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Thread: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

  1. #251
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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Took the morning off.. feeling the fatigue of hunting hard since Sept 1..

    Gonna have a relax type day.. maybe a nap or 2 and giver tonight..
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Driving my son to Sparwood for hockey last night we seen a lot more elk than usual.

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Very interesting morning. I showed up at the viewpoint where i had the face to face with the 5 point the other day, in the dark as usual...

    Start hearing some really gentle bugles down where he was. He was just lightly bugling, not the usual screaming that he does.

    Finally it gets decent light and right below the bluffs are 4 cows and calves... interesting, maybe there is a different bull in here now, so sit tight..

    Glass them for about 30 minutes and as usual they slow graze across the tracks into the willow pits.. no bull with them, so assuming the bull bugling was the 5 pt from the other day..
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    So, the sun is coming up, fall colors are here, beautiful morning to be in the woods.
    Decided to take a 10 minute pause just to sit, finish my coffee and decide if i was gonna check on the bull or not..

    After 10 minutes, all hell breaks loose in the willow pit.. sounded like every cow was chirping every 2 seconds. WTF?
    waited a few more minutes, see movement on the railway tracks.. binos up... ah..now i see.
    . 3 cougars walking right down the tracks. Mom and 2 full grown kittens.. i think the elk caught the cats wind.

    Tried to get phone scope pictures.. just blobs due to poor light.

    Needless to say this convinced me not to go into the willow pit and check on that bull. Even though the cats kept walking North ,i betcha the herd is on high alert so probably would not be able to sneek in on them.
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    And it continues...

    Go to another area where i have seen lots.. had 2 cross the road.. parked got out and waited.. some crunching in the bush about 100 yards off so i start doing some cow calls.. suddenly i get chirping from behind, so the chirpfest with the elk.. sneak down the road as quiet as i can... movement!
    2 hunters... damn.. bs with them for a few then decide to go to another favorite spot
    ..

    Driving down the gravel road that borders posted private land, just before i am off the property, i see elk moving parallel to me and i know where they are headed.. i drive up to the edge of the private and grab the binos and spotter.. if they come out of the private land and swim river its on crown.. after a minute the big lead cow bails into the river, followed by about 7 others. I look back on the private and there is a bull just standing there staring at his girls.. binos.. spotter... 4 point..

    Then he starts running back and forth along the fenceline chirping like crazy. I assume he could not fit his antlers through the hole in the big elk fence (ya. That did not work mr rancher)..

    This goes on for 15. Cows all on far shore just drinking water and eating willows.. train coming...

    Takes a few for train to arrive.. cows still not worried. Train guy looks right at me, once he is 50 metres past he lays on the horn.. as he continues along and comes out of a cut he must have seen the elk on the far side of the river... then he really lays on the horn 4 or 5 times.. what a dick move.. oh well, cows and a 4 so nothing to shoot at anyways
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Came home, read regs... screwed up..

    Definition of a cougar kitten is with spots or less than a year.. the kittens were almost the same size as mom... tag in pocket, season open, did not know the regs well enuff... frack
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Gonna hunt kitties tonight
    "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

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Great thread ,

    hope you find your elk!

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Quote Originally Posted by rocksteady View Post
    Came home, read regs... screwed up..

    Definition of a cougar kitten is with spots or less than a year.. the kittens were almost the same size as mom... tag in pocket, season open, did not know the regs well enuff... frack
    damn eh oh well honest mistake...cow call might bring them in?

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    Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary

    Awesome thread Rocksteady. Best of luck out there.

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