f3
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Post by f3 on Dec 1, 2016 12:33:54 GMT -5
Finally located a lone elk last Friday. With it being the only one I had seen where I could shoot I decided to get a better look. Being by itself I didn't have high hopes of it being a cow. My 12x50 Vortex diamondback binos didn't give me the ability to judge it any better than it being an elk. It was a long, long ways away. It took me till the next afternoon to get within shooting range with a rifle. After watching it feed and bed down, then get up and graze some more I thought I saw it to be a small brow tine bull. It wouldn't keep its head up long enough for me to be sure. So I eased out and headed back to town in hopes I could find someone with a bull tag and bring them back.
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Post by sixshot on Dec 1, 2016 13:39:44 GMT -5
f3, you are explaining exactly what it takes to be an elk hunter, patience, work, scouting, glassing, moving, cold, frustration, hope, failure, sharing & success. Sometimes all in the same day, sometimes it takes the whole season but nothing in the lower 48 will test a true hunter like hunting elk, even in good country, & trust me f3 is in great elk country but like I've mentioned they are wild & so powerful & can move so far & so fast when they get bumped. It's enough to test the best of hunters & he sounds good! I tip my hat buddy!
Dick
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Post by bushog on Dec 1, 2016 20:11:14 GMT -5
Well, Sometimes just finding one and knowing you found it, got close enough and could have made the shot has to be good enough!
Good job!
I'm sure it's not what you wanted but you learned a lot...
I've got a co-worker who has a cow tag for the Valle Caldera National Preserve this weekend. It's going to be balls cold and snowy. I'm afraid all the cows have moved down by now but I guess we'll see.......this is the last hunt and they've been run around since September.
I'm not sure I can take disappointment 3 times this year!
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