It was Oct 2017 and my daughter had drawn a Colorado Mule Deer tag. She wanted her boyfriend to come along also so he had an OTC elk tag. She killed a 173” buck the first morning and was done. Cody and I hunted hard all week with little to show. We did see elk but they were either too far to get to or not shooters.

The final afternoon we took a ride to once of my favorite areas. Just before dark several elk came through and Cody made a 50 yard shot on a bull in the timber. Try as we might, we couldn’t find the bull that night. We came back at day break with “The Team” and after an hour of Head scratching we figured out the bull did a 180 and headed in the opposite direction. I ended up finding him about 75 yards from where Cody shot him. Cody was beyond excited with his first bull on the ground!