Got out again this morning to do some survey work... tracking elk, and if a nice buck shows up so be it.

It was an excellent morning for hunting... other than a few minor problems. It was a really nice big moon last night - I'll bet the animlas really like it... And the wind was blowing well this morning and the real problem it was swirling.

Other than that it was good day.... Made it up to another one of our more reliable spots... it really is a good area and the animls move through this saddle on a regular basis.



Ran up against some turkeys in the skid trail first thing this morning and a good deal of fresh deer track in the mud of the trail. No elk sign at all other the browsed red stem on Apple Tree Ridge.

Did about a 2 mile loop without bumping anything. So around noon I headed back down to the truck.

It was another healthy day - walking and packing...

That's some nice country there Sabot. I hunted out in ID a couple times. In an area called Stolle Meadows. A big outcropping there called Cougar Rock. Do you know the area? I shot a gorgeous blonde bear there one year.

You got a couple shooting lanes in those pictures i really like. Really good view as well.

very nice pictures and views. Good luck hunting.

What I don't get Sabotloader, is why you didn't shoot that nice buck that's bedded down in the second picture.

Yeah, he couldn't have been more shootable if you placed him there.

howdudodat?

he werent dare when i waz dare!!!

Actually I an a bit relieved that he was not there... the would screw up the whole month of November!!!

Just curious... if you were to take a large heavy buck in that field... How far of a drag do you have? Or can you get a ATV back into something like that?

Drive right to it... takes a bit of manuvering, which keeps a lot of folks out of there with ATV's - but i have a route in...

This was the same place last year... it was a little more difficult to get there with the amount of snow... but got it...

That is kind of what I figured because other wise some of the drags you people have out there.. would take me all season to get the deer out. I mean some of you are miles and miles back in the wild.

We don't have distance so much as a drag problem where I live, we have the tangle. If they run into the marshes, imagine dragging a large deer through the thickest tangle of brush you can find. I once actually contemplated walking away from a deer I had shot, unless I could find help. But being me, I kept at it for hours and hours.

I was out on a track trail following a deer and ended up shooting it back in the thick. The GPS showed me which way to head out, and it was not good. I was only in 1/2 mile or so. But it was a 1/2 mile of thickets. Part of the way out, I was down to shirt and pants, sweating like a dog, a headache, and winded. I finally got that deer to the base of my woods where I could get my ATV to it. I was never so glad to see high ground.