Well i went scouting for elk on Monday of this week sorry we have no pictures, but i'll see if i can relay them too you all in words. First i got woke up to a barking dog at 3.30 am ,and had a small bear in the back yard getting into my bird feeders watched her for about a half an hour eating bird seed, the windows were open in the house and she would get nervous as my dog growled ,and she would make a dash for the woods and return to get more seeds, then she finally got tired of going back and forth and finally left. Well i was excited about going to scout for elk and tossed and turned until gary and his father inlaw arrived at 6.30, another reason for not being able to sleep was this was going to be my first day off in three weeks ,and i needed to get some woods time ,man working twelve hour swing shifts ,the time sure flies, Well we hit the road to travel north from grayling and then head east, about a hour and a half drive to our first destination ,on the way east we were looking into the sun as we are driving and i see a bird circle in the air ,looking into the sun all i can see is a big bird and think it's a raven , another few more yards down the road an eagle swoops down out of the air and grabs an object off the center of the road right in front of us and in it's claw has a piece of an animal or a small animal that was dead in the middle of the road. Well we make it to my friends property and in the food plots we have planted we find fresh elk tracks and droppings ,we also put up a trail camera,and check the place out and talk about hanging tree stands and using the ones that are already there. As we are driving threw the property which is about 500 acres a bear runs accross the trail in front of us,we head to another place on state land and do some walking ,this goes on all day , we pretty much cover the northern hunting zone for gary during the day ,and we see elk also, nine bulls the biggest being a 5x5 most of the bulls were 5x5 also and see a cow and calf as we were walking in the woods. The calf,(last years) comes within sixty yards of us and has no clue we are there. The big cow went the other way. We are going up again on tuesday to check trail cameras and hopefully get an eye ball on some more cows as gary has a cow only tag, His hunt starts the 28th of August for three days and then again in September ,which i hope by then the weather will be cooling down and the bulls will start to become more active and collecting their cows and bugleing ,exciting times which i look foward to every year.The only down side to the day was i ended up haveing 14 ticks on me ,darn i hate those things , does anyone know what repells those things ? I've had 100 percent deet on before and still found them on me. It's still not enough to keep me from the woods though,Well hopefully gary will tell his story on here sometime? Although i know he sure is a busy man also, so stay tuned ,no animals were harmed yet!!! gib
Topic: Michigan Elk Permit draw success!! (Read 830 times)
