LAST EDITED ON Nov-13-08 AT 02:33PM (MST)[p]OK you clowns, I am back and like a lot of others.......no Elk this year too. First few days was warm but cooled down at night.
The the fortune to meet another MonsterMuley family member on the road in area where we were to hunt. This happened the day before season as I was opening the N.F. access gate and he drove by with his dad. My friend Bob was racing down that roadway to catch up to them, when he finally pulled over and we chatted for awhile. Calif_Mike got his Buck later I seen, good for them, better than most in area.
Had snow for a day and a half but still did not help with the game to move around or at least not where we were hunting, that is the way it turns out sometimes.
We never "cut" any "fresh tracks" no matter where we hunted and we hit a lot of different areas anywhere from 7,000 to 11,000 feet elevation. What tracks we found were a days old and nothing NEW.
Went to some areas we had never hunted before that should have been good, but they game was not there.
Even the locals were complaining that the deer and elk had left the area or were probably on some ranches in the area.
The main purpose of the hunt, the OTC tags for Elk, was so my friend Bob could go back down there to pickup his Bull that was mounted from 2 years ago, yea TWO YEARS. I had posted a story about the problems of "no contact" from Taxidermist on the status of his Bull and the finished time.
When we got down there I got ahold of "HORN ADDICTION" as he was able to pick it up for Bob back in July and was "storing" it at his home.
Stayed the whole 7 days and then left for home. Got into Salina on Sat. Nov 8th at noon and had a cell call from D13er telling what a nice guy 1911 was and worried about my whereabouts....yea.
Told me about the 1 or 2 people who thought the post was serious and made me laugh too........don't take anyone serious here on MM it most likely is or will be a joke for others to have a good time adding to the laughter.
Got a few pictures of Bob's finished Bull from 2006 and the whole head mount filled up the back on his pickup, so we had to rent a small Uhaul trailer to haul our boxes and gear home.
Way too many hunters in that area this year, saw at least three camps in different locations that had 30-35 hunters there with tents, campers, trailers, pup tents etc and Bessy's favorite machine, the ATV's and lots of them too. Saw one camp being checked and all of the riders were in a group while the "federalies" were checking licenses, tags etc.
Here are the pictures of the Bull before and after we got home this past Sunday night.
Oh by the way, I ate way too much at the STAR HOTEL IN ELKO, TWICE. LOL
Brian