That’s not an elk lol nice buck though congrats!
That’s not an elk lol nice buck though congrats!
Awesome! Not a bad day at all!
If we’re not supposed to eat animals, how come they’re made out of meat?
BHA, BCWF, CCFR, PETA, Lever Action Addict.
Nice buck dude!
One tag down!
Nice job on the buck.
Perfect time of year for them.
That's a dandy. Congrats
Uhhhhh....a diary is supposed to contain all the juicy details!!!! (Impatiently drumming fingers on my desk at work).
Pics are nice....but some of us poor buggers stuck at work need a good story to read!!!
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Emerson
Sorry Willy, playing catch up on chores etc..
Took 2 buddies to my salt lick (they are both awesone callers, i suck). We went in there, bugled cow called for a few hours but only saw a few cows and calves.. it started pouring rain so we left to do some road hunting, as we were all soaked.. take a road long not travelled by the 3 of us. Tooks us from valley bottom up to ridge top, about 12km..
So the running joke with these 2 characters is they ride my ass , in humour, cause i always shoot the first buck i see. So we decide to drive this road and the comment was "k, lets go for a drive and let him shoot his spike"..
After we were up about 10 km a big fresh clearcut comes iinto view.. i see elk.. 2 spikes, watch them for a bit and they head off.. intermittent fog rolling thru so i hike up the road to the landing to peek over where they were headed. I get up there, in the fog, hear cow calls and a bugle.. sneek off the edge of the landing, get set up.. fog rises a few minutes later.. 2 guys and their pickup down below on a different landing.
Oh well.. drive to the end of the road, have a pee, buddy had a smoke. We decide just to anke back home..
We don't even get a km back in an old cut block when i see a buck standing on the alders.. we stop i toss the binos up, yep, got antlers.. driver says get out and smash the thing or i will.. i did not have a great look at the antlers cause he was in the shade.. driver had a betterview. So i step out, load the gun, aim, boom.. straight frigging down.. maybe a 65 yard shot..
Had no idea he was a 5 til i laid hands on him. Driver knew how big he was(better binos)..
Few pics, drag downhill to the road, as we are gutting it we have a bull elk bugling back and forth with us below the road.. wind was not right to make a play and we could tell he was heading downhill and away from us and there is zero roads down where he is heading, so we backed out.. more likely a spot for an evening hunt
"It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase" - Deep Purple
"Lord knows I'm a Voodoo chile" - SRV (RIP 8-27-90)
"Know your Land, Know your Prey" - Mantracker
http://www.youtube.com/user/welderse...e=results_main
Lol.... when partner says
" get out and smash that or i will" you get out and smash it
Probably the biggest buck i have shot in 15 years.. 118.5 lbs on the hook but really good body fat
"It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase" - Deep Purple
"Lord knows I'm a Voodoo chile" - SRV (RIP 8-27-90)
"Know your Land, Know your Prey" - Mantracker
http://www.youtube.com/user/welderse...e=results_main
Thanks Rock! ....helping the working man get through a 12 hr day!!!
Beauty buck!
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Emerson