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2011 elk hunt

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Keenan:
 Back on the home front . No exciting elk stories. However I did almost step on a young cougar about the size of a bobcat. It was on the other side of a log that I was stepping over. Scared the snot out of me. Not sure where momma was, but it did have me a little concerned. Season was very hot and dry and like walking on popcorn clear up to the last day.  Called in two bulls but no shots. First year for as long as I can remember where I didn't hear an elk bugle all season. Frustrating year with the weather and also the idiots that have no hunting ethics. 
 Someone decided to take a dump below my lower tree stand and made no attempt to bury it. Then someone decided to go cross country with their jacked up rock crawler, and drove through and over trees, deep into the roadless area and through the creek bottom just below my other stand.  And if that wasn't enough it seemed I was making the wrong call all season and either a day early or a day late on every drainage that I hunted. Enough of my complaining. It is nice to still be able to get out and hunt.  General season is gone and looking toward the late cow hunt and buck hunt.

PEARL DRUMS:
Where you on Michigan Public land by chance Keenan? That story sounds so familiar to me friend. I agree, at least you had the opportunity to get out and hunt, enjoy ma nature and hopefully a few mid-afternoon stand snoozes!

Keenan:
 Nah up in Central Oregon, LOL ya mean this same kinda thing happens to others ??? ::)

Pappy:
I was wondering how you was doing,sounds like a tough year,Thats the way it goes sometimes. Hope you have better luck in the late season. :)
   Pappy

Little John:
Keenan, sorry it did not work out better for you and hate to hear about the slob hunters, just makes me shake my hread. Pretty cool about seeing the cat. Wish you could have been here with me for the last weekend. I really got into them and needed someone calm enough to shoot one. I completly missed a gimme shot at a full headed mature six point and later got busted at 15-20 yards by a big bull (probabbly the same bull) when I moved a bit to prepare for the shot that was seconds from being in the shooting lane, two other bulls within 40-50 yards. Winded by one and could not call the other when he could not see other elk in the hay field, he just plowed up hay with his horns and flipped it up in the air and bugled. When I decided I had a stalking opportunity to crawl up each time his head was hown, he decided to head off to the other side of the field before I could get close. I sure do need more experience at opperating in the close proximity to these awsome animals, Don't know if I will ever learn to shoot well wnen the presure is on. Good luck on your late season hunt.    Kenneth

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