Fellas, thanks fer sharing!!! I am Jealous... If'n your going to do it again... I am interested!!! Just to be out there amongst those magnificent animals during the rut and the bugling, its gotta be sumthing!!

Great hunt to read about guys.  And congrats on your first bull.  Sounds like a great hunt for sure.  Thanks for taking the time to share.

BobinTN.....

Quote "It just does not get any better than that."

Amen to that....

Fantisic hunt!!! Thank you for the pictures and story  

The others have pretty well expressed my feelings about what a great hunt/time of fellowship/camp/group of guys/experience this was and is, so I won't go on about that aspect except to say my thanks to Doug for getting it organized and to each of the other participants for coming prepared to hunt and enjoy what gifts were offered up.

My individual hunting experiences were many, but I'll summarize. I was out there for 18 days, 14 of which I hunted. In those 14 days I was into elk 12 of them. I shot over a big cow at 30 yds - broadside, called another to 15 yds, but she came in on the wrong side of my shooting lanes and had another small cow walk up my backtrtail to just 4 yds, but only offered a severe quartering away shot, so I didn't drop the string.

I verbally sparred with one bull for over an hour one eveing and he screamed/bugled/chuckled and/or roared at me no less than 65-70 times. Doug, Wayne and I called in a magnificent 4x4 to 75 yds before he busted me. This guy's main beams stretched to the middle of his back and I described him as being similar in beauty to a 130" 6pt or 150" 8pt whitetail.

This was only my second elk trip, but I learned so much and had so much fun, I can't wait for next September already. I didn't track my mileage, but estimated that I averaged 6-7 mi/day for each of the days I hunted. I dropped 18 lbs according to the scale at my folks house, but was never hungry.

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures to share. My camera is simply crap. Next year I'll have a good camera, be in even better shape and PICK A SPOT!!!

Thanks again to Doug and the rest. This hunt has set the bar to which all other trips will be compared.

Darren S.

Darren

You're such a ruggedly handsome man in camp.  

Darren,

I really enjoyed hunting with you buddy. Anytime you want to do it again, together, just let me know... If I can afford it, I'll do it.

As you know I hunted mostly with you or Barry. Thanks guys for the memories. I'm not kiddin' when I say that a large part of the success of the hunt had NOTHING to do with getting my first elk... that was just "icing on the cake".

Thanks!
Wayne

Wayne, my sentiments exactly!

Congrats to all on a great hunt  

Guys,

A great hunt!  Spending time in the Rawah with friends will bring memories that last a lifetime.

Great photographs as well.  Thanks for taking us along with your posts.  It sure brings back memories and makes one long for time in the elk mountains of Colorado.

Darren - hope you got to burn that Opus X in celebration of a fine hunt!

 

Bringing this to the top. Doug's story of this trip is in the latest TBM. Good job everybody!

Wow, what a dream, way to go guys.
Doug it sure sounds like you deserve some coudos....

Cheers

Thank You for sharing your adventure with us!!
Glenn

Yeah! Congrats Doug on the article in TBM!!

He's out chasing elk again... but I'm sure he will see this when he gets back.

Wayne