So there we were.........My daughter and I were out Saturday morning chasing elk. We'd called in a nice 5 point who saw us before we saw him and he made a clean getaway. We watched a few more cows but as none of them were looking to grow horns decided to call it a day.
As we hiked up the ridge we met a guy coming down with horses. He was headed to the bottom of the canyon to get an elk he's shot that morning.
He was nice and told us to find a good seat as he would be moving down the canyon and might kick something out for us to shoot. He then asked us if we heard the 11 shots that morning.
I told him that we had but they seemed like they came from a long way away.
He told us that it was him and that he'd been shooting at his bull from 800 yards with his .270, but that he'd finally got it. There had been 2 bulls running together.
We took our seat and waited for about 15-20 minutes and saw nothing.
We started back up the hill. After a few steps we heard him shoot. He shot 9 rounds. We figured he got it. A few minutes later he shot again, and again and again. Finally he was up to 33 rounds fired. My daughter and I were counting them out loud.
Then some other hunters joined in. Everyone was shooting----and there wasn't really all than many hunters up there in the area we were hunting.
15 minutes later and we had counted 111 shots. It sounded like they were all shooting a long ways off but I don't know if they killed anything or not.
I do know that anyone selling ammo that morning would have made a killing.
It was a good time to talk to my daughter about ethical shooting and distance.
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As we hiked up the ridge we met a guy coming down with horses. He was headed to the bottom of the canyon to get an elk he's shot that morning.
He was nice and told us to find a good seat as he would be moving down the canyon and might kick something out for us to shoot. He then asked us if we heard the 11 shots that morning.
I told him that we had but they seemed like they came from a long way away.
He told us that it was him and that he'd been shooting at his bull from 800 yards with his .270, but that he'd finally got it. There had been 2 bulls running together.
We took our seat and waited for about 15-20 minutes and saw nothing.
We started back up the hill. After a few steps we heard him shoot. He shot 9 rounds. We figured he got it. A few minutes later he shot again, and again and again. Finally he was up to 33 rounds fired. My daughter and I were counting them out loud.
Then some other hunters joined in. Everyone was shooting----and there wasn't really all than many hunters up there in the area we were hunting.
15 minutes later and we had counted 111 shots. It sounded like they were all shooting a long ways off but I don't know if they killed anything or not.
I do know that anyone selling ammo that morning would have made a killing.
It was a good time to talk to my daughter about ethical shooting and distance.
respect my authorita