Hunting & Fishing 2018 bull elk hunt

[coldboremiracle]

From earlier this year:



“Warm rays of sunshine, long awaited since the cold darkness of early morning, poured through the Pinion pine trees. At first they were weak and shallow, but they soon began to warm the soft brown soil beneath me. Shadows retreated, and that familiar sensation of sunlight beating down against your back brought comfort to my half frozen body... “
Read: Reflected Majesty

 

[huntsman22]

what hatchet?

 

[coldboremiracle]

what hatchet?

Dont recall, wasn’t mine. I think it was Gerber.

 

[WoobieJ]

Awesome! great video, and great shooting

 

[Roo_man]

cool video

 

[Rimfiremike]

Great video, shooting and very nice bull!

Love the .260's!!

 

[MBanning]

Great video. Thank you for sharing.

 

[crunchy]

Thats a shooter any day of the week. Stud bull

 

[coldboremiracle]

Thats a shooter any day of the week. Stud bull

He fit the bill ?

 

[1500varmint]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not a hunter (yet), so I have some noob questions.

When you clean/gut him do you bury the innards or leave them out in the open for scavengers?

How the hell did you get that thing back to the truck?

Your shots seemed to be spot-on at 500 yards. Did you zero at 200 and hold for 500 or did you adjust the scope for 500 and then shoot?

Thanks again.

 

[Kraze]

Cool video, thanks for sharing! That's a nice bull!

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not a hunter (yet), so I have some noob questions.

When you clean/gut him do you bury the innards or leave them out in the open for scavengers?

How the hell did you get that thing back to the truck?

Your shots seemed to be spot-on at 500 yards. Did you zero at 200 and hold for 500 or did you adjust the scope for 500 and then shoot?

Thanks again.

I'm not the OP, but I can answer some of these for you.

Very few people have managed to get an elk out whole to the truck, if that's what you were thinking. Generally, once you get it down, you'll want to quarter it up and then pack out the quarters. And really, you don't need to get into the abdominal cavity at all to do this. You can Youtube videos of the gutless method and you'll see what I'm talking about. If you do end up gutting it, don't worry about burying the gut pile, just don't hang/leave your meat near the carcass/gut pile.

Also, at 2:19 in the video, you can see that he dialed for the shot. That's not to say that you couldn't use your reticle to holdover for a shot like that, but I think most (including myself) prefer to dial in the elevation.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not a hunter (yet), so I have some noob questions.

When you clean/gut him do you bury the innards or leave them out in the open for scavengers?

Most people generally leave the gut pile on the mountain, I keep the heart and liver but the rest is bird bait.

How the hell did you get that thing back to the truck?

Depending on where you kill it, sometimes it can be dragged out whole, either by hand, horse, or ATV. If not, it is generally quartered up, and packed out on foot. Luckily for us, this one was the former.

Your shots seemed to be spot-on at 500 yards. Did you zero at 200 and hold for 500 or did you adjust the scope for 500 and then shoot?

Thanks again.

I zero all my rifles at 100 and dial up elevation from there. This rifle is my Brother’s, and it is also zeroed at 100.

 

[1500varmint]

Thanks!

 

[zk-315]

Nice bull! I've only chased elk around once, back in 2015 in Colorado, but planning to make a trip back this year.

 

[sandwarrior]

Outstanding video Coldbore! What part of Utah were you in? When I was down in St. George area, I was surprised to find there is elk all over once you get into a little high ground. Which isn't far from there. Big muley bucks all around down there as well.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Outstanding video Coldbore! What part of Utah were you in? When I was down in St. George area, I was surprised to find there is elk all over once you get into a little high ground. Which isn't far from there. Big muley bucks all around down there as well.

Im up north, not far from town.