typicalmuley
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I am excited for another year of the Hunting Adventure Challenge. I look forward to seeing the new stories and pictures from this year's participants.
I will start with some of the experiences I had this past Saturday.
Saturday, Two of my brothers and I went for a drive to put up some trail cameras and go scouting. We were not expecting what transpired during our outing. We were driving along and spotted three antelope and slowed down to take a closer look. As we got looking we noticed they were staring at something close to them. We noticed what we thought at first glimpse was coyote, but almost instantly I realized that it was too big to be a coyote. It was a Wolf! There was a two-track road that paralleled there position, so we turned down it. As soon as we turned on the two-track the wolf took of on a run toward the tree line with the antelope in hot pursuit. We stopped and I got picture of him while he was running away. A few hundered yards later he stopped and the antelope stopped, I snapped another photo. We continued to drive down the two-track trying to get a closer picture, but he kept heading for the tree line. Finally, he stopped again and I got one last picture of him before he disappeared into the trees.
We all thought, "that was weird, was that wolf trying to catch those antelope". We turned around and got back on the main road. We went about a 1/4 mile down the road and noticed something out in the field. We drove out to the thing in the field and realized it was a dead elk. We got out to take a look at the elk. It had only been dead for about an hour or so, and about 2/3 of the hind quarter was eaten. The wolf must have just barely got done feeding on the elk when we showed up. The elk was a yearling bull and it looked like the wolf had hamstrung it to help bring it down. We took a few pictures of the carcass and headed back to the road.
As we started back down the road we had mixed emotions. On one hand, what we had just experienced was pretty cool. On the other, that was on less bull we get to see and chase in the future. If only wolf season was still open. We thought about putting a trail camera on the carcass, but decided aginst it.
We scouted for a while seeing a handful of antelope, a mule deer and a whitetail. We also saw a golden eagle and got some pictures. We hung the trail cameras and headed for home. Here is a few of the other pictures we took during our outing. Hopefully, I get some good picture on the trail cameras so I can share a few of those.
Enjoy the moment and relive the memories.
I will start with some of the experiences I had this past Saturday.
Saturday, Two of my brothers and I went for a drive to put up some trail cameras and go scouting. We were not expecting what transpired during our outing. We were driving along and spotted three antelope and slowed down to take a closer look. As we got looking we noticed they were staring at something close to them. We noticed what we thought at first glimpse was coyote, but almost instantly I realized that it was too big to be a coyote. It was a Wolf! There was a two-track road that paralleled there position, so we turned down it. As soon as we turned on the two-track the wolf took of on a run toward the tree line with the antelope in hot pursuit. We stopped and I got picture of him while he was running away. A few hundered yards later he stopped and the antelope stopped, I snapped another photo. We continued to drive down the two-track trying to get a closer picture, but he kept heading for the tree line. Finally, he stopped again and I got one last picture of him before he disappeared into the trees.
We all thought, "that was weird, was that wolf trying to catch those antelope". We turned around and got back on the main road. We went about a 1/4 mile down the road and noticed something out in the field. We drove out to the thing in the field and realized it was a dead elk. We got out to take a look at the elk. It had only been dead for about an hour or so, and about 2/3 of the hind quarter was eaten. The wolf must have just barely got done feeding on the elk when we showed up. The elk was a yearling bull and it looked like the wolf had hamstrung it to help bring it down. We took a few pictures of the carcass and headed back to the road.
As we started back down the road we had mixed emotions. On one hand, what we had just experienced was pretty cool. On the other, that was on less bull we get to see and chase in the future. If only wolf season was still open. We thought about putting a trail camera on the carcass, but decided aginst it.
We scouted for a while seeing a handful of antelope, a mule deer and a whitetail. We also saw a golden eagle and got some pictures. We hung the trail cameras and headed for home. Here is a few of the other pictures we took during our outing. Hopefully, I get some good picture on the trail cameras so I can share a few of those.
Enjoy the moment and relive the memories.