So, I headed out to our cabin for my elk hunt on Thursday 10/19. My wife came along to hang out at the cabin while I hunted our other land over the long weekend.
She realized she had forgotten something medically related that she needed, so I took her back home (a 7+ hour RT) on Friday and delayed my hunt a day. She told me to stay as long as I needed. No huge deal, right?
While I was on that trip, I received trail cam pics.
That particular trail cam only seems to catch deer, elk, etc. moving through a draw, but never hanging around. That was the last sign of elk for almost 2 weeks. I tried bugling and cow calls trying to draw them back, but no luck.
The rancher who leases our land as well as others says he most often sees elk herds on ranches with water. Our pond is bone dry:
I was going to ask permission to hunt on one of those ranches to the south, but I found out that rancher died in August. Having never met her, it would have been awkward asking his widow.
There is a spot where I can see most of our land and beyond. I never saw a herd.
Well, wouldnβt you know, theyβre back, complete with cows begging to be fucked (sound on).
P.S. The season ended 10/31. FML.