Wyoming cow today

BuzzH

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Heres how an elk hunting post is supposed to work. No, I was too tired, I had to go to church, I was driving.

Woke up at 4 drove to my spot. Found a herd of 100ish, lots of bulls mixed in. The wind was horseshit again, but only 25-30 mph.

Got to 310 yards before the elk started to drift to private, too far in a crosswind.

Let them drift behind a hill, hustled up and found all but about 20 had crossed into private. Only one was standing by itself out of the group of 20, unfortunately a collared one.

Boom...dead, 62 yards with my 7RM and 160 accubonds. Died about 3 feet from the fence. Quartered it, walked back to the truck got the game cart, loaded and headed home by 1:30.

The end.

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7RM?

I seriously thought you only used the -08.

Good job. About how close my pronghorn died to a fence as well this year.
 
Congratulations!

I wish I could have been so lucky. That cow will be good eating for sure.

Btw, I love seeing the dope on the rifle. Nice job!
 
I wonder how much it cost to put the collar on that cow?
Apparently its for a deer study, if that makes sense.

Plus, we give out a ton of commission tags, take one tag from a library, predator board, wyoga, or a music festival, can collar a bunch more.
 
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Congrats. Do you know how long she has been collared for?
Didn't say when I took the collar in today. Hard to know, they've been collaring elk in that unit for a long time. I don't think its really to know what those elk do for any reason other than to kill more of them. They aren't migratory.

I took the 2 incisors in for aging, I'm guessing 10-12+, ivories were flat.
 

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