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Didn't see this earlier - but, great hunt! This shows preperation and willingness to do the work to make your planning successful. You will have memories for a long time. Thanks for sharing.
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Lifetime memories. Congrats!
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Too cool. Thanks for sharing.
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great story, thanks for sharing.
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What rifle and scope were you using.
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I used a 6.5 Creedmoore , Kimber Hunter I think . I actually initially bought it for my youngest, but liked it so much I decided to keep it. Scoped with a 4 - 18 Luepold CDS. I also got a cow elk a couple weeks later with same rig.
I think Nathan used a Tikka 7 mag ..
I used to be a 30-06 guy, but the 6.5 is an easy shooter, and the ELDX seem to have really good terminal performance.
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Great trip and write up. Thanks for sharing the details that made it work. Sounds like a good team effort.
I used to only shoot shotguns and rimfires, then I made the mistake of getting a subscription to handloader.......
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Great trip, I am jealous! What state?
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I would love to get some tips and a story on how you packed them out. I have never backpack hunted , almost always day or overnight trips to and from camp, but next season I want to try elk hunting for a week but I am worried about packing it out.
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Well, we backpacked out the elk that day and had a couple helpers come in. We hung one deer, and then the next day packed out both deer and my son came in and helped. Then we went back and got gear a couple days later.
It was just walking and carrying ... and physical abuse. Lucky we got a couple helpers but we still had heavy pack loads multiple times.
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Missed this the first go round. Congrats guys. That's really getting it done, big time! HD
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