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age 49 and working out for elk hunt
iowabow:
--- Quote from: Little John on August 09, 2013, 09:48:34 am ---you are way ahead of me, guess I will just have to slip on the backpack head to the mountains and hope it don't kill me. any way the weather is cooling off and I am getting excited for a back country elk hunt. 58 and still doing it the hard way. Good luck. Kenneth
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Oh yeah its real hard to get up each day and work out. I am looking forward to not working out before the trip. Good luck to you as well! 21 days left!
Ran 2.5 on the 8th
iowabow:
A back injury from my tractor, and a cut on my shooting finger set me back a week with no training.
On Aug 13, I started shooting my bow again
Aug 14 ran 2.5 miles
Aug 17 ran 3.1 miles
Aug 18 hiked 1.5 miles.
Another week of training and I will take a week off before I leave.
I have lost about 12 lbs over the summer. I feel like I am ready for the trip!
Adam:
Good for you! I hope you have a wonderful trip. I'm looking forward to seeing pictures.
iowabow:
Well here is an update and review of how I feel my preparation for this trip went.
I never felt that I was being over whelmed by the vastness and scale of the territory. Once we arrived on horse back to about 11000 feet around 4:00 pm on Sat we set up camp and I went on a short hunt and it rained all afternoon but I felt great but a little cold and returned back to camp before dark and ate supper then turned in for the night.
Day 2 climbed/scouted up to turret peak shot at two grouse hit one but could not find it. I contiued north for a couple miles scouting game trails and marking on my gps areas that look good for morning and evening hunts. I guessed that day based on gps data that it was a 7 mile day and not knowing the ground it was a hard 7. I found some real nice very fresh sign where elk had walked across mouse mounds or something like that and left tracks that day. I returned to inform my party of the discovery.
Day 3 Monday. I thought I would wake up sore from the hike the day before but I felt perfect like another training day in Iowa. We all walked back to the area where there was sign and sat up where we thought the elk might most likely would be and that plan worked great because Scott ran into a group plus ran into a bull 3x3 and I got busted by something big that I did not put eyes on.
iowabow:
Continue day 3 afternoon ate lunch with party and talked about the morning Jr headed back to camp and Scott and I continued up the mountain looking for sign and keeping an eye out for grouse. We bumped into another hunting party that saw 2 elk. We smelled elk up the trail and stalked in slowly but no elk sighted so continued to the location I marked on my gps of rubs where Scott decided to hunt for the evening. I continued for hours south to a great trail above a rock slide where I got to see more grouse as I walked in. I made a blind and hunted till dark. Gps died no extra batteries in pack so I pulled out my google earth preloaded map and identified key terrain features and set a course for camp. It was very dark and as I crossed an open field I fell into a deep hole and lost from my pocket a knife from bowtist and a tree pruner. I was lucky not to break my leg or bow.
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