The old 1x7

[Ryan Avery]

I love elk hunting! Every year it's a new adventure. I will let @PNWGATOR tell the story. But after 4 days of glassing, I finally found an ELK. The rest is history.

 

[Ryan Avery]

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[idahohikker]

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Cool elk. Sorry about your troubles with the horse trailer. Swung a little wide?

 

[PNWGATOR]

Oh boy...

What a trip it was!

Started off with a ‘brief’ delay due to me not paying attention. Got lucky. Switchback, high mountain road plus a soft shoulder and dummy behind the wheel. Animals were unscathed and about five hours later we were on our way thanks to an InReach and Tanya coordinating the rescue effort.

Ended up a half a day late getting in to where we were going, but we made it, got settled, animals contained, fed and watered and went hunting.

GIANT country. We split up and hunted different country for several days, found literally a handful of deer with no shooters.

This was a deer hunt, but I had a bull tag. Ryan found a lone bull late in an afternoon and we made a plan that night to try and locate him the next morning. We got up a couple hours before daylight and hit the trail and headed towards the area across a giant drainage the bull had been seen. We made it by daylight and started glassing. Nothing. We bumped over another ridgeline and found the elk. Couldn’t put together a shot when we first found him, but were able to hustle over to another ridge where we got set up and we were able to put things together.

I had my Tikka .223 with 77TMKs, but the situation dictated I needed more rifle. The 30 Nosler with 230 Atip was the appropriate choice and I didn’t hesitate trading rifles for a second!

We walked a lot of miles that day...seventeen per a step counter. The miles plus one horse wreck made for a L O N G day!

It was an epic adventure in grand country with great company!

 

[Ryan Avery]

Chris made me fatter on the trip.

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[JWP58]

Dang, reading along I was like "holy hell those 77gr tmk's are bad mf'ers"...then I kept reading lol. Great story, thanks for sharing.

Apparently the atip's work pretty good on critters too?

 

[darcytribe]

Luv those pics! Way to keep after it!

 

[elkguide]

Pictures tell a great story!
Congratulation to all.

 

[Wapiti1]

Great job. Sweet bull. Really glad the horses were good. I've seen similar situations before and it wasn't nice to the ponies.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned that it was shot in a burn. Darn you Newberg!!!!

Jeremy

 

[Ranger619]

That is one cool looking elk. Congrats

 

[Juan_ID]

Sounds like quite the adventure, and that’s a wicked bull!

 

[Ryan Avery]

Late night mule packing

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[Trr15]

Sounds like a hell of an adventure. Cool
looking bull to top it off. Congrats!


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[the_bowhunter]

Looks like dirty mike and the boys could have helped out on that packout there Ryan


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[BRTreedogs]

Dang Awesome bull.
Did you guys find any old injuries that may attribute to the good side?

 

[PNWGATOR]

No obvious injuries that we could tell.

Having a Euro done and I’m interested to see what the skull looks like on the drop tine....I mean spike’ish side.

Arlee (the mule) is THE best animal we own. She’s a machine. Saddle or pack, doesn’t matter. Ol’ girl has packed everything but elephant and polar bear. Lol. Never misses beat. Kind hearted and never quits. Damn good mule.

 

[griebel303]

That bull has some serious character!

 

[XLR]

Congratulations on a great bull! I think the choice to go with the 30 Nosler worked out!

 

[wind gypsy]

Looks like fun!

Is that a dyneema cimarron?

Interested to hear about the A Tip performance!