I just need one more day!

[twitchstick]

Tonight I was lucky enough to head back up after work. I new I couldn't make it into any of the high country starting so late but the wife told me to head out. I had found a wallow low down on the back of the ridge I had seen the 6x6 bull that I could be to quickly. It's only 20 min. form the house so I was able to leaving the truck with a pack by 7 tonight. I started off by seeing a couple of little bucks right off. I don't have a deer tag this year but they are sure fun to watch. As I headed towards the wallow up a small narrow meadow I was making some noise so I let out a few chirps to hide my noise. A few minutes later a bull sounded off on the ridge back behind my truck. I then heard some cows chirp just up in the timber above the meadow I was in. I discided to work my way towards the cows that were only 100 yards or so above me. I look at my watch and it was 7:20 then a bull started sreaming just above me right above the wallow. Then some cows sounded off to my left up the ridge too. I had cows to my right and to my left and the bull was up the middle above the wallow. I sat up just below the wallow hoping they would come into it or the meadow. I could here the cows chirp ever few minutes or hear them moving just above me but would not give me a shot. The bull would bugle every few minutes but was acting like he was still beded up. Everytime I would repositon myself or was moving he would bugle. So I tried racking a tree with a branch(which I don't do much). It must have set him off because he let out a sreaming gurgle and headed my way. At this piont he was about 60 yards away but I could not see him. Then a another bull bugled to my left and up the ridge. The bull right above screamed back and went toward the other bull. I not sure what happen for sure next but I think the bull that was strait above me chased the other bull down the ridge accrossed the road (50 yards from my truck) and up the ridge above my truck. There I could hear 3 different bulls bugling at once. Now it was 8:15 and the elk were in the opposite canyon at the top of the ridge. It was over quick again but I didn't spook them this time. I thought all the elk had head with the bulls but as I made my way back to my truck I heard the cows still up above by the wallow.

[twitchstick]

Sorry I don't mean to ramble so much and give you the play by play but this has been the most active hunt I have ever seen on this unit in 18 years of hunting it. I have only heard a few bugles ever on this unit and fill lucky to run into elk more than once in a season. I'm not able to make a big camp this year with my hunting buddys so this is my campfire to tell my tall tales around.

[Mudd]

I would call your last outing a successful hunt by my standards.

I've had a few spring turkey hunts that worked out with the same results and I enjoyed every second of the hunts.

Thanks for sharing.

God bless,Mudd

[razorback]

Twitch, that sounds like a great hunt to me. I have not made it to elk country yet, but the excitement of being surrounded by bugling elk must be awsome. Good luck and find that extra day to fill the freezer.

[RM81]

  I bet that got your heart pumping.  Good luck next time out.