NV Cow Elk Hunt

[superduty]

Well I'm starting to get excited. We have had record tieing temperatures here in the high 80's to low 90's this last week and look what they are predicting now.

Today: Cloudy and windy. High 74F. Winds SSW at 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight: Variable clouds with showers at times, and perhaps a rumble or two of thunder, especially this evening. Low 36F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Tomorrow: Windy. Rain showers in the morning with isolated thunderstorms developing in the afternoon. High 48F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Tomorrow night: Isolated thunderstorms in the evening. Fair skies overnight. Low 21F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
Thursday: Mainly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the mid 20s.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the mid 30s.
Saturday: Few showers. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the mid 20s.

Thursday the 1st is opener. :smiley-mouse:If I had the pictures on this puter I would post up my scouting shots. Found a real nice 7x8 last Friday, too bad I don't have a bull tag.

 

[MJB]

Good luck!

Sounds like a nice day for the openner, IMO cows taste better anyways.

 

[superduty]

Looks like snow too.:smiley-mouse:
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2 products issued by NWS for: 13 Miles ESE Elko NV <HR>
Winter Weather Advisory


URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGENATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV256 AM PDT TUE SEP 29 2009...EARLY SEASON WINTER STORM TO BRING FIRST SNOW TO PORTIONS OFNORTHEASTERN NEVADA....A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BE CROSSING NORTHEASTERN NEVADA THISAFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECIPITATION ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THEFRONT WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE FORM OF RAIN...CHANGING OVER TOSNOW AS COLDER AIR MOVES BEHIND THE FRONT. SNOW LEVELS WILL FALLTO AROUND 5500 FEET...WITH SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED ABOVE6000 FEET.NVZ031-032-034-292200-/O.CON.KLKN.WW.Y.0013.090930T0600Z-090930T1800Z/NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKPOT...WILDHORSE...OWYHEE...ELKO...SPRING CREEK...CARLIN...WELLS...LEE...RUBY LAKE256 AM PDT TUE SEP 29 2009...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THISEVENING TO 11 AM PDT WEDNESDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6000 FEET...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THISEVENING TO 11 AM PDT WEDNESDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 6000 FEET.A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH NORTHEASTERN NEVADA THISAFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECIPITATION WILL BE IN THE FORM OF RAINALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE FRONT. AFTER THE FRONT PASSES...MUCHCOLDER AIR WILL MOVE IN CAUSING THE RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW.SNOW LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO AROUND 5500 FEET...WITH ONETO THREE INCHES OF ACCUMULATION EXPECTED ABOVE 6000 FEET.AREA ROADWAYS WHICH WILL BE AFFECTED IN ELKO COUNTY INCLUDEINTERSTATE 80...US HIGHWAY 93...ALTERNATE US HIGHWAY 93...ANDNEVADA STATE HIGHWAYS 225 AND 229. WITH WET ROADWAYS AND RAPIDLYFALLING TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT...THESE AREA ROADS COULDBECOME SLUSHY. HIGHLY TRAVELLED LOCATIONS MOST AT RISK FORSLIPPERY CONDITIONS INCLUDE PEQUOP SUMMIT ON INTERSTATE 80...HDSUMMIT ON US HIGHWAY 93...WHITE HORSE PASS ON ALTERNATE US HIGHWAY93...ADOBE SUMMIT ON NEVADA STATE HIGHWAY 225...AND SECRET PASS ONNEVADA STATE HIGHWAY 229. THESE PASSES MAY BECOME SLICK WITH WETAND SLUSHY SNOW...CAUSING DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSETRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITEDVISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.&&$$RCM</PRE><HR>
Hazardous Weather Outlook


HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTEDNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV402 AM PDT TUE SEP 29 2009NVZ013-030>037-301115-NORTHERN NYE COUNTY-HUMBOLDT COUNTY-NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTY-RUBY MOUNTAINS/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-WHITE PINE COUNTY-NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-402 AM PDT TUE SEP 29 2009THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN ANDCENTRAL NEVADA..DAY ONE AND TWO...TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS TODAY. THEFRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON ANDEVENING...PRODUCING WINDY CONDITIONS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 35MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WHITEPINE...NORTHERN NYE...AND EXTREME EASTERN ELKO COUNTIES BEGINNINGTHIS AFTERNOON. AS A RESULT...A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FORTHESE AREAS.LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED IN THE HIGHERELEVATIONS LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAINLY ACROSS ELKOCOUNTY. DUE TO THE EXPECTATION OF THE ACCUMULATING SNOW...A WINTERWEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR ELKO COUNTY ABOVE 6000FEET...WHERE ONE TO THREE INCHES OF ACCUMULATION WITH LOCALLYHIGHER AMOUNTS IS EXPECTED. LESSER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE.AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES ON WEDNESDAY WILL BE ONLY IN THE 40S AND50S IN THE VALLEYS...AND ONLY IN THE 30S ACROSS THE HIGHERTERRAIN. THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ACROSS THE HIGHERTERRAIN OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA ON WEDNESDAY SHOULD BEPREPARED FOR WINTER-LIKE CONDITIONS. BE SURE TO MONITOR NOAAWEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATED INFORMATION ANDFORECASTS ON THIS PENDING STORM SYSTEM..DAYS THREE THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY.ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM...NOT ESPECIALLY DISSIMILAR FROM THE SYSTEMMOVING IN TODAY AND WEDNESDAY...MAY AFFECT THE REGION OVER THEWEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK..SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT WEATHER PHENOMENA ACCORDING TOSTANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.$$RCM</PRE>

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

Dude...Did you kill a cow yet? I haven't got "the" phone call or seen no money shots yet. rayin :.....You'll pull it off. I can taste that elk steak nowull-shades:...Goodluck brother!!!!!!

 

[superduty]

The money shots are pending my Uncle's return from elk camp tonight. My son and I arrived at camp on Wed. around 3:30 and set up the trailer and hunting gear in anticipation of the opening morning hunt. There was one other camp that we noticed on the way in. My Uncle and Aunt had already set up a couple of hours before I arrived.
My son and I woke around 4:30 and got the quads ready and left camp for the spot I had seen elk the week before. We got a really cold snap with a 30 degree swing so everything had changed. We didn't see any elk at first light and dummy me set down my cammoflauge range finder and lost it. Next time I will buy a bright orange one.:smiley_doh: Luckily I had brought a back up even though I never used it. I glassed five elk up high and decided to go after them. After realizing there was no way to cut them off I just followed to put myself into a better area. In no time I had a 5x6 bull answering my calls. He arrived like a freight train running straight at me and coming within 20yds before moving back down the valley. I called him back two more times trying to luere one of the other bueggling bulls in that might have a cow. The third time he got a little too close finally zeroing in so I stood up to move him off when I noticed I had been stalked by a coyote only 20 or so feet off to my left. He spun when I stood and took off. Man was that exciting. Just about then the other bull came over and he had a cow but they were moving so quick through the trees that I couldn't get a shot. I began chace trying to beat them to the next ridge and once again found them just going over. I hit the cow/calf call and stopped him and her but she only presented her backside when she turned her head to look and the bull was on the same side she turned to so no shot again. After playing with all the bulls I decided to back out and make a evening hunt out of it.
Later that evening I set up in the same area and my son Lane glassed up a cow feeding bellow so we took off down the mountain. We we got there it was so dense that you couldn't see anything but elk sign everywhere and bulls bueggling. We hear something run off sounding like a quarter horse in a race when I hit the call. Another bull responded and came in to us. He ended up less than 20 feet to my left just on the other side of the Juniper we were hiding against. After trying to get some video of him he busted me moving and ran off. We then decided to go high again and on the way back we jumped a lone cow. I shot and my son said I missed so I ran up and let a second one fly from the 300 SAUM and down she went. A third shot finished her off and the work began. We field dressed her and winched her up onto one of the quads and litterally had to ride her back to camp. My uncle's friend from Reno tagged out too along with the other camp from Phallen. We had a tuff retrieval yesterday morning on one since a winter storm blew in lots of snow over night and all day yesterday.
We had the time of our lifes playing cat and mouse with those elk. Rifle deer season opened today for my son so that will be next along with my wifes late season area 7 deer tag then my sons turn again on his first elk late season.
My wife and I finished butchering the elk late last night, vaccuum packing/labeling her and puting her in the freezer. Man what a job. The freezer is getting full boys.

