Well I'm finally going to post how our elk hunt went, it's been hard to get the taste out of my mouth of that tag I brought home with me. (Small amount of humor)
It was me and my dad's first elk hunt ever to start off. It was a guided hunt on private ground through an Outfitter. We hunted October the 15th through the 20th. We saw some elk way off the first morning, the weather was Cool and windy the first morning. We had a decent sounding game plan for the evening hunt and boy was I exited to go after them. We sat my dad in a pretty good spot and off we went after the herd we saw that morning. Around 30 minutes before dark we see the herd come out of the timber around 800 yards away, there was a really nice 6x6 in there but we didn't have enough time to get closer so we just watched them until it got dark and quietly left.
The next morning we walked in from a different way to get back up with the herd, really windy 40+ mph wind. All we saw was a lost calf that morning. By lunch time on Monday it was getting warm and still windy. Monday evening was a bust my dad nor I saw anything which was fine, we are still early in the hunt.
My dad on Tuesday evening killed a decent 5x5 which was great we were on the board. Me on the other hand walked a tremendous amount with our guide and didn't see anything. Still really windy and warm.
The last elk that I saw the rest of the trip was that calf on Monday morning, I was heartbroken. My guide finally admitted to me that if there wasn't snow to push the elk down off the mountains he wasn't that good at hunting them. Also we never tried to get out of the wind or heat, to me that's hunting 101 no matter what you are hunting. But what do I know I'm not an elk hunter.
We had $7,105 a piece in this hunt, not that spending a lot of money will give you results but I would think it would have been a little better. I have been a hunter all my life and know you can't have perfect conditions all the time but in my opinion you should make the best of the weather you have been given and I knew going in it wasn't a guaranteed kill but I would have thought it would have been better than it was.
In the end I'm thankful for being able to go and do something with my dad we have always dreamed of doing together. We saw some beautiful country and had a good time. But this tag soup taste awful still.
I could keep going about the weather and the guide but I had to get some of this off my chest to some guys on here that maybe would understand. LOL
Happy Hunting.
It was me and my dad's first elk hunt ever to start off. It was a guided hunt on private ground through an Outfitter. We hunted October the 15th through the 20th. We saw some elk way off the first morning, the weather was Cool and windy the first morning. We had a decent sounding game plan for the evening hunt and boy was I exited to go after them. We sat my dad in a pretty good spot and off we went after the herd we saw that morning. Around 30 minutes before dark we see the herd come out of the timber around 800 yards away, there was a really nice 6x6 in there but we didn't have enough time to get closer so we just watched them until it got dark and quietly left.
The next morning we walked in from a different way to get back up with the herd, really windy 40+ mph wind. All we saw was a lost calf that morning. By lunch time on Monday it was getting warm and still windy. Monday evening was a bust my dad nor I saw anything which was fine, we are still early in the hunt.
My dad on Tuesday evening killed a decent 5x5 which was great we were on the board. Me on the other hand walked a tremendous amount with our guide and didn't see anything. Still really windy and warm.
The last elk that I saw the rest of the trip was that calf on Monday morning, I was heartbroken. My guide finally admitted to me that if there wasn't snow to push the elk down off the mountains he wasn't that good at hunting them. Also we never tried to get out of the wind or heat, to me that's hunting 101 no matter what you are hunting. But what do I know I'm not an elk hunter.
We had $7,105 a piece in this hunt, not that spending a lot of money will give you results but I would think it would have been a little better. I have been a hunter all my life and know you can't have perfect conditions all the time but in my opinion you should make the best of the weather you have been given and I knew going in it wasn't a guaranteed kill but I would have thought it would have been better than it was.
In the end I'm thankful for being able to go and do something with my dad we have always dreamed of doing together. We saw some beautiful country and had a good time. But this tag soup taste awful still.
I could keep going about the weather and the guide but I had to get some of this off my chest to some guys on here that maybe would understand. LOL
Happy Hunting.
