He called it loon shit.

It's just that frickin greasy top layer on those northern.

Oh, I've been running from the lawn.

Hope they won't shoot me down some.

But I froze my bag off like I had every piece of cloth on inside.

Myself.

Welcome back, everybody.

Episode 75, it's been whirlwind of what have we been back for just over a month now from our jetboat trip.

Yeah, been lots has happened, but not lots has happened at the same time.

It's been a crazy elk season and this episode's all going to be about our our elk season so far and and what it was.

How you doing Dev?

Yeah, it's good.

It's weird to think it's only been like a month.

I know if if it feels like it was like, I don't know if it feels like it was months.

Ago to me like like it's the fall is going by fairly quickly and I haven't been hunting a ton.

Got out enough in September.

But yeah, I only think we were driving back from north like literally just over a month ago.

A month and three days ago, we got home.

And then yeah, the third elk season, which if you follow us knew was a successful 1.

And it kind of, it just happened so quickly with, and it was so much different this year too.

So the last month's been interesting.

It's been kind of nice.

Like we'll get into all the details of it.

But like, honestly, like, like anyone knows if you whack something early, the pressure comes off.

And like, I've been getting firewood and taking care of some projects and doing like some family stuff because, you know, me and Matt just we killed an elk early and it was like didn't really need to focus and we could do other things.

So it's kind of nice.

I'll be honest.

It's a different September.

It totally meant like it's been coming back from our northern hunt empty handed.

Was like, it was a great trip, but it's still a bummer not being able to come back with something.

And then like last year, our whole plan was to do this, the big elk hunt last year, right?

I came down there for like 11 or 12 days and that's we, we pounded it pretty hard.

But this year was like, you get back from your like your A1 hunt and like my season, like my elk season is usually a joke here.

So I was like, yeah, fuck, I'm like, I'm going to go out maybe once or twice, but I'm not going to see shit.

And yeah, it was just the same thing, man.

It was just like 1 and done.

Went out and fucking whacked one.

And then yeah, like caught up on a shit ton of yard work, housework.

I've been every night, every weekend, just trying to get the, the new yard and everything dialed in for the winter.

It it's nice to have the time and the family time too, right?

Especially being away on that hunt for for a long time was just nice to get home and catch up on stuff, you know, spend time with the kids.

So and, and September is usually chaos.

It's usually the busiest month of hunting for me and my pretty much my whole life.

Like chicken hunting is always wide open, deer hunting, elk hunting, you get into moose hunting.

And this year was just I've gone hunting 2 days that's it.

And it feels weird, but at the same time it's like, well, I'm not meat hunting anymore because I've got a whole elk in the freezer.

Yeah.

Plus I have elk from last year, plus the moose from last year.

Like my freezers are fucking full plus.

We're butchering a cow in three weekends.

Yeah Dev and I are splitting the beef.

So half a beef each.

I went and bought another deep freeze because I was like both my deep freezers like 1 is.

I have two fridges with freezers and two full deep freezes and it's stuffed.

My 1 deep freeze is like 3/4 full and the other one you couldn't put a fucking sausage in there.

So I was like man like where am I going to put?

I didn't expect to kill an elk.

So then I'm like, and then my buddy was selling a deep freeze and I'm like, I'll take that, I'll pick it up tomorrow.

So you got the shop space, now you can just ram it in the shop.

Right.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

That wasn't even home when I got it.

And I'm just she's like, where are we going to put this beef?

I'm like, God, don't worry, I got it covered.

She's like, well, we don't have any room.

Like we got lots of room.

She's like, what do you mean?

I'm like deep freeze while you're gone.

It was a good price, though.

You can't go wrong.

100 bucks, you can't go wrong.

Oh.

Fuck, yeah.

That's nothing.

No, that's sweet.

Yeah, it's funny.

It's it's weird.

And whatever.

We were focused on our northern hunt and that's pretty much happens every time I go sheep hunting as my focus for like elk scouting goes out the window all summer basically.

And I really got, I got out like once just to hang a camera on one spot and Matt put up a couple cameras, but he was also doing northern hunts.

So the prep is also really weird for me.

Like I'm usually very, I don't know, lots of cameras, few scouting trips, hiking into areas and.

Elk season for you guys is like, that's your main goal of the year usually, right?

Yeah.

Like even if you do a northern hunt you.

That's what I was saying when we came back from sheep season.

Like, do you ever be telling you like when you missed that elk on the boat trip and you're like a little bit bombed?

I'm like, man, I'm like, you're going back to prime elk hunting for the next month.

Like why do you give a fuck right now?

I'm like, I'm going back to the shittiest elk elk hunting fucking in BC.

So I was like, you're all good, man.

There's no big deal at all.

I was 100% expecting not even to fucking hear or CNL.

Yeah, you always get bummed after a shot and then looking hindsight I'm like I'm glad I missed that little cunt.

No shit.

No shit.

Yeah, yeah.

So run me by like we we got back on Wednesday.

To Cornell.

To Cornell.

You left Cornell Thursday or Friday?

A next day?

No, I stayed a day.

I drove all the way Friday.

That's right.

Yeah.

You helped me with some shit.

Yeah.

And your mom shit.

Yeah.

So you left Friday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So yeah, we we dive into her now so well, I.

Don't know do you want to is there any current events?

No, I think we could get better roll.

So yeah, that's basically it.

Like going back to the last episode, we finished off the jet boat hunt.

I spent a nice day with mom, cleaned up some stuff, did a few chores with her around the house in Cornell.

Oh, I hauled the boat home.

That's what I did.

So on on Thursday in Cornell, I was going to take my dad's boat home, my mom and dad's boat home to here and the Kootenai.

So we got that out and cleaned and everything put together there and ready for travel, like check the bearings, put some air in the tires and that kind.

Of shit, pack rat shit.

Yeah, open up the fucking cover and there's pack rat nests and all the cubbies and shit.

And because I was solo with my truck and really not much in it besides my hunting gear, so it was like a good opportunity to bring it home.

So yeah, got home Friday after being gone from the family for over 2 weeks, you know, spent Friday with the family.

Didn't really think going out elk hunting on Saturday after, you know, being gone this long was the responsible thing to do.

But it was also hard not to because it was like September 14th or something.

Like it was like prime or like right in that range.

I'm like, man, this is like we're hitting.

And Matt has been out a bit in archery and hasn't had much luck just because it was hot.

So he he wasn't chomping at the bit, But I was kind of like, fuck, I got to get like something figured out.

So like spent Saturday with the family, like girls had gymnastics and swimming.

So did like all that kind of stuff.

But then I I got my gear sorted, like spent Saturday, got all my shit kind of put away.

And then I was like, OK, I got to flip my backpack to like day L cunning.

So make sure I got everything.

So just like, get it light, go game bags, you know, lunch, food, water calls, trekking poles done right, Like, looked at it.

And then I was a kid just so I could go.

So I knew that if we were going to bomb in somewhere, just be ready.

Yeah.

And then Matt, we were talking on Saturday and he's like, all right, I said, you want to hunt this weekend?

And he's like, yeah, what are you thinking?

I said, well, kind of.

I don't really want to go, like, for a full day right away.

Maybe we can do an evening hunt on Sunday.

So he's like, yeah, I can do that.

Or like an afternoon evening hunt.

I'm like, OK, so he pitched one spot and I was like, well, that's a little bit like too far, I think, for like an evening hunt.

So he what do you think about this spot?

Little hike in?

We can, you know, check out a spot we've haunted before and I kind of know the area.

He's like, yeah, I haven't been in there yet.

That's a good idea.

And it was one of those things where it's just like, sure, let's try it first time together.

And it just so happened the weather started switching for like 3 days and a little bit of rain was coming and it was hot here for the pretty much up until that point.

So it was spitting rain on Sunday afternoon and I left home, I don't know, 3:00 somewhere around there to meet Matt.

And we meet up and it's like spitting rain.

I'm like this, this is going to be pretty good.

Like if in my mind I'm like the if the bulls have been quiet all our tree season and it's hot, this is perfect.

Like if it doesn't pour, like if it doesn't absolutely downpour on us, this should be getting moving and maybe maybe won't get them going.

But at the same time, I had no idea if there was even going to be any elk where we were going.

So we hike in mid afternoon and just play the traditional like you get into a spot.

We have a few calling spots.

Like most guys who have spots they're hiking into, you always have like a point or a corner on the trail or like a little bit of a vantage and you just so we just do that.

We just stop.

Cal called bugle.

Matt was like, you want to call or I want to call like And I was like, he's like, I've been calling all fucking like.

Matt said I've been calling all archery season and haven't had a bugle, so you call.

I'm tired of bugling right now.

So I was like, OK, I don't care.

So that's what we're doing.

We're just walking down the road and every once in a while we'll stop and let a call out and nothing mad old cow call.

And we look around, there's not a lot of sign and we get to this one spot.

We get into the trail and it kind of corners and heads up a Creek draw and we always have had pretty good action there.

It kind of starts to get close to what we found was there like betting areas and where where they in the evenings we've had success of them moving out of their betting zones and coming back to feed.

And we get to that corner and I RIP the bugle and instant response.

We're like sick.

Like it, let's go, right?

Like it's just that, like I had no expectation at this point and I wasn't in any kind of bad mood because I hadn't been ripping bugles all for 14 days.

You know what I mean?

Like that's normally a a common thing is like we've been calling and pounding the Bush and getting like all over and a lot of times you're coming up dry.

Well, fuck, we go into this spot and boom, bugle hits for like sack, like fist bump, like let's go.

And at that point he's like, oh, do you want to shoot or do you want to call?

And I was like, oh, I don't really care.

Like he's like you, you shoot like he says to me, I shot one last year.

You didn't get to pull the trigger.

You can start this year shooting and I'm like sure, like I like that.

