. My brother and cousin chuck sat on top of the hill, my other cousin rick, mario and i went a little way down from them, probably 150 yards.
I tapped my cousin rick because i saw some elk moving and they said, where...I pointed them to the direction where they were at. THen i set up with my backpack on the ground for a good rest for rifle, i shoot with .300 weatherby with 180 federal premium bullet. The elk were just about to go into the heavy timbers and my cousins started calling, Chuck did the bull bugle, 2 cousin did the cows.One bull were very aggressive, I saw 3 good bulls, 2 of them were smart, they didn't come or answer to our calls. the bull that was aggressive became very angry, bugled, stomped on ground, trashed the tree, I told rick, " I think i'm gonna take that bull" then finally that bull decided to check us out. From 1 mile we could see the bull bounce, jump and hear him bugle. It came closer, closer around 215 yards then all of a sudden the bulls knew something was wrong, he stopped fast, sniffed and then turned broadside. I clicked off the safety and pulled the trigger, The bull just stood, then looked back real slow, I put another bullet in the chamber for another shot and shot again just in case I missed, then the bull only stepped 2 steps, and went down fast! Rick jumped on me, said awesome, awesome and baddest thing we've done! i got up and said "damn" It's great to see that reaction! I didn't even look at the antlers, only the chest when bull came and turned broadside for me to shoot, We walked up to the elk and we exchanged high 5's and hugged, something like that! of course we took several Pictures (probably many) I shot at 7:10 am, the rest of it, you know, quareting into 5 piece and stuff, we finished around 9 am and headed back to the truck..good thing it's still cold up there and back to the truck at 11 am..we put all the meat in the cooler and headed to the bacin for the skinning part..
called my wife and my son to tell them that I'm coming home. They were very excited to have me back home! we stayed at the cabin till Monday just to kick back and ate some of the fresh back staps! what a great hunting experience!! my wife was home waiting for me with my 15 month old son dressed in camo ready to take pictures with me !!
so so so sorry the story is too long! Thanks for reading..
VINIHUNT
