09-01-2013, 09:30 PM
Just returned from our bow hunt. We took off work a couple hrs early and this past Thurs. and beat feet down to our hunting camp. When we got there our son and the wife unloaded our ATV's and they made the 8 mile run to one of our ground blinds near a spring while I stayed in Camp and unloaded our supplies. A good friend of ours and his wife were camped next to us and they also headed up the Mt. for an evening hunt in one of our other ground blinds. When 9:30 P.M. rolled around and no sign of any of the hunters I decided to jump in the truck and head up the Mt. When I could get phone reception I gave the wife a call and left a voice mail telling her I was headed that way. Several minutes later she called back very excited and said she killed a nice cow a few minutes after 8 and they had got together with our friends and were able to get the animal out whole. They loaded the animal on the wife's Kodiak and were headed to camp. The only picture we took was of her with the elk hung up in camp with a cell phone. My friend John and I skinned the elk and let it cool over night. The wife took it to Chucks Meats near Altamont Friday morning to be processed. The cow weighed 275 lbs, with guts, hide, and legs removed. The wife missed a buck later in our hunt but she was a happy hunter any way. Now it's antelope for her and I in WY. then our WY. deer hunt with a Texas whitetail, hog and javelina hunt in Jan. Should be a fun fall.
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