Originally Posted by Billy_Goat
I have a spreadsheet I use to capture "all" my relevant elk info in.

one of those tabs is -"Lessons Learned". it has 582 rows on it after ~13 trips.

if I ever write a book, it'll be titled "elk stuff I messed up". smile

the list is way too long to share, and I've spent $35k (according to the "costs" tab, same spreadsheet) gathering that compilation of stupidity!

I tell people elk hunting is a series of failures punctuated occasionally by a lucky success. But the fact that you have a document (hopefully password protected) that would tell your spouse how expensive hunting really is certainly is scary & never something I’ll undertake. If you count truck ownership I’m sure it is more than that.