My daughter and I had a blast this year on her elk hunt! We hunted our butts off, had some really low lows and some incredible highs. Glassed this old bull up in a dark timber canyon and she made a great shot at 357 yards. Thanks to those that offered advice on this hunt.
I would go with a 0 degree bag. I have spent lots of nights in the Idaho backcountry in September.
I use kings Camo XKG ridge pants, down coat and hoody, rain gear if the forecast says it can be wet. I use a six moon designs single man tent.
I hate training dogs, but I love running dogs. My young dog Mike is starting to do a really good job. In the last month we went from ripping birds to killing birds. I prefer to let the birds do most of my training for me.
This was my wife and I’s first moose hunt, and we learned a lot from the school of hard knocks. Mainly we learned it takes a TON OF TIME! She passed up quite a few bulls and hiked a few more miles than she had wanted to, but she got on this moose yesterday afternoon. She is on cloud 9 and...
I estimate that it would have taken 5 trips to get him
out and my camp. It would have taken 3 days easily alone. My first load out was 83 lbs and that was my spotter and a jacket with a hind quarter and back strap. After the second trip my feet were literally KILLING me. I am 41 years old and...
Packed in just over 4 miles to one of my favorite spots. It was freaking brutal weather for early September! Massive wind storm was dropping trees everywhere, it snowed 3 inches and temps in the teens.... first day in had a close encounter with a 6 point bull and some cows but could not close...