elks96
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-18-18 AT 09:48PM (MST)[p]All about the family this fall?
Well we are just over ? way through our fall and things have been amazing. My daughter turned 12 in May and this fall was her first big game season. We looked at draw odds and since she is a youth we tried for several tags in WY and CO. The draw results came out and we definitely had more tags than we bargained for..
I ended up with the following?
Wyoming Doe/Fawn Antelope Tag
Colorado Cow Moose Tag
Colorado 2nd Season Deer
Colorado 4th Season Cow Elk
My Wife?
Wyoming Doe/Fawn Antelope tags (2)
Wyoming Deer Tag
Colorado 2nd Season deer
4th season bull
My Daughter?
2 Wyoming doe Antelope tags
Wyoming Deer tag
2nd Season CO Deer
4th Season Cow Elk that will roll over to December
Needless to say we did not have enough time to devote to all our tags. So I made an early decision to put all my effort into my daughters and wife?s tags. So early on I spent my time scouting out new to us antelope areas in WY and making plans. My son age 8 is pretty die hard and simply amazing in the woods.
Something cool about seeing a windmill that was still pumping in the modern era of solar/electric!
Up first were the antelope tags for the wife and daughter. Neither one has killed anything with a bow before this season. The area we found was pretty cool. We spent 3 weekends in the ground blinds and in that time we had our choice of 23 water holes and only saw 2 other trucks with hunters and 2 blinds on water. My wife just finished an amazing program to get her Nurse Practioners degree and license? This program required her to have the following schedule for the last few years. Monday from 8:00-5:00 online school. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, practicum hours at the clinic from 8:00 to 5:00 then Friday Saturday and Sunday a 12 noon to 12 midnight shift. Needless to say the last 2 years were a long haul? SO this fall when she finally passed her test and finished her classes the entire family was ready for a change?
Cool Photo of our 3 shadows as the sun set on a long day in the blind!!!
The first weekend was a wash. We failed miserably 2 kids and me in one blind for 8 hours+ a day? So the second trip we had a better plan etc. The second weekend with just my daughter we had some really close opportunities but she shot 3 times and missed? Lots of excitement, nerves and little lack of practice all came into play. On the one shot she buried her arrow into a cow pie? Needless to say the term Can?t Hit Ship no longer applied and her little brother had fun with that saying for an entire week. We have great video of our adventure.
Here is her deadly cow pie shot?
Well we are just over ? way through our fall and things have been amazing. My daughter turned 12 in May and this fall was her first big game season. We looked at draw odds and since she is a youth we tried for several tags in WY and CO. The draw results came out and we definitely had more tags than we bargained for..
I ended up with the following?
Wyoming Doe/Fawn Antelope Tag
Colorado Cow Moose Tag
Colorado 2nd Season Deer
Colorado 4th Season Cow Elk
My Wife?
Wyoming Doe/Fawn Antelope tags (2)
Wyoming Deer Tag
Colorado 2nd Season deer
4th season bull
My Daughter?
2 Wyoming doe Antelope tags
Wyoming Deer tag
2nd Season CO Deer
4th Season Cow Elk that will roll over to December
Needless to say we did not have enough time to devote to all our tags. So I made an early decision to put all my effort into my daughters and wife?s tags. So early on I spent my time scouting out new to us antelope areas in WY and making plans. My son age 8 is pretty die hard and simply amazing in the woods.
Something cool about seeing a windmill that was still pumping in the modern era of solar/electric!
Up first were the antelope tags for the wife and daughter. Neither one has killed anything with a bow before this season. The area we found was pretty cool. We spent 3 weekends in the ground blinds and in that time we had our choice of 23 water holes and only saw 2 other trucks with hunters and 2 blinds on water. My wife just finished an amazing program to get her Nurse Practioners degree and license? This program required her to have the following schedule for the last few years. Monday from 8:00-5:00 online school. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, practicum hours at the clinic from 8:00 to 5:00 then Friday Saturday and Sunday a 12 noon to 12 midnight shift. Needless to say the last 2 years were a long haul? SO this fall when she finally passed her test and finished her classes the entire family was ready for a change?
Cool Photo of our 3 shadows as the sun set on a long day in the blind!!!
The first weekend was a wash. We failed miserably 2 kids and me in one blind for 8 hours+ a day? So the second trip we had a better plan etc. The second weekend with just my daughter we had some really close opportunities but she shot 3 times and missed? Lots of excitement, nerves and little lack of practice all came into play. On the one shot she buried her arrow into a cow pie? Needless to say the term Can?t Hit Ship no longer applied and her little brother had fun with that saying for an entire week. We have great video of our adventure.
Here is her deadly cow pie shot?