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<blockquote data-quote="Labaherd" data-source="post: 1363522" data-attributes="member: 102272"><p>After not drawing my first choice hunts in 3 different states I talked to NTO and Dr Brenda told me to put in for a left over cow elk tag. so that was what I did. At the same time my business partner who i was driving nuts because I could draw anything encouraged me to find another hunt. I am a member of Epic Outdoors so i called them and they gave me contact info for a New Mexico hunt. I called and spoke with the outfitter and decided to book the hunt. That hunt was unit 36 second rifle. In the mean time I ended up drawing the cow tag. So now I need to figure out how to make both hunts work. I talked with Robb and he gave me two options. Come hunt during normal elk season or come once bull season closes and they would do a cow hunt plus a notified shooting school. I chose the shooting school/hunt</p><p>So I left California on the 25th of October and headed to New Mexico. Once there I met my guide and when and shot my rifle then went scouting. We found a real nice bull and put him to bed. Opening morning we were set up on the bull. Around 8 am he came sneaking out. He seamed to know we were there, He always kept brush and trees between him and us. He finally cleared the brush and I had to preposition. I screwed around to long trying to get on sticks to shoot and he walked in to the brush out of my sight. Not 30 seconds later there was a shot below us. There was another hunter that snuck in and took him. For the next 4 days we covered miles and miles looking for another bull. Last day last min we found a nice 5x6 but darkness got us. So no animal in New Mexico. Now I needed to be in Wyoming for my shooting school cow hunt. I drive like a mad man driving 960 miles to figure out I had an extra day before I need to be in NTO camp. I arrived in camp on November 4th. My guides and teachers from NTO was Dylan Smith and Nick Morgan. They no longer unload the horse and take me to the range to zero my rifle and shoot some steel. The first morning Robb came to camp and we double checked my rifle and shooting positions, and went through a ton of information that made my head spin from info over load, which I soaked up like a sponge. We ate lunch and loaded the horses and off we went looking for elk. We had gotten about 2 feet for snow so it was helping moving the animals. Day 2 we left early and went to a different area looking. We were getting ready to head back and in the middle of no where a lost dog found us. So the dog followed us back to the truck where it made it's self comfortable in the cab where it was warm. We got back to camp and warmed up then out to the range shooting more steel from different positions. Day 3 it had stopped snowing so we went back where we had hunted day 1. we started seeing animals before we unloaded the horses. We rode about 1 mile from the tuck when we came upon a group of cows. Where I was able to harvest one. Once back in camp and all the celebrating was over we were back out to the range shooting targets. In all I shot around 100 rounds and had an absolute blast. Dylan and Nick are both great at guiding as well as great instructors.[ATTACH]84177[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Labaherd, post: 1363522, member: 102272"] After not drawing my first choice hunts in 3 different states I talked to NTO and Dr Brenda told me to put in for a left over cow elk tag. so that was what I did. At the same time my business partner who i was driving nuts because I could draw anything encouraged me to find another hunt. I am a member of Epic Outdoors so i called them and they gave me contact info for a New Mexico hunt. I called and spoke with the outfitter and decided to book the hunt. That hunt was unit 36 second rifle. In the mean time I ended up drawing the cow tag. So now I need to figure out how to make both hunts work. I talked with Robb and he gave me two options. Come hunt during normal elk season or come once bull season closes and they would do a cow hunt plus a notified shooting school. I chose the shooting school/hunt So I left California on the 25th of October and headed to New Mexico. Once there I met my guide and when and shot my rifle then went scouting. We found a real nice bull and put him to bed. Opening morning we were set up on the bull. Around 8 am he came sneaking out. He seamed to know we were there, He always kept brush and trees between him and us. He finally cleared the brush and I had to preposition. I screwed around to long trying to get on sticks to shoot and he walked in to the brush out of my sight. Not 30 seconds later there was a shot below us. There was another hunter that snuck in and took him. For the next 4 days we covered miles and miles looking for another bull. Last day last min we found a nice 5x6 but darkness got us. So no animal in New Mexico. Now I needed to be in Wyoming for my shooting school cow hunt. I drive like a mad man driving 960 miles to figure out I had an extra day before I need to be in NTO camp. I arrived in camp on November 4th. My guides and teachers from NTO was Dylan Smith and Nick Morgan. They no longer unload the horse and take me to the range to zero my rifle and shoot some steel. The first morning Robb came to camp and we double checked my rifle and shooting positions, and went through a ton of information that made my head spin from info over load, which I soaked up like a sponge. We ate lunch and loaded the horses and off we went looking for elk. We had gotten about 2 feet for snow so it was helping moving the animals. Day 2 we left early and went to a different area looking. We were getting ready to head back and in the middle of no where a lost dog found us. So the dog followed us back to the truck where it made it's self comfortable in the cab where it was warm. We got back to camp and warmed up then out to the range shooting more steel from different positions. Day 3 it had stopped snowing so we went back where we had hunted day 1. we started seeing animals before we unloaded the horses. We rode about 1 mile from the tuck when we came upon a group of cows. Where I was able to harvest one. Once back in camp and all the celebrating was over we were back out to the range shooting targets. In all I shot around 100 rounds and had an absolute blast. Dylan and Nick are both great at guiding as well as great instructors.[ATTACH]84177[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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