Like I do want to shoot an elk this year.

So I was like perfect.

So I go ahead of him.

We just instantly start walking towards the bugle because it's not crazy far, but like up in the timber more.

We get up the trail a little bit farther and one more bugle we RIP.

He answers just to like pinpoint him a bit and we're like perfect.

So the trail kind of goes from like like a regen growth and then it skirts into some older like cedar along a Creek.

So we just transitioned from the region into the cedar Matt.

And we're walking together.

Matt's like right behind me and we just get up this little bank and into like the darker timber and it's like trance Stampede like, well, running, like elk running.

And we're like fuck, like full on horns hitting, fucking limbs running.

We're like fuck like you know how you get like you instantly know if you figure you just fuck busted right, busted toast and like, and it made total sense.

We closed the distance and at that time we were like the bull closed the distance, fuck right, Like he saw us before we saw him.

So we kind of like, and it's funny you do this as hunters where you just like start talking.

You get busted and you're like fuck, like you stop whispering and you're just like kind of talk to them.

But then I was like, let's not be too loud.

Like we let's hold on.

Like there was no bark.

Like both of us were kind of pissed, but there was like no bark.

And he just like trampled, I'd say like stampeded away, but didn't, I don't know.

I just in my mind, I was like, I think we just pursued a bit more because maybe it's not the bull that we were calling to or whatever.

Maybe he's not scared.

He didn't bark at us.

And we called right away to try to like act like he's we were elk.

So Matt's like, OK, yeah, yeah, let's try a little bit.

Like it's early where it's like

fucking, I don't know, 4:30-ish.

Yeah, it gets early in the afternoon.

So we're like, let's, let's keep trying.

So we only go like another 20 yards up this trail.

Matt's behind me and he calls a little bit, does a bit of raking and I can hear, you know, walking back in.

So I like like, I don't know, say to Matt or like wave at him.

I'm like, it's walking like towards me.

So keep going.

So I get the gun ready, like guns off ready loaded and I get up in these trees right along like I'm now like second Jen on my left and deep dark forest on my right.

I'm right on this like edge.

So I'm looking into the dark timber and I start to see movement coming through.

And then a bull is at like 20 yards and there's like thick cedar boughs like blocking him.

And all I see is like a little bit of blonde and like this rack kinda.

And I'm just leaned up against the tree.

I'm like, fuck, he's got us like pretty pin.

Like I could watch his face like tucking around the cedar bell and Matt's just like raking and that's what the bull is like just looking like trying to see Matt behind me.

So I'm trying to count and I'm like OK it looks thin, thin antlers.

Like it doesn't look heavy or anything but I'm looking for points and fairly dark antlers and the little fucker steps like another 5 yards and comes like right at me.

Like he's like maybe 15 yards from me and he's like looking at my and I can see him at that point, but he's face on again and I'm just like, fuck, he's got a small little rack.

And then he turns like once and I see it and it's like 5.

And I'm like, OK.

And then I don't see anything.

And and then he bolts, right?

Like he didn't bark.

He just kind of, you know how they are, Yeah.

So he bolts, pussyfooting around.

Yeah.

And I was like, fuck, that's a satellite.

There's no way that's in my head.

I'm like, there's no way that's a bullet.

It was people.

And it's like, it didn't sound like a crazy bull, but I'm like, I don't think, I don't think he's the bull.

So I run back to Matt, go like he's like, what's going on?

I'm like, I just saw him.

He's like, really?

And I was like, yeah, but it's five point like, and I don't think that's our bull.

So let's keep let's call some more and go forward.

So sure enough, we go like another, oh, I don't know, 100 yards.

And now we're, we know where the trail goes along the second Gen.

and then it slips into the, IT crosses the big timber before it goes up a big bank and then into some more second Gen.

But there's like a game trail that they always use that crosses in that timber.

We are calling from a little bit lower there and we get a growl and I'm like, OK, that's not that fucking 5 point.

This is like a satellite then.

So we get a growl, like a chuckly growl, really perfect.

So now we're just keep working, keep working towards them.

And I get into this dark timber and now I'm looking like up maybe like a 90 yard kind of bank that goes up and then it benches out and you can see quite a bit, but it's like a lot of big, like thick, not thick, sorry.

A lot of big trees, stands just like branchless Cedars.

And Matt was calling for a bit because we knew the bowl was close.

And then I'm like looking up and he comes up, Matt comes up to me and he's like, do you see anything?

Like I'm like, no, but he's right here somewhere.

Like I think we could probably hold up here, but I don't know.

And as we were talking about like, should we move farther and then start calling again, Matt's like, I see an elk and I'm like, what?

Like and he was 3 feet below me like, and he could see blonde through.

And I'm like, what the fuck are you looking at?

And he's like, come here and he like pulls me towards him and there's like a line between like all these cedar trees and he.

And if I, if he wasn't standing there, he wouldn't like, I couldn't see the blonde.

So he like jumps back like I'm like, he's like he got him.

I'm like, yeah.

So I, I throw my, I still have my gun like in my hands.

So I find a cedar tree.

I lean against it, throw my gun on it and just hold on this blonde patch.

I don't know what it is at this point.

And then right away I'm like, oh, it's a bowl.

So antlers are showing.

And then all I'm seeing is like a nose sticking out of a cedar.

Matt jumps back and he just starts raking.

Just the like break little bit of growly, but mainly just raking.

So I'm sitting there, Matt can see me and I start to see a little bit Morehead and it was cool.

Like this was a pretty cool one to watch come in because this bull, he just acted like super like curious because I'd like watch his face come out.

And then he like turns looking down towards where Matt's raking from, but not like very slowly.

And he takes like 2 steps and I can see like the bottom of his antlers.

So I'm like, OK, he's got 2 brows, he's got a third and he takes like another step and I'm like, OK, I can start to see his tops.

I'm like OK, there's six.

Yeah, I think that's OK.

Good.

But now all I got is like a head in willows at about 7075 yards.

And I'm like, should I just like literally it goes through my head every fucking time.

But I'm like, what if he doesn't step out right?

That's what's going through my head.

He doesn't know I'm there.

And I'm like.

Fuck if he doesn't clear like I can't see body at all but I have his head like maybe a bit of his neck and I'm like I could probably just do it.

Slip one in there.

Just slip one in there.

But I, I just said fuck it.

He'll step like he's not doesn't look like he's going to jump.

He looks like he's curious.

So Matt keeps raking the ball, takes a few more steps.

I'm starting to see shoulder, but then there's some brush and I'm like looking at his terrain and I'm like, hey, he just needs to go like 20 feet and I, there's a good shooting lane.

Well, as he's walking and he's getting to there really slowly, he's doing this like kind of looks down the hill, but then he looks back.

I'm like, God, there's got to be other elk with him.

And then sure enough, a cow comes right in behind him and he gets into this little lane.

She kind of peels off and and then he's took one more step and looked at Matt like Matt just kept raking.

And it worked because he just, he had to try to see Matt like that's what that bull he wasn't calling.

He just had to try to see where that other bull was.

And as soon as he did that, I just I had the shot fucking I touched off like just held shoulder and that fucker like just suitcased like on the hill broadside shot like and I watched it.

It was like holy fuck.

And then he flips.

I see the like feet go up in the air and he rolls into a big like fir tree.

So Matt comes running up, you know, and I'm like, I ran up there like first, like I just like, fuck it, I'm just going to get right on top this thing.

Like fuck, if he stands up, I'm just going to dump him.

But I run up there and like just hold on him.

Matt comes running up, He's like, get him.

And I'm like, yeah, he's right there.

Like laying up against this tree.

He's like, holy shit, like didn't go anywhere.

I'm like that even fucking thing anchored like.

So we stand there for a few minutes and it's kind of funny.

Like Matt's like, is he a good six?

And I was like, I think so like, and it's just funny.

Like I knew, I knew I counted 6, but there was just something because I can't see his antlers the way he was laying that I'm like until I can see, see, you know, it's just like a sheep if you until you actually put your hands on it, there's always doubt and I don't know what it is.

I I was confident and he's a clean like good six point, but I'm like, I think so I'm Matt's like, what do you mean?

You think so?

And I'm like, well, I counted 6, you know what I mean, But I'm like, and the way he was laying his antlers were like you were looking at it from behind, kind of like it just wasn't easy.

And then he it was funny for him to drop like that.

He kicked for quite a while and didn't like, you know, die instantly and I was like, fuck, I must have spined him right.

I was like the way he dropped, I must have hit him high.

So I walked up the hill because I didn't have any like fatal shot where I was standing.

So I just walked up a little bit and got above him.

And then I put one like underneath his jaw, like just in the neck and just finished him off quickly just to get it done with and then get my hands on him and show Matt that it was a six point.

So, you know, make sure.

But yeah, man, it was like, fuck, that was at like 6:00 and we basically started bugling at like 4:30, we figured.

Yeah, that's unreal.

And you send me an inreach, I think, and you're like bowled down, babe.

I'm like what the fuck?

I'm like you just you just got home like you fucking killed a bull the first day you went out and then you were fucking were texting me back and I'm like, dude, what the fuck?

Like and I knew the area that you went into that there's like shit service in there.

So I was like, fuck is out all night.

I'm waiting for like the pictures.

I'm like, dude, send me some fucking pictures, right?

I don't know what time it was when you sent me the actual, because when you guys packed that out, like we've been in there lots, you get it on like one knob and then you lose it for fucking the rest of the way out, right?

But yeah, fucking then it's a nice bowl too.

That's even better.

Yeah, yeah, I was sick.

And so that was pretty unreal.

Like we were kind of like blown away, both of us.

Like holy fuck, we combined like our elk hunting season together, me and Matt, where there's an hour and a half and we had a bull and a pack out ahead of us.

So after two unsuccessful Northern hunts for him, too, right?

