bforce750
09-22-2012, 02:55 PM
Well here it goes, I started scouting for elk in some of my favorite areas August 1st and pepared for the openening day of bow season .I placed my cameras on the same game trails and salt licks as I did in previous years and decided to let them sit for a couple weeks. 2 weeks later I decided to go back and check my cameras and was pretty dissapointed to find one of my cams lying face down:(...but after viewing the pics my spirits were up again. I had some great looking animals on there , a few small 6x5 bulls and a real mature 6x6 ...an elk I would probably shoot every year if given the opportunity. So after viewing my second camera I was shocked to see I had nothing but a dead battery, no pics and strangley the camera was turned and facing away from my lick :???:. To make a long story short my hunting partener and I found out some fellow "hunters" were deleting are pics and turning our cameras upside down on the trees :evil: ...lets say we cought them in the act and gave them a few choice words lol....Anyway after a few stumbling blocks we were back in action and were ready for openinng day.
September 1, 2012
DAY 1...Well after getting about an hour sleep it was opening morning finally lol ..I dont know about u guys but I cant ever sleep the night before a opening day lol. The morning was a pretty un-eventful with no action or movement other than last nights dinner :shock: The wind was swirling and it was just too warm so we decided to give up and try again in the evening, hopefully get some responses to our calls. After a much needed nap it was about 5:30pm and headed back to my spot ,the 15 min drive from my house seemed like it took for ever lol. After the long drive I was back in action again but the conditions were poor , wind swirling everywhere and very hot and no responses again...day 1 was over but my hopes were still up
DAY 2...BUST kind of like day 1
DAY 3...It was a chilly morning only 2degrees above ,my hunting partner and i decided we were going to another area I had scouted and only short drive as well. On our our way up the mountain we spotted a pretty good group of cows about 1200 yards across a canyon right out in the open..We sat and glassed for about 15-20 mins but there was no bull to be found so we continued on but saw only a couple deer and a few chickens. We both made the decision to go back and glass the group of cows we spotted earlier and Im glad we did..as soon we put up our glasses we spotted a bull doing circles and was bugling pretty good. We soon found out there was 2 bulls and the one was a dandy ...we were wondering what our next step was but the elk decided for us and started to move in our direction..we quickly made a 1000 yard dash down the canyon to head the elk off and intercept them hopefully, it worked out perfect. After calling back and forth in the timber 1bull was coming in strong and so close i went to full draw...then there he was!!! perfect broadside shot quartering away and I let one rip.......lets just say I made a non life threatening shot :-( and the elk ran off...so I quickly cow called and he came running back!!!! but to my partner this time.... he center punched him at 5 yards!!!!! Fatal hit. The bull only ran about 50 yards and here he is .....
pic coming soon
September 1, 2012
DAY 1...Well after getting about an hour sleep it was opening morning finally lol ..I dont know about u guys but I cant ever sleep the night before a opening day lol. The morning was a pretty un-eventful with no action or movement other than last nights dinner :shock: The wind was swirling and it was just too warm so we decided to give up and try again in the evening, hopefully get some responses to our calls. After a much needed nap it was about 5:30pm and headed back to my spot ,the 15 min drive from my house seemed like it took for ever lol. After the long drive I was back in action again but the conditions were poor , wind swirling everywhere and very hot and no responses again...day 1 was over but my hopes were still up
DAY 2...BUST kind of like day 1
DAY 3...It was a chilly morning only 2degrees above ,my hunting partner and i decided we were going to another area I had scouted and only short drive as well. On our our way up the mountain we spotted a pretty good group of cows about 1200 yards across a canyon right out in the open..We sat and glassed for about 15-20 mins but there was no bull to be found so we continued on but saw only a couple deer and a few chickens. We both made the decision to go back and glass the group of cows we spotted earlier and Im glad we did..as soon we put up our glasses we spotted a bull doing circles and was bugling pretty good. We soon found out there was 2 bulls and the one was a dandy ...we were wondering what our next step was but the elk decided for us and started to move in our direction..we quickly made a 1000 yard dash down the canyon to head the elk off and intercept them hopefully, it worked out perfect. After calling back and forth in the timber 1bull was coming in strong and so close i went to full draw...then there he was!!! perfect broadside shot quartering away and I let one rip.......lets just say I made a non life threatening shot :-( and the elk ran off...so I quickly cow called and he came running back!!!! but to my partner this time.... he center punched him at 5 yards!!!!! Fatal hit. The bull only ran about 50 yards and here he is .....
pic coming soon