Hey guys just walked in the door from this evenings hunt. Elk elk elk.... walking down the ridge out in front of me just at dark about 10-15 of them... I couldnt make out any antlers, I hit my cow call a couple times just to see if a bull would answer and nothing did..
Two small bucks this evening walked down and out in front of me about 40-50 yards.. they looked like twins.. 4x4s...2.5 year olds.. No bears this evening but lots of bear sign in and around my hike into my stand ...theres an orchard down the mountain about 1/4 of a mile, I am cutting the bucks off on their way down to that orchard and then a water hole....they arent hitting the orchard area until well after dark.
I didnt get to hunt the 4x5 tonight, I got home a tad too late and didnt want to chance it... still was a great evening to be out and I got so see some critters... The stand I hunted tonightis one I save for a day like this...I call it my never know stand..cause its in a nice spot where ya never know what may come down off that ridge...
HUNT.... sounds like you have some GREAT areas to hunt... best of luck and put one down!
Jeff, good luck bud, like I said, I still think you'll be the first to enter a buck for Chaos..
John... well I dont see them all at once very often but the other day I got lucky and saw elk, deer and two bears...in one spot.. thats glassing them ....they didnt all walk under me if that was what you were thinking...
I haven't had this many elk around in the first 7 day of a hunting season... I am not even trying to hunt the elk, I wish they would leave me and my whitetails alone..[:@]
The other day Rob had a young 4x4 out in front of one of mystands and he was feeding and he kept looking in the brush like another deer was coming... thenoff the adjacent ridge comes the cows.. (elk) one good bull...that buck moved on...thats happens a good bit here... elk bumping whitetails.. in the evenings on good feeding areas..
Gotta tell ya all something interesting I watched with those bears...the two looked like twin boars.. pretty decent sized..but nothing huge..just nice bears... 200 lbrs.. 250 maybe.. good bears for here...anyway..ones in an apple tree..the other is below..they are feeding on apples.. so then I spot the normal does that feed in the area..they are feeding about 250 yards away...the bears move on after a while...and over a ridge.. as soon as those bear vacate..those does trot across the draw like they know what they are doing and go right to the apples.. They didnt once act like that bear scent bothered them a bit... it was like...they couldnt believe those bears had the nerve to eat their apples...
Just checked accueweather.. I got the wind I want tomorrow for the 4x5... I am gonna drive seperate to work (wife and teach together) so I can get home early and get out there to hunt him...Talk to you all tomorrow..!
peace out...