Post by Snyd on Sept 12, 2016 19:49:11 GMT -5
DISCLAIMER: No animals were harmed during this adventure 
I spent 5 days solo out in a spot I’ve killed a few Bulls. I saw 3 Bulls, only 6 cows, 2 calves and a BIG Griz. Came home yesterday when the ceiling dropped and the rain came. Supposed to be cooler and drier in couple days. Season is open till the 20th. Headed out day after tomorrow to ride out the last week of the season for Round 2!
I called in one of the bulls, a nice meat bull. It was late, like dark thirty late. He was about 800yds across the valley slowly meandering away up towards the far ridge. I wanted to turn him around and hopefully keep him in the valley for a morning hunt. A cow call brought him back across the head of the valley. I was sitting on a sidehill above a little brushy plateau. About 100yds across to a stand of Black Spruce. Wind was a problem, at my back blowing down. When he got to the edge of the plateau he cut down into the spruce for his final crosswind leg of his approach into the wind. At that moment I scootched on out of there so he wouldn’t wind me. I hoped to keep him around till morning. I won't shoot one at dark in that type of terrain. In a few minutes I got up to my “knoll” where I had my tent pitched, peeked over the brush and there he was, probably 25-50yds from where I had been calling. Pretty cool. He came right to me.
Of course I thought… “maybe I could have gotten a shot with the 500L.." But then I went back to my personal limit that I have. I won’t shoot a bull at dark, at the head of a steep, brushy valley. Besides, I think he’d have winded me anyway and my plan was to try and keep him around not pull the trigger. So, then he looks down the valley which he had been doing the whole time he was coming in. He turns and beat feets it not down to the thick brush and spruce but up out of the brush and across a wide open area out of the valley across a saddle down to the next one. There are only a couple things that will put a Bull on the run like that. Humans and Griz. Well, next morning down the valley about 1/4 mile out comes a big ol griz, up the far side.
I spotted a larger bull one day a mile or so off down across the valley, put the stalk on him. Tried calling him up out of the thick stuff. I wasn't sure if he was even still there. No go so I went to him scraping as I went. I ended up jumping a forked horn who evidently didn't want any part of me! I had no idea he was around. Larger bull had disappeared. Wind was in my favor, who knows what happened.
I found a griz kill that was probably this spring. He got one of our cows
I'll be taking my rifle this week in case I see him in rifle range maybe I can take him out. Besides, my freezer is void of moose and if need be I'll resort to shooting one with the 325 wsm. Hey, a guys gotta eat! Here's a pic of the drag path and part of the carcass. Other bones were scattered around as well.
I spent 5 days solo out in a spot I’ve killed a few Bulls. I saw 3 Bulls, only 6 cows, 2 calves and a BIG Griz. Came home yesterday when the ceiling dropped and the rain came. Supposed to be cooler and drier in couple days. Season is open till the 20th. Headed out day after tomorrow to ride out the last week of the season for Round 2!
I called in one of the bulls, a nice meat bull. It was late, like dark thirty late. He was about 800yds across the valley slowly meandering away up towards the far ridge. I wanted to turn him around and hopefully keep him in the valley for a morning hunt. A cow call brought him back across the head of the valley. I was sitting on a sidehill above a little brushy plateau. About 100yds across to a stand of Black Spruce. Wind was a problem, at my back blowing down. When he got to the edge of the plateau he cut down into the spruce for his final crosswind leg of his approach into the wind. At that moment I scootched on out of there so he wouldn’t wind me. I hoped to keep him around till morning. I won't shoot one at dark in that type of terrain. In a few minutes I got up to my “knoll” where I had my tent pitched, peeked over the brush and there he was, probably 25-50yds from where I had been calling. Pretty cool. He came right to me.
Of course I thought… “maybe I could have gotten a shot with the 500L.." But then I went back to my personal limit that I have. I won’t shoot a bull at dark, at the head of a steep, brushy valley. Besides, I think he’d have winded me anyway and my plan was to try and keep him around not pull the trigger. So, then he looks down the valley which he had been doing the whole time he was coming in. He turns and beat feets it not down to the thick brush and spruce but up out of the brush and across a wide open area out of the valley across a saddle down to the next one. There are only a couple things that will put a Bull on the run like that. Humans and Griz. Well, next morning down the valley about 1/4 mile out comes a big ol griz, up the far side.
I spotted a larger bull one day a mile or so off down across the valley, put the stalk on him. Tried calling him up out of the thick stuff. I wasn't sure if he was even still there. No go so I went to him scraping as I went. I ended up jumping a forked horn who evidently didn't want any part of me! I had no idea he was around. Larger bull had disappeared. Wind was in my favor, who knows what happened.
I found a griz kill that was probably this spring. He got one of our cows
I'll be taking my rifle this week in case I see him in rifle range maybe I can take him out. Besides, my freezer is void of moose and if need be I'll resort to shooting one with the 325 wsm. Hey, a guys gotta eat! Here's a pic of the drag path and part of the carcass. Other bones were scattered around as well.
