2022 ELK MEAT POLE

[robby denning]

Raghorn Express!
2nd Rifle CO
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[Green Bullet]

Perfect Cape

 

[digger]

My sons first elk. Made a great shot with his new Seekins 28 nosler

 

[6.5x284]

380 yards 33 degrees uphill with the 6.5 SAUM and 156’s. Spicy pepper jack brats can’t get done soon enough! He’ll eat good!

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[Grundy53]

Opening day of Washington rifle season.

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[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I had the same situation play out as @mtwarden, single digits to negatives, couple feet of snow, wishing I had brought snow shoes. Finally figured it out and caught up with a herd after 12 days. All young bulls so took the largest cow in the group.
After dropping her, the group stuck around. I completely forgot I had another tag and could have taken another. Oh well, was glad to have the meat.

 

[NB7]

My son's cow from CO 1st rifle. His second year elk hunting and first elk. What a great time we had!

 

[Lcmorrison13]

Congrats!

 

[BriarBuster]

I had the same situation play out as @mtwarden, single digits to negatives, couple feet of snow, wishing I had brought snow shoes. Finally figured it out and caught up with a herd after 12 days. All young bulls so took the largest cow in the group.
After dropping her, the group stuck around. I completely forgot I had another tag and could have taken another. Oh well, was glad to have the meat.
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Awesome job, way to keep after it. This is what its all about!

 

[BriarBuster]

380 yards 33 degrees uphill with the 6.5 SAUM and 156’s. Spicy pepper jack brats can’t get done soon enough! He’ll eat good!

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Awesome job!

Colorado 1st rifle. Opening morning. Outfitter had put a drop camp in my normal low camp, so I decided to head to a high camp about 3000' higher. 2 days of hiking through 45 degree oak brush and crossing high drainages later... Glassed up some plan B elk the night before the opener, and had 1 bugling in the oak brush I never saw. The plan B elk were about 3000' down, then 3000' up the opposite side of the canyon, and at least 2-3 miles away.... Woke up early, stuck my head out of the tent, just in time to watch a bull walk by in the pre-dawn about 50 yards away... Tossed on my pants, boots and binos. Got my orange on and my rifle and dashed out to the little ridge he disappeared over, didn't see him, but about 1500' down the ridge saw this guy about to disappear into another drainage. Ran down the ridge, bumped a big group of deer, which then bumped the elk... Guessed where he would run, and caught him climbing out of the next gully. 176 yards, dropped with one shot and rolled to the bottom of the gully.

Climbed down and confirmed he was dead, hung my orange on him and headed back to camp to get my gear, and break camp to move down. Boned him out in place, the moss on the river rock was so slick I fell and went for a slip and slide for about 50' on the way down to him, could barely move him without slipping. Had to lower meat and antlers over little cliffs to get him to where I could climb out of the ravine. Brutal pack out through oak brush and cliff bands to get him to my low camp. Took an entire day to get the meat down 1/2 mile to that camp, then got the text on the in-reach, my buddy shot his first 6x6 in another unit, and was coming to help as soon as they got out. 9 mile pack out, got lost in the ferns on the first trip out in the dark, in a steep canyon, within 50' of the trail, but was slipping and sliding with every step with a front and rear quarter in my bag. So, I spent a slightly unpleasant night tending a fire wrapped in a space blanket. Tolerable, but didn't comply with my plan to sleep at the truck that night, where there was cold beer, and an extra sleeping bag.

Best bull I've taken to date out of this heavily hunted, otc (except 1st rifle and muzzy) unit. Every one of them has involved some degree of misery, as I tend to shoot them in the bottom of canyons (and never learn to just let them walk to the truck, and then shoot them....) Needless to say, not my first night sleeping out with just my emergency kit...

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top notch kill site scenery right there!

 

[BRTreedogs]

Proud to post after 5 hard years of work mostly archery hunting my Wife notched her 1st tag.
Thankful for the friends that invited us out.
6.5 Cm 390 first shot knocked her socks pretty hard, went about 70 she really started to wobble, hit her again and she did a summer salt.

 

[MuleyFever]

I managed to get my first 6x6 on a Black Friday special. I headed down to AZ on the 19th with the plan to scout for a few days before the opener on the 25th. On Monday I located this bull with a glassing tip from a great Rokslider that hunted the unit last year.



He had a pattern of walking the south side of the canyon so I put a plan in place to hike to the opposite side of the canyon for opening day. I didnt locate him at first and thought he must have slipped out the night before. About the time I was about to just head up a bit and sit for the afternoon something caught my eye. I looked over to the left and saw a rock that kept getting me all morning thinking it was an elk. I pulled up my binos anyway and it was the bull. The sun had just come over the ridge straight in my face and when I pulled up my scope the glare was overwhelming. I had to adjust my view a few times but finally made him out in the scope. At 500 yds I felt confident after practicing out to 800+.



The 175 ELD-X folded him up and I got the scope back on him just to see him fall.

 

[Schoonie15]

Nice job to all on the trophies and meat in the freezer!

 

[Mpmoody15]

I took my first elk on Sunday morning. These late season AZ bull hunts are no joke. The only bulls I saw were at 1000yds+ climbing back into their cedar canyons on opening morning. This one made himself visible at 250yds at first light.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

I took my first elk on Sunday morning. These late season AZ bull hunts are no joke. The only bulls I saw were at 1000yds+ for seconds until this one made himself visible at 250yds in the cedars for a minute.

How many years did it take to draw?

 

[Mpmoody15]

Five years. My buddy who also had the same tag took six years.

 

[IrkedCitizen]

Five years. My buddy who also had the same tag took six years.

Nice. Congrats

 

[Itsrybo]

My wife got her first bull! She hunted super hard and we got after it everyday. When we were done I asked her how she liked it. “I liked it but like once a year type thing” perfect I’ll take it lol

She also said helping pack out was the hardest thing she’s ever done.

I did my first euro job on it too!

 

[fap1800]

AZ late season. Saw two bulls Monday morning down in a canyon and he was the bigger of the two.

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