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<blockquote data-quote="Tikkamike" data-source="post: 1010178" data-attributes="member: 22242"><p><strong>Re: 2014 elk hunt *in progress*</strong></p><p></p><p>I finally pulled the trigger on a bull. I got up to camp friday night and was out at my glassing spot first thing in the morning. The weather was still warm and so I expected the elk to still be where I left them. As it got daylight I only spotted 5 bulls. 2 were only a mile away but up in the timber and 2 others were a couple miles off and headed for timber and the 5th was only a mile down the ridge to the east but also headed to timber. I decided he looked as good as any of them and figured he would be the easiest to pack out if I killed him. That afternoon I was hiking along the ridge to get to my ambush spot and I looked down in the trees on the creek bottom and there was a big wall tent and a bunch of horses right smack dab in the MIDDLE of where I had been hunting. Realizing that was the reason I wasnt seeing many elk I was pretty discouraged and pretty pessimistic about seeing the bull I was after again because that camp was only about 3/4 of a mile from where I was standing. At this point it was too late to make other plans so I stuck with it and got to the spot I was going to wait from. as I sat there and glassed the sun was setting and I wasnt seeing much then all the sidden there he was coming out of the trees exactly where I watched him go in that morning. he walked out and I could tell he wasnt the bull I was really wanting, but my mind was telling me this is a pretty good oportunity on a decent bull, a storm is coming (I was hunting on dry ground without even a skiff of snow.) plus with those guys camped in the bottom I was lucky to even be seeing this elk and I only had 2 days where I could get away to hunt left so I decided maybe my standards werent so important to me. I ranged him down below me at 516 yards. I was shooting my Tikka 338 win with 225 TTSX topped with a Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x36mm B&C reticle. at that range I knew my reticle that topped out at 500 would still be good for the extra 16 yards. He was head down watering and I let one fly. I heard the bullet hit but the elk didnt even flinch he just picked up his head and started walking back to the timber. Didnt act hit, didnt limp, nothing so thinking I must have missed I cranked another in and when he stopped I sent another but higher on the shoulder and took out his spine and dropped him in his tracks. I ask my dad if I missed the first shot and he said he was sure he saw the hide ripple on the first shot. Eitherway he was down now. We made our way down to him and I only found one bullet hole and it was the one in his spine so I assumed the first was a miss and went about the gutless quarter, took the backstraps and put them in my pack, cut the horns off and strapped them on and cut the ivories out. It was dark and in Grizzly country I usually dont hang out around my kills longer than I have to after dark. The next morning we went after the quarters, I was going to take the hind quarters out whole and debone the fronts since there is more bone than meat up there. as I was skinning the front right I found my bullet hole it was square in the middle of the shoulder and the bone was crushed but there was no exit on the other side. I didnt go digging for the bullet but I know it didnt come out the other side. Just a reminder of how tough these things are.. he gave no indication of a hit and walked probably 40 yards. after a 7 hour long pack out we got back to camp and I can say I am plum happy with the hunt. I wish he were bigger but under the circumstances I am happy to have some antlers and a bunch of elk meat in the freezer. If you look in the pics its hard to tell but he is barely a 6x6 his right side the G5 didnt start in the same place as it did on the other side and its right near the end of the beam and only 2.5" long. he has decent tine length for what he is and his beams are about 45" long. I dont know what he scores yet but I will measure him tonight. I waited 7 years between drawing this tag, it was a long wait but the hunt was even better than I had expected. </p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/F567662D-B93A-4DBB-B98C-0B32F599905F.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/F567662D-B93A-4DBB-B98C-0B32F599905F.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/EB7ED3A6-4D62-4528-8122-DABF386DA639.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/EB7ED3A6-4D62-4528-8122-DABF386DA639.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/1815B91B-CFB3-4BCA-A9E2-D16D642D2153.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/1815B91B-CFB3-4BCA-A9E2-D16D642D2153.