Elk Stand

[hawkbow]

What..ELK...ELK...What did you say... ELK...Elk...Elk wallows.... elk bugles... elk... guess i lost my concentration for a moment..

[Pat B]

Now, I've got the fever again. Been looking at pics of the hunt Kenneth invited me on....







and the horse he rode out on!

[hawkbow]

Thanks a lot Pat now I won't be able to sleep without dreaming of elk camp...looks like a good time to me brother.. nothing at all like stalking elk in the wilderness.. nothing compares to calling rutting warriors.. Hawk

[Pat B]

I can't wait to try that Mike. Unfortunately the elk weren't cooperating when I was there.  ...but, one day I was coming down from the wallow and heard a bull or the opposite ridge bugling and coming down to Salt creek. I took off running down hill hitting a lick on my cow call with every bugle. I beat him to the bottom, set up a stand overlooking the creek and waited for him to bust out of the bushes. He was bugling every 10 seconds or so. But, before he hit the opening,........he turned down stream, bugling all the way but never came into the clear.   That was the most exciting 5 minutes of my life!!! My hunt was a success!
This is the angle of the hill I ran down. That is the Salt Creek Trail you see in the pic.



Pleasant dreams!

[Pat B]

 Salt Creek trail with Salt Creek below.  Sunny side on the left, dark side on the right...and camp just down stream.

[Keenan]

There goes my mind   Won't be able to think for another 5 months now

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[Little John]

You guys are making it hard for me to concentrate.    Kenneth

[hawkbow]

STOP IT PLEASE! I can't go on any longer.. all these wallows, dark timber , and stories of big bulls.... I think my neck is swelling and my velvet is about to come off.. somebody please make it stop!!Hawk

[david w.]

Beautiful.

I would love to hunt elk someday.

[Pat B]

David, Just keep thinking that way and some day a friend will take you to the elk woods. It only took me 35 years before I made it(at 56 years old)...and it was worth every minute I waited!. 
  Keenan, that first wallow looked more like a lake than a wallow! I thought the one I posted was big!
  it is funny how come late August I get the urge to pee on every tree and bare ground I see.