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<blockquote data-quote="imhntn" data-source="post: 2297801" data-attributes="member: 3755"><p>Keith and I saw one lone cow that morning and I watched her go into a patch of timber and an hour later, put Keith up on a ridge overlooking it from the downwind side and the guide and I went into the draw to try to push her out so he could get a shot. Don't know where she went but we never saw her. I wanted Keith to have the first chance at an elk because I have killed a couple and he had never hunted them before. That evening we took the Polaris ranger and went into the area he and Darrell had been hunting and where Darrell shot his cow. I was a lot different from where I had been hunting. It was mostly bare rolling hills with some aspen stands in the bottoms of the drainage's. Antelope were everywhere. As we were driving in, a thunderstorm was rolling in and it started raining and then the lightning started hitting the mountains close to us. The guide wanted to leave the ranger on top of a hill and get down into the aspens but I was not a bit comfortable with that and told him so. He asked me what I wanted to do and I said we should get the heck out of there and now! He agreed as did Keith and we drove down to a low area and let the storm pass. It blew over in about 30 minutes and we set up to glass on a bald ridge with one old corner post on it and all got against it and started glassing. Keith spotted a herd working into our area from an adjoining property and the race was on to get in front of them before it got dark. We walked/ran downhill for 3/4 mile and got close and then the guide started moving real slow till he spotted them and got us set up in front of him on a bare hillside overlooking a meadow. We could just see the corner and one side but right after we sat down a good bull walked out from behind a little rise in the corner of the meadow at 100 yrds but no cows. We sat there probably 15 minutes and only saw the bull one other time but we were pinned down by a doe muley at 50 yrds and the guide was sure she would blow the elk out if we spooked her. Finally, right a sundown, a lone cow walked up the small hill facing us at about 80 yrds and immediately had us pegged. Keith was on her but wanted the guide to tell him to shoot just in case it was a bull calf. He kept whispering, "Can I shoot?" and finally about the 4th time I heard him whisper I said, "SHOOT!" He fired and the herd started running across in front of us at about 200 yrds and when the guide mewed, they stopped to look. I was steady and picked out a cow and hit her in the chest broadside. After they ran away, Keith said he feared he had pulled his shot but he thought he still hit her. We went in the direction they had run and found both cows dead about 75 yrds apart. We could not tell which was which because both bullet holes were in the exact same spot. We just picked one and started gutting and then we could tell because the one I gutted was shot through 1 lung and then angled back into the stomach and exited right in front of the opposite ham. He gutted mine and it had been broadside. We were ecstatic when we found them. Here are the hero pics. Mine is a little dark but we took another pic with mine the next morning with Keith, the guide and me.</p><p><a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130918_193101_zps1929c79b.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130918_193101_zps1929c79b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130918_193015_zps10aee89f.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130918_193015_zps10aee89f.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130919_082101_zps7b6ef0db.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130919_082101_zps7b6ef0db.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>After gutting them, we left them out on the hillside for the night and went in early the next morning to get them out. It had been staying in the low 50's every night but that night cooled down to 36 degrees so they cooled out nicely. We were able to drive the ranger right up to them and loaded them up whole and got them out. We had a great time together all week, the outfitters were great people and it was a great hunt. The day I stalked the lone cow, I came up on a flock of blue grouse after the elk had busted and was able to shoot one with the bow. Last pic of the hunt.</p><p><a href="http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130917_123901_zpsef2c5a2b.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130917_123901_zpsef2c5a2b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="imhntn, post: 2297801, member: 3755"] Keith and I saw one lone cow that morning and I watched her go into a patch of timber and an hour later, put Keith up on a ridge overlooking it from the downwind side and the guide and I went into the draw to try to push her out so he could get a shot. Don't know where she went but we never saw her. I wanted Keith to have the first chance at an elk because I have killed a couple and he had never hunted them before. That evening we took the Polaris ranger and went into the area he and Darrell had been hunting and where Darrell shot his cow. I was a lot different from where I had been hunting. It was mostly bare rolling hills with some aspen stands in the bottoms of the drainage's. Antelope were everywhere. As we were driving in, a thunderstorm was rolling in and it started raining and then the lightning started hitting the mountains close to us. The guide wanted to leave the ranger on top of a hill and get down into the aspens but I was not a bit comfortable with that and told him so. He asked me what I wanted to do and I said we should get the heck out of there and now! He agreed as did Keith and we drove down to a low area and let the storm pass. It blew over in about 30 minutes and we set up to glass on a bald ridge with one old corner post on it and all got against it and started glassing. Keith spotted a herd working into our area from an adjoining property and the race was on to get in front of them before it got dark. We walked/ran downhill for 3/4 mile and got close and then the guide started moving real slow till he spotted them and got us set up in front of him on a bare hillside overlooking a meadow. We could just see the corner and one side but right after we sat down a good bull walked out from behind a little rise in the corner of the meadow at 100 yrds but no cows. We sat there probably 15 minutes and only saw the bull one other time but we were pinned down by a doe muley at 50 yrds and the guide was sure she would blow the elk out if we spooked her. Finally, right a sundown, a lone cow walked up the small hill facing us at about 80 yrds and immediately had us pegged. Keith was on her but wanted the guide to tell him to shoot just in case it was a bull calf. He kept whispering, "Can I shoot?" and finally about the 4th time I heard him whisper I said, "SHOOT!" He fired and the herd started running across in front of us at about 200 yrds and when the guide mewed, they stopped to look. I was steady and picked out a cow and hit her in the chest broadside. After they ran away, Keith said he feared he had pulled his shot but he thought he still hit her. We went in the direction they had run and found both cows dead about 75 yrds apart. We could not tell which was which because both bullet holes were in the exact same spot. We just picked one and started gutting and then we could tell because the one I gutted was shot through 1 lung and then angled back into the stomach and exited right in front of the opposite ham. He gutted mine and it had been broadside. We were ecstatic when we found them. Here are the hero pics. Mine is a little dark but we took another pic with mine the next morning with Keith, the guide and me. [URL=http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130918_193101_zps1929c79b.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130918_193101_zps1929c79b.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130918_193015_zps10aee89f.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130918_193015_zps10aee89f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130919_082101_zps7b6ef0db.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130919_082101_zps7b6ef0db.jpg[/IMG][/URL] After gutting them, we left them out on the hillside for the night and went in early the next morning to get them out. It had been staying in the low 50's every night but that night cooled down to 36 degrees so they cooled out nicely. We were able to drive the ranger right up to them and loaded them up whole and got them out. We had a great time together all week, the outfitters were great people and it was a great hunt. The day I stalked the lone cow, I came up on a flock of blue grouse after the elk had busted and was able to shoot one with the bow. Last pic of the hunt. [URL=http://s35.photobucket.com/user/imhntn/media/20130917_123901_zpsef2c5a2b.jpg.html][IMG]https://www.okshooters.com/data/MetaMirrorCache/i35.photobucket.com_albums_d168_imhntn_20130917_123901_zpsef2c5a2b.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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