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3 mile recovery hike with Tiny Elvis- he's been a little neglected the last couple of weeks, so was glad to get out!



A buddy and I were hunting this long drainage with several open meadows mixed in; we had seen evidence of a lot of activity- criss crossed with tracks, beds, places where they had pawed down to the grass, etc. Two days we arrived before light and two days we sat on it till the end of shooting light. We never saw an elk, but Thursday we heard a cow call on the north side of the drainage in thick timber and a bull answer the call (guessing it must be instinctive as the rut is long over). Friday morning with nothing in the meadows we decided to ease up the north side as the wind was in out favor. We found several beds, but also fresh tracks leading further up the ridge and around the side of the mountain. The wind really picked up (still in our favor) and we started to to get into some open, benchy areas. We had gone through a couple of those when we saw a cow below us about a 100 yards and heading in our direction, then another cow, another, a cow with a calf (which by the way last year and many years before, were legal to shoot with a general tag, but they made it into bulls only this year) and finally a small 5 point. Two hits to the vitals and he crashed into a large down tree. Then the fun began