center of the tan and just pull the trigger he's bedded down nice you got him
it's really tight anybody have a Leatherman
he is centered to the back he's behind all the cows looking this way he's the
furthest one back away from us and you can just see his chest and his head
well we're here on the first night I Rindas Wyoming public land elk hunt
strangely enough she found the elk we pulled right up here to glass this
country and we weren't even glassing and two minutes and Rinda found some elk put the
spotter on him there's about a hundred elk there cows and calves mostly little
bulls I thought I saw a big bull there we first started glassing them big ole
red mane and head on him and and ivory tips but we're gonna come back in the
morning and glass him up again when the sun is shining on him it was a good first
night so about 150 head
the sun is quickly rising the next morning as we continue scouring the
steep hillsides
I think up that when we were looking at yesterday it doesn't take long for us to
locate the good six point bull I thought I'd spotted the night before
usually in October those bulls kind of like that standing deadfall stuff
where it's burned but it's still standing they like it cuz they think
they're hidden in there it's got good feet in it but I have not
seen an elk in that stuff yet
we spend the remainder of the morning glassing some other bulls before Rinda
finally decides the big herd bull is her target
after patterning this elk herd for a few days now we think we have them figured
out and now know where her bull might be feeding this evening
were set up in an ideal position but the herd seems to have other ideas tonight
the bull and his cows seem to have dropped off the back side of the ridge
this evening failing to make their much-anticipated appearance just as we
start the long hike out after dark we find what seems to be an elk calf caught
in the loose barbed wire of a Forest Service drift fence
it's really tight does anyone have a Leatherman
used the shed we just found to pry the wires open we find a shed here man she's
lucky that calf is lucky we came back up this same way I didn't know what it was
we're in does like what's happened now looked over I thought oh my gosh she's
hung in the fence and then I saw her head move holy crap she's still alive
the crack of dawn early the next morning finds Rinda and I back on the hunt for her
big Wyoming public land bull
the elk rut is running a bit later than normal this year the tail end of the rut
has arrived as the cows find themselves traveling in large groups with several
mature Bulls tagging along just as a morning sun begins to rise Rinda gets
her chance at the herd bull we've been tracking for the last couple
of days
do you see him looking to the right he's looking over his shoulder get ready
third of the way up and pull the trigger.
he's looking kind of to the right looking right at us
you hit him back again
well we're gonna head in look for the bull it wasn't a perfect shot so we just
gave him some time in about an hour hour and a half there's lots of grizzly bears
in this country so hopefully we can find the bull locate him before the bears do
so it's about almost 10 o'clock in the morning so we're just gonna ease in real
slow cause if he is still alive we don't want to bump him ready yep
there's a mountain lion
I got a mountain lion tag well this hunt just keeps getting
weirder and weirder last night we released a calf out of a
barbed wire fence with a shed horn this morning we're in here looking for the
bull and a mountain lion goes whizzing by and about 40 yards and I happen to
have a mountain lion tag for Wyoming and the quotas wide open so I took advantage
of the situation anytime you get the opportunity to shoot a mountain lion you
take advantage of it especially when you don't have dogs or anything on the
ground it's pretty rare to see these these guys especially in the daylight so
shot her one-shot kill now we get to pack out a mountain lion
and possibly an elk so it's gonna be a very long day this is like the twilight
zone hunt this has just been really really weird
and now the search for Rindas big bull continues
he is right there
right in the center of the tan just pull the trigger he is bedded down
nice you got him you got him got him Rinda
we worked hard for this guy didn't we
nice bull Rinda oh oh that was something oh it's like crazy crazy crazy elk hunt
this is the weirdest kind of elk hunt I've ever been on of well here he is
big Wyoming bull Rinda yeah nice congratulations that was this is the
craziest 24 hours of elk hunting I think I've ever had in my life public land DIY
in Wyoming and this is a really nice bull these big bulls are tough aren't
they didn't get that second shot and in him like I usually do cuz they all different
bunch each other yes probably 80 cows and calves and they got the big bunch
and they're like caribou we couldn't get a second shot at him so he was hurt
pretty bad and came down into this Creek bottom and the other elk went up over
the the top and we were able to find him eventually find him laying down here you
finished him off so remember next time it's fair chase is the only way to hunt
and take trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on Eastman's
Hunting TV
we've got about four miles back and we've got a heck of a pack out big bull
and a mountain lion back out of here with four of us two guys two girls gonna
be a long afternoon let me tell ya