antlerrick
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Just an interesting little story that happened this weekend: My son shot his elk Saturday night about 5:30 pm. He and his wife cleaned the elk and halved it to pull it out to the road. They drug both halves down the steep hill to where they first come out of the trees and it started to level off and decided that they were too heavy to each pull one. They split the hind quarters and hauled them down across the meadow to the creek. They went back and decided to take the front quarters off but leave skin across the back to make them one piece and son threw them on his shoulder to pack out. He got 150 yards down the hill and his neck and shoulder started to cramp up. (hurt it a week or so ago). By this time the snowstorm had hit and it was now a white out and couldn't even see the truck. They were both soaking wet and getting really cold and shivering, so they decided to leave the front shoulders there and take out the backstrap and come back Sunday morning. He called me and I rode back up to help. His wife and I got the hind quarters to the truck and my son went to get the front quarters clean off the neck meat and cut some ribs from the carcass. He found the shoulders and then walked up to get the rest. We were watching thru glasses and he go to where the carcass was and couldn't find it. Finally we seen walk to the north over to the trees. Then he turned and headed down the hill rather quickly, and about 100 yards down the hill turned and went back and messed around the same area for a few minutes. He never loaded anything and came down and got the front quarters and came back to the creek where we met him and helped get the rest to the truck. He says a bear had found the rib cage/carcass and had drug it up into the trees and away. He said the ground was bare where the carcass had been and the tracks were really fresh as were the drap marks in the snow, so it hadn't been a very long time since the bear had been there. We probably would have seen him if we would have looked across there when we first pulled up. Says he wasn't about to go fight the bear for the carcass without a gun, haha... Anyway, there were two coyotes he seen run off from the gut pile area, and the bear that found dinner that morning. Kind of eerie huh?
Looks like the storm has the predators out searching for goodies for the coming winter!
Looks like the storm has the predators out searching for goodies for the coming winter!