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Author Topic: Come spend a few days in my elk camp  (Read 1366 times)

Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #60 on: September 06, 2006, 01:35:00 PM »
I think your story and pics are the best we have seen on the Trad Gang so far. Thanks!
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Offline Emmons

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #61 on: September 06, 2006, 01:48:00 PM »
Great story and excellent pics.  Thank you for making me feel like I was there.
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #62 on: September 06, 2006, 03:45:00 PM »
And another Wow... Thanks for the trip.  Felt like I was there.  Great Hunt.  Jeff
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Offline Rick Butler

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #63 on: September 06, 2006, 09:04:00 PM »
That's just incredible.  Thanks for the adventure.
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #64 on: September 06, 2006, 11:56:00 PM »
I liked the first pictures with RED in them!!! Man that was cool. The whole time I was wondering if you stuck an elk and then I saw those awesome Juice Pics!!! AND MAN YOU DUDE'S KNOW HOW TO CAMP!!!
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Offline Shaun

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #65 on: September 07, 2006, 12:07:00 AM »
Could smell the mouain air on that one. Very thoughtful of you to take so many fine pics and share them and the story. Believe you raised the bar a notch with that post. Thanks.
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Offline UKarcher

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #66 on: September 07, 2006, 04:15:00 AM »
That first photo just took my breath away. Like someone else said earlier, that is heaven. Can you tell us a little bit about your llamas?
Graham
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #67 on: September 07, 2006, 05:32:00 AM »
Has to be some of the most beautiful country on earth. Thanks for taking us along with you. Thats the hunt most of us only get to dream about
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Offline Skinner

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #68 on: September 07, 2006, 08:19:00 AM »
That was incredible.  Thanks for taking the time!  Sorry to hear about the problem with the pack animals.  Must of been a tough decision for you debating to put him down.  Skinner.
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #69 on: September 07, 2006, 08:37:00 AM »
I'd go just for the camping!
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #70 on: September 07, 2006, 08:43:00 AM »
Graham,

I just pulled up a thread from a few weeks back, Packing into elk camp.  This thread has a lot of information on llamas and how I prepare for these hunts.

Thanks for the kind words.  I have been doing these hunts every year since 1994 sometimes 2 or 3 trips a year and have not even taken a camera for the past several years.  Seems like the pictures all start to look the same after a while and they don't do justice to being there.  Now that I have a digital camera, the resolution is better and the computer display is better.  I have a 512 chip and can take hundreds of pictures that are easy to review and edit.  Keeping the camera at my fingertips in the shoulder bag instead of in the backpack also is more conducive to taking more pictures.  I will probably take more pictures from here forward.  

My llamas are better though Stuart still has a limp and will not likely get the call to pack ever again.

This trip for the first time, I felt the limitations of aging or medication side effects or something else bad.  I am not done by a long shot but I am going to have to train more or find less vertical places to play.  I suppose I could accept the fact that it might take me two days to reach my hunting grounds and two days to get back and still hunt up there.  The hunting is real good, I know the place like the back of my hand, and it isn't hard to hunt once you get up there but it took a lot out of me and my partner and my llamas coming and going.

I am glad you enjoyed the pictures because I sure enjoyed collecting them.  I hope I can take a few more some day soon.

Regards, John Berger/Missouri Sherpa
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #71 on: September 07, 2006, 08:50:00 AM »
Ya fooled me....went back in and edited in your story. Great work John, appreciate you taking the time to share such a fine hunt with us.
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #72 on: September 07, 2006, 10:18:00 AM »
This the coolest "huntalong" post yet! These pics would really be cool set to music in a slide show!
I noticed the British chemical protective suit your boy is wearing. I had one like that in desert storm. I love the pattern they use.
Congrats on an awesome animal and hunt that would be a dream come true for most of us. Like it was said before, I'd like to have been there just for the camping(and gourmet cooking!)
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Offline huntsmanlance

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #73 on: September 07, 2006, 12:06:00 PM »
Sherpa that scenery is absolutely breathtaking.....where was it that you all went to?

Talk about a Dream Hunt for a boy on the plains of Oklahoma....  :D
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #74 on: September 07, 2006, 01:20:00 PM »
I used the British Chemical suits for about 5 years for my camo.  I switched to the wolfskin in Predator about 7 years ago.  The Chemical suits were so cheap, less than 15.00 a suit when I got them I bought half a dozen.  I lend them to people that are short on good camo.  I like the pattern for elk season.
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Offline Kevin Breaux

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #75 on: September 07, 2006, 01:51:00 PM »
WOW!


 The opportunity to be with folks that is in the know about a trip of this caliber to pick their brains and experience being there and sharing, man!

 On a first trip I’d be the dedicated worker bee and cameraman if you will. Since retiring from the Army, I have deep thoughts and dreams of in the future walking mountains again, breathing that crisp mountain air and having a chance to carry a bow I brought to life in pursuit of taking a elk.

Thank you for posting and keeping my dreams fresh, wonderful story and pictures.
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #76 on: September 07, 2006, 01:59:00 PM »
Great pics and story. Thank you for taking the time to post them.

 Also, congratulations to a fellow Super Shrew shooter!   :thumbsup:
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #77 on: September 07, 2006, 11:14:00 PM »
One of the best posts I have ever seen. Thanks.
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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #78 on: September 08, 2006, 07:55:00 AM »
*sigh*..that makes me miss elk hunting so bad. Great report Sherpa and great pics.

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Offline dhanson

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Re: Come spend a few days in my elk camp
« Reply #79 on: September 08, 2006, 08:43:00 AM »
Great pics, and a success although at a price.  Thanks for sharing.

My knee went out a week before my trip, went anyway hoping it would work out but never did.  Came back after only 3 days hunt.  Maybe next year.
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