So I am a little late updating this, we went on the elk hunt. I found a herd of about 300 elk the day before the hunt started. Jacob couldn't go so we waited a week. Well by that time we could not find a cow to save our lives. we headed into a canyon I have seen elk using to water all we found was pretty country and indian pictures
We went again the next week and saw a few bulls but no cows.
I gave Jacob his Christmas present early. I told him that Christmas morning was going to suck but today was going to be good. I gave him a set of Leupold BX2 Alpine 12x50 binoculars.
On the way there we found a truck that went off the road in the new snow.
No one was in it so off we went to hunt elk. We were back again on the look out, and I thought I saw a couple elk at long range. I was looking at about 15 miles out when I saw them.
We headed that way and went to looking. We found two sets of tracks in the snow, so we took off following them on foot.
After a while I was about shot due to my ankle injury last summer. Just as I was about to head back to the truck Jacob see's the elk with his new bino's. They were laying in the grass about a mile out. So we circle them and get behind them. We had the wind in our face and quiet snow on the ground.
We ran out of cover so I grabbed a hand full of weeds and we crawled. Jacob thought I had lost my mind.
ell I took a range on the elk and it said 278 yards. We got ready and we both shot, But nothing was hit. We shot again and the elk ran to us. I took another range and the elk were at 500 yards! The range finder must have hit something between us. The elk ran to us and we held off until they were at 400 yards. I told Jacob where the guns would hit and we both shot. Both elk were hit well so we waited. We moved up closer and one got up. Jacob shot it and the other one raised its head. I shot it in the head and it was done.
I was super disappointed that the range finder locked onto the wrong target but it all worked out.
We cut them into halves and loaded them into Jacob's 4Runner.
We got really lucky with the fresh snow. We also got lucky that Jacob saw them in the grass, and we were lucky that the elk ran too us when the range finder didn't give us the right distance. But like I always say I would rather be lucky than good.