Good job, always good meat for the pot --- cows are one of my favorites, bulls have the glory, but cows are better eating. Enduring nasty weather typically makes for fond memories though it can suck at the time. Remember, YOU are the one that got the elk, the rest settled for deer.

Yes, after a while, even though the elk hunting experience is always fondly remembered, if you are like me, then at some point you start asking, "Is this it?" Then I start looking at hunts that are farther away, more exotic, and in some cases more dangerous (arguable ).

Soon to depart on the annual wapiti hunt. Looking forward to it, I enjoy the logistics, the camp, the packing and the butchering, and to some degree harvesting an elk, but especially helping those who haven't shot one before get their first wapiti (father/daughter team from California this year). But honestly I'm a bit restless --- wore out the "deer thing" long ago and now elk are starting to become a bit "business as usual". Thank God that the comaraderie (sp?) never becomes mundane.

EKM