BuzzH
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What a crazy elk season for me this year in Wyoming.
A buddy and I tried a unit that I know holds some great bulls, but access is a real monster. There isn't tons of public, but enough to make it possible to kill elk. In researching the area, we were told that a couple landowners can be a real PITA to deal with. I called one of them and asked to cross a small section of road to make access easier to the public beyond...no dice. My buddy called him a few days before our hunt and asked again...not happening. The landowner actually tried everything in the book to dissuade us from hunting the area. We were hunting there regardless, as you can access it by simply walking around the small piece of private to access the public.
I couldn't hunt early, but managed to get out the first part of November for a couple days and could have killed 2 decent 6 points in the 270-280 range. Thinking that it could only get better, I decided to hold off.
My buddy came down and we met to drive the county road into the area we wanted to hunt and were greeted with this sign, that wasn't there when I hunted it in early November. This IS a county road, and this sign was illegally placed right in the middle of it.
I immediately called the GF and sent them the picture along with GPS coordinates and told them I was driving around the sign and had no intentions of honoring this chicken chit move by an out of control landowner. I have no doubt that he put the sign there in response to the phone calls that my buddy and I made to him asking for permission to cross that small sliver of private...no doubt about it.
Anyway, we set camp up and hunted for a few days then had to go into town to get a spare tube for one of our mountain bikes that we were using for access...mysteriously the sign was gone???
Apparently the sheriff's office was contacted and he was told to remove the sign unless he was willing to pay for a survey of the county road. His argument was that the county road has "drifted" over the years and is off the easement. But, he has no proof of that. Of course it didn't slow him down from illegally posting the existing county road to essentially harass hunters and impede access to public lands. It also bothers me that all he had to do was remove the sign and wasn't issued a citation for his illegal actions.
After a few more days of hunting, and after the issue with the road and all...I was intent on going home with an elk.
We ran into a herd, my friend shot a spike and I shot a cow.
Shot was close, about 90 yards, one shot with my 7-08, elk took 4 or 5 steps and done.
A buddy and I tried a unit that I know holds some great bulls, but access is a real monster. There isn't tons of public, but enough to make it possible to kill elk. In researching the area, we were told that a couple landowners can be a real PITA to deal with. I called one of them and asked to cross a small section of road to make access easier to the public beyond...no dice. My buddy called him a few days before our hunt and asked again...not happening. The landowner actually tried everything in the book to dissuade us from hunting the area. We were hunting there regardless, as you can access it by simply walking around the small piece of private to access the public.
I couldn't hunt early, but managed to get out the first part of November for a couple days and could have killed 2 decent 6 points in the 270-280 range. Thinking that it could only get better, I decided to hold off.
My buddy came down and we met to drive the county road into the area we wanted to hunt and were greeted with this sign, that wasn't there when I hunted it in early November. This IS a county road, and this sign was illegally placed right in the middle of it.
I immediately called the GF and sent them the picture along with GPS coordinates and told them I was driving around the sign and had no intentions of honoring this chicken chit move by an out of control landowner. I have no doubt that he put the sign there in response to the phone calls that my buddy and I made to him asking for permission to cross that small sliver of private...no doubt about it.
Anyway, we set camp up and hunted for a few days then had to go into town to get a spare tube for one of our mountain bikes that we were using for access...mysteriously the sign was gone???
Apparently the sheriff's office was contacted and he was told to remove the sign unless he was willing to pay for a survey of the county road. His argument was that the county road has "drifted" over the years and is off the easement. But, he has no proof of that. Of course it didn't slow him down from illegally posting the existing county road to essentially harass hunters and impede access to public lands. It also bothers me that all he had to do was remove the sign and wasn't issued a citation for his illegal actions.
After a few more days of hunting, and after the issue with the road and all...I was intent on going home with an elk.
We ran into a herd, my friend shot a spike and I shot a cow.
Shot was close, about 90 yards, one shot with my 7-08, elk took 4 or 5 steps and done.
LOL
