We pack a camp in tomorrow for a short one day deer hunt and then hunt elk on Monday for the opener. I'm going to try out my Ruger 416 Rigby with handloaded TSX bullets to see how it handles in the field and what it actually does on an animal. While short, it should be a great trip.

SBT
Good luck on you hunt. Keep us posted. I spent the night in Jackson Hole last month with 2 of my hunting buddies on the way to Idaho, If I would have known we would have taken you to dinner, we ate at a pretty good steak place.

Have a super trip, this will be a super time to be on the mtn!!

MD

Had a great trip with good weather and fine company, but the elk didn't cooperate. Last year, out of the same camp, we had two bulls dead 15 minutes after shooting light on opening day. They bugled at mid day on the ride in, all night, and again in the morning. My partner went back the next week with his daughter and shot another bull. Didn't see another hunter the whole trip.

This year, there was no bugling, didn't see an elk and ran across 15 hunters. What a difference a year makes.

But, the season is young and we'll be out most every weekend. I love my life!

Good luck---persistence usually pays. CB

Just got back Tuesday night from a 4 day conference in Jackson. On the one hand, elk were bugling their little hearts out all over Yellowstone and Teton Parks, even in the middle of the afternoon. Of course that's in the sheltered world of the park. On the other hand I visited with two hunters at the hamburger joint in Gardner Tuesday afternoon who spent an entire week in Hellroaring drainage north of the park and never saw so much as a hair of elk or work a whisper. We figure wolves ate 'em. They were happy anyway, and that's why we call it hunting.