Well, we had a great hunt in Wyoming this year. I picked up my buddy Matt in NY and we headed west from there. Made a cannonball run to Wyoming Game and Fish.
Some pretty cool elk in the office..
Got into camp pretty late before the opener. Had a little bit of snow on the ground, but we did get out some into one of our hunting areas.
Bill and I went out and scouted another unit the following day, no elk were observed, but we did see a few moose and a bunch of mule deer..
We had two bull tags and two cow/calf tags. Came up against some weather pretty early in the hunt which required us to move about 40-50 miles to some lower ground.
Once we got situated down low, we split up. Joel and I had a bull and cow tag, while Matt and Bill had the same. Joel and I hunted about 5 miles north of the other two and found a good bull early in the afternoon. About 1600 he popped back out at 550 yards or so.
We moved up canyon a little and began setting up for the shot. He ended up working to about 365 yards before Joel let loose with a 160 AccuBond from his 7mm Mashburn.. At the shot the bull was down and rolled about 10-15ft..
Bill and Matt did pretty well that day as well and took another bull as well from their hunting area.
That night we all got back to camp pretty late after skinning, quartering and hiking back to camp. A little celebration happened till we all pretty much laid down after the long day chasing elk.
The following day, we started after Joel's elk with the 4 wheeler and pickup truck... Well, with the snow pack then warm weather I buried the pickup... Just part of the adventure..
After a little pull out of the muck later on that night, we regrouped at camp. Joel and Bill were headed into Joel's elk and Matt and I were going to try our hand at filling a couple of cow tags..
Matt and I got into our area pretty early and man, it was 20* at camp, but it felt like the darned Arctic up on the mountain. Well, we didn't have to wait too awful long before a band of about 15 cows came in behind us.
I took my cow at about 145 yards with the 7mm Mashburn while Matt took his with his Dad's 7mm Rem Mag and a 150 Scirocco.. Two cows were down, along with Bill's bull in about a 200 yard circle..
Matt and I skinned and quartered our animals to cool down then grabbed a rear quarter from Bill's bull and headed off the mountain...
The following day all four of us went up into the kill site and put a quarter on our packs and put the rest of meat into a sled we borrowed and headed off the mountain..
It was a great hunt. I actually only really got to hunt for about 2.5 days with all of the other stuff going on. Matt and I got back to NY on Sunday morning and I made it back to Virginia Sunday evening.
Hope you all enjoy the pictures..
Some pretty cool elk in the office..
Got into camp pretty late before the opener. Had a little bit of snow on the ground, but we did get out some into one of our hunting areas.
Bill and I went out and scouted another unit the following day, no elk were observed, but we did see a few moose and a bunch of mule deer..
We had two bull tags and two cow/calf tags. Came up against some weather pretty early in the hunt which required us to move about 40-50 miles to some lower ground.
Once we got situated down low, we split up. Joel and I had a bull and cow tag, while Matt and Bill had the same. Joel and I hunted about 5 miles north of the other two and found a good bull early in the afternoon. About 1600 he popped back out at 550 yards or so.
We moved up canyon a little and began setting up for the shot. He ended up working to about 365 yards before Joel let loose with a 160 AccuBond from his 7mm Mashburn.. At the shot the bull was down and rolled about 10-15ft..
Bill and Matt did pretty well that day as well and took another bull as well from their hunting area.
That night we all got back to camp pretty late after skinning, quartering and hiking back to camp. A little celebration happened till we all pretty much laid down after the long day chasing elk.
The following day, we started after Joel's elk with the 4 wheeler and pickup truck... Well, with the snow pack then warm weather I buried the pickup... Just part of the adventure..
After a little pull out of the muck later on that night, we regrouped at camp. Joel and Bill were headed into Joel's elk and Matt and I were going to try our hand at filling a couple of cow tags..
Matt and I got into our area pretty early and man, it was 20* at camp, but it felt like the darned Arctic up on the mountain. Well, we didn't have to wait too awful long before a band of about 15 cows came in behind us.
I took my cow at about 145 yards with the 7mm Mashburn while Matt took his with his Dad's 7mm Rem Mag and a 150 Scirocco.. Two cows were down, along with Bill's bull in about a 200 yard circle..
Matt and I skinned and quartered our animals to cool down then grabbed a rear quarter from Bill's bull and headed off the mountain...
The following day all four of us went up into the kill site and put a quarter on our packs and put the rest of meat into a sled we borrowed and headed off the mountain..
It was a great hunt. I actually only really got to hunt for about 2.5 days with all of the other stuff going on. Matt and I got back to NY on Sunday morning and I made it back to Virginia Sunday evening.
Hope you all enjoy the pictures..