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So it was a pretty wicked way to, you know, come back and essentially not start my hunting season because we had already been hunting, but start my elk season down here it.

Felt like the start of hunting season though did not right like.

Yeah.

Yeah, like if, yeah, like continue on with your pack out and everything.

Yeah, well, it, it was good.

So it was 6:00 and it rained kind of on and off the whole time.

So it was cool.

So it was nice.

It wasn't hot and it wasn't a bad rain.

We started packing out.

Yeah, it was, you know, we bowled down around six.

Fuck.

I would say like 10:00.

No, 8:30 maybe we started to head down trail and then we were, you know, pack out two guys and we were we were a little ways in there.

Like even though it was a quick hunt, the trails pretty, pretty good that we use and it it gets you kind of back there quick.

But there's quite for two guys.

It's it's a good poke to get it out of there.

Yeah, I hate, I don't like hunting that spot because the fucking trail, it sucks.

And it's not that it's like climbing through, it's just like.

It's rugged and steep and it's steep steep.

It's easy enough going that it's not a lot of brush that it you go farther I think is the problem.

Yeah, you go further, quicker, but it's steep.

Yeah.

So it's, I don't know, it's always the pack outs are funny.

I don't have like a perfect method.

And this was the first one with the XO.

So now it's like put it to the test, figure out what we want to do.

So we kind of make like a shuttling plan.

We're like, OK, we'll go to this spot and then we'll dump and then we'll come back, get meat and then do one more shuttle to that spot.

So the first one, you're the most fresh.

So I did a hind leg and the head and my whole kit, right?

So I was like, that's what I'll do and I'll take it to that spot.

And it's only about the first spot we picked was maybe like 20 minutes straight down or like down the trail.

So we did that.

I got there and that's where this bit of service kicks in.

And then I tried to send you guys messages and I don't know if they went because we're kind of quick, right?

Like tried to send messages or pictures and whatever, but we're trying to get back and get the next load going.

So we did the out load and it was heavy like it it felt like a lot and it was raining just enough, though, to keep a guy like cooled down.

It was actually kind of nice.

You'd hit like brush and get soaked, but it would like cool your right off.

And I was like, this is actually I said to Matt, I'm like this is actually pretty good because we're not slipping all over the place and we're not soaked and it like it's cooling us off like every so often.

So it was actually pretty sweet.

That's nice too.

Like like the night time pack outs.

You're not fighting that.

The fucking heat of the day, right?

Like in fact, Matt's out last year, like it was late and it's not that it was cold, but it was like T-shirt on and you're just making fucking shuttling fucking meat out.

But you're you're sweating but you're not like soaked in fucking sweat like a midday pack out.

Yeah, yeah, We've talked about that, man.

I'm like, man, if this was like the middle, like a morning and it was going to be plus 25, it sort of sucked.

Yeah.

Like it would have been bad.

So I was like, this is actually pretty sweet, like headlamp pack out like whatever.

But it was good.

It went, it went as good as it could have.

We we had no complications.

I think we got back to our trucks around 1130.

So it was a pretty good night to do it.

So we like packed that first load and then we were loaded up on the second one and decided to just go all the way to or we didn't go all the way out.

We made one more drop.

No, we went and dropped, but we went farther.

So we just left it on and went farther and we went to like our next drop point and then we're OK, we'll drop this load.

And then we went back and got the load we had on the road and then headed all the way to the trucks.

So it was like hit the skidder trail where we dropped the one and then go all the way out and then we had to go back in and do it again.

So it it went well.

I know lots of guys had asked me before the season, they were really curious on my thoughts on the XO and I had some feedback after our our jetboat hunt, but I never got to pack out with it.

So my opinions still haven't changed.

I think it's a good bag.

I think it packs well It it doesn't flip flop still, even with a big load.

Yeah, I still need to kind of get better with this rigging and things like it's only my first time throwing meat in it.

But I was telling Kurt earlier that like I when I got to the butcher, because I was curious, I weighed the head when I got home on or that night after I guess the next evening.

I was just curious how much I put in the EXO because I knew my hunting kit for a day hunt with all everything I had in it with water was about 30 lbs with my gun like right around there I believe.

And the leg I had on it was 78 lbs so that'd be like 110.

And then the head when I waited at home was 35 lbs.

So it was about 1:45 in that XO, which is A.

It's a fucking heavy load.

It fucking yeah, it was.

I didn't think it was that heavy when I was coming out, but it felt like a lot of weight on a guy.

But it it held it.

And yeah, it was no, no real complaints on that.

So I'm pretty impressed with it.

Yeah, that's like when we packed mine out.

Like we were around that 140 and my back was fucking thundered, like rubbed fucking raw.

Everything hurt.

Shoulders fucking hurt.

Like it in a pack out like that heavy, you're going to be sore and hurting, but when you get rubbed raw and you're just like off balance and the loads fucking flapping around like my Kuyu is terrible for that.

And yeah, that just makes it that much harder.

But when you're rock solid, like I'll talk about that like with my pack out was nothing like your guys's.

But yeah, like when you you got that frame where there is no side to side swing, it's fucking nice because you're not, you're not getting that weight swinging you around and like you get momentum going the wrong fucking direction, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So a couple, you know, leading up to this episode, guys that kind of asked like can't wait for your guys Elk breakdown and and here's some, you know, tactics and things that you guys used.

Well, I would say on this one, tactics that worked for me and Matt were not waiting around once we heard of Bugle.

Like standing there waiting for an help to come in, like we close distance instantly, which is pretty common.

And in a lot of these, you know, calling situations nowadays is like you hear you move, you hear you move.

Like you just try to get as close as you can while they're bugling and then and not quitting on the 1st ambush was good.

I don't know if you call that a tactic, but it was definitely a good choice.

Like when we got busted with that one, we we stuck with it for a little longer instead of bailing, thinking the hunt was over and then the old raking man like.

That's the old fucking go to man.

Like he raked when that little one came back in and then me being able to watch that six point and not like Matt was also making some bugling noises, but not, you know, 3 point Doug Flutie's.

Like he was just doing a bit of the the breeding sequence.

He wasn't doing the sequence, but just that whole thought that we've talked about where you just subtle noises, little chuckles and raking and that raking was interesting to watch that bowl.

How curious he was when he so that was, you know, 2 bowl encounters in the last week.

The one with you where raking drew a bowl in and then this one.

So that's what I would kind of chalk up the tactics too on this one.

Yeah, that's especially for when I hunt by myself.

Elk like like I I'm with you, man.

Like I'm, I'm absurd with the raking.

Like I go to the next level where there's not a branch left on a tree in a 50 yard circle where I'm calling from.

And sometimes it's hard to find a fucking stick that is strong enough to last that.

But it's it's like Paul Medelli talks about.

It's like one of those things that elk just can't, can't resist where they're just like, what?

Because they, they, they know bulls from their sounds or their bugles, but when they're raking, they don't know what animal that is.

And they know like, that's the only sound that a fucking bull elk can make that no other animal can do besides like a moose rake in a tree, I guess.

But.

Well, that's not a suspicious sound.

No, exactly.

Like it's a it's like an aggression rut feature that bulls do and it just, it fucking works.

It's worked for me multiple times like it worked last year for us.

Lots like it just it's just one of those things, man.

And they it sparks their interest or sparks their aggression.

One of the two.

This one, it's made it so that he had to come and try to look at Matt.

Yeah, 100%.

He was too curious to not get eyes on whatever was raking that close to him.

It's also nice too, because it will get other bulls raking and that's the best time to fucking close distance.

If a bull is like, if he's raking, he's not sniffing the air, he's not listening for footsteps, he's got his head down and all he hears is that fucking tree that he's fucking thrashing around.

So that's a great time to like you can slip in another 20 yards, 50 yards while they're raking trees and get right in on especially like bow hunting, I think would be real good for something like that.

But that's cool, man, That's sweet.

And another fucking late night pack out.

I love those.

Yeah, well, and that was so late night, pack out.

The wife's like, well, you're not going to work tomorrow.

And I'm like, I've just been off for fucking 15 days.

Yeah, I don't think I could call in sick.

So, you know, go to bed at 2:00

AM, back into work for 7:30.

But I was when you're on a high, I don't give a fuck.

Like I was good at work.

Like, I was fine.

I was tired as shit, don't get me wrong, but like that's nothing.

Like it's easy, so.

And then you're like king of the castle too 'cause you got a fucking 6 point.

People like, oh, how was your big hunt?

And like, oh, we killed nothing, but last night it killed a bull.

And they're like, what?

Yeah, swinging your Dick around at work.

That's right.

Yeah, I did want to touch on that was the first kill with the seven Backcountry.

Yeah.

So, like I said in the story, man, like and we'll get into it with yours and you'll tell your side, but like my initial now is like she fucking works.

That was a so the shop placement I did didn't go back to that.

So I did talk about a little bit of I thought it was hot, but it wasn't.

It was like great tucked behind the shoulder and high heart, maybe low lung, but like high heart and that fucker like suitcased.

So I don't know.

And I and I found the bullet too, and then this one, we found it on the other side like yeah, I did.

So far.

It's the real deal in my mind, so.

That's awesome.

Yeah, like that's, I mean, I'll get into it with my story too, but yeah, they fucking hit, hit fucking hard.

And I mean the Barnes LRX bullet, like we've we've proven yeah, we've proven that bullet many times.

Like, I've been shooting Barnes for a long time, back to my 300 rum days, and they just, they fucking, they penetrate, they fucking put a fucking cavity inside, like they just crush it.

So yeah, that's awesome.

And then that bullet's doing fucking 3000 feet a second too, which is awesome.

So I want to lead in so I'm done with my story that that was then fuck, it was.

I was jacked.

Like it was sweet to do that and then text you.