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/EB7ED3A6-4D62-4528-8122-DABF386DA639.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/EB7ED3A6-4D62-4528-8122-DABF386DA639.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/EA7BF772-E22D-42AF-A4C1-8E9DE6928574.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/EA7BF772-E22D-42AF-A4C1-8E9DE6928574.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Loaded up and leaving camp</p><p><a href="http://s72.photobucket.com/user/green4x4machine/media/1267D5EB-E5DB-4D35-91AE-A498AB34BDAF.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/green4x4machine/1267D5EB-E5DB-4D35-91AE-A498AB34BDAF.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tikkamike, post: 1010178, member: 22242"] [b]Re: 2014 elk hunt *in progress*[/b] I finally pulled the trigger on a bull. I got up to camp friday night and was out at my glassing spot first thing in the morning. The weather was still warm and so I expected the elk to still be where I left them. As it got daylight I only spotted 5 bulls. 2 were only a mile away but up in the timber and 2 others were a couple miles off and headed for timber and the 5th was only a mile down the ridge to the east but also headed to timber. I decided he looked as good as any of them and figured he would be the easiest to pack out if I killed him. That afternoon I was hiking along the ridge to get to my ambush spot and I looked down in the trees on the creek bottom and there was a big wall tent and a bunch of horses right smack dab in the MIDDLE of where I had been hunting. Realizing that was the reason I wasnt seeing many elk I was pretty discouraged and pretty pessimistic about seeing the bull I was after again because that camp was only about 3/4 of a mile from where I was standing. At this point it was too late to make other plans so I stuck with it and got to the spot I was going to wait from. as I sat there and glassed the sun was setting and I wasnt seeing much then all the sidden there he was coming out of the trees exactly where I watched him go in that morning. he walked out and I could tell he wasnt the bull I was really wanting, but my mind was telling me this is a pretty good oportunity on a decent bull, a storm is coming (I was hunting on dry ground without even a skiff of snow.) plus with those guys camped in the bottom I was lucky to even be seeing this elk and I only had 2 days where I could get away to hunt left so I decided maybe my standards werent so important to me. I ranged him down below me at 516 yards. I was shooting my Tikka 338 win with 225 TTSX topped with a Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x36mm B&C reticle. at that range I knew my reticle that topped out at 500 would still be good for the extra 16 yards. He was head down watering and I let one fly. I heard the bullet hit but the elk didnt even flinch he just picked up his head and started walking back to the timber. Didnt act hit, didnt limp, nothing so thinking I must have missed I cranked another in and when he stopped I sent another but higher on the shoulder and took out his spine and dropped him in his tracks. I ask my dad if I missed the first shot and he said he was sure he saw the hide ripple on the first shot. Eitherway he was down now. We made our way down to him and I only found one bullet hole and it was the one in his spine so I assumed the first was a miss and went about the gutless quarter, took the backstraps and put them in my pack, cut the horns off and strapped them on and cut the ivories out. It was dark and in Grizzly country I usually dont hang out around my kills longer than I have to after dark. The next morning we went after the quarters, I was going to take the hind quarters out whole and debone the fronts since there is more bone than meat up there. as I was skinning the front right I found my bullet hole it was square in the middle of the shoulder and the bone was crushed but there was no exit on the other side. I didnt go digging for the bullet but I know it didnt come out the other side. Just a reminder of how tough these things are.. he gave no indication of a hit and walked probably 40 yards. after a 7 hour long pack out we got back to camp and I can say I am plum happy with the hunt. I wish he were bigger but under the circumstances I am happy to have some antlers and a bunch of elk meat in the freezer. If you look in the pics its hard to tell but he is barely a 6x6 his right side the G5 didnt start in the same place as it did on the other side and its right near the end of the beam and only 2.5" long. he has decent tine length for what he is and his beams are about 45" long. I dont know what he scores yet but I will measure him tonight. I waited 7 years between drawing this tag, it was a long wait but the hunt was even better than I had expected. 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