Squirrel Hauliday

So I had a big plan... Gonna take 2 new llamas and a rookie into the backcountry for a few days. Made it a mile from the t/h and had the mother of all rodeos. Union llamas on strike non-union slipping their saddles trying to break the strike- total chaos. Back to truck back to home back to pasture, back to planning board as 6 hrs of trail time pissed away. New string, new t/h, new destination...PLAN B!

Right before dark got to an acceptable camp and went for a walk after setting up camp... 0 fresh and a huge cinnamon bear@ 50 yards. Close enough to watch his tongue hit the water when he got a drink, then he scratched his back on a quakie for 15 minutes while Cody tried to fit up my pant-leg. His new registered name is chicken-sh!t Cody... After a 1/2 hr he winded me and split. Cody about died of terror when he hit his tracks, for the next 4 days he was growling at anything dark he saw- rocks stumps etc. He saw bears EVERYWHERE!!

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Next day 12 miles for 4 shakers- very poor but a lot of old ones.

Next day went the other direction- even worse no old OR fresh... Over the mtn into another drainage and glassed up a set from 1/2 mile off. They had to be big and I could see they had 7x7 frame but sometimes glassing from afar fools you. When I got there I about pissed my pants... we have tons of elk but they don't get very big, I had never seen anything like this even in RMNP. 23 yrs of horn hunting and I had finally done it, fresh- no chewings, and huge mass. 7x8 approx. 378

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Found half of another 330 bull and spent the next day+1/2 looking for the mate to no avail but ended up with 18 fresh. I've got some really spectacular llama pics but the background is just a wee bit too recognizable... So I will have to hold those for personal use, these will have to do, sorry.

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Nice Haul!!!!

Great post and great finds!!

Bear season ain't open??

That's what I was gonna say! Put the camera down, pick up the rifle and BOOM! Nice looking bear, course I took my boy out for 5 weekends in a row and never even saw a bear this year, so I'm just excited to see one.

That was a pretty good trip.
Like the pic of the Llama's with all that bone on them.

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Holey Moley! I thought we had done pretty good this year.

That was an awesome story and some great pics. Had me laughing out loud about the dog growling at everything.

Thanks for sharing!


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You write a funny story...nice work on that big set...yes, that country yields very few bigguns...congrats to you and CS Cody...