I love texting you.

That's actually funny.

That's like one of my favorite things about killing things is like, I gotta always text Kurt and you do the same to me, but it's like bowl down, baby.

Like, yeah, let's go.

The old BBD text, Yeah.

And it's not big black Dicks.

It's big bowl down.

Oh, the big black Dicks was on the windshield.

Yeah, that's in my somewhere still too.

I threw it in the back of the boat and I have.

I just backed into the shop the other day.

I haven't even looked inside of it, but there's a big fucking brown Dong somewhere in there.

So it was so I killed on Sunday night and then, don't correct me if I'm wrong, you went hunting Tuesday, right?

Well, I went so like you, you sent me that I'm like, I have to fucking get out elk hunting, like, OK.

And so yeah, Sunday night I knew you killed a bull.

You didn't get in till late.

So like we talked in the morning and yeah, I was like, fuck, I'm like, all right.

Like So I texted the old lady.

She's off on Monday.

So I'm like when I get off work, like let's go for a drive, The biggest thing is like the spots that I hunt, like it's super frustrating.

It gets haunted lots.

There's usually camps set up in there.

And like, I know lots of guys I know have been in there all year already.

And by this time that was the 15th, I think, because, yeah, because I killed my bull on the 16th.

And so I was like, fuck, I'm like, let's go out there.

I want to see.

So like last year, not last year before I was going out before work, right?

Like I started 8.

So I'm like, if I leave at 4:30 in the morning, I can hunt.

Like I get like an hour and a half of all right, hunting.

And then I fucking pin it back to town because I'm about 45 minutes from my job site.

So I'm like, whatever, I'll go out in the evening, see if there's any camps out there because I've done it where you plan to go out there and there's a fucking camp in the middle of the road and I can't even get to the spot that I hunt.

So load the kids up.

We weren't even really hunting.

Like I didn't even bring a chicken gun.

Like I had a bugle and my rifle and like my gear is not even unpacked from our boat hunt.

It is laying in totes and all over the fucking shop floor.

So like I literally grabbed my backpack.

I already had the 3200 bag in it and I threw I I still had the game bags, some of the game bags and I just like threw a couple in, threw a knife in a fucking saw and some bullets.

That was it.

I had nothing in my bag.

So as we go out, drive around, there's no camps, didn't see any trucks.

I'm like, fuck, all right, no one's out here.

I'll come back in the morning.

So we stayed out till dark.

I fuck, the kids were fucking bugler like screaming through the bugle and walking around screaming and laughing.

And then I went to two different spots and then right right before dark, I hit the spot where I usually like to park.

Kind of walked in like into this old slash called, didn't hear fuck all and I'm like, all right, whatever, like that's normal for where I go.

So we RIP into town.

The next morning I was like, well, OK, like I guess I'll I'll go before work.

I might as well put it a little effort in.

So I just like threw the Tatanka backpack in the back.

Didn't take the winch, didn't take fucking nothing.

So then I was like, not expecting to even hear anything.

Head out in the morning and it's -2 and I'm like fuck.

And like we just got back from her hunt where it was plus 30 every fucking day.

So like I get out of truck and there's frost everywhere.

I'm like nice, this is good walking.

Like I'm 50 yards from the truck walking in this old slash call nothing.

Or when I first called, I swear I heard a fucking bugle and it's one of those things where it's like, was it the highway?

Was it a truck?

Didn't really hear it clearly.

So then I called for another 20 minutes and it's like in the dark when I got there, right?

So call nothing, walk a little bit further.

Then I had to take a shit, which is pretty normal for he hunting when I get out of the Bush.

So fucking take a crunch.

And I was like, oh, there's a tree.

I'll start raking a fucking tree.

So I'm going to town raking the fucking tree and I like, you know, like the sequence I like to do where I like do them soft kind of calls and rake and pant and do all that shit.

Well, boom, fucking bugle.

And I was like, all right, like that's kind of where I thought I heard the first one.

So right away I'm like answer.

So this before you keep going, this must be like, I just checked you text me this morning like at, I don't know, 6:50 in that morning and you were like, yeah, we were tied.

I sent you a message and you're like, oh, I'm out cunning this morning in my spot.

Typical bullshit out here.

Like it must have been minutes before this all started happening.

Yeah, there was nothing man, like.

And I was like where I was at, I was like not far from the truck.

And I was, well, I was about 350 yards from the truck and I could almost see the truck where I parked it on the road, right.

And I was like, if I didn't hear that bugle, I probably would have sat there for 10 more minutes and then went back to the truck, right?

And then probably headed into town.

So I just get this bugle.

I just took a fucking dump like right there.

So I was like, wow, fuck or whatever.

Well, the wind's good.

So I kept going, went into where that bull bugled from and they're always just in the in like the area I hunt.

It's kind of swampy and thick fucking Willow.

Once you get into there's big stands of timber, but it's still thick.

So I pop in across this kind of a little fucking Beaver fucking channel and that bull bugled right before I went into the timber.

So I knew he was right there.

So I popped in and I'm waiting.

I'm cow calling, cow calling, just trying to get him to make a sound right.

And then fucking I just crashed, same as yours.

Like I just hear running away crashing and I'm like, fuck, I'm like, but is these fuckers do that right here where they like they're just there's not like big herbals really around.

So they're all timid satellites.

So I fucking rip a bugle call running stops.

Like, hey, he's 50 yards for me, but like you can't see 20 yards.

So like maybe I'll draw him back into where he was at.

So I'm sitting there and then I heard like a fucking dog shit bugle where I'm like, fuck, I'm like that's another hunter because the way where it came from is like this old slash that I used to fucking hunt.

And I'm like that fucker heard that bull be able to me.

He's fucking trying to slip in and then I'm pissed off right away.

And I think that's when I told you typical bullshit because it was.

What time did you say that text was?

Like 6:50.

Yeah, OK, so it would have been right around then.

So then I'm like fucking then that other bull, the the one I was going after, he fucking answers.

I was like, well, he's still right there.

So I snuck out of the Bush, went back into the old slash and like this old slash, like part of it, it's like growing.

It's like they didn't replant it.

It's kind of weird.

Like every other block out there has been reseeded and those Christmas trees are all 1015 feet tall, but this one's got like some Willow in it.

It's got some region, but then there's a couple pockets where there's nothing and it's just like big poplars and a couple big fucking cottonwoods and stuff.

So you can see a couple spots.

You could see a couple 100 yards in it.

So I was like, all right, so I backed out into that, found a tiny little stick because there was fuck all to rake with.

So I'm raking some fucking like rose bushes and just trying to make as much noise as I can.

And then I got like a good bugle that came from where that shit bugle came from.

I'm like, that's a fucking elk.

Like that one for sure is an elk.

I was like, well, fuck, maybe maybe it was like a dink bowl and a bigger bowl coming in.

So that and now, now the close bowl is bugling to me too.

So now I got 3 fucking bulls within 200 yards of me that are bugling to each other almost.

So I'm like, I'm acting like a bull with a cow right now because that's what I was doing all morning.

So I'm I'm fucking panting.

I'm fucking raking trees.

I'm, you know, doing the soft chuckle like growls and I went back into the thick shit where that closer one was and I could hear him.

He's still right there, but he he ain't seen him till he literally steps on you.

And then that other big or the other bull that had the better bugle.

He bugles, but he sounded like he's almost in the slash.

So I was like fuck.

So I'm like, we've gone back and forth three Times Now, like in and out of the timber.

So now I get back out of the out of the timber into the slash.

And in that 250 yard window that you could kind of see, there was 2 clumps of like 20 foot spruce trees and they're all along the edge of that slash before you hit the thick ship.

And he sounded like he was behind the second one.

So I was like, all right, so I RIP a fucking kind of like cut him off, chuckled, started raking, and then that bowl, probably 5 minutes go by and he fucking he answers.

So I cut him off again.

Then I started cow calling to him, like doing that pleading cow call, like yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then I'm like, I'm looking at the fucking clock and I'm like, fuck, I'm like, it's 7:15.

I'm not not quite 10 minutes from my truck, but I'm like, and I'm 45 minutes to get back to town.

I'm like, fuck, I'm going to be late for work.

It's like text my, my boss is a good buddy of mine and he's a hunter too.

And I'm like, hey, man, like I got a bull at like 40-50 yards right now.

And you know, I might be a little bit late this morning.

And he's just like all good.

He's like when you get in, don't talk about hunting.

Just come in to work, go straight to work.

I'm like, OK, thanks, man, Appreciate it.

So I'm like, all right, I got the green light to be a little bit late.

So anyways, I know that this bull's like right on the fringe of this slash.

So I like scurry up to the first big clumps of trees, which kind of cut that distance into half.

So now I'm about 140 yards from the next clump, ish.

So I'm fucking calling, calling.

He fucking rips another one.

I'm like, fuck, he's right there.

But at that second clump of trees, there's like a rise in the slash and then it dropped down on the backside.

So it's a little bit of a hole that I couldn't really fucking see.

So I'm like, well, if I get to that Ridge, he should be right around the corner from that Ridge, right?

So I sneak a little bit more and I there was probably a clump of like 8 Poplar trees that are probably like 12 inch Poplar trees, like a little stand of them.

So I kind of and there was a bunch of prickle bushes.

I remember I was fucking weaving through these fucking like thorns and I get on leaning on the tree, throw my fucking finals up and I seen fucking antler and I was like, fuck, like he stepped out and like in this country, I think quinell like that doesn't happen.

I've never I've had one bull step out onto the road 1 fucking time in over 20 years of fucking hunting elk here.

Like they just they don't there's not much open country and they don't come into it.

So I'm like, he's in the fucking slash now.

He's outside of the fucking that clump of trees, but he's in a hole so all I can see is the tips of his fucking antlers.

That's it.

