yeoman

Ya know I think i know exactly how you feel... Saturday my hunting partner and I were out checking a spot for elk (opens the 21st for cow late season elk) Well abot 40 minutes into the walk a really rainy walk.... I looked up the hill in the undergrowth and I distinctly remember thinking what the heck is a round bale of hay doing up there (we were adjacent to some hay fields). Then it dawnedon me it is an elk.... Got the glasses and looked at my bale of hay... it was an elk with no head or but visible... I watched for a few seconds and she raised her head up but at the same time on the edge of lens I saw some other movement... One of the biggest elk I have ever seen a 6x7 @ about 75 yards.... his but was at me and when he dropped his head to feed you really could not see him, but when he brought his head up and those polished white tips on his rack just stood out... huge rack... it had to be 4' high. He moved them around like they were toothpicks - It was beautiful watched him for what seemed like 10 miutes, even put the White up 3/4 times and dropped the scope on him the last time I ran the scope up to 9x power dropped the crosshairs right behind his right shoulder - man I could have made that shot all for not because it was the wrong date - regular elk season was long over... I worked my way by then and down the ridge to a saddle - walked out of the up onto the next ridge and standing right in the opening there must have been 10/15 cows and calves... they stood and looked at me for a second then trotted off down the side of the ridge... dang wrong date I really wanted to turn my watch a bunch of times and get the date to change.... Well at that point I radioed my hunting partner and said let's get out here be fore we really spook them - he said he couldn't move he was in the middle of a bunch of elk and did not want to spook them. I just turned and walked out through the hay field - which made it one heck of a long trip back to the truck... he got out about a 1/2 later said they just walked off and left him sitting there.... Now the big question - will they be there Wednesday morning?

It was a big bull, and I have shot some big ones but this was a BIG one... like it should have been in Yellowstone...