RANDALL K
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Not intending to "clog" such a fine elk-hunting page with "needless-dribble," but I figured this was a good time to tell my "tale-of-wao" for the year.
"There I was," this elk hunt was going to be a 'cake-walk'
I'd gotten good info from fellow "Hunt Talk" members, was familiar with my area, there had been enough snow to make the elk move, and enough time passed since the last hunting season that they had had a chance to settled-down some. Seems that someone forgot to tell the elk about it
Actually, they had 'settled-down' quite a bit, and were moving; it just took me awhile to find them
Day 1: Hunted hard, cut only one track (in the timber --that is, found four sets on the road from the previous day
).
Day 2: Hunted harder, cut two tracks today.
Got a late start on day 3; ½ hour past sun rise & I was still on-the-road. Sickening sight when I drove past some "Posted" land and counted over 40 elk grazing
After getting to my area I started high, nothing; went down low and found where over 20 head beaded, and where 9 had crossed the road only hours ago. Hunted hard the rest of the day, didn't see anything, but I'd found them; thing's where looking up!
Day 4: Seen where they'd been grazing during the night; but someone else got into them before I did. I heard the shot just west of me, an hour later I met him on the road with an elk in his truck
He said there were 50 in the herd, and they didn't act "too spooked." So I found where he got into them, and where they went into the timber; unfortunately I never caught-up to them.
Day 5: They haven't left the area, still plentiful/fresh sign where they were grazing during the night. Did manage to see 6 animals, with the binoculars, about 3/4 mile (next ridge north) so I head that way; and, of course, they were moving too. As luck would have it they were on the hill about 100 yd above me, and with the wind blowing "up-hill" they winded me & wasted no time in leaving; hearing them crash through the timber was a close as I got.
Day 6: They're still in the area, still plentiful sign in the grassy areas along the road. Today I come upon one deer and a half-dozen coyotes.
And so ends my elk hunting for the year 2002; unsuccessful, by no-means, but at the end of this season the score is elk=1, Randall K =0; and all I can say is...,
"JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!"
"There I was," this elk hunt was going to be a 'cake-walk'
Day 1: Hunted hard, cut only one track (in the timber --that is, found four sets on the road from the previous day
Day 2: Hunted harder, cut two tracks today.
Got a late start on day 3; ½ hour past sun rise & I was still on-the-road. Sickening sight when I drove past some "Posted" land and counted over 40 elk grazing
Day 4: Seen where they'd been grazing during the night; but someone else got into them before I did. I heard the shot just west of me, an hour later I met him on the road with an elk in his truck
Day 5: They haven't left the area, still plentiful/fresh sign where they were grazing during the night. Did manage to see 6 animals, with the binoculars, about 3/4 mile (next ridge north) so I head that way; and, of course, they were moving too. As luck would have it they were on the hill about 100 yd above me, and with the wind blowing "up-hill" they winded me & wasted no time in leaving; hearing them crash through the timber was a close as I got.
Day 6: They're still in the area, still plentiful sign in the grassy areas along the road. Today I come upon one deer and a half-dozen coyotes.
And so ends my elk hunting for the year 2002; unsuccessful, by no-means, but at the end of this season the score is elk=1, Randall K =0; and all I can say is...,
"JUST WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!!!"
