Took a 'Walk-About' in the Woods
 

We have an early elk season going right now. Not a lot of fun as the temperatures here are running in the high 90*. The last couple of days they have gone down to the low 50's in the morning son I thought I would go for a 'walk-about' this morning. With the temperatures you can imagine how dry it is in the woods.

I headed into Akers to a crossing that might have some action early in the morning as the animlas come off of 3 ridges and cross to get through to get the creek in the bottom... That it was a sound plan. I was in and staked out on the crossing at 5 this morning... hopefully the plan would work. It really was noisy in the woods also you could hear the pine squirrels all around me throwing cones on the ground for collection...



Well parts of the plan worked.. a couple of whitetail crossed the road head down and 4 cows walked the road right under me... They never new I was there - but they were the wrong type of cows - Black ones.

I stayed on the crossing until 7 and then decided to walk out by going south to the private land then west across the property to the livestock pond built in the timber. I wanted to check the use over there. Before going there I did drop down and check out the creek in the bottom... DRY! well esentially dry...

Think I will try another spot later this week. With the daytime temps I have decided if I have not pulled the trigger by 7am - I need to get out... It just gets to hot to quick...

Gotta wait for another day to try my new bullets...

I bet the heat is a real concern. We've had nice cool mornings again. In the 40's this morning. But by 9:00am it was up to 59 degrees outside. That sure is some pretty country out there. I wish you the best of luck. If you were to shoot a elk down there... how many trips does it take to get that thing out, and how far do you have to tote that meat?

sounds like finding good water sources will be key. I am jealous!

When it is really warm you are limited to a couple of hours before things start turning south on ya. Having a plan to getthe meatto a cooler quickly is key.

Good luck on your next foray!

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That is giving me the hunting fever :kt:

Yep I'm ready for hunting season to. Our bow season opens a couple of weeks early this year. It would be really something to get a crack at an elk. Arkansas gives away 20 elk permits every year and I always send off, but have never gotten one.

Good luck! At least the day starts off cool there. It was 81 here when I woke up around 5:00 this morning..

My earliest season, archery, doesn't open until 6 Oct. But I am getting pumped. Still got some work to do on setting up a few more stands and some scouting. My new Bushnell video/still camera is the bomb.

Will post some videos as soon as I can learn how to crop them.