Nine years of elk hunting

I found the way in to the spot wear to go into fore the elk at home on Haida Gwaii but their logging near it right now but come next year I'm all over it
 
I was torn between saying:

"It has been a nice few years, hasn't it?"

and

"They finally put that case against you together, eh?"

But that's a nice pile of elk. Thanks for the reminder of what I left behind.

you left a lot behind will it be in the north or in the west ....

great pictures and stories thanks a lot Tod.
 
Geez, time really flies these days. I remember reading about the 2007 hunt in real time...Good job eh!
 
Awesome post. I felt like I was there with you! We have shot a lot of elk here in Saskatchewan, but the majority have been by hunting open fields in the early morning. Calling is a far more interesting way to hunt them.
 
2016

Hiked a couple KM at first light into an area which had shown some good sign of elk activity. I seen fresh tracks on the trail so decided to stop and make a bugle. Seconds later I heard some crashing up ahead and a bull bugled back a couple hundred yards away. Nice throaty gravely scream. Oh yeah baby this is happening! I moved towards him slowly and set up when I had a decent shooting lane. He bugled again on his own and I gave him a half dozen cow calls, ####ty ones I could barely call I was pretty jacked up. He bugles again, screaming.

A minute goes by, silence. Then I hear some crashing and spot movement ahead. A cow is coming right towards me on a pretty good clip, and the bull is hot on her tail. He screams again, and hes charging towards me. Crosshairs settle on his chest frontal and I take the shot with my 338-06, 210gr Barnes TTSX @ 2750 fps. WHAP I can hear the bullet impact and he staggers and lurches to my right and out of sight. Cow keeps trotting towards me and stops, looks around. It's dead quiet, no crashing, nothing. Cow turns and walks off out of sight and I slowly make my way up to where the bull was. I get about half way and he's standing there broadside looking right through me. One more shot behind the shoulder and he takes off, disappears out of sight shortly after. Again, silence. No crashing or gurgling. I wait 15 mins and head in downwind of where he was last seen. Piled up
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Thanks for the great stories. The way you describe your hunts you had me there with you in my head. I wish I was in a province that had the opportunities to elk hunt.

Turkey hunting is my favourite in Ontario because of how vocal the birds are. I can only imagine how I would feel to hear a elk in real life. I watch a lot of them on YouTube. You should wear a GoPro on your hunts it would capture some great hunts.

Anyways thanks for the stories and pictures.
 
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