**** Team 9 Double Lung Liquidators *****

Great elk! That is something I've ALWAYS wanted to do. Especially while camping. I think that would be the greatest experience ever.

As for me, I saw nothing but a set of eyes on my walk into my stand this morning. I'm getting ready to head back out to a different property, which is the one holding that big 8-pointer that I'm after.

 

Good luck Chris!!

 

good luck chris!!! get that big old CT 8 pointer!!!

 

I'm up in the tree. The battery died in my digital camera so I can't even look at my trail cam pics.

 

Swamp & Chris - good luck this week!

Chris - if you ever want more info on making an Elk hunt happen - let me know. I logged onto bowhunting.com for the first time in 2009 just to post a question on "Best Over the Counter Elk Hunt" as I wanted to find some info out. Got some great responses, but also got an invite to a large camp from a past poster on this site. Met up with some others from here on BH.com and had a fantastic hunt and learned the ropes...it surprisingly easy to do, buy tags at a Walmart, pitch a tent, pack some food, and hit the woods. Now bagging one is a little harder...but I've had opportunities 3 of 4 years I went - just finally all came together this season. Regardless - a week in the Rockies with buddies is hard to beat for a hunting camp...but many warned me - it is highly addicting, and I agree...

 

I would love to do it. That sounds like its right up my alley. I'm definitely going to look into it for next year. I'm on the east coast so I might have to fly. I'm not sure how I'd get all my meat back and everything. I'd assume its expensive.

 

I know an elk hunt is on my bucket list, but not for a couple of years. Just a question, what's on your bowhunting bucket list? Mine is mule deer, antelope, elk, bighorn sheep, coyote, jack rabbit from 40+ yards, coyote from less then 20 yards, chukar, grouse, and bow fishing.

 

I sat Saturday saw 2 small bucks in range, 2 Im not sure wjat they were in the distance and a doe and a fawn the doe did not offer a shot.

On my bucket list is are hunt for a big Mulie and a big elk.

 

Don't know how I forgot but at the top of my list is a P&Y black bear.

 

Glad to hear that you saw something. Too bad on not getting a shot.

 

On my bucket list is a non-typical whitetail, elk, moose, and bear. All with a bow, along with an Arkansas duck hunt with a shotgun.

Back at it again this afternoon. I slept in this morning. My buddy ("Don't Poke the Bear" on this forum) shot his first doe with a bow last night so we had a late night dragging and hanging and today we had to skin and quarter. I saw a lot of activity last night I was just in too thick if cover to get a shot...or even distinguish between buck and doe. My plan was to go back to where I saw them exiting the thicket tonight but the wind just isn't right.

Today I'm sitting where I shot a 110" 8-pointer last season and a spike the year before that. This is one of my favorite spots. I've got a hayfield with lots of clover behind me and an overgrown pasture which is now about 3' of growth. I have the blind along a stone wall dividing the two.

In this picture you can see the cedar tree where my stand is. I would normally hunt here but the wind isn't right. I'm expecting the bucks to come from the right in this picture. There has been a doe in the field all summer but she comes from the North about 150 yards up and feeds in the field.


Here is the field where I expect the does to come from.

 

Chris that looks awesome!!! congrats to your buddy (don't poke the bear)on the kill!! hope you connect tonight!! friday night seems so far away for me now!!!

 

Looks good there Chris!

 

Well I didn't connect but I had an opportunity to. Right at sunset I hear a bit of rustling and up pops an antlerless head about 15 yards away between myself and that cedar tree. A deer had been bedded there the whole time. After coming up within 5 yards of the blind I concluded that this deer was FAR too small to shoot. It didn't have spots but it couldn't have been more than 3 months old. My parent's black lab probably weighed more than this thing. So I let it walk...and left the blind...and now I'm home.

 

That would have been some good eating though lol

Sent from my SCH-R760X using Tapatalk 2

 

Nice encounter though Chris. Amazing to thing she was laying right at your feet.

 

Love the updates guys...keep them coming. We'll start connecting soon enough...those other teams are leaving the door open to jump into an early lead.

 

I've been out a couple times but haven't seen much. Hoping to take a doe this weekend.

 

Good Luck Luke!

Who do we all have hunting this weekend? Should be quite a few with mid-Sept seasons coming in now...Still Oct 1st opener here.

Don't forget to still take some target practice shots during season guys...keep the skills sharp!

 

Went out to my newest property this morning. I saw 5 does but the wind wasn't quite right, as I'm still learning this property. A lot of action right at 6:30ish. I kept getting winded though. I predicted the deer would enter this particular field via a main trail when, in fact, they entered by an alternate route which was downwind of me. Got winded twice. No snorts but they took off in a hurry when they caught my scent. My hunt was abruptly ended when I was blindsided with some gastrointestinal issues and found myself hanging my can off my tree stand and doing some not-so-tidy forest fertilization. I figure that spot is ruined for a few days and I certainly will be avoiding that tree.