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So I had this last fun ticket burning a hole in my pocket and the shoes were still tight on the ponies. Got the "clan" together last weekend and Saturday morning made a run up the mountain. Left the trailer a little after first light, riding up thru the foothills to get the wind right on a group of elk we had spotted the night before. Snow levels were 6" on the average but had blown into 3' deep and deeper drifts in the low spots. Nearing the base of the mountain we found the elk and watched as they moved up a bowl like slope and out of sight behind the near ridge. pushing the ponies into a trot we slid around the right of the ridge and topped out after a steep climb that brought the sweat out on the winter coats of the horses. We tied up and pulled rifles and bellyed up over the crest.There below, unaware and feeding were the elk. With hushed whispers we picked out "our" cow and piled 3 in about the same amount of time as it took to type this sentence. I looked at my watch and it was 8:30,when we went to hanging quarters on ponies it was 11:00 and we were hanging them in the shop a couple hours later. Was a beautiful wind-less story book day on the mountain, ponies got to go for a walk and the family got to spend time together and fill the freezers. enjoy and safe travels    | ||
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Thanks for sharing. I enjoy all your reports! | |||
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Congrats on another successful outing! Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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Congratulations on the cow. That maybe what I put in for for next winter. I have 1 preference point in Colorado and ain't been since 2005. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Yummy Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Those are really great pictures. There is nothing better than the meat from a cow elk. I have eaten lots of Colorado elk, but have never had the oportunity yet to harvest some of that Wyoming elk meat!! Great job. | |||
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Good job! I still have my "fun ticket" in my pocket for a cow elk in area 5. Good until the end of January. Gonna try to .500 Linebaugh one, but will probably just use my .25-06 for a freezer filler. Love your part of the state buddy. And that's a great looking gray in the last pic. "It ain't lion hunting unless you get stitches." - John in WYO "It became aquatic, briefly." Ann ~ Aspen Hill Adventures The bear has to touch you to hurt you. Don’t let the bear touch you. | |||
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Very, very beautiful landscape. Congratulations to your hunt! | |||
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Might I offer the appellation "Clan MacRaven" for your group? Your lads display a bit of the appearance of the old sod... "It ain't lion hunting unless you get stitches." - John in WYO "It became aquatic, briefly." Ann ~ Aspen Hill Adventures The bear has to touch you to hurt you. Don’t let the bear touch you. | |||
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"born and raised in Wyoming" short of the nephew (kid in the chinks) the rest of us been hunting,fishing,trapping and raising hell together for nearly 40 yrs. don't know if a hunt like this resinates with the rest of them like it does me. but the chance to get the family together doesn't happen often enough and we were just way too efficient that day. Course we have a fair bit of experience in the realm of elk killin,pony ridin and such. looking back on the day, the only thing i would of done different would be building a big fire. would of slowed the day down a bit.... a fella just can't help standing next to a fire. as it was,we spotted them,ran on them,killed them,and had them chunked up and on ponies in short order. should of brewed a pot of Mt. coffee, had lunch and a pasture nap. just to round out the day. And that IS a good looking grey horse!!! | |||
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The Black Horse ain't too shabby either... dmw "The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights." ~George Washington - 1789 | |||
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Good story and pictures, Thanks. | |||
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