Second morning we found clouds and wind.. This made the hunt much easier as we could at least cover some country on a Ranger.. We spotted them at about half a mile and made our stalk.. We finally were able to close to about 200 yards.. There must have been a couple hundred elk right in front of us on the opposite mt. Beautiful sight.. We got set up, decided to shoot on the count of three.. I had a nice yearling lined up in my Burris 3-9.. At three I squeezed one off.. Nothing.. I had put a round in the chamber and put the safe on as we made our final adjustments.. I quickly pushed the safe off, lined up on my elk, to see it drop from my buddies 139 gr. SST from his 7mm Mag.. Beautiful shot.. The elk scattered quickly.. I tried a neck shot but missed..

It didn't really matter, my pal got his, and I had shot lots of elk.. He was a happy hunter, and we had a good laugh that out of that many elk, we both picked the same one!!

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Molon Labe