So I throw my fucking gun up loaded.

I'm leaning on the fucking tree and I can't.

When I'm leaning on the tree, like I couldn't lean.

I like to lean like I'm right-handed shot.

So I like to take my left hand and put that on the tree and then put my gun on it.

But I couldn't see him from there, so I had to have my hand on the right hand side of the tree with the gun leaning on my hand.

It's kind of awkward to shoot like you're leaning, leaning left on a tree.

I guess it's a little bit just goofy, right?

But anyways, I'm looking, I can see his antlers and he like spins his head and he starts walking away from me.

It's like cow call.

And it was pretty fucking cool watching in the scope because like I'm like, all right, he's got I can see two up top and then I cow call and he snaps his head back sideways.

I'm like, OK, he's got fucking three up top.

Like all right, like that's a good sign so far.

And then fucking he turns and starts walking away.

And so then I fucking cow call again, snaps his head back and then like his head was kind of tilted up and now I can see four up top.

I'm like if he's got 2 brows down low and that's a famous gene and Cornell's single brows and I've seen that many times.

So I'm like, fuck, please have two brows.

Like this is a Gimme that this fucking thing walked out in the open at 100 and he's probably 130 a 140 yards right now.

So cow call.

Fuck.

He starts walking towards me and he walks right up onto that fucking Ridge.

And when he comes over, he's got his nose in the air and it's like that first kind of crisp of daylight and I've got fucking 4 brow ties just like sticking out past his nose clear as damn.

Like that's a six point baby.

And the second AC Nat, like I just took my scope, dropped it down and I shot him like I don't even know, like less than a foot below his chin, kind of like full frontal halfway down his fucking neck.

I'd say boom.

And I just like I seen him just disappear and I'm like, I fucking anchored that thing like full on frontal, like he's I couldn't see him and I didn't.

It's not like I'd seen him just fucking cartwheel like the one last year that I killed.

Like I seen his antlers fucking flip up and his feet flip up when I shot him with a 300 PRC.

But this thing just like phunk out of my scope.

I'm like, and he was behind that knob too, right, So I couldn't see him.

So I was like Jack, another fucking shell cow call.

Don't see nothing, don't hear fucking not a cricket.

I'm like, he's fucking dead guaranteed.

So, and I I missed that bull last year, right?

So I was like, there's a little piece hesitant that I hope I didn't fucking miss another one so that I'm like, grab my gun and I'm fucking boogie in.

And I get up to that fucking Ridge and I can see him laying on the backside of that Ridge and same thing.

Like he's laying with his antlers touching down and it's one side like he's he's a six, but his six point is just a sticker.

Like it's an inch, inch and a half long.

But I knew his other side looked better.

So yeah, go up there and he's he's kind of kicking, but he's like he's dead.

He's just more or less twitching a little bit.

So I give him another one in the neck.

Oh, and I didn't have fucking earplugs in, which is fucking cock sucker again.

But it was funny because my ears didn't ring at all.

And like with that fucking side port fucking 7 PRC, it's loud, right?

You know it's loud.

Fucking loud so.

But I think the way I was leaning on that fucking tree and I had the tree on the left, your left ear, if your right hand shot, your left ear is the one that takes the fucking brunt of it, right?

Because you're always kind of tilted towards the front.

But that tree blocked the blast.

So it was like nothing.

Like my ears didn't hurt.

They didn't ring like nothing at all.

So like thank fucking God.

Because when I shot that whitetail with no fucking earbuds in, my fucking brain was fucking thundering after that.

So anyways, walk up, put some fucking earplugs in, shoot them in the neck, finish them off, and now I'm like fuck, I'm going to be really late for work now.

So I called you first, right?

I video called, you didn't.

I they sent me the picture.

No, man, look, I'm pretty sure I video called you because I video called my boss out.

Oh.

You sent me the picture first.

It was 8:00 and then you video called me.

So he sent me the picture and I went dude what the fuck?

No way that was my response.

Then you laughed and then you video called me.

Yeah, so I video call.

You threw the ball and then I called my boss and I was just like video call.

He answers right away.

He's like, did you get 1?

And I just like, I'm like laughing.

I just like pan the phone over and he's like, no fucking way, you fucker.

He's like, he's like, well, he's, I'm like, I'm going to be a little bit late.

And he's like, yeah, he's like, it's all good, man.

He's like, just make sure you get that meat out.

I'm like, yeah, absolutely.

I'm like, I'll be as fast as I can.

Like I'll, I'll try to be in for noon, right?

And I was by myself.

It was Tuesday fucking morning.

I'm like, I got no one that's going to come out here and fuck everyone's at work.

So, but I had that Tatanka pack in my truck, right?

So I was like, all right, so I I had my Kuyuan on.

So I'm like, well, fuck, I'm like now I got AI had paracord with me.

So I was like, I'm going to string this fucker up.

And I was like debating whether to drive back to town, get the portable winch, winch him out hole.

And I'm like, fuck, he's not that far.

And so The funny thing is where he died, he's like 60 yards from where I took my fucking morning dump in the fucking Bush.

So I laughed.

I was just like, how did he not smell that right?

But so it was kind of funny, so like where he died, I could almost see my truck.

It was end up being close to 400 yards through kind of a it was pretty easy fucking back out, honestly.

Like if I really wanted to, I could have got a quad almost to him right.

But so anyways, I was like, well, fuck it, I'll just quarter him up like and I was just going to do like full quarters like how we do the beef.

And I was like going to saw him.

I'm like, fuck, that's a lot of work to try to saw him or split him with an axe.

I'm like, so I gutted him and then after I got him like fuck, I'm like, I should have just fucking did the fucking gutless method and be done with it, right?

So I kind of transitioned from gutting him to the gutless method, which was, I'm already too late for that.

So I started skinning his legs down, quartered him up.

And then so I had like a handful of fucking game bags, right, Because I told you I didn't unpack fuck all.

So I just grabbed some shit, threw it in my bag.

Well, I got like I had one small quarter bag and 5 deboned.

Bags and I'm like oh God.

Fuck, so I'm like, I peeled off the first hind quarter, put that in the quarter bag, put that to the side or sorry, first of all, I did as I fucking I took my knives and fucking little hand saw out, went back to the truck, got rid of the COO U bag, came back with the Tatanka.

And so I started working on him, skinned his legs down, peeled the fucking hip off or the hind quarters off of the hip.

Had the one in the fucking quarter bag.

Got that on the backpack.

Perhaps I'm like, well, I might as well knock the other one off too, so I could knock the other one off, but didn't really have anywhere to put it.

So I just stuffed it inside the fucking chest cavity, which actually worked great because it kept everything fucking clean, right And it was gutted.

So it fucking worked out.

Awesome.

Little statistic maybe, but worked awesome.

So I and I'm like, well, I'm I'm at this far, I might as well fucking knock his head off too, right.

So then I fucking skinned up to his neck, cut his fucking head off and I'm like, well, I had the hind quarter tied in real nice with paracord and I was like, well, I might as well just make one heavy trip, pack the hind quarter and the fucking head out.

So I fucking just like I should have taken my time and tied the head on good and like put a stick across to support the handlers.

But I was like, fuck, I just did like tie the knot around the top of the frame when like over his horns around his nose, back up the other side, like just terrible.

So I was like and like that load was probably like, it obviously wasn't going to be as big as yours, but it was definitely over £100 because I had like I cut the head off.

Yeah, we have put up in probably.

Hide fucking meat tongue, everything on it right like.

So mine was zeroed like mine was.

Oh, euroed, yeah.

So I was down to Europe.

It was £35.

OK, so yeah, my back was back was probably close to yours too, because I had, I probably had 6 inches of fucking neck on them.

You would have had a £50 head there.

Yeah, with a hind quarter.

With a hind SO.

So not a huge, not a huge hind, but.

1/20 1:30 You could have been, yeah.

Yeah, so I fucking, I couldn't, it was big enough that I couldn't just grab it and throw it on my back, right?

So I like, sat down, put the backpack on, fought my way to my fucking knees.

And then this is the funny fucking part, stupid part of the story actually, is that I'm like, I just kind of shoved myself up and then I like tried to quickly pop up to my feet and I did.

When I popped up to my feet, I like swung the backpack for momentum while the fucking head wrapped right around swung around my fucking head and it flipped me right upside down just like funk how I didn't take a fucking brow time to the eye or the face because I had like I like literally flipped upside down and I'm like on my fucking side now The backpack's on my back and the fucking brow tying is like across my fucking face pinned me to the ground and I'm like.

Oh my God.

What the fuck happened there?

Right, Like if someone would have seen it, they would have fucking died laughing.

So unpiled myself got the and I was pissed off.

So you know, you like you get all fucking mad and ram.

And so I just like force myself to stand up.

The fucking heads hanging off the fucking side of the backpacks.

I fucking swing that bitch around.

Got it half ass square.

I'm like fuck it.

And I just started going through the fucking Bush like a fucking dozer.

I'm like plowing through fucking willows and prickle bushes.

And then I ended up hitting the game trail that I walked in on and it just was like once I got on there, it was fucking good cruising and like it took me less than 10 minutes to get back to the truck.

But by that time, like now it's the time I took the first load out was probably 10:00.

So then I was like, all right, so I did that, dumped it in the truck.

Boogie back already had the other hind quarter off.

So that was easy.

But I just laid that on those stupid meat bags that I fucking had.

And then I started working on the front shoulders and if you take the big D bone bags and open them up, I could put.

A front shoulder in there and then it, I still kind of got leaves and shit on it, but it kept it somewhat clean.

So then after that I'm like well fucking, I might as well.

I pulled both front shoulders off and then I did the hind quarter and a front shoulder, but I sach that in fucking nice and tight.

I did the hind quarter and I did it.

How did I do it?

What the fuck did I do?

