Elk Next week ?? He Got One !!!!!!
UtahRob
10/27/06 5:05pm
Anyone going for Elk with The Muzzle Loaders next week ?
We will be Hunting in the Logan Area for spikes.
If so GOOD luck !!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb :
We will be Hunting in the Logan Area for spikes.
If so GOOD luck !!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb :
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The first day we saw around 40 elk and we had a few stalks but they saw us. On one stalk Cody forgot to put the primer in his gun after he left the truck. :>/ And of coarse he had a spike standing broadside At 80 yards and CLICK no ca boom !!!!! 2nd day very few Elk spotted .
Well today was his day. :thumb We saw a herd of 32 Elk ( 1 spike ) moving across a mountain on the opposite canyon around 1 mile away. We went back to our truck and drove a 1/2 mile past the elk and Cody started his stalk ( with primed Gun #-o ) he climbed around 1200 feet in elevation as the Elk fed around the Mountain to Cody's location. I was watching the whole thing through my spotting scope back on the other mountain and could see both Cody and the Elk at the same time . Then I heard the bark of his Muzzle Loader across the Canyon. Cody called me on his Walkie Talky and said he had taken a shot but could not see if he hit him because of all the smoke. Seconds later ( while dad was saying a prayer) he found the Elk dead where he shot it. :thumb . One more prayer of thanks and I was back in my truck and back up the canyon. I stopped just below the mountain that Cody was on and began the 6 hr job of getting his bull off the mountain. From the location of Cody and the bull my truck below looked like a ant . #-o
Any way I am ONE happy but really sore Camper!!!!! :thumb :thumb
That's AWESOME!! :thumb
Congrats to your son on a fine shot, with a great guide. :)
Man, that is just awesome!
This was Cody's first animal taken of any kind !!
And I am so proud of him for using a Muzzle Loader. =D>
I think He is hooked on them smoke poles now !!!!!!!!! :thumb
Man I am so sore and so tired !!!
I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!
Now that Cody has filled his tag its my turn to hunt . :thumb
I only have time to hunt a couple evenings. But it will be nice to get out in hills a couple more times. Seeing my son get a Elk is one of the best things that has happened to me for a long time. =D> We are so thankful to be living in a place were Elk are so close to our home .
We moved here from Sacramento Calif. a year ago Sept. This state is a Awesome place to live. :thumb Low crime and such a good atmisfear to raise children. =D> Sacramento and most of the big cities in California have been ruined by the gangs. :>/ Also if you don't make at least $55.000 a year you just can't afford to live in a nice neighborhood. :>/ When we left Calif. a 1100 sq.ft home in a bad nieberhood was going for $300.000 . Thats insane !!! Anyway Hyde park Utah is our home now and forever and i am so grateful to be living here. :thumb
Take Care and God bless-
Rob Kempton.
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Thanks for sharing the hunt with us!!!
Some one else probably may know the reasoning for it.
I would like to know also !!
The benefit of spike-bull hunting is that bulls are removed that would have grown to an older age. On spike-bull units, hunters can only harvest a bull with a spike antler on at least one side. Most of these bulls are yearlings, but even with a high harvest, 15 percent of the spikes survive. Also, some yearlings already have two points and are not legal to harvest during the spike hunt. The remaining bulls are then protected until they reach the quality hunters want to harvest.
Spike-bull hunts allow us to harvest three or four mature bulls per 100 elk in the population and still maintain our quality objective. We still hold antlerless hunts to meet population objective, but since we removed part of the population as surplus bulls, the harvest of cows is much lower and we can maintain a productive herd. This is the same idea as thinning your carrots when they're young so more of the remaining carrots can grow to the size you want to harvest.
Some call this management tool "catch-and-release elk hunting" since the spike-bull hunters have the pleasure of seeing the big bulls during their hunt but cannot take them home.
We cut Cody's Bull in half just in front of the hips and drug the back half down to the river next to the Road . We then clean it up with some ice cold river water and left it in the shade on the rocks next to the river and returned for the front half. I then skinned and removed the shoulders and neck and fleshed out the rib cage , removing all the meat. The second load on my pack weighed around 85#. Cody carried the neck and head .I really think we should have just quartered the back half and also put in on packs. But we only had one pack at the time . I have two now. :thumb Dragging the back half through sage brush and trees was a killer. :>/ The second load on the pack was SOOO much easier !!! :thumb
Thanks Rob.