 

[Kincho]

Great job and sounds like alot of fun. good write-up

 

[BelchFire]

Awesome work, superduty! I can't imagine being 20 feet from a bugling elk bull. That would be a rush!

 

[Kentuck]

Good deal and sounds like a great hunt. Congrats.

 

[superduty]

I had some problems resizing so they might be too small, sorry guys. Here are the money shots. The one is with my son, aunt, and me. The others are just some of the elk I saw while out. One is a nice 7x8.

 

[BelchFire]

That's an impressive bull. Great hunting all the way around; I'm jealous!

 

[Bull Fries]

Superduty,

Great recap of hunt and photos. Good luck to your wife and son on their late season hunts.

My wife has a cow tag also for the area NE of Wells (Units 76,77,79). Is this the unit you were hunting, or were you in Unit 81? We got up to Wells on Wed. too (stayed in town). Didn't see any elk on opening day, then finally located the elk Friday they were lower down than we had expected because not that much snow had fallen priot to the opener. Encountered a a small herd of cows and raghorns at 200 yds while toodling up a two-track road in a new area, but wife could not get off a clean shot before they disappeared over the ridge. Got back on them Sat. morning and afternoon, but they were way up high on a mountain and my wife said no way am i walking up there! They had a nice 6-pt bull with them this time that we had not seen before. He looked awesome sky-lined on the top of the mountain. We hunted for a few hours Sunday morning but with snow and low clouds visibility was pretty poor, and we had to get back to Reno for work on Monday. Plan on heading back up to try to fill the cow elk tag and the two doe tags we have in Area 10. Like you, we had a blast chasing elk in NE Nevada! This our first elk hunting in Nevada, and my wife's first elk hunt. We're hoping to get that freezer filled too!!

 

[MJB]

You must have a walkin freezer with all the fish and other game.

Good luck with the rest of the tags!

 

[superduty]

Thanks everyone for the nice responses.
MJB, no but I did have to visit the little Sears store in Elko to purchase another freezer. I told the wife that if we weren't using it that we could always unplug the thing.
Bull Fries, Your wife should do fine harvesting her first elk. Email me and I will help you find the right spot. I would be happy to help you guys anyway I can.

 

[Kentuck]

Man that's a big looking cow. I'm headed out on a cow hunt in Nov. and hope to get one like that.

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad you connected my friend...Enjoy the fruits of your labor! oh btw..my cooler is enroute fedex:bounce-aqua::tongue-green::bounce-aqua::tongue-green:

 

[Bigolwiggler]

Nice work , great story ! I too am going on a cow hunt in 8-3/16 days ; )

 

[oneclearshot]

Heckuva story Dave...you may have missed yer' callin' Son, mebbe ya' coulda been a "Field Sports" writer? The pics were OK too...Jen and Lane'll help ya' fill that freezer later on this year I'm sure! I'm gonna get yer' Dad out after some of them quail here in a coupla' weeks and see if he can "Clean" the oil outta that there new gun he's itchin' ta' shoot! We'll keep ya' updated Hoss'. I'm taken my Son and one of his good friends up to northern Utah in late Jan. for a Cow Elk hunt, and the fella that's arrangin' the whole foray says the prospects look REAL good, so if we all tag-out, I may be in the market for another freezer myself? Tanya'd jest LOVE that....got so much stuff in the garage NOW, don't rightly know where I'd put it? But meat's meat, right....and ya' gotta place yer' priorities accordingly....guess we'd jest have ta' put her SUV out on the driveway? (Yeah, right, we all know that ain't a gonna happen) Take care Ol' buddy and congrats on a successful hunt.

OCS

 

[Pyke]

I didn't see my invite???????


We shot a cow on friday the 2nd at 7 am, took till 3:30pm to pack it all to a road, but we got her in the freezer the next day.

I went out after chukar this morning but it turned into a really long walk and no shooting.

 

[Pyke]

And by the way, CONGRATULATIONS, you tag drawing devil.

 

[Hydronik]

How's the late season looking?