Big Game Hunting - 2013

After getting greedy during elk season and coming up empty handed, I decided a fork was good enough for opening day deer season.



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Nice blacktail bobert

 

Early rifle deer season opens here tomorrow. It is a madhouse around here.

 

I hear ya, muzzy elk starts tomorrow and holy hell someone opened to the flood gates of clowns

 

It was a mad house out there. Heard a lot of "people" trying to call those bulls in. I just had to LAUGH!!!!!

 

We didn't have as many yoyo's doing that sort of stuff as in the years past although the road hunters were out in numbers!! We camp at a dead end and just laughed at all the people driving by only to turn back around 2-3 minutes later.

You have any success tacokid?

 

Got a spike and my dad shot over the back of a 5 x 1, sucks..

 

Man my hunt was a work out. I was in Utah hunting antlerless Elk came up on a nice Bull with 4 cows they walked right up to me. At about 50 yards I took a shot on one of the cows and hit her low in the front shoulder my scope was loose on the rails and i didn't notice it until that night. Needless to say she ran and ran and ran!!!! I tracked blood for about 7 or 8 miles over mountains all damn day. And I was just pushing her she was one step ahead of me all day. I took a hour brake to see if she would bed down and die. That didn't do anything but put me further back on the blood trail. At the end of the day the blood thinned to a few drops and it was getting dark so we called it a night. We went out the next morning to hunt the same area and track her but she was long gone. I never seen her again No Elk in my freezer this year

 

That sucks man, but props to you for putting in the time and effort to try and find her. A lot of guys around here would have called it quits after an hour.

 

Damn shame, I woulda figured low in the front shoulder should still have enough of a shockwave to turn her heart into mush

 

You would think right! there was meat hanging on branches that she passed. i dont know how she was still running after all that blood she lost!

 

Yeah i felt bad stopping when i did my uncle and grandfather made me call it i was braking out the head lamps.

 

Guess who decided to show up on the farm today. *sigh*

 

I spy at least 1 spike 5 cows up from the back

 

Goin bear huntin in NC this comin Wednesday thru Monday

 

Got my first bull yesterday.

 

Congrats Shaun!

 

Nice bull man!!!!

 

Season opens tomorrow...
I'll be in Salt Lake City for work until Thursday. Good thing I have all next week off.

 

9 days of hunting, saw 16 bucks. One I thought worth taking, but a pickup busted him out of where he was as we were trying to get closer. My dad got a decent 4 point that had been fighting. He is busted up on his right side, and had scars all over his face.