Sunday afternoon stroll with the wife and kiddo to pick up a couple trail cams. Thankfully no monster moose pics, as this was in the unit I had my tag for this year 😂
It was breezy here as well. We are ready to put metal on a roof at work but decided this wasn’t the day. Stayed home and ‘held down the fort’.. literally!
Couple yrs ago a buddy and I were hunting elk in November. Late afternoon we started hearing this growl like ‘Meow’ sound (for lack of a better term). It’s a fairly open semi logged area but enough cuts in the terrain where you can’t see real far. We kept hiking around and probably heard the...
Got him checked in and plugged today. And then was able to meet up with these 2 legends! Massive thanks again to them both for their tips and words of advice!!
FWP aged him at 6.5.. we all think more like 7.5… Horns aren’t real long but he had 15 5/8” bases.
Euro for now. I am caping him and tanning the hide for a future mount as I just don’t have the room in my current house. Plus I’m poor after this season 😂 What I would love to do eventually is what @npaden did- keep the euro and get a replica made for the shoulder mount.
All said and done, I am very thankful for the way it all worked out! Looking at the time stamp on the shot video- 3:33. If we would have left just a couple minutes earlier it never would have happened. Truly God is very good!!
A massive thanks to my friends and family who supported me along...
We had to be a little careful getting down to the trail but once there it was a relatively easy 3.5 mile packout. Made it to the truck at about 8:30. Drove to camp, packed up and got home at 12:15 AM.
We tied his head off to some bushes up the hill to try to keep him from rolling further and started caping and quartering. I have a ton more great pics but think I will save them for now haha.
Not to sound to mushy, but the feeling of putting my hands on him for the first time was just unbelievable!!
We got him dug out and up onto the rock (by my pack in the above pic) before taking a ton of pics. There was a steep drop on both sides of the rock which kept things interesting...
We left a few things down on the trail, packed up and started climbing up. Got over to the chute and I saw blood below us. He had rolled further than we thought (couldn’t see from our position because of the trees) but it didn’t take long before I saw a white butt!
At the shot I lost him in the scope. It echoed through the canyon and I thought I heard a solid hit. The boys barely had time to say ‘Got em’ and I heard rocks rolling! Perfect shot in the shoulder, he turned and started rolling. It ended up working out as Eric was on the phonescope and hadn’t...
We started packing up our stuff when Eric whisper yells “sheep, sheep, sheep”!!
I look up and see 3 ewes and a ram literally running across the rocks and cliffs in front of us coming from left to right! I took one look at the ram and saw he looked decent. Said ‘I’m shooting that thing’.. Tripod...
We saw a couple ewes throughout the day but no decent rams.
Around 1:30 we decided to head back down the trail to our morning spot and glass from there for a while before heading out.
We looked for a bit and finally saw a ewe and lamb. They disappeared.. Eric napped. I told the guys that if...