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[ELK_HUN10]

Originally Posted by HF

Where's the pics Elk??

No pictures
1, Battery was dead in camera.
2, Brain dead in hunter, I shot off one of the antlers at the base.
3. Deer was at midrange trajectory, so I hit high. (Muzzle loader sighted in for 130 yards)
4, I am a fool.
5, It was a fun trip except for the brain fart.

[heath_jhns]

It happens!!!!!!!!

[ELK_HUN10]

We went hunting up the Salmon River in Idaho but it did not snow enough to drive the elk down so we went g. Here are some of the fish we caught:


We caught a total of sixteen steelhead and kept ten. We had to release the native steelhead that we caught but we could keep the hatchery fish.

[GRAZOR]

Real nice Elk. That would have made me happy that the hunting stunk!

Gary

[ELK_HUN10]

We went elk hunting for a couple of days. Sort of a scouting trip untill we go on our two week trip. Yesterday about 9:00 A.M. Using the binoculars, about 3-4 miles away, we saw over 200 elk on a migration. They were lined up in a straight line about 1/2 mile long. Then in front of the elk there were some trees and about twenty more elk in a clearing past the trees. I think there were some wolves in the trees because the 200 elk turned around and went back the way they come and the twenty elk started down the hill. We drove back to the highway and about 4-5 miles down the road and twenty elk ran off of the hill and ran across the road. They then ran across the South Fork of the Payette River. My wife started to say don't. and I drop a bull elk in his tracks across the river. I used two walking sticks and dragged a rope across the river. I ran a pulley in a tree by the highway and ran the rope thru the pulley and tied it to the Toyota. My wife pulled the elk across the river and up on the bank. We then doubled the rope and pulled the elk up the hill to the road. As I was walking back across the river, I lost one of my walking sticks. Three steps later and I fell face first into the river. I tried to get up and fell again so I did a push up and using the walking stick, I got back on my feet and then continued to walk to the bank and up to the car. I had dry change of clothes in the car, so I put them on. I had dry socks but wet boots, but I warmed up real fast. By cutting off the head, and cutting the elk into two more pieces, we were able to load the elk into the Toyota.
Here is some pictures of the trip, the first one is me across the river with the rope tied to the elks head. The second picture is of me coming across the river after I had fell in and I was totally soaked. The last picture is me cutting the elk into three pieces so we could load it into the Toyota. Kind of a shame beings we got the elk across the river and up to the highway in one piece.



I was sure glad that I had a dry change of clothes in the vehicle, it was 27 degrees an hour before this picture was taken and being wet and all, I was slightly distracted by my shivering to cut the elk up until after I had got some dry clothes.

[ELK_HUN10]

Wife's elk. This last elk hunt I think was the best one ever. Yesterday we saw over 300 elk right in Garden Valley as we went to a restaurant to eat.
My wife, firing two shots, hit her elk about 4:00 P.M. and it was about dark when we found it. The elk had a broken front leg. Following the blood trail, the elk got up about 200 yards from the car and both barrels of the double barrel muzzle loader just went snap with no boom so I reloaded it. It went snap and no boom again so I guess we now have four bullets in the gun now and no powder next to the flash hole. I took the single barrel gun and my wife went back to the car to get another gun. (We had extra guns with us). Further down the trail, the elk got up again about 50 yards farther away and my wife's gun went snap. I put a new cap on and the elk was going into some trees and with the next shot, the gun went snap boom, this time and it was a miss. We reloaded the gun and kept following the elk. It crossed a creek and went to the top of the ridge. By his time I was pretty sure the elk had been hit good. We climbed the ridge and looked down and saw the elk laying down about 50 yards away. We shot the elk in the neck and it fell over sideways. After finishing the elk off, we field dressed it the best I could. The elk was laying on it's side with it's belly side up hill and we could not roll her over. I got most of the guts out but I could only roll the stomach to the up hill side of the elk. I could not reach in to cut them loose. I stuck the knife into the guts so that the gases would be able to escape. We then climbed back to the car. My wife was following me and she fell and hurt her leg. So I went down to where she was and gave her another walking stick and carried her gun up to the car. I then went back to her and helped her up the hill to the car. We called my oldest son and the next day, he and his wife came up to help. Using the RZR we winched the elk up the steep hill to the flat. The elk would go up the hill and catch on something, I waited until the rope got stretched good and lifted up on the elk. When I lifted, the elk would shoot up the hill about five feet in one leap. My daughter in law saw a wolf while we were winching the elk out. As we had not taken any rifles with us, I talked in a real loud voice while we winched the elk up the hill. Once on the flat, we put the hind quarters in the back of the RZR and tied a strap around the elks head to drag the elk with. My son rode in the back with the hind quarters of elk and his wife sat in the passenger seat. With three people and a whole elk we drove out of there. The snow was about a foot deep. The ground was fairly flat and only a 5% to 10% grade going out of there. We climbed out to the road and being the road was covered with snow and ice we towed the elk all the way back to the Toyota and trailer. Using the winch, we loaded the front half on the front of the trailer and then loaded the RZR with the hind quarters onto the trailer. We then drove to Garden Valley for lunch. Talk about eye candy, every car that drove by us the driver or passenger pointed at us. The same thing happened when we drove back to Boise. You would think people had never seen an elk on a 4 wheeler before by the way every one was pointing at us. My wife said we should go and park in Cabelas parking lot so the people could see but we just took the elk home. Today my oldest son came over and helped me hang and skin the elk. We will take the elk in Monday to get it cut up.

