day one of our wyoming elk hunt
so we're just checking just spots and see what there is for rut activity
today's day one of our wyoming elk hunt
uh it's still pretty warm
I think in the valley it's about ninety
uh upper eighties anyway
up here it's probably in the seventies
today's tuesday we're supposed to get a cold front on thursday
so we're checking just spots and see what there is for rut activity
there was bulls in here in the summer
it's a lot drier out man it's been a dry summer
everything's pretty brown so
my gut feeling says the elk the bulls are higher up the mountain
we're going to see what we can do cover some country
and see if we can find some bulls
it's my lucky arrow right here
that red mark is from my bull last year I marked it
and you can see it's dirty from my wyoming antelope a couple weeks ago
he's not very far away
well they're down there about 300 yards
we don't really have a good play on them
they're on that open face
uh we have about 45 minutes of light left
i think we're gonna back out and just come in tomorrow
he's not that far down there just
maybe 250 yards down there bulls bugling up here as well
rag horn satellites in here bulls everywhere
just try to keep working on them
well we just couldn't quite get up to that bull
i wanted to shoot there's elk all around us just small ones so
pretty exciting for an afternooner
we're going to head back and try again tomorrow try to find a big bull
pretty excited
well as you can see i switched out to the batwings from my
satchel and my spotter we're back
in the same drainage where we saw that big bull rutting two days ago
uh we're just going to work up this drainage it's about 2 o'clock
and there's a wallow up here somewhere
because that bull was pretty dirty the other day
um today's september 17th I believe
so they're just starting to get uh fired up
we're back in here the next day
big storm uh this morning last night and today
uh we have one of our bulls spotted that we spotted uh yesterday morning
uh he's got about nine cows or so
but we're going to slip around behind him and see if we can't slip down on him
and get an arrow in him
not really talking right now but
we've got an hour hour and half of light left so we're gong to hurry over there
that's that big one
good hit good hit yeah
it's right where I shot this bull from
this is where he was at right here
so that's about right
there's blood up to halfway up the blood sport
I've never hunted so hard in my life for elk
man we had opportunities for bigger bulls we've had we passed up
probably 30 bulls this hunt a lot of satellites around
but to kill this herd bull with satellites around cows are 10 yards in front of us
couldn't ask for a better experience public land elk hunting
score really doesn't matter
and I'm completely happy with this bull we've hunted hard we've earned him
and we're not doner in em we're going to be packing him out tonight