haha...we do!

I got home two hours ago, all stuff put away. Time for posting.

Did not see a critter nearly close enough yesterday for a shot. But today, bingo. At 8:10 this morning I hit a nice young 2-3 year old cow. I first saw her at about 450 yards standing still in a sage patch. It was 12 degrees with a 10-12 mph left wind blowing. I was tempted to shoot from the sitting position holding into the guts, but hesitated. I would hate to miss or wound it. Suddenly it made a beeline....right towards me running up hill. Sweet!!! At 150 yards it stopped cold facing me with only the shoulders on up showing from my position. I slowly stood, rifle shouldered and pointed. I put a .30 cal. 180 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip smack centered in the chest...silhouette style. It dropped dead in it's tracks. We had a half mile drag up and down hills back to the truck. That might have been the last elk I shoot. This hunting thing is hard work. The last few hundred yards was down hill and the critter sledded 100yds. down by itself.

There was no way Sara and I could lift it whole into the truck bed. Had to quarter it. My location is top secret, a friends ranch south of Milner, CO.

A few photos of the hunt.
http://s766.photobucket.com/user/seveno ... t=3&page=1

Don't stop elk hunting!!! I look forward to these reports every year!!

That looks like one heck of a tasty freezer full of meat! Where did Sara and you get your full blaze orange jumpsuits? Holy moly, my retinas are sore.

That's great Bob!!! Congratulations on the hunt. So does this mean maybe Elk steaks when you come to AZ

Good shooting I can tell the taste test will be soon. To get critter into truck remove tailgate, set one end on ground and the other on bumper and use it as a ramp. Attach come -a-long to front of bed and other end to strap around neck and winch up. I have done many like this and it works great. So plan on next year and shoot it up hill from the truck. Also a couple milk jugs with water and one with a couple squirts of dish soap to clean up after words.

Trent, most of our stuff came from Cabelas over the years.

WHOA there yankee!! That 92 F-150 is still show room pretty. No way my tailgate will be a meat pulling slab! I do not want even a speck of blood on it. Until last fall I always used a tilt bed snowmobile trailer with said come along. Worked great.

Learned about 15-20 years ago, if I cant back the truck up to it, I aint gonna shoot it!

Maybe if it was a good truck you could drive right up to it and not leave the truck down on the flats...

Bob, I had all four chained up on Saturday in another section. Was too lazy Sunday to mess with them, chains are not much fun. Yankee, I like your idea overall. Next year I will carry a half sheet or bigger of 3/4" plywood and have a 1/2" eyebolt at the inside front of the bed bottom.

If you were shooting a real gu the beast wouldn't have ran so far from the paved road.

Nice harvest. I am sure that will put a lot of meat in the freezer! I've always wanted to go hunt Elk before I get to old. Probably one of the few travel to hunt trips I would even want to take. We have no Elk here so that is out. And from what I understand a good guided trip is around $5000 on up. So maybe one day lol. Perhaps I can arrange a hunt trade for a gator lol.

Ummm aren't Elk supposed to have Antlers? just kidding



Dee

Hey Toto....definition of a real gun:

Winchester Model 70 stainless push feed (new circa 1990) 24" .30 "ought six" topped with a Leupold 3.5-10x. Fed a diet of hand loaded Nosler 180 BT's and 56.0 grs. IMR4350. Twenty three cow elk would agree that it's the real deal.

Bob Mc Alice wrote: Hey Toto....definition of a real gun:

Winchester Model 70 stainless push feed (new circa 1990) 24" .30 "ought six" topped with a Leupold 3.5-10x. Fed a diet of hand loaded Nosler 180 BT's and 56.0 grs. IMR4350. Twenty three cow elk would agree that it's the real deal.

That should get 'er done.

Bob Mc Alice wrote:Twenty three cow elk would agree that it's the real deal.

Too scared to try that wimpy thing on a bull elk? Yeah, I don't blame you...

Correction...make that twenty one. Sara hit two with her equally as real Model 70 Featherweight .308 with a 150 Speer hot-cor stoked with 44.0 grs. H335, and 3-9x Leupold.

Jason, big bulls are no tougher than an average cow with a lethal hit. Put one where they live...the lungs.

I'm glad you wern't using your mini 7 Bob.