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Offline hawkbow

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2009, 10:04:02 pm »
What..ELK...ELK...What did you say... ELK...Elk...Elk wallows.... elk bugles... elk... guess i lost my concentration for a moment.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2009, 11:41:02 pm »
Now, I've got the fever again. Been looking at pics of the hunt Kenneth invited me on....







and the horse he rode out on! ;D

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2009, 11:59:19 pm »
Thanks a lot Pat ;) now I won't be able to sleep without dreaming of elk camp...looks like a good time to me brother.. nothing at all like stalking elk in the wilderness.. nothing compares to calling rutting warriors.. Hawk
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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2009, 12:26:52 am »
I can't wait to try that Mike. Unfortunately the elk weren't cooperating when I was there.  ...but, one day I was coming down from the wallow and heard a bull or the opposite ridge bugling and coming down to Salt creek. I took off running down hill hitting a lick on my cow call with every bugle. I beat him to the bottom, set up a stand overlooking the creek and waited for him to bust out of the bushes. He was bugling every 10 seconds or so. But, before he hit the opening,........he turned down stream, bugling all the way but never came into the clear. ???  That was the most exciting 5 minutes of my life!!! My hunt was a success!
This is the angle of the hill I ran down. That is the Salt Creek Trail you see in the pic.



Pleasant dreams! >:D
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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2009, 12:28:35 am »
 Salt Creek trail with Salt Creek below.  Sunny side on the left, dark side on the right...and camp just down stream.

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2009, 12:07:24 pm »
There goes my mind ::) ::) :-\  Won't be able to think for another 5 months now ::)

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2009, 12:18:23 pm »
You guys are making it hard for me to concentrate.    Kenneth
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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2009, 07:47:45 pm »
STOP IT PLEASE! I can't go on any longer.. all these wallows, dark timber , and stories of big bulls.... I think my neck is swelling and my velvet is about to come off.. somebody please make it stop!!Hawk
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Offline david w.

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2009, 07:56:04 pm »
Beautiful.

I would love to hunt elk someday.
These pretzels are making me thirsty.

if it dont go fast...chrome it - El Destructo

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Re: Elk Stand
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2009, 01:40:09 pm »
David, Just keep thinking that way and some day a friend will take you to the elk woods. It only took me 35 years before I made it(at 56 years old)...and it was worth every minute I waited!.  ;D 8)
  Keenan, that first wallow looked more like a lake than a wallow! ::) I thought the one I posted was big!
  it is funny how come late August I get the urge to pee on every tree and bare ground I see. ;D
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC