Congrats, what is the story? You know it is not fair not to give detail. We all live vicariously through others during the off times when we are not out. It helps us with our disease and addiction to hunting.
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The hunt was actualy a acumulation of bad luck turned good.We had whent up the week before season and built our camp; big camp three trailers and enough room to hold 20 poker players[ we have fun but good huntin too]. The friday before opening day we headed up to camp and found more snow than we had expected to see, I was the only vehicle able to actualy even make it to camp [ford baby]. Camp was toast and I barely made it back down the mountain. Our trailers will be there till spring. We regrouped and decided to go to an area that we normaly go when we hunt muzzleloader. Turned out all that snow realy pushed the elk down, I put my buddies son [ 16 yrs old ] in an area on opening day and he got his first elk a very nice cow,[ the area is a any elk area so if it is brown it is down]. The next day i whent about 300yds further in than Derrick had gone the previous day and found an area that the elk had been in thick the night before. Found a nice natural blind and just waited for them to come back, hunted all day and about 1 p.m. a couple of guys from our camp came by and decided to head further up the mountain to another clear cut [they are in there 60's] in deep snow, came across the tracks of this guy and tracked him to his bed spooked him up and tracked him right down the mountain too me, I will forever be in there debt. I have been hunting elk for about ten yrs man it feels good to be succesful. I guess it all goes back to the old addage [ it is not over till it is over ] Our camp and everything in it will probably be toast by spring but at least for me the loss was worth the reward [ cheap trailer anyway ;]
My first elk!
BrianMaguire
The pics would be nice too !!
Replica of a Hagg Monster 8.1 pounds!
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