Betterluckythangood
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Join me on my Wyoming GS elk hunt and play along if you like.
Real life hunting scenario:
It took five years to draw the tag. You’re into it over a week’s vacation time. This is your fifth trip. Two short scouting trips. Two archery hunts and now three days left to hunt with the rifle. You make the grueling 2.5 mile hike up the trail again to where you think the elk might be and there they are up above you on the side hill under 200 yards away. Two rag horns, a spike and a couple cows. You would be happy with either raghorn at this point.
It’s a steep uphill angle and your footing is bad but you have an ok but not great rest against a small quakie sapling. It’s the only option for a shot without being seen. The shooting lane is basically open and the bigger rag horn is basically broadside. You can only see the one bull at this point. You take the shot but notice as the gun is going off the crosshairs have drifted off the shoulder and over the mid-body area. You DON’T hear the smack of the bullet impact but think you probably hit it but not good and the bull disappears. But did you hit it? You have no way of knowing the result of the shot without climbing up there and looking in the ravine where the bull disappeared.
Now the other elk appear and they are not spooked and just mill around. The second raghorn now steps out in the open presenting a beautiful, broadside shot. You now reposition yourself and are able to get a dead solid rest and put the crosshairs on him knowing full well if you shoot, your tag will be filled.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
Real life hunting scenario:
It took five years to draw the tag. You’re into it over a week’s vacation time. This is your fifth trip. Two short scouting trips. Two archery hunts and now three days left to hunt with the rifle. You make the grueling 2.5 mile hike up the trail again to where you think the elk might be and there they are up above you on the side hill under 200 yards away. Two rag horns, a spike and a couple cows. You would be happy with either raghorn at this point.
It’s a steep uphill angle and your footing is bad but you have an ok but not great rest against a small quakie sapling. It’s the only option for a shot without being seen. The shooting lane is basically open and the bigger rag horn is basically broadside. You can only see the one bull at this point. You take the shot but notice as the gun is going off the crosshairs have drifted off the shoulder and over the mid-body area. You DON’T hear the smack of the bullet impact but think you probably hit it but not good and the bull disappears. But did you hit it? You have no way of knowing the result of the shot without climbing up there and looking in the ravine where the bull disappeared.
Now the other elk appear and they are not spooked and just mill around. The second raghorn now steps out in the open presenting a beautiful, broadside shot. You now reposition yourself and are able to get a dead solid rest and put the crosshairs on him knowing full well if you shoot, your tag will be filled.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
