My family’s elk hunting starts September first each year. There are always a few of my relatives that have cow elk permits for the west side of the Big Horn Basin. This past weekend found my son-in-law from Denver driving eight hours to make it for a Saturday morning elk hunt from my brother’s home.
Diane and I drove down from Bozeman on Friday evening to meet him and other family members who drove in from around Wyoming.
At first light we drove two trucks into the public land above the private alfalfa fields. We left our vehicles and spread out over a dozen sections of land. There were no elk to be found. Back at the trucks around noon, we found one would not start because of a dead battery.
My son-in-law and niece’s husband took the broken truck (after we jumped it) and went off hunting some more. About two hours later, we got a call from a neighboring rancher that out two hunters were stranded on the highway.
We went to the rescue and found them riding in the truck without power, coasting down the highway with a dead elk in the back.
They had come upon a single calf elk on their hunt, took it and loaded it into the broken truck and then pushed the truck onto the highway and headed back toward my brother’s place.
We got them, the truck and the elk back to camp.
My wife has an antelope buck permit that starts September 20; so we took a few pictures of them. Here are some pics of the elk and buck antelope.
Son in law with his Wyoming elk
HuntTalk hat, grey skies and cracked windshield
Sage grouse doing OK
Diane and I drove down from Bozeman on Friday evening to meet him and other family members who drove in from around Wyoming.
At first light we drove two trucks into the public land above the private alfalfa fields. We left our vehicles and spread out over a dozen sections of land. There were no elk to be found. Back at the trucks around noon, we found one would not start because of a dead battery.
My son-in-law and niece’s husband took the broken truck (after we jumped it) and went off hunting some more. About two hours later, we got a call from a neighboring rancher that out two hunters were stranded on the highway.
We went to the rescue and found them riding in the truck without power, coasting down the highway with a dead elk in the back.
They had come upon a single calf elk on their hunt, took it and loaded it into the broken truck and then pushed the truck onto the highway and headed back toward my brother’s place.
We got them, the truck and the elk back to camp.
My wife has an antelope buck permit that starts September 20; so we took a few pictures of them. Here are some pics of the elk and buck antelope.
Son in law with his Wyoming elk
HuntTalk hat, grey skies and cracked windshield
Sage grouse doing OK
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