after my trip to the kootneys last year alone, I decided to plan another trip this year, asked a few guys and made a plan. Showed up on Thursday early afternoon went out to locate bulls, after pooking around we found them in a deep hole so we made a plan to go in the next morning, headed into the hole, we had are odds against us, wind was bad walking was tough and we had alot of ground to cover, and sure enough when we got into there kitchen they were not there just further down the ridge, so we backed out and went for plan B. Next mornings plan was 4 km bike ride into a road closure, we left early and ended up walking the bikes most of the way (being not in that good of shape), finally got into where we wanted to be I let a bugle for a locate, and we had a response right away, so we made a game plan to go after, one guy went up the hill 100 yards to call and I hiked up the ridge towards the call, I set up in a good vantage point I bugled and he bugled back a funny sounding thing he was a bit away so I decided to copy his call, next thing you know he was 60 yards away and he gave out the same call, so I waited to see if he would come out, he didnt, so I called the same goofy call and he ran up the ridge at me, I counted 6 he took 4 more steps and boom! 40 yards away dead elk 7:30 am, double lung and broke the shoulder coming out. After the shot my buddy comes out and says there was a grizzly 500 yards up the ridge, so 3 hours of work we had the elk quartered on the road, no griz all is good time to pack out, we have 4 guys in our group and it looks like two trips until one of the guys has an idea, "lets build the bikes into a rack system" so we cut trees tied them to the bikes, piled all the meat and packs onto the racks, and it was like a dream elk and head all out one trip by 12:30 in the afternoon. I scored him 313 3/8, 11 inch deductions nice heavy bull (self scored so who knows if its right or not). Thanks to all the guys who helped, would have been a huge job without the help!!
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Originally Posted by Gatehouse
