sparky300winmag
10-21-2009, 10:00 PM
I went for a morning hunt a few couple of weeks ago and found this 4x5 whitey with 4 other smaller bucks.It was on the first snow day.I took my oldest son out the next day and we saw 11 bucks but he missed a good buck.
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My youngest son and i went elk hunting on saturday and he spotted this 4x4 whitey in the timber.It was his first white tail.Boy was he happy.
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We went out for the last day of elk season and we went to an area where we counted at least 40 mulies and about 10 were small bucks.Mitch spotted this nice 4x3 mulie and took him down.If he didn't i sure would have.More high fives.
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The elk hunting didn't go so well.Once again i was skunked and not due to the lack of trying( i put in about 150 hrs of elk hunting),but mostly due to my inability to count the f*****g tines fast enough.
My oldest and i went out one morning and i spotted a bull on the edge of the slash( at least saw his antlers above the brush).We went in after him cow calling and looking for him.Well ,i look up the far side of the slash and there he was.I put up my swaros and try counting the tines.I see he forks at the top , but i just couldn't see his fronts good enough cause he keeps turning his head and walking away.I bugle and he stops and i try again but just can't see good enough and he's getting farther away.I know everone says if he forks at the back there is a 95% chance he's a six, but i just gotta make 100% sure.Well hes outa range now , so i tell my son we'll find the road up to the other side of the slash.Well i go to where i thought it should be but i just see a truck parked on , what looks like, an old road, so i think there is no way someone would block the only road into a huge slash, so i keep looking for the road.Well after an hour i still can't find the road i was looking for, so eventually i went back to where the truck was parked.The truck was gone, so i followed the road and sure enough it went to the slash, and guess what, there was the truck parked at the end and guess again what they were pulling out with thier quad.Thats right a nice six point bull elk.
So thats how my elk hunting went and i saw at least a dozen bulls , but only that one six point.
Well maybe next year, and maybe i should get glasses.
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee157/sparky300winmag/DSC00345.jpg
My youngest son and i went elk hunting on saturday and he spotted this 4x4 whitey in the timber.It was his first white tail.Boy was he happy.
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee157/sparky300winmag/DSC00347.jpg
We went out for the last day of elk season and we went to an area where we counted at least 40 mulies and about 10 were small bucks.Mitch spotted this nice 4x3 mulie and took him down.If he didn't i sure would have.More high fives.
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee157/sparky300winmag/DSC00348.jpg
The elk hunting didn't go so well.Once again i was skunked and not due to the lack of trying( i put in about 150 hrs of elk hunting),but mostly due to my inability to count the f*****g tines fast enough.
My oldest and i went out one morning and i spotted a bull on the edge of the slash( at least saw his antlers above the brush).We went in after him cow calling and looking for him.Well ,i look up the far side of the slash and there he was.I put up my swaros and try counting the tines.I see he forks at the top , but i just couldn't see his fronts good enough cause he keeps turning his head and walking away.I bugle and he stops and i try again but just can't see good enough and he's getting farther away.I know everone says if he forks at the back there is a 95% chance he's a six, but i just gotta make 100% sure.Well hes outa range now , so i tell my son we'll find the road up to the other side of the slash.Well i go to where i thought it should be but i just see a truck parked on , what looks like, an old road, so i think there is no way someone would block the only road into a huge slash, so i keep looking for the road.Well after an hour i still can't find the road i was looking for, so eventually i went back to where the truck was parked.The truck was gone, so i followed the road and sure enough it went to the slash, and guess what, there was the truck parked at the end and guess again what they were pulling out with thier quad.Thats right a nice six point bull elk.
So thats how my elk hunting went and i saw at least a dozen bulls , but only that one six point.
Well maybe next year, and maybe i should get glasses.