Hunting & Fishing 2013 Wyoming Elk Camp

[hognuts]

Here are some pics of our trip, we had a blast, I got a nice 6x6 bull, biggest I have ever harvested and I got it suppressed with my 6.5 SAUM at 320 yards, running straight up a hill away from us following a cow. Elk were still in the thick of the rut up there, when he would bugle up the draw he was in you could "feel" the chuckle in your chest...fucking amazing!



















Storm Tactical Pocket Data Book came in handy on the trip! I kept my "bible" in my pocket the whole time!

 

[hognuts]

.....more pics

 

[hognuts]

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Another awesome year on the mountain....looking forward to next fall already!

 

[lilharcher]

Congrats on a great hunt. I am gearing up for my Elk hunt on mount Wilson, NV next month and this post has my blood boiling.

 

[hognuts]

Good luck! I am heading up to the Rubies for the late Mule Deer hunt here in a few weeks.

 

[FN in MT]

Nice bull!

Pretty Country as well.

Elk season starts a week from today here in MT.

 

[buckey]

Nice pictures and hunt!!

 

[30cal user]

Nice elk, smile you shot a stud!

 

[mdesign]

Great pics..thanks for posting them. Be great to go on a hunt like that some time.

 

[hillbillybear]

Congratulations! That is some fantastic looking country.

 

[hognuts]

Thank you gentlemen. I was stoked. Biggest bull I have ever got and a great time packing in to some awesome country with family and plenty of good whiskey to celebrate the kills!

 

[Oregonmuley]

That is some great stuff - congrats to you that is a heck of a bull!

 

[Wyfox]

Great bull!! Congrats, see or here any wolves in there?

 

[Engine 22]

Those are some cool pics. Congrats on your awesome hunt brother! Next time, why don't you carry a larger side arm.... Lol!

 

[Huntr]

Congrats on a great hunt! What bullet did you use?

 

[hognuts]

130 grain Berger, and yes we saw and heard wolves, my cousin missed one, it was early in the am and we heard them howling, I thought they were way off, but they were right in the bottom next to our camp. My cousins ran out and had three shots off before I could get out of the tent, they couldn't get the range finder to read on the wolves so they ranged one of our horses that was roaming near them and it was 500 yards, they thought the wolves were on the same plane so he let'r'rip with his 30/378 with his 500 yard hold and shot right over them. There were three, one solid black, one black with a grey face, and one grey/white, he was shooting at the black/grey apparently the bigger of the three. I really wish I would have been able to send one with the SAUM! That was the one and only sighting we had. We saw alot of tracks around so I know they were there, just didn't get an opportunity with my stick. The area we were hunting they had a quota of 4 and when we went up none of them had been harvested, I don't know if they called to check and see where the quota was when we got back to civilization or not, there were a few outfitter camps near where we were hunting, not sure if any of them drilled one or not. It was an amazing hunt none-the less. Sure would have been pretty on top of the pack string to have one of those big bastards like the cherry on top though!

 

[EasternNChunter]

That is looks awesome!

 

[piglatinhater]

That's a successful adventure!

 

[jonthomps]

Great photo's! Nice to know the 6.5 SAUM is stacking up elk kills. Better luck next time with the wolves.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Looks like a blast! very jealous

 

[hognuts]

It was an awesome hunt! Still have a mule deer tag in the Ruby Mountains, heading up the first weekend in November, hoping to put the SAUM to work again if the opportunity presents itself. Good luck to y'all on your hunts this year.

 

[Young_Engineer_89]

looks like tons of fun. We hunted the rubies pretty hard this year for the early season. If you have horses it will be great for you we seen lots of good looking critters

 

[hognuts]

No horses on this trip, my cousins have the horse power up in Wyoming, this will be a DIY pack my own ass up the mountain kind of trip. One of my employees is up there right now for the middle hunt, looking forward to seeing how he does, he will be back this weekend, I head up, not this weekend, but next. Hoping to get a crack at one though and if not atleast spend another couple days taking my rifle for a walk on the mountain.

