Premium Tag Advice/Lessons learned

[IrkedCitizen]

On my premium tag i failed to capitalize on a 340 class bull on the second day and ended up killing a 304" 6x6 on the seventh/last day of season. He was the third biggest bull i found in 12 days (5 scouting/7 hunting). I saw him on the second day of scouting and killed him ten days later. Persistence paid off. It's a mental game

 

[PLhunter]

 

[PLhunter]

Getting into some better bulls on my second trip out. A couple I would take with the tag.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

What I would tell anyone is don't give up, ever, keep going. Although not a "premium" tag, I drew a rare cow moose tag here in WA in 2016. Weather was as bad as you could imagine. Other than the first and last day, it poured down rain every day I hunted. But we kept at it, only my wife and I. And then, one day, my wife bino'd a cow a mile away. Backed up the truck out of her sight and took off. An hour later and 1000 foot climb, it was over, notched tag.