alinrut
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So after getting skunked last year, I returned to the scene of the crime and had success!!! My friend came in from Washington and this was his first elk hunt. We spotted the elk bedded down about a mile away, we picked a route for the stock and began the 2 hour journey, accross draws, up hills and occassionally checking the animals. We closed to final 200 yards and figured on finding them just over the hill, onto all fours we went and creeped up over the crest to see 2 cows and a calf up and moving towards the creek, we were at a near panic trying to figure where the bulls were (there were 3 legal bulls in the herd)...something told me to look to my left and there he was...staring right at us about 75 yards away!!!!! The first shot lunged him and the second shot broke his back...Eric saw the other one about another 100yards up the hill and lunged him and he was down in the snow about 300 yards away... absolutely incredible...mine is the top one, a 6x5 (not really big but the tweeked antler on his right side made him cool) and Eric's was a 5x5 with 11" brow tines!!! these were the first elk ever for either of us...we did it on a 3rd season, over the counter on public land doing it ourselves!!!! what a frikin' sweet trip it was!!! hope ya'll enjoy the photo's and story
al
"I'll see ya in the mountains, and if I do...then it's my own damn fault for not getting further away from the roads!!!"
