I thought I'd share a recap and a few photos of my 3rd season elk hunt. Me and my sun headed down to the Fairplay area Friday afternoon set up in our trailer for a week of hunting.
We brought enough supplies for the week food clothing etc. I had scouted the area the previous Saturday and was already pretty familiar with the area having spent many days in the area fishing shooting and goofing around in that area had an area picked out to start out sat. morning. We woke up at about 5:30 and started driving to our spot . We drove on and turned down the dirt road and were still about 10 minutes away from where I wanted to start when Tracey (my son) said pa look at all those elk, so I slammed on my brakes and sure enough about 225 yard away there was a herd trotting through a open field. I jumped out of the truck and took a closer look there were about 15 elk so I grabbed my rifle (ruger m77 7mil mag) which was unloaded and a box of ammo opened the box and promptly dumped all the ammo into the snow. I scooped the ammo out of the snow put the pile of snow and ammo into the back seat of my truck picked out 4 rounds as quick as possible and started running away from the road and loading the rifle as I went. When I was sure I was
at least 50 ft from the road I took the shot which was a little further torward the hind quarters than I had hoped. The elk continued to run but I knew I hit him about 20 yard later he stopped then I shot again this time true, through both lungs and he dropped. The nice part of him being in a field is I could drive right out to him so I gutted him and loaded him into the back of the truck (with the help of a winch). So after expecting to be hunting for a week, we were done about 10 min in. I think that what made the trip even better was that my son was there, spotted the elk and even helped hold the legs or move the antlers while I cleaned our harvest.
so we should have plenty of elk this winter and memories forever.
