Elk from the shooting bench

I was out in the back yard today testing some 7 mag loads when the elk made thier routine evening apperance,figured i would take a pic to share with you guys.This herd is somewhere around 230 head and hangs right behind my place on the BLM.Few good bulls in this herd but you would need a serious telephoto to see them,this pic was taken from the back porch.
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AGCHAWK
Beautiful pic NONYA!!!! One heck of herd too and I'd take that view from my back porch ANY TIME!
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bigbuck92
wow. the closest thing i see to that from my back porch is my neigbors cat.lol
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MuleyMadness
Very cool, you going after there sheds soon?
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NONYA
THERE ARNT ANY REAL MONSTER BULLS IN THIS HERD,they are off by themselves in a hole,after i posted this pic i drove right up under them on my way to call yotes,drove within 300 yards of the lowest elk.i dont even bother picking up elk antlers unless they are real bruisers,i hang them in trees,id like to know how many i still have hanging in the woods.Here is the location of the elk,i wasnt very specific in the first post,sorry.
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hound_hunter
Shoot man! I'll make the drive out there and take all the "little" sheds from those trees that I can find! I think that'd be awesome! Whats the drive from salt lake utah :thumb
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NONYA
Shed hunting has turned into a contact sport around here,unless im on our property I dont even make an effort and i dont want anyone seeing me coming off a mountian with sheds,if they do there will be 25 people up there the next weekend.
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Hey Nonya, good excuse to go to an SLR with a real long lense. I'll dig out some really long stuff later, like some at,,,,,well I have some Dall Sheep that were white speck's to the eye.
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hound_hunter
yeah that's what i've heard. I guess now days the hills are packed with shed hunters. well thats a sweet view to have from your back porch!! thanks for sharing, keep some more along the way!
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Nevadahunter
THANX 4 A LITTLE MORE INFO ON WHERE THEY WERE
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NONYA
They came out on the next hill over this afternoon...

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Nevadahunter
where r they in the second pic?
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NONYA
Scattered all accross the big open slope with the snow blown off it.
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txhunter
I don't even have a porch but if I did, that is what I would want to see!
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Very Cool !!
I can also see Deer and Elk from My back yard but there are some homes between the mountains and our home. I moved here from sacramento a year and a half ago and just love it. When we lived in Sacramento we had to drive at least 2 hrs to get to some good hunting. Now we have Elk 25 min , Deer and Ducks 10 min fromour home .

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A view from the mountains looking back at our neighborhood.

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NONYA
When the alphafa field below the house is green they come down and pass about 85 yards from the house,the calves cant jump where the rest do and they run down the fence about 10 YARDS from the house.This year I may try to take a cow with the bow from behind a wood pile they pass about 100 yards from the house,have to wait and see if any MONSTER bulls appear,I have shot a couple good bulls and a ton of raghorns/spikes so now im happy with a cow if i cant hunt a BIG ONE. :1
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HighLander
Love to have a view like that!
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kadejones2
cool pics
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