 

[knockemdown]

Congrats & thanks for the ride along!!!

 

[lilharcher]

Another awesome hunt. My brother/dad just got back from their early Mulley hunt across the highway from Mount Wilson.....hunted both Malloy Springs and Grassy Mountain I believe. They got a nice 3x3, nothing special but big body. They said the higher the elevation, the more deer they saw. They packed up to the very top of the mountain to get away from all the traffic.......saw some monsters up there but didn't get any shots. Ended up taking the respectable 3x3. Good luck in the Rubbies......I look forward to reading you next post.

 

[Bull Arms]

Very cool post, well done to you!

 

[Rocky 1\508]

My Kind of hunt!!Enjoyed the pics!!!

 

[Burglecutt]

Beautiful country, great pics and looks to be one hell of a great time and hunt. Nice work on the bull and doing it right!

 

[my human host]

Had to dig this one back out. Thanks for sharing, Hognuts.

Those pics keep me coming back to this thread.

 

[Scotty22]

Looks like you had an awesome trip.

 

[hognuts]

Thanks guys, yeah it was an awesome trip! I didn't draw Wyoming this year, so I won't be going in with those guys this fall, but a buddy of mine and I are going to do a drop camp in the Bob Marshall Wilderness area up in Montana. It is some country that we haven't seen before. Not sure how the hunting will be, but sometimes that is an after thought anyway, just having the opportunity to spend a week in that country is worth the trip! We finally found a guide that is willing to do a drop camp in there, we had been looking for a few years and couldn't get it put together, but should be a good time. It is a back country early season rifle hunt while they are in the rut, (Opens September 15th) we did that hunt in the Absaroka Beartooth a few years back and had a great time, will be pretty cool to see some of the Bob! Is it September yet???

 

[Scotty22]

Man I would love to do a hunt like that. If you don't mine me asking what does a bull tag cost if you get drawn. I would like to put in for a tag one of these years

 

[hognuts]

Man I would love to do a hunt like that. If you don't mine me asking what does a bull tag cost if you get drawn. I would like to put in for a tag one of these years

In Montana if you are a non-resident and don't have family there it is right around $1000 for a deer/elk combo tag, you have to put in a draw, but there are alot of tags available for the general hunt. (somewhere in the neighborhood of 17,000 tags I believe in the general draw) The drop camp we are doing is $600 each ($900 each if we both bag an elk) plus whatever you want to tip your guide.

It is money well spent, I usually piss more away than that when we go hunting and just do day trips and spend the evenings in the bar drinking, fighting, etc...

 

[lilharcher]

Hognuts,
How did your Ruby Mountain hunt go?

 

[Scotty22]

Hognuts that sounds like a blast. Hell the day hunt adventures sound like a real blast haha.

In Montana if you are a non-resident and don't have family there it is right around $1000 for a deer/elk combo tag, you have to put in a draw, but there are alot of tags available for the general hunt. (somewhere in the neighborhood of 17,000 tags I believe in the general draw) The drop camp we are doing is $600 each ($900 each if we both bag an elk) plus whatever you want to tip your guide.

It is money well spent, I usually piss more away than that when we go hunting and just do day trips and spend the evenings in the bar drinking, fighting, etc...

 

[hognuts]

Hognuts that sounds like a blast. Hell the day hunt adventures sound like a real blast haha.

They are both unique and unforgettable experiences in their own right and I wouldn't have missed any of them if I had it to do over!

 

[Rthur]

Those are some dandy Mulies and Elk. My crew is going back to NM for Elk in September. We are still using stick and string but have a helluva time trying. These pics are getting me fired up already.

R

 

[hognuts]

I really can't wait either, we finally got a deal worked out to do a drop camp in the Bob Marshall Wilderness area in Montana this fall, so I am chomping at the bit, here are a few of a bull in rut we bugled in during a muzzle loader deer hunt here in Southern Nevada last fall. I believe it was September some time, cant remember the dates, I was just showing a buddy from Montana around and they started bugling all around us so we gave up mule deer hunting for the day and bugled in this bull! I love the fall in the mountains!