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Man, am I glad I don't take my own advice. I was feeling my age last month and decided to slow down and stop hunting alone . I asked for advice from MM member's for an easier place to hunt in Wyo and I recieved terrific responses with some even providing details of where to go.After thinking it over I decided to wait until next year (or the year after ) to slow down and I went back to where I had bowhunted in Wyo last month to hunt with my rifle. I decided that if I wasn't going to stop hunting alone I would at least try to hunt slower and not alway's have to see what's over the next mountain. So I went in about 1/2 mile to a spot that seemed perfect , I could see across a meadow for about 150 yds to my left and could also see into a canyon with a creek running thru it for about 150 yds to my right. I promised myself that I would stay there from daylite until at least 2 hours to give the elk a chance to move into my area, I wasn't there 20 min when a nice 4x4 muley about 25 or 26 in came right up to me and would have ran into me if I didn't move, when he saw me he got into his turbo pogo mode and bounced away, I thought this is the perfect spot ! After 2 hrs that seemed like a life time I hadn't seen anything else so I decided to use plan B and move to the left into the canyon but when I sneaked around some pines I saw another hunter about 100 yds from me and directly in the path I was headed (what a surprise )so I quickly crossed the meadow to get to cover and sat for another 30 minutes, still no action but I did hear 2 shots within 1/4 mile of me so I knew elk where in the area. I decided on plan C which is what I normally do, very slowly I moved up the hillside taking about 3 steps and then glassing for a few moment's. I had only gone about 40 yds into the aspens when I noticed movement to my left heading towards me from left to right, it was a bull moving quickly downhill but he didn't know I was there. I could have taken a good shot at about 70 yds but I decided to try and stop him first just to be sure so I hit my Hoochie momma call once and he put on the brakes and stopped behind a cluster of aspens about 40 yds away, I had a clear shot of his vitals and took it !! He dropped in his track's but then tried to get up I had chambered another round but didn't want to put another .338 into him unless it was nessesary, it wasn't , he never got up. After thanking GOD and everybody else I could think of I started to quarter him and shouldered the front quarter and headed back about 1 mile uphill to my truck. about halk way back I started thinking maybe I should have taken my advice and found an easier hunt . I went back for the second trip and brought out the hind quarter /backstraps and neck roast, by the time I got back to my truck I was comepletly exhausted and decided to go back the next day for the remaining 2 quarters, Just then a couple of good sameritans on 4 wheelers came along and asked if they could help so they rode me back to the area and brought out the rest of my elk. GOD Bless'em so I have a 4x5 in the freezer and still have a Colorado elk hunt in Nov, Fella's, it doesn't get any better then this !! Bill
