elk hunter
10-28-2014, 10:17 AM
120422Took two of my granddaughters, Cheyenne age 16 and Abby 13, elk hunting this year. For the first six days all we saw was a few cows and calves. On Friday, the last day of the season, I saw some fresh tracks going in to a patch of ground that Abby and I had walked a few days earlier. I had the wife drop Cheyenne and I off above the area we were going to hunt through and had her take Abby to watch where I thought the the elk might exit the patch of woods.
Cheyenne and I hadn't gone seventy-five yards when I spotted elk feeding in some brush not over forty yards away. I could see the nearest was a spike, when he stepped clear of a tree I shot him behind the shoulder. He ran straight at us and stopped not over twenty yards away, with him was another spike, I told Cheyenne "shoot the second one" a couple of seconds later my bull fell and Cheyenne shot the second one. Cheyenne's bull ran off about fifty feet and tipped over. Now the work was about to begin. I called my oldest son, the girls father, and told him where we were. He and his business partner came up and helped us get the bulls out of the woods and skinned.We'll start cutting meat in a few days.
Before the season started I had intended to hunt with my 500-450 BPE double using cast bullets, but the weather turned cloudy and wet making it hard for me to see the open sights so I switched to my scoped Chapuis 9.3 x 74. As it turned out I could have used the 500-450 that day as there was enough light that I could have seen the sights. Oh well, maybe next year.
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Cheyenne and I hadn't gone seventy-five yards when I spotted elk feeding in some brush not over forty yards away. I could see the nearest was a spike, when he stepped clear of a tree I shot him behind the shoulder. He ran straight at us and stopped not over twenty yards away, with him was another spike, I told Cheyenne "shoot the second one" a couple of seconds later my bull fell and Cheyenne shot the second one. Cheyenne's bull ran off about fifty feet and tipped over. Now the work was about to begin. I called my oldest son, the girls father, and told him where we were. He and his business partner came up and helped us get the bulls out of the woods and skinned.We'll start cutting meat in a few days.
Before the season started I had intended to hunt with my 500-450 BPE double using cast bullets, but the weather turned cloudy and wet making it hard for me to see the open sights so I switched to my scoped Chapuis 9.3 x 74. As it turned out I could have used the 500-450 that day as there was enough light that I could have seen the sights. Oh well, maybe next year.
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