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  1. Three years ago, my elk hunting partner was shaking so bad when a shooter bull walked out (at 600 yards) that he couldn’t hold his phone still enough to read his dope chart. He could barely hold his phone. He hands the phone to me and asks what the holdover is, and I’m trying to calmly explain to him, “if you can’t hold still enough to read your phone there’s no way in hell you’re making a 600 yard shot..”; and he says “just give me the holdover”; ok.. and I watch through the binos as he airballs 4 shots at this bull. There was high grass between us and the bull, and all around the bull, so I can’t see any splash of his shots. He’s getting pissed at me because I’m not giving him the splash. He starts reloading and Im asking him “how far have you shot that rifle at paper?”, which he bristles at; Finally the bull wanders off, never having picked up his head from feeding during these shenanigans. The only thing additional we needed was some Benny Hill /Yakety Sax.
  2. Great buck @hornmpa96 I would propose “Tumbleweed” if someone hasn’t already named him.
  3. @ABZ I’m shooting a Ruger American in 7PRC this year; up to now I’ve shot 300 Weatherby’s. I also shoot suppressed with an AB Raptor. What range was the bull, what ammo were you shooting, and how was the bullet performance?
  4. [mention=8793]ABZ[/mention] what is your rifle setup? Nice Bull!
  5. Back from my elk hunt. Tough hunting this year with the warm days, and cool, clear nights with a big bright moon. We saw a really nice 6x6 two days before the season started, right by my buddy’s cabin. This split up our group, as two guys stayed to hunt this bull and two of us went with Plan A, which was hiking 5 miles into the wilderness to a big meadow at 10,800’. Here’s a photo of the bull through my phone scope at 800 yards. We had a pack service haul about 70lbs each of our gear and we hiked in with about 20lb packs. Gear photo and camp photo. We had a big herd of elk walk around our camp headed south out of the meadow the first night around midnight/1am. I woke up to loud hooves on the ground and a little bugle and cow calls. They were so close I thought they might trip in our tent lines. More hunters came into the meadow the next day. None of us saw any elk once the season opened. We did multiple hikes around/outside of the meadow. The beetle kill deadfall was thick and really hard to traverse when you got off the trail or outside the meadow. I did make some pretty great bacon and egg breakfast tacos on the hot tent stove. Since we had the horses, brought a 12pack and sunk it in the creek. Work Crocs functioned well as camp shoes. We bailed after 5 days in the meadow to head back to lower elevation spots we’ve hunted before to see if we could turn anything up, but the weather and moon were against us. It started snowing the last day of the season at high elevation and raining below about 10,000’. In addition to the herd coming around our camp, which I’ll never forget, we also saw an albino or piebald muley doe. It was beautiful, snow white. I wish I had my spotting scope setup to get a good photo of it, but I left it at camp that morning. Here’s a lowsy photo from 500 yards. Also some typical nice 1st rifle season scenery photos.
  6. The four of us got to my buddy’s cabin this evening. Got our gear sorted and ready to go on horseback tomorrow AM. About 55 lbs per guy going on horseback (110 for each pack horse) and about 25 lbs on our backs. No cell service in the wilderness area, so I’ll be out of touch for awhile but will take pics and report back when we get back to town. Saw elk out grazing this afternoon in Chama when we were driving through, which gives me some hope that we’ll see animals out during hunting hours.
  7. Heading to Colorado now. Looks like a little cold front might get there Tuesday, which would be great. Going to be a little bit warm before then.
  8. I had two of these built about 7 years ago for $1200 each (probably would be double that now). They still look great, I really like galvanized for feeder hoppers.