I can't remember yeah.

I did a hind quarter and front quarter I think, but I like lashed him in super fucking tight and there was like 0 movement on that.

So when I packed that out that was like fucking gravy train.

Like I couldn't dump junction jumping jacks and they weren't moving at all.

So that was nice.

So I ripped that one back.

Then they came back and I grabbed the other front quarter and then I deboned the whole torso and the neck meat and fucking the hips and everything and that filled up the rest of my fucking meat bags and then I packed that out too.

It was 4 trips.

You must have taken a shoulder with one of those too.

Yeah, I did 4 trips total by myself.

So the last trip wasn't bad.

I had the back straps, back straps, and then I deboned like all the meat in and around the hips and stuff.

Like there's a lot.

There's actually pretty good steaks in there.

So kind of put that all together.

All the steaks of my last trip wasn't bad at all other than knives and stuff like that.

But yeah, no, I was, I was back in the truck like that bull was dead at 8 and I was loaded driving out at like just after 12.

So that's.

Pretty good.

Pretty good, but it was fucked.

It was -2 when I got out of the truck and it was 30 fucking 2° when I was driving out.

What?

The.

Fuck and I was like fuck and it was like some OK like I was sweating my Dick off too.

Like it was so hot.

I'm like fuck, I gotta get this fucking meat in right?

It's like texting fucking Wally, my boss, and like I'm just coming in now, like I can get home and then like I'll be there for one and he's like dude, he's like worry about the fucking meat.

He's like like you're not important here, so it doesn't matter.

Basically what he told me right?

So got a good chuckle without.

You.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm not detrimental to the process.

So, yeah.

So I ended up getting home and then Rainer, he just got back from his Caribou hunt.

Like that night at 3:00 in the morning or something is when I text.

I'm like, are you working today?

And he's like, no, but he didn't text me back till I was almost done.

My backup.

He was going to come out and help me.

I'm like, oh, I'm done now.

But so he came and met me at the house and fucking, I always wanted a big shot man.

And fuck, it was nice to just like back my whole truck into the fucking shop, grab the quarters, fucking hang him up on the fucking post like the mezzanine fucking cross beam.

I was like, this is so much nicer than like trying to sneak it into my garage or fuck around at the farm.

Shed or anything?

Yeah.

Yeah, so, but it was so fucking hot when I get into the shop, like the windows aren't covered, so it's just fucking scorching in the shop.

So I'm like, we hang the quarters in there over and around.

Got some fans, got my AC machine that I've like poorly AC machine that I had in my house.

So I had to rig that up in the shop trying to fucking blow cold air on it.

The fans have circulated like block the fucking door.

Like by the time that we were done fucking around, it was like

2:30.

I'm like, yeah, just there's no point fucking even trying to go into work now.

So me and Raynor just hung out and fucking bullshit it for rest of the afternoon.

Oh, it was good, man.

It was like, yeah, like pretty much one and done.

And then I text my buddies who have been going out elk hunting, like Nick and Premi have been going out fuck every day.

It seems like every weekend for sure, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

So I like text premier.

I'm like, I don't know what the fuck you're doing, but you're fucking doing it wrong.

And he's just like he's like fuck you, man.

Like he's like what He's like, what did he say?

He's like, well, at least at least one of you come out.

Have you guys fucking kill something like talking about you because he's seen URL the day before.

And then I sent him the, I just sent him the picture of me with the fucking head on my fucking backpack.

I think I sent that one to you, too.

Yeah.

And he's like, you motherfucker.

And I sent it to Nick, too.

And I know Nick was going fucking hard this year, Pharrell.

And they're both, they're just pissed, right?

They're like, you literally went out one fucking morning and you go kill a six point and like Nick's haunted that all year, that spot.

Yeah.

And then he he went out there the next day and he's like, I know exactly where he killed it because I seen the fucking crows there.

And he's like, I've been all over here all season.

You go out one fucking morning and kill a bullet in the first hour.

I'm like, oh, you got to know what you're doing, buddy.

But you know, it was, it was pretty funny and like it's I know that spot very well.

And they're either there, they're not.

And if I'm out there, like I'll usually they might not be you go, but I'll I'll see elk.

But it's usually other hunters that fuck it up for me.

I've told this stories about hunting their lots, right?

And it's just, yeah, other hunters fuck it up.

They sneak in or they fucking call back and scare everything away.

So it was just, it was nice to get out, get, you know, I'll take a fucking Gimme like that.

Not it wasn't a Gimme, but I'll take one like that all day, especially up here.

Yeah, I kind of wanted to just, it just worked out like everything just lined up.

It wasn't like you walked out on a road and you killed it, but it was like you got a calling experience.

At least you got to call one in, which is fun.

And so it's like that's what you want.

I don't know if I want to say I want that every time I go elk cunning, because the challenge of elk cunning is the fun part too.

And like, you know, battling with bulls, but fuck yeah, go out and call the first one in and it's legal and shoot it.

I mean, I'd take it every every fucking year.

Absolutely.

That is the goal of ELK.

So many years of nothing.

Yeah, right.

Like especially when I first got like it took me 14 years killing elk and I used to go out and hand cameras and pack salt and fucking build tree stands and go out and spend the night in the fucking tree stands.

So I knew I was the first one in there right?

Like crazy excessive shit before I finally fucking started killing them.

And then like this is my 4th bull in five years.

So it's like feels pretty good.

I feel like we're, I wouldn't say we're consistent air quotes, but.

I still don't get consistent, you know, not consistent.

People like they actually asked me.

I'm like, man, I'm like, I got lucky.

Like like I feel like my calling and my knowledge is starting.

To kill more bulls than I used to, I guess I would say, yeah, like same situations that I'm not fucking up in the last few years.

I would say that like we're finally not fucking up as many situations, whereas we used to fuck them all up.

Like that's just experience, right?

Like now you look back on it, you're like, oh, we fucked up that entire season.

Like those years, me and you went in and have the bulls at like 30 yards like like and didn't kill them or not 30 or will they walk by us and brush and shit like that and like, or we left bulls that were bugling because we thought they were running away from us and shit like that.

Like that's what it is.

Or I sat before you even came down and haunted a lot.

Fuck, man, I said.

I think back on the amount of elk that I'd be able to in my 20s where they were just going nuts and I sat and sat and sat.

And waited for them to come.

Waited and waited like 400 yards away from two or three bowls for years, right and be like, Oh well, they they won't come in.

They won't I'm like fuck now, but you got to learn that.

And now I go to them.

You hear it?

You go right, you move.

So yeah, it's funny.

Like they all counting here when we first started going, like Garrett took me out.

Like there wasn't a time where I didn't have bulls bugling.

Like when me and Nick would go out in bowl season and rifle season.

Like I remember being fucking shitting my pants because we had bulls coming in and it got dark.

And that was always, The thing is like the, the evening was always productive, but you're chasing the fucking darkness and like, I had fucking elk almost stepping on me like bulls screaming.

And then they're fighting beside you and you're, you're scared to fucking move 'cause you think these things are gonna fucking attack you.

Like, and I've had that so many times out there and then it's like the news got out that fuck, oh, there's elk out there.

And then everybody and their fucking dog started camping out there and hunting out there.

And it's like that now.

It's still 2, but it's just.

Sold out of Terminator Bugles.

Oh, fuck yeah.

Well, I mean, I bought, I bought a few Terminators in my day too, but I laugh now when I see them.

Yeah, like I had every fucking primos Cole, they fucking made for years, right?

But no, it's, it's nice to get lucky every now and then.

And, and I would just say luck is the opportunity.

Like if, if there's a bull there, I, I have confidence in my calling now and that that comes learning from you, right?

Like you guys get, you live in Elk Mecca.

So you get to try things and see what works.

And and then Paul Medel is kind of fucking open the fucking open her eyes to a lot of situations.

Yeah, They open her eyes to like, yeah, understand them a bit more.

It's not exactly everything Paul does because you got to adapt to your own areas.

I've definitely noticed that.

But that's how that's what he says.

He would never say just use mine and do it.

You got to use the principles that he put in place, which is.

Like the calls and the technique to like the the setups and the calls and then when to use them.

Like the temperament of the bull, like the bull's gonna dictate how you call to him.

And if he's not gonna answer, that's when it gets hard to elk hunt is when they're not talking.

And like for me, it's like, well, are the elk there or they and not they're there and not answering or is there no elk here?

That's what I I struggle with that like.

I know.

And it's like, I know they're there.

Yeah.

You're like if you're even if you're not seeing a ton of sign and it's a good area, you're always like, fuck, they're in here somewhere.

There's a pocket of them fucking somewhere.

Yeah, so it's just like that's when you just like wander around and fucking either stumble on them or bump them or like I'll I'll get rammy at some point, especially if I go all season and not hear a bugle.

I'm like, well fuck, they're not coming.

I'm going in there and I'm going to fucking just get into the thickest shit I can.

And and eventually you're going to bump something.

It might not be an elk, but hopefully it's not a grizzly bear.

You never know, right?

So but it's years and years of failure and learning and, and then you get some success and you're like, oh sweet.

And then you try that the next year and you're like, oh fuck, that didn't work.

And then, but I mean, it's yeah, that's what makes elk hunting so exciting is because every situation is different.

You know, you get a bull that might just come screaming and run right out and you shoot it, or you might get a bull that takes 6 hours to get going.

I love fucking killing elk man.

Like, it's like what I mean when I say that is I got, I like killing lots of things, all of it.

But when I kill an elk, I'm super happy.

Yeah.

Like, there's just something about the elk hunt for me.

Like I put it on a pedestal as like a success, even though, like lots of guys kill elk.

I'm not saying it's like a really hard thing to do, but a lot of guys don't kill elk too.

And it's just for me, it's just like I was like, I put it in my mind as like, I want to be successful.

