I am stoked to write about this post, the elk hunt this year was extremely exciting. Jeremy keeps reminding me how lucky I am to have experienced such a great hunt. We hiked up the night before so we didn't have to run up the mountain opening day (I was very grateful for Jeremy having our stuff in a spot when we got there). The picture below is a picture of one of my latest outfits...yeah.
That morning we got up around 5:45 and walked about 200 yards to our spot. After a little sitting we heard the herd of elk start coming our way, Jeremy started telling me to get my gun ready...I was so nervous! All of a sudden he started shooting! "What are you shooting at?" I asked.."The ELK!...SHOOT!" If you know Jeremy he has eyes of an eagle and I could be considered blind as a bat. I couldn't see the 7 bull elk 250 yards away from me. Then I got another chance...a spike came about 75 yards away and I had him in my scope. I was about to pull the trigger on him when I noticed I couldn't get my finger through the trigger hole. I left my mittens on! Oops! So there went my chance.
This is the spike Jeremy was shooting at that I didn't see. It was so fun to see how excited he was not just about getting his elk but how excited he was all of September and October for this day. I am relieved to know that I can enjoy this and we can have something else we can do together. It's quite the bonding experience if I do say so myself.
This is the 5x6 that Ross shot. He hadn't shot at an elk for almost 15 years because of helping his 4 little boys all growing up trying to get the experience in and teaching them the ways of hunting. He got this elk about the first 10 minutes of our hunt one morning. It was crazy and exciting and nobody deserved this elk more than Ross did! Jeremy had to hike 3 miles back down to the camp to go get the packs to carry it out, so I stayed with Ross to gut the elk out. Lets just say it was a great bonding experience between a father-in-law and his daugthter-in-law.
