First time WY elk hunter

[Wyo37]

Your effort paid off, most dont want to work that hard. Congratulations.

If you don't mind me asking, what rifle/cartridge combo did you use?

And are you hooked?

 

[jjmp]

Congrats and thanks for sharing your adventures,you're way ahead of most and your presence pay off ,I was wondering what you used above also thanks n Cheers .

 

[ridgewalker]

Awesome bull! You did great with a good plan and execution. I do believe luck was a good part of your success as well. 18% success rate in Colorado is what they claim. out of 19 elk, I have never taken a fine one like yours on public land.
congratulations!

 

[lander_matt]

I'm shooting a 7 PRC I put together in the spring. Wildside Precision did the chamber. 20 inch Proof carbon barrel. Factory 175 ELD-X shoots lights out in it.

 

[slv hunter]

Great job and hunt. Hope there's many more to come. Enjoy the good food too. Oh yeah welcome to LRH from Colorado

 

[lander_matt]

Awesome bull! You did great with a good plan and execution. I do believe luck was a good part of your success as well. 18% success rate in Colorado is what they claim. out of 19 elk, I have never taken a fine one like yours on public land.
congratulations!

Yep, I got extremely lucky. Every day I went out, I saw scat and tracks, so I think my focal points were good selections, but I could have easily gone the whole season without chancing into the right encounter.

General tag success rate in my unit is 25.9% according to Fish & Game. I do think that statistic is a bit misleading. I was pretty astounded by the number of hunters in the unit who seemed to glass exclusively from their UTVs on the road and never do any walking.

That strategy makes sense to me if you're an old guy or disabled, but the most promising places I found were all areas where no UTV could go (or horse would go willingly). I tried to stack the odds in my favor with terrain selection since the only competitive advantages I had were being willing to bushwhack and shooting pretty competently.

 

[jjmp]

Welcome to the forum,glad to have you and thks for sharing lithe pixs and stories thks

 

[HRM Johnny]

Welcome from Virginia. Thanks for telling us about your adventures. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[memtb]

Great story …..thanks for sharing!

May you have manymore to share! memtb