ND Badlands Elk Hunt

[kansasdad]

Thanks for the story and the photos.

 

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Nice bull Smalls!
Thanks for the write up too, sounds like a great weekend with your father in law.

 

[fishing4sanity]

Congrats and thanks for sharing. Elk can be a very tough critter to bring down, great story.

 

[Khunter]

Great finish!

But why did you think you needed to carry out the entire elk in one trip?
Deboning would have helped a good bit in that situation.

 

[Oak]

Nice job! It's always tempting to load the packs heavy. I've learned that it's usually better to make one more trip.

Deboning would have helped a good bit in that situation.

He mentioned a couple of times that they deboned the elk.

 

[Khunter]

Nice job! It's always tempting to load the packs heavy. I've learned that it's usually better to make one more trip.



He mentioned a couple of times that they deboned the elk.

Thought I saw a leg, but it was a cannon insteadin the pic...bad eyes.


Again, nice job on getting a branch antlered bull.

 

[jore07]

Congrats nice bull! Good pictures also.

 

[StHubert]

Congratulations on the awesome bull. I agree with you on the Elk hunting not going to be the same out there, unfortunate.

 

[smalls]

But why did you think you needed to carry out the entire elk in one trip?

Mostly stupidity. The pack didn't feel that heavy at first, and I really didn't want to have to climb out of that hole twice. In retrospect, I'd have broken it up into two loads from the beginning.

My f-i-l questioned whether it was going to help that much to bone it out... I am pretty sure he is thankful we took the extra time to do that now.

 

[Bwana]

Way to go smalls!

 

[Dinkshooter]

Nice job! It's always tempting to load your buddies pack heavy. I've learned that it's usually better to make theirs heavy than to do 2 trips

Fixed it to help others learn.

Nice work Smalls.

 

[noharleyyet]

Way to get it done smalls. Good eats.

 

[Oak]

When is your next elk hunt, smalls?

Fixed it to help others learn.

Pretty free-wheeling with the information. Trying to make everyone that's new start checking their packs, so folks here have to carry it out themselves? Sweet.

 

[smalls]

When is your next elk hunt, smalls?

Not sure, thinking about AK next fall and if I do that I may not do elk. If I decide to do elk it will be MT if I draw and CO if the velcro glove state shows me no love.

 

[THWAK1]

Great job on your ND bull elk! Thanks for keeping us up to date and for sharing the story and pics.

 

[hardscrabble]

I was just thinking I missed out on something last week.

Congrats smalls! Very nice once in a lifetime bull.

 

[Big Fin]

Sorry I missed this one, Smalls. Congrats on a great hunt and a bull you are rightfully proud of. You earned him, both before and after.