  9. Which stand and fill are you looking at? The All Seasons EZ has been good for me. https://www.allseasonsfeeders.com/products/600-ez-feeder?srsltid=AfmBOoq1v963noD-iPdUrVUgxPdkjntfcZFtqtmvl7O11d09n_TLPSPs
  10. What a great buck. I love his left side, carries mass up those tines.
  11. my 11-year-old seems to have been listening to an interesting Taylor Swift album:
  12. Thinking through the logistics of being able to take a comfortable and clean shit on this trip have occupied an inordinate amount of time for me. I think I’m taking 4 different types of wipes, backpacking shovel, and soap for hand washing. I’m going to try some biodegradable wipes first and digging a hole/burying. I know it’s en vogue these days to carry used wipes out in a ziplock, but that’s just fucking gross to me. God forbid the ziplock come open. Also gross is seeing turds and wipes/toilet paper around campsites, so hopefully the burying plan works. There’s a lot of deadfall trees around, so should be able to find something to squat against.
  13. My Schnee’s Timberlines saved me from rolling my ankle twice on my scouting trip packout. I think they may be slightly less stiff than Kennetreks.
  14. I’m taking crocs as my camp shoes for Colorado. I’m envisioning wearing them while sipping some coffee not far from the tent one slightly foggy morning, glassing up a nice bull at day break across the valley, putting a ~500yard slightly quartering away shot (it’s dead calm) right through the top of his heart, watching him take a step and lay over; then taking another sip of coffee while I contemplate: God’s wonders and gifts, my place in the universe, the path of a human being through life, my journey, hard work and fruits of that labor, thankfulness, family. Then a whole bunch of work starts.
  15. Schnee’s boots and First Lite socks for me.
  16. Kuiu Camo and cheap rubber short boots; I like the “duality of man” statement : )
  17. Tell me about these suede (?) looking moon boots you’re wearing. Did you get any blood on them?
  18. No, but includes a bag filter, life straw, and jetboil. I’ll probably leave the life straw at the truck. Our trail parallels a pretty big stream, so hopefully we’ll have plenty of water not too far from camp
  19. This backpack has a load shelf you can create between the frame and the bag, and the bag comes off the frame and I have a cargo net I can swap on. Yes it will be multiple trips if we can’t get a horse pack-out service. A big bull is probably 3 man-trips minimum with 70-100lbs each trip. I would fully debone the quarters and load the meat in bags for transport. Bones are heavy. This suppressor is only 8oz. I have permanent hearing loss and irritating tinnitus in my left ear that started four years ago on the day I shot my first elk. (3 shots of braked 300 Weatherby with a huge pinion just to my left). I’m doing everything I can from here on to protect my right ear and not damage my left ear anymore. For where we hunt, sometimes things happen quickly; e.g. you haven’t seen anything in days and then all of a sudden a bull walks out but you may only have seconds to make a decision and get a shot off. If it’s cold, you’re trying to pull your glove off, dig out a foam plug and cram it in your ear as you’re trying to glass, range and get set up on this bull; it just doesn’t happen. Also if you’re hunting with a partner, it’s hard to communicate with each other quietly over earplugs.
  20. I head to Colorado for elk in 8 days. Planning to pack 5 miles in, 2500’ up to the spot I went and scouted about 6 weeks ago. Packed up all my “like to have” gear and dehydrated food for 7 days and it’s 71lbs. Yikes. Going to have to cut. We’re trying to find some horse pack-in help, which if that happens will make things a lot easier.
  21. Had my turkey from this spring mounted.
  22. West Texas Feeder Supply stuff is really good: https://westtexasfeedersupply.com/product-category/solar-chargers/ I also have enjoyed the Spypoint Cameras and their ap, getting photos, etc. I got my dad two cameras for his b-day and set everything up for him and logged in on my phone as well. Fun.
  23. That’s a great way to do it; good luck closing the deal on another one!
  24. @hornmpa96 that’s awesome! Congrats to your son, and welcome to the rest of his life - you’re a different man when you’ve pulled a bull elk out of the woods. Are you getting that bull off the mountain and then going back to look for another or what? I head up October 9 for first rifle season.
  25. Good used O/Us Other than Citoris (I don’t follow current manufacture that closely, but these have been good for decades): Beretta Browning Superposed Weatherby Orion Ruger Red Label Winchester 101
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