What a fall so far… my plans for the fall in Wyoming were for me to hunt by ass off and to facilitate getting a garage up (boat and camper barn).
The project started with site prep in July. We did the site prep ourselves, 600 tons of road base to improve the grade of the existing driveway and add the new drive as well as 10” plus base for the concrete in the building. We still aren’t 100% done because of the delays with the building. The building was an absolute nightmare. One of the worst decisions/purchases of my life. One building, 2 attempts, 3 months, 4 million phone calls, and 5 billion f-bombs. Final product is good enough.
Along with trying to get the building done, I was trying to fill a horrible bull elk tag (got it as a leftover that no one else wanted). Didn’t end up even close to getting a bull, but did hunt my ass off and see some neat stuff.
Raghorn the evening before the season started.
Elk hunting is hard.
Used the snowgoose as transport into an elk camp for a couple days. I've always wanted to boat camp with it.
Had some weather that I was hoping would get the elk moving, but it wasn't quite enough snow to push them out of the high mountains.
Took some time off to fill another cow tag in a different unit near the house that was loaded with elk. We combined elk hunting and scouting with getting firewood and shooting some ruffed grouse. This is why we are living here. Just perfect.
Got a cow early one morning, the pack mule showed up before I was even done breaking it down. Pack out was nearly 3 miles, so I was glad it was a small elk.
Leaving the woods heavy. That was a steep hill.
Firewood, not sure how much we will