Our 2009 peace elk hunt

[mark]

Ill try to keep the drama short and the pics heavy!
We headed north a week earlier than normal, arrived for a week or rain :-(.
We hunted hard, hiking 5-7km's every morn and eve. Sign was very minimal, and the elk wernt talking :-(.
On day 3 we got into a major scream fest with a large herd bull, after an hour and a half over 50 bugles each we closed the distance to 60 yards but he never gave us the shot, the wind swirled and they were gone :-(.
Hope was fading, but near the end of a morning hike on day 7 this guy showed up silent, our cannons broke the silence and we had our bull :smile:.


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Lots of work to get him out, never even used a quad for once! We got him to the butcher fast as the rain quit and the heat rolled in, 28 that afternoon :mad:.
We decided we didnt need another elk, so we just chilled, camped and relaxed for 3 days!

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Our dog had the time of his life out there!

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We were camped with 3 old guys who Ive known and hunted with since I was a teenager, of the 3, these 2 both bagged their first elk! (both 6 pointers as well) Huge congrads to them!!!

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Overall, hunting was very slow, we did a drive of the entire area we hunt, saw about 8 hunting camps, some with 5 or more guys, only 1 other elk rack to be seen!
Many camps left skunked, so we did OK!

[shantz]

Congrats looked like an amazing hunt.

[whitetailsheds]

Looks awesome Mark! Good times! Mike took the meat?

[835]

Nice work! I love it when you get your bull with a few days to spare. You can switch to bird hunting and fishing. It rounds the trip off nice.

[Brambles]

Fantastic Mark and Georgia. I was glad to hear you guys connected up north. Hope your elk is as good eatin as ours. Now lets see those big bucks:smile:

Mark I think I found your sunglasses. PM me your address and i"ll ship them back to you. I'll be out for a day or two so gimme some time.

J

[BlacktailStalker]

Sounds good to me, nice work :cool:
Next year that pup will be able to pack back straps :)

[J_T]

Sounds like a great hunt and awesome country to hunt in. Congrats.

[d6dan]

Well done Mark!, I heard about your success from the bro.. looks like it was a fun hunting trip:).

[rifleman]

god job on your persistence. sounds like you had a good trip

[Blainer]

Good stuff.
Hope to have the same or better luck in the Peace next week,leave on Saturday.
Good on ya!

[The Dawg]

Congrats Mark, Moosinaround and I were wondering how you did. Certainly was quiet up there for the bugling buggers.

[elkdom]

well done!:smile: with "elk talk being sporadic at best" you certainly deserve your just rewards, warm weather ,rain, morning lists and heavy fog, all combined make it hard to get any momentum happening with bugling elk so far this year!

[BiG Boar]

Great Job Ladie and Dude. Way to get a duzie! Sounds like some good hunting.

[jrjonesy]

Congrats to you and Georgia! Lots of hard work, persistance and miles paid off for you. Glad to hear you had a good trip and got in a little R&R at the end.

Good work packin that sucker out of there.

[Gateholio]

Congrats guys!:smile:

[Fisher-Dude]

Good job on gittin' 'er done M & G. I like my steak done medium! :biggrin:

[doubled]

Nice job Mark. With a wife like that, who cares if the hunting was slow.

[shaner338]

Congrats on the elk!! Hope I have as gooda luck in EK next week!!

[gbear]

Congrat's on your elk. It's tough up here right now - elk are very quite. You guys did very well

[hillclimber]

sounds like your group did good with 3 bulls. do you know if any moose hit the dirt in your area?

cheers
stefan

[valleycowboy]

sounds like another good trip mark.
congrats to you guys!!!!!!

[LeverActionJunkie]

Right on Mark glad to see you had a successful trip!

[Ruger4]

Thanx for the Pix Mark ,
love to see the old fellas out there fillin there tags, good for them and a big congrats on your harvest :razz:

[Rattler]

Congrats Mark and Georgia. Looks like he will be a good eater...

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Good job you two!!!

Now get your arses rested up and back out there cause we want to see some pics of some big alpine muley bucks!!:cool:

GPS tracking device will be in place by tonight:smile:.

SSS

[moosinaround]

Way to be Mark! Yah I bailed after day 2 of the downpour. Was quiet for elk, had only 2 bulls return calls, and only one come in to play! We had been there for 5 days prior to the rains, so our spirits were dwindling!lol My son and I covered a lot of geography, and had a blast so it was a terrific trip for that. Where were you guys camped? Took a drive to look for yah, but couldn't find yous! Anyways congrats again, see you up there next year!! Maybe that will be the year for me? Moosin

[leadpillproductions]

good job the river pic looks very familiar it's my secret spot stay away lol
good job

[mark]

Looks awesome Mark! Good times! Mike took the meat?

Yup, he took good care of us as always!


Fantastic Mark and Georgia. I was glad to hear you guys connected up north. Hope your elk is as good eatin as ours. Now lets see those big bucks:smile:

Mark I think I found your sunglasses. PM me your address and i"ll ship them back to you. I'll be out for a day or two so gimme some time.

J

You found my shades???? You been following me around on all my hunts??? :mad:


Nice job Mark. With a wife like that, who cares if the hunting was slow.

:smile: :razz:


sounds like your group did good with 3 bulls. do you know if any moose hit the dirt in your area?

cheers
stefan

No moose were taken by anyone while we were there, I heard of 1 in the any bull season, (really theres barely any left)


Good job you two!!!

Now get your arses rested up and back out there cause we want to see some pics of some big alpine muley bucks!!:cool:

GPS tracking device will be in place by tonight:smile:.

SSS

Ill be sweeping my rigs with my "anti-tracker-debugger 2000" in the morn, as "operation monster alpine mulie" commences at dawn! :shock:


Way to be Mark! Yah I bailed after day 2 of the downpour. Was quiet for elk, had only 2 bulls return calls, and only one come in to play! We had been there for 5 days prior to the rains, so our spirits were dwindling!lol My son and I covered a lot of geography, and had a blast so it was a terrific trip for that. Where were you guys camped? Took a drive to look for yah, but couldn't find yous! Anyways congrats again, see you up there next year!! Maybe that will be the year for me? Moosin

We camped on the old airport, you drove right by us!

[todbartell]

looks like just before the rain was the best hunting, we nailed a couple in 4 days.

nice elk! congrats to Georgia!

[bowhunterbruce]

wait ta go mark and congrats to all that were in your camp.me and the mrs r headn north for our moose/elk/grizz trip on fri.i'm hopeing our trip is a successful one.
anyways good looking bull
hi5s
bruce

[M.Dean]

The meat poles got a work out in your camp! Looks like a dam good trip, Congrats!

[Alpine85]

Nice work you too!! looks like the pup has grown a bit since I seen him aswell.

[Rock Doctor]

Congrats on the Elk
Nice pics too:wink:

RD

[hunter1947]

Looks like you had a fantastic hunt ,pic tell it all ,big congrats to you Mark and your hunting partners ,way to go http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif.

[trigger]

I missed this post way back i guess. Congrats to you guys. That is a beautiful dog you have there. I bet he did have the time of his life out there. I take trigger my dog camping with me and he thinks he has died and gone to heaven.