My elk that I got two weeks ago, dressed out to 255 pounds of boned out meat. So that elk weighed over 510 pounds on the hoof. This elk is about 20% bigger so I imagine she will dress out to 300 pounds. With the two elk and the antelope, we just about got our winters supply of meat. We were going to go steelhead g but the temperatures fell to below zero and the rivers iced over in parts. So we will have to put off that trip until later. We may go pheasant hunting at a game farm so our dog can get some more experience. We have been so busy that we have not taken him out as much as we want. My wife tried to take the dog on the trail to track the elk but he was so full of energy that she could not control him so she put him back in the car. The blood trail was easy to follow any way. I tracked the elk over 200 yards and saw it twice while I was doing it. So it was an easy trail to follow. It is like the olden times you would read about. We saw five bulls this year, we also saw a very very large buck. He had one of the biggest racks I have seen. He was legal to shoot but we did not have a deer tag. My wife is going to put in for a a buck tag there next year. It is an almost guaranteed draw if it is a first choice draw. She will also put in for another elk tag, but that is more difficult to draw.

These three people rode in the RZR, with the back half of the elk. My son rode in the back with the elk. We towed the front half of the elk out at the same time.

[ELK_HUN10]

I am going on an antelope bow hunt for two weeks in September. Of course I am taking the RZR with me. Antelope like miles and miles of miles and miles and so does the RZR. My neck has already swelled up. We can take deer at the same time the antelope season is open so it should be an interesting hunt. I have already gone on two scouting trips. I seen 53 antelope the last trip and 3 deer. The amimals are there. The weather will be good and I am ready. The only thing I have left to get ready is my grin and then I will be pretty much good to go. If anybody has hunted antelope in the Owyhees and cares to pass on some tricks, I would be very appreciative. Tricks are for kids and old farts.

[ranger4hunting]

Got this 9 pt. in 09, walked up to me while I was standing in a clearing never seen me until I pulled the trigger.

[ELK_HUN10]

Dusty RZR
I took the RZR to the desert for an archery antelope hunt. It was the first time I have run in the desert when it is hot and dusty. The amount of dust that came in clogged the mechanical parts on our bows. I parked the RZR and was only going to use it to retrieve downed game. They say that antelope will not jump over a fence and may crawl under it though. The country we hunted in was ranch range land and even the BLM land was fenced. We seen over 5 separate herds plus numerous loners. The antelope had no problem with the fences. They just leaped under them. They would put there head on the ground with their legs in front of them and using their hind legs, leap under the fence. Barbed wire fences were no obstruction to them. I think hog wire fence would have defeated them though. We ended up only getting one fifty yard shot and it was a miss. The only disappointing thing about the trip was the RZR kicking up too much dust. It would have worked good after a rain or on snow.

[Twisted10]

2009 Muzzle loader buck.

last year was terrible.

this year i took a broken up 5pt w/ my bow so far. i still have 2 weeks left of rifle season then a week of muzzle loader.

i also have a big 8pt mounted i killed w/ a shotgun @ 10ft.