kodiakoutdoors
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Got up to Wyoming on Sunday 10/17 and scouted a bit that afternoon. We didn't see anything, but we were just scouting from the road.
The next day we hiked in several miles and only saw 3 head of elk (2 cows and 1 bull). They were moving out at a pretty good pace we just got a glimpse of them as they crested a ridge and moved out of sight. We hiked back to the truck at dark a little frustrated.
On Tuesday we drove the truck as far to the top of the canyon we saw the elk in and hiked in from the top. We saw nothing all morning and around 1pm we decided to hike out and make another plan. On the way out we decide to stop for a snack and while taking our break my friend figures he'd just glass a far away ridge top. Well he found some elk there and we watched them for about an hour. My friend says that we can drive down and get a better look at them from a different vantage point so it's off we go. We see 4 good bulls, but can't make out the others. It looks to be about 10-15 head, but the timber is dark and tough to see into. We put them to bed and it was time to head back for dinner and to figure out a plan. We decide that we can hike up to where we saw the elk before light and they should be feeding up the other side towards us to bed back down in the same area.
We get up there a little later than we had anticipated due to the time it took us to hike in. It was further (and way steeper) than we thought.......why is that always the case? No matter, we found them! A group of about 30 were already bedded down just on the other side of the ridge that we had seen them the afternoon before. We crawled down as quietly as we could and ranged my bull at 341 yards. My friend ranged another at about 300 yards. I shot first and drilled him. Then I hear my friend's rifle go BOOM! He says he drilled his. Then up from below comes more elk than we could count. We had no idea there was that many down there and we never saw them. It was 8:30am and we had 2 elk down.
Mine was a 7x6 and he had shot a spike. Of course the 7th point in only about 2" long, but it counts. It took 3 of us over 8 hours to quarter them up and hike them out to the truck, but it was so worth the pain!
Got up to Wyoming on Sunday 10/17 and scouted a bit that afternoon. We didn't see anything, but we were just scouting from the road.
The next day we hiked in several miles and only saw 3 head of elk (2 cows and 1 bull). They were moving out at a pretty good pace we just got a glimpse of them as they crested a ridge and moved out of sight. We hiked back to the truck at dark a little frustrated.
On Tuesday we drove the truck as far to the top of the canyon we saw the elk in and hiked in from the top. We saw nothing all morning and around 1pm we decided to hike out and make another plan. On the way out we decide to stop for a snack and while taking our break my friend figures he'd just glass a far away ridge top. Well he found some elk there and we watched them for about an hour. My friend says that we can drive down and get a better look at them from a different vantage point so it's off we go. We see 4 good bulls, but can't make out the others. It looks to be about 10-15 head, but the timber is dark and tough to see into. We put them to bed and it was time to head back for dinner and to figure out a plan. We decide that we can hike up to where we saw the elk before light and they should be feeding up the other side towards us to bed back down in the same area.
We get up there a little later than we had anticipated due to the time it took us to hike in. It was further (and way steeper) than we thought.......why is that always the case? No matter, we found them! A group of about 30 were already bedded down just on the other side of the ridge that we had seen them the afternoon before. We crawled down as quietly as we could and ranged my bull at 341 yards. My friend ranged another at about 300 yards. I shot first and drilled him. Then I hear my friend's rifle go BOOM! He says he drilled his. Then up from below comes more elk than we could count. We had no idea there was that many down there and we never saw them. It was 8:30am and we had 2 elk down.
Mine was a 7x6 and he had shot a spike. Of course the 7th point in only about 2" long, but it counts. It took 3 of us over 8 hours to quarter them up and hike them out to the truck, but it was so worth the pain!
