Sept 23rd

When is elk hunting not that fun? Not that we didn't have fun, but at times it didn't feel like it. Especially on the bike ride out when our hands got very cold. Sometimes a hunter is better off staying bed in the morning and not going hunting, considering what time in the morning that we got up to get to here, we should have stayed in bed on this day.

Here is that picture again.

Ted is smiling because we have only be riding about 3 minutes. Our smiles soon faded. If they only made camo spandex.

Sept 16

Waller and I had a blustery morning and a day of no Elk! You can see in some of the photos there is still smoke in ther air on September 16th, one of the last smokey days.

Where's Waller.

Smokey

An Elk didn't think to highly of this tree.

Burned in 2003

Sept 15th

What I thought was going to be a great day was foiled by a rig pulling ahead of us on a dirt road and getting to our trailhead before us. Ted and I made the best of it and we still had a good day. The weather was pretty hot and we ended up not really seeing or hearing anything.



Ted about to gain some elevation.
Steep Country!

Get used to this picture until my hunting buddies start bringing their cameras.

Spetember 8th & 9th

Well the camera batteries were dead on Saturday so I didn't get a photos.
Was still a nice morning and I went to an area that I had never been so that was good.


Sunday was a great morning and day. I went out with my friend Ted. We started hiking in the dark, and took in a great sunrise. We finally ended up bugling back and forth with and Elk in an area where I didn't really expect it. Maybe we will get him next time.


More great looking Elk Country.
Ted glassing for the Big one.

Ridge top sunrise!!


Some of the thick stuff that Elk love.

First Day Out

Opening day was September 1st. I mangaged to get out with my friend Mark on the 2nd. Fire closures and restrictions detered us but didn't stop us from getting out and stretching the legs.

The handy work of some previous campers with too much time on their hands.

Marks new tactic. Hide in the ground and wait for the Elk!

Sending out a bugle

7:30AM and already shedding Layers

Getting our poop in a group

August 8 2007

So much to do, so much practicing still to do.

It's early August and Elk archery season is less than a month a way. I'm shooting my bow as much as possible. I still need to paper tune my broadheads, and really get my bow dialed in. I'm starting to feel pretty comfortable at 30 yards but have I still have a few bad days. Luckily my friend Ted's neighboor is a big bowhunter and has targets set up in his backyard, he has let go over and shoot there a little bit. It's really cool because he has it set up to shoot from his roof, to simulate shooting out of a tree stand. We drug Ted's 3d target over to his neighboors yard, here are a few picks

Getting there
One of my tightest groupings of the day just not the best location

Ted Pulling back on the 3d at approx 30yrds