So when we are successful, I'm like, fuck.

And that's awesome.

Like.

Well, that's six points too, right?

Like not not shooting a cow or three-point or.

Something like that.

If you do it, you feel like you accomplished it.

You did something like.

Yeah, it's it is, man.

And it's anytime that you're calling with an animal like moose or deer.

Like, I haven't really rattled whitetails, so I don't know what the fuck that's all about.

People go nuts for it.

But like, moose hunting is similar, but it's not the same.

Like moose, if you have them coming on a rope, they're fucking coming.

Like you just got to keep giving them a location.

They'll run right to you where elk hunting can be such a chess match.

And then, you know, you're dealing with satellites, you're dealing with fucking sentry cows, like you're dealing with the terrain too, right?

So it's it just seems like it's such a touch and go, like, OK, we got to hold up.

Nope, we got to go.

And then you got to run.

OK, the wind changed.

We got to fucking adjust to that.

We got to go up, We got to go down.

And then they're moving.

Where are they trying to get to?

There's just so many different dynamics to it.

And then the fact that they're so loud and they can get so aggressive that it's just, you know, when a bull's screaming at you and it rattles your fucking bones in your skin, like there's nothing like it.

And anyone that's experienced that is just like, yeah, it's the most addicting thing in the hunting world, I think.

Yeah, 100%.

Oh, it was sick like today.

Within two days we had both.

Both of us had balls down.

I couldn't believe it.

I was like what the fuck?

Less than a week of being home from her fucking northern.

That's what Dallas.

She's like why the fuck did you drive 3000 fucking kilometers?

Did you go north?

I'm like shut.

Up.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't even know.

But get away from you.

Yeah, but it was just fucking.

I don't know, man, Like, yeah, we haunted hard on our our northern hunt.

Like it was, it was a hard hunt.

It was great and stressful and exciting and everything, but it was nice.

Like, and it anyone that fucking hunts too, like you do a trip like that, when you get back, you almost feel like, fuck, my hunting season's over.

Like that's how I felt, 'cause like, I don't have that elk, that wicked elk hunting that I can roll into.

I don't have a moose straw, so it's like, I guess I'm twiddling my fucking thumbs and shooting chickens till November.

Yeah.

And then I'll go chase mule deer, right.

So it was kind of like, ah, fuck.

Like So then if you do you, you notch that fucking tag.

You're like, wow.

But then in the same boat too, like go kill a fucking elk.

And I'm like, well, what am I going to do for the next month and a half till November rolls around?

I'm like, and I mean, don't get me wrong, it's great family time now and I'm catching up on so much shit because like, I moved into my house 8 days before we left to go hunting.

And then so it was like I had, I had fucking living out of a box for a fucking month and 1/2 right.

So it was nice to actually get home, unpack, make the new house a home, hang out with the fucking kids because it was such a whirlwind all summer.

It went by so fast.

So it was really nice to have that family time and time that I'm not, you know, you feel guilty about going hunting every weekend, but September is such a short season where elk is good hunting that you need to make it worthwhile and like put an honest effort out.

But you know, at the sacrifice of family time and and house house chores, I guess.

Yeah, so for sure.

So but you're you weren't done fucking there, were you fucking cock sucker?

No, well, it was early.

I was like, we've got to keep on pesky.

I'm like, fuck, dude, We're we got three more weekends like let's let's keep out cutting.

And so I was and he he gets like happy when we kill something to get some meat in the freezer, right.

So it's like he feels the pressure come off and then but then I got to like be like, let's go and try to get you 1.

You know, he kind of hesitates a little bit.

You know, sometimes he thinks like, I think it's almost like a doesn't want to be greedy, Like take too many elk out and I'm like, fuck, dude.

We might never, we might never see another season when we get another elk down, you know?

I lay into him all the time when I'm like, why aren't you going?

Why aren't you guys going?

Oh, we got one down.

I might help someone else.

I'm like, shut the fuck up like a homo.

Fucking get out there and kill one.

Yeah.

Well, and he, he wanted to get out and he had a couple buddies that he didn't mind like going with like, and so I was like, OK, like, I just want to go out cutting my, my tags cut.

So if you don't want me to call one in for you, I'll come out and be a Packer, a caller.

I don't give a fuck.

I just want to, it's the rut like let's go out cutting.

So then we made a plan, or at least a tentative plan for the next weekend.

He said, well, I got a couple of buddies and they got a spot and I'll check in with them.

The spot we've haunted before and I've never been there.

And he's like, if if they're game, I'll let you know.

So then on fuck, I can't remember if it was maybe in the next Sunday.

I don't even remember at this point, but it was the next weekend.

He texted me the night before late and he said, yeah, we're going to go.

So I'll pick you up in the morning.

So like, OK, no problem.

So I'm literally like no gun backpack and a bugle.

Like I'm going to hunt, right?

Like everyone else has got a gun.

I'm like, I don't fuck it.

Like it's fun.

I kind of like liked it.

I was like, yeah, sweet.

So jump in.

I have no idea why.

I know where we're going, but I don't know details.

So we get to this spot and it's kind of a walk in spot.

Like you park the trucks and it's an old trails, like shitty roads, but like guys could get quads in there.

You could see guys had pushed quads in, but it wasn't like no one's taking trucks in.

So you're like, OK, there's been a bit of traffic, you could see some quad tracks, but whatever.

So we walk up this old road system, get into some cuts and you go call whatever.

We don't hear nothing.

Not a lot of sign, pretty dry face of the mountain, but they're like, wow, the mountain wraps around and we've seen these bulls on this face the year before and I'm meeting these guys for the first time.

So I'm just, you know, you go out hunting with you, Everyone's feeling each other out, like Matt and them are buddies and they seem like good dudes, but you're always just kind of on your best behavior.

You know you got to.

Feel your buddies.

No, not yet, right?

You got to feel the temperament, see all the jokes fly, you know, So you.

Just kind of can't throw around that dark humor.

Yeah, just, yeah, just see where you're at.

It was going well, they seemed like good dudes.

And we all four of us hiked this road system for a bit and then it was going to why?

And then we could cover more ground and Matt was going to go with the one guy and I was going to go with the other.

So at that, the Y in the trail system, they were like, OK, we'll go down.

Matt and the other guy, we're going to go down kind of the lower Rd.

that wrapped cross mountain.

And then we headed up this road that kind of wrapped right up the Ridge.

So we're OK.

We start walking this road together and there's fresh tracks on the road.

It's the first like good sign we've seen.

And I'm like, oh, fuck, we're looking.

And I'm like, oh, it's a cow calf.

I'm like, fuck that one.

That's a bigger track.

Like I'm like, that could be a bull.

I could see that being a satellite bull.

And so we get up and it comes up into this logging cut and we're right up on this like pretty rounded Ridge.

And then the cut goes across maybe 200 yards and then there's timber.

So I'm on that.

Oh, and before I get there, we walk up that road.

Yeah, I forgot about that.

So we're walking this road and get around the corner and we're looking up on like a pine face, like pine tree face where it's kind of open, nice open little grassy bit.

And we look, and there's a.

The old guy's like, oh, there's a bear right there.

And I throw my vinyls up and there's this fucking black bear, like fat like, and he was brown.

He was actually a chocolate brown bear.

And he had a, he was sitting down like on his ass looking at us.

And he had like a double chin roll.

This fucking neck fat was like chinned up and he was just this like barrel of a bear, like just feasting on huckleberries this year.

And you're like, holy fuck.

And the buddy I was with was like, fuck, that's a good bear.

And he's like, you know, does anyone have a bear take?

And I'm like, I do.

And I'm like, and I'd I'd shoot a bear, but I was, he's like, and I don't have my gun.

So he's like, well, you can shoot my gun if you want that bear.

It's a good bear, like chocolate coat.

Like yeah, bear like he's, you could shoot him.

So he like kind of gestures his gun to me.

And I was like, it's like hard for me to say no, to be honest.

Like a little bit like I was

like it's like 7:30 in the morning and I'm like, we haven't heard of Bugle or anything, but I'm like, Nah, dude.

Like we're all cunning in in the rut.

Like, no I don't.

Yeah, you're not taking that shot.

No, I'm like, if we were, it was 11 and we were coming out, I'd be like, fuck it, let's dump this thing.

But I was like, no, I don't want to.

I don't want to do that right now.

Like we don't know what's up this mountain.

We haven't haunted the whole thing.

So I made that pass.

So we're walking up before that clearing and I'm like thinking to myself, I'm like, I better get some fucking karma for this.

Like in my head I'm like, there will be some hunting karma coming my way for passing on like a pretty like the biggest bear I would have ever shot and a chocolate like hide.

I'm like, fuck yeah, kind of like kicking myself, but not really.

So because it is just a fucking black bear, Like I don't, I don't, I'm not going to get hung up on a black bear.

So we get up on this cut and we do some Googling.

Don't hear nothing.

Don't hear cow call, we don't hear stick snap.

And I don't know, you know, what this guy was thinking about the hunt or where he wanted to go with his dad.

I don't know how adventurous these guys are.

Like I don't know if they dive way into the deep timber or not.

So I just suggested like, well, let's go because I don't know if he wanted to just turn around and go back or not.

But at that point I was like, let's just go see the timber.

I said where it goes, you can see there's a couple ridges heading and now it's all timber like tree.

And I'm like, let's get to there because it looks like we can call into this timber.

I said that looks like nice country.

So he's like, yeah, OK, so we walk across slash, get into the timber and I'm calling like away from where we just walked from because I'm like, why would I be calling back?

So I'm calling and we hear like a stick pop behind us like crack, like a pretty good crack.

And we both turn and he was like, dude, that's something walking in.

Like Jack's a shell.

He's like, I guarantee that's something walking in.

I'm like, yeah, for sure.

So I like there's a little like draw in the timber that I can tuck into like maybe 20 yards wide.

And he and I just then I can still see him and he gets a root ball of a fallen tree and he's just tucked right behind this fallen tree because he's like, I hear it like it's coming in.

Like you can hear brush and whatever this is, it's coming towards us.

But it's back across the slash where we were just were.

Yeah.

So he's facing back that way.

I drop off like 20 yards and I can't see the slash anymore because I, you know, go down about 10 feet or so.

But I can see him.

And he's like, you know, when a hunter, like you're watching your shooter, they lean in and you're like, fuck, there's something in his scope.

It's not just like waiting.

And he looks back at me.

He's like, I see it.

And I'm like, OK, fucking don't worry about me.

You do, do you?

Right.

Start counting.

Yeah.

So I just like keep cow calling away from him, like just I, it was, I think that was a good play.

Like I dropped off that Ridge and then the sound got sounded like it got farther away.

Fuck, it wasn't, I don't know, 30 seconds, 20 seconds later, boom, fucking shot.

No bugle.

Haven't heard a call all fucking day.

And the hunter I'm with just shot a fucking hole.

I assume right So I fucking run up to him and I'm like fuck what the fuck 'cause I got a bolt, walked right out into the slosh and I shot him.

Yeah, I was like, when the fuck does that happen?

Like what the fuck?

Yeah, so I'm like, OK, where?

And he's like, well, he went like he pointed and he's like, he went over there in the trees and I saw him kind of go through the brush there and I'm like, OK, I'm looking with vinyls and like don't see anything.

And I'm like, oh, you think you hit him?

And he's like, yeah, I think so.

I'm like, OK, but I'm like, I assumed you hit him.

You're on a fucking Pinterest, essentially.

Like this guy was like Sat so we don't take much time and I I bugled a bit like and Matt was could hear me calling and they were like they didn't hear any bugles.

So when they heard a gunshot, they were like, what the fuck?

So but then Matt heard me bugle like you know how like after you shooted a bull, I like you bugle to try to like turn him around.

So I don't know, I didn't see if he was hit or not.

So I did that and he's like, oh fuck.

Dev called right after.

Like they either smoked him or he's trying to like turn him.

Yeah.

So we go over, I pick up blood and he had more of a sense of where the bull was, but I was like, gotta find blood, man.

Like, we don't know.

So I found the blood and I just kept being like following that.

And he was kind of on the right path anyways.

But I said, well, the blood's kind of going this way.

And he zigzagged with the blood a little bit and then, fuck, he walked right on top of him and it went, I don't know, 25 yards into the fucking timber lay in there.

We get up there, it's a fucking 7 by 7, like 3-4, like, I don't know, 33340 bowl.

Like what the fuck?

So we drag him out of there and I think that was that guy's first bowl in the Kootenneys.

He's actually from Fort Nelson originally.

Oh yeah, yeah.

And he's only lived in the Kootenneys for like 4 years or three years or something.

So he's a Fort Nelson boy.

And yeah, the bowl didn't go very far.

It was about 180 yard shot.

He shoots at 3:38.

And I was like, I don't fucking do it.

And yeah, pretty wild.

So I like, you know, Matt and then met us up on the Ridge and we celebrated and got lots of good pictures and decided what we were going to do.

But we were kind of recapping the events because I was like, man, what the fuck?

Like, what was this?

Why did this bull, for one, like, I'm a little bit curious why he was completely silent, but I'm like, where is he?

Bedded with cows?

And then he just stepped out to see like this other bull.

But then the guy tells me and he's like, I'm like, he was explaining to me the shot.

And he's like, yeah, he come out of the trees and he was like, he started trotting across the slash like he was running, like he wasn't walking slow like he would.

He shot him like almost on the trot.

Yeah.

And I was like trotting quiet.

I'm like, dude, that's a in my mind satellite bowl.

And he thought we were a herd because I had Cal called a bit and he thought I was a herd with cows like and he's I was like, what the fuck?

Cuz where he was trotting, that was exactly where I called from originally.

And and if he would have just kept trotting, he would have just gotten to the timber and then could have came around towards us.

Like, he just wasn't going to cut straight across the 200 yard slash.

Yeah, but like, in my mind, I'm like, that means he was probably just a satellite bull cruising the Ridge.

Crazy.

And I don't I can't prove that, but just the.

Well, he's acting like 1.

I'm like, a herd bull would make this cow's running, never to go see like that.

Not that far away, not in an opening.

Yeah.

So whether it's just a bull without cows and it could be a herd bull or there's another one in that country, I was like, fuck, I don't know, but.

Yeah, I mean, you think a herd bull or like a Ridge runner bull would be answering calls like yeah, crazy.

Yeah, To me that's that's typical satellite fucking behavior, like slinking around being quiet, Huh.

Crazy.

So then there was four of us, and I made the call because my house was the closest one.

And I was like, why don't you guys clean the fucking thing?

Mac can drive me home.

I'll go get my quad.

I could get my quad right to it.

Yeah.

I was like, I'll go get my quad and I'll bring it here and I'll just drive all the fucking meat out.

And they're like, yes, like.

Yeah.

And it was perfect.

Matt drove me home.

It was a bit of a round trip, but we got the quad and by the time we got back there, they had all the quarters out of the Bush and like on the Skitter trail.

And fuck, I just zoomed.

It was like, I don't know, 15 minutes round trip to get the quarters to the trucks on the quad.

That's sick.

And then I just shuttled them.

It was like, yeah, it was pretty sick.

Like, just couldn't believe it.

Like, just, I don't know, just one of those years, man.

Like, I haven't had that.

Then we kill bulls.

But like, I don't know, I just felt like the cars.

We killed, we killed bulls, but we got to work for them.

Yeah, the cars just kind of landed and I was like, I don't know, I went on basically 2 elkunts and elkunted for all of like 3 hours and had two rolls down.

I'm like, this is fucking crazy.

Yeah, that's awesome, man.

Like it, it feels good with those, with the easy ones, not easy ones, but like you get it done in no time at all.

Yeah, it's nice.

Nothing's worse.

Like, well, it's, it's great because anytime you get to go hunting is awesome.

But like when I talk about like hard on a marriage is like fun hunting every evening, every weekend for everything.

It's just like, you know, you start getting that look, Oh yeah, we're going to go out tomorrow morning and you get that eyeball and then we're going to go out Sunday morning or Sunday night and you're like, it's just worth an argument about, you know, and it's not always an argument, but lots of times it can be, right.

So, but no, that's sweet, man.

Like, like I said, fuck, What a great start to the fucking and like hunting season if you're sheep hunting starts in August.

Yeah, but like for 90% of hunters, it starts September 1st or September 10th, right?

So you know, to be I killed -16 so you probably killed that one on like the 20th.

Something like that 20.

1st so it's like 3 bowls down in fucking a week and a half of being home.

That's pretty unreal.

Yeah.

Unreal, yeah.

Yeah, so it was a good one.

Didn't want to hunt anymore after that for elk or what?

Well, we kind of got, we went out the next weekend, we had to pull a Cam in one of our spots and we went in there and did a bit of elk hunting.

It was funny.

He was actually just getting off sick.

His girls got him sick.

So we went into the spot and it wasn't a bad hike, but we got a spot we hike into.

We had to go pull a Cam that was still up, and he was just kind of like, fighting off the end of his flu.

So he's a bit tired, groggy.

And we'd hike into areas like, I was like, well, let's go check out that bowl.

We'd walk the Ridge, get to it.

I'd RIP a bugle.

And he'd be like, please don't answer, Please don't answer.

You know what I mean?

Like, he's just like, because he knows if he fucking answers, we're going to do something about it.

Yeah.

He's just like, don't, don't fucking answer him.

Oh fuck, I've been there.

Just like I don't feel like walking over there.

Yeah, so.

Yeah, we we went out there and and nothing happened.

I think he went out maybe another time with friends and then he had to coach one of his girls think soccer teams and Preston.

So it just didn't line up the last few.

And then he's he's Moose on this weekend, so.

Yeah.

I mean, that's the right thing.

He already had that plan.

Yeah, we got to Elk in the freezer and that's it, I think.

Well sweet, there's four days left here, but he won't be here and I don't got A tag so.

Yeah.

That's her.

Yeah, put four days in the bank for deer season.

Yeah, well, I might go out a bit this weekend, just maybe one day or something.

But yeah, now it's I'm going to be coming up your way and maybe we can get out and do some deer hunting again.

This.

Year.

That's the plan, hopefully.

Yeah, I haven't.

I've, Yeah, I've gone out to my blind once.

I put new batteries.

My camera that I had out there died at the end of the season last year.

So I put a different camera out there.

Haven't checked it.

So it's been up for a month now.

Haven't checked.

I got two other cameras up and yeah, I haven't done anything.

Like I I don't even know what inventory there is for deer around.

Like I said, I haven't even shot a chicken yet this year.

It's funny how Steve Rinella, like meat eater was on TV in between the baseball game and the hockey game today and they were shooting grouse and he made like some Alfredo chicken fucking pasta up on the mountain with grouse meat and it looked fucking so good.

I was like, why don't you go shoot some grouse?

I'm like, I haven't been hunting.

Like like I got to go.

So we'll see.

I might get out one I got.

Fuck.

I got hockey Sunday this weekend too, so I don't know.

We're butchering a cow Saturday, so yeah, we'll see.

I doubt I'll go.

I was going to go last weekend and then I started working on the House and doing shit.

Then yeah, I don't know, maybe save it for deer season.

Yeah.

And you're here like you're here for a few days with Butchery Cow and then I got five days off.

So we'll try to get out, get out as much as we can.

Yeah, try to stack up a couple 4 points, hopefully again.

Yeah, it's a plan.

Yeah, good plan.

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