FIRST ELK

sturgeonslayer · 11-24-2002, 05:17 PM

Killed my first elk yesterday in the Lewis & Clark unit. I have been hunting elk since I was 12 and finally got one @ 26. I have killed many deer, but the elusive wapati has always out smarted me. I have had opportunities over the years and missed, as I did yesterday a few times, I am here to tell you it felt great to finally see that big old cow go down. It was about a 150 yard drag uphill through a clearcut. We cut her in half and was out of there in about an hour. We saw three groups and a few deer, all in all a great day.

GutshotApe · 11-24-2002, 06:01 PM

You did good!

skein · 11-24-2002, 06:35 PM

Talk about breakin' the skunk! Getting that first elk either seems to be too easy or too hard. I have a friend who got one opening morning a few years ago, and we had to listen to him tell us how easy elk hunting was - over and over. He hasn't gotten one since. Others, like you, work hard, pay their dues and finally get rewarded. Congratulations! Tell us the rest of the story!

Skein

lightline · 11-24-2002, 06:46 PM

I got my first elk in 1965, I think I can still recall every step I took that hole day. The first is a blast and so is every one after that. glad that you where able to break the jinx.

Joe · 11-24-2002, 07:06 PM

Congrats sturg slayer

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I just finished an elk heart dinner.

My son killed his first elk in there yesterday as well. Three shots, two were kill shots and finally she fell over backwads and tumbled 150 feet down the hill. Not bad for a 12 year old on his first day ever of elk hunting.

We had to quarter her out and pack. I was sweating getting to the gate before we got locked in.

winterkill · 11-24-2002, 07:33 PM

Congrats. My dad was the same way, he hunted for like 23 years and never got one untill last year. Nothing beats the feeling you feel after the first one.

Lepper · 11-24-2002, 07:36 PM

my first elk? Shot him when he was running at full throttle. Wasn't sure I hit him... I started wandering off in the direction he ran... Found him 20 feet the other side of the road I just drove in.... It was simply bliss..... oh ya.. it only toook me 7 yrs to get it.
dave

KingFisher85 · 11-24-2002, 08:10 PM

Right on, you got yourself a nice cow elk. Nothing wrong with them cows.

I shot my first elk my first year of hunting, second day of elk season almost 300 yards away with my 308, two shots and she was down.
Nothing like that first elk. Some say, "well I shot a deer," you say, "well I have shot an elk so there."

maggot · 11-24-2002, 08:43 PM

NICE SIZE PILE OF GUTS HUH?...DID YOU GET THE LUNGS OUT?

SeanD · 11-24-2002, 11:41 PM

Congrats, way to go sturg!
Elk are tough critters to hunt, and you put your time in, you were due! Sometimes it just goes like that, my dad hunted elk 18 years before he killed his first elk, but he put my uncle in front of one, me in front of two, and my sister in front of one, but couldnt seem to get one for himself! Any elk's a good elk, and one heck of an accomplishment! Way to go on that cow!

Born to Fish · 11-25-2002, 04:28 AM

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[img]graemlins/applause.gif[/img] Way to go!

Lured In · 11-25-2002, 07:37 AM

Way to go....!

I am still in search of my first. I missed a rag horn a couple years ago and had a questionable shot last year that I passed on.

I heard a statistic that in Oregon the average is one elk every 7 years. Well I just finished my 5th year. I am not sure which is worse that I have two more years before I am below average or that in order to balance out the guys that shoot one every year, there are guys that go 20+ years without shooting one. :shocked:

birdhunter · 11-25-2002, 07:39 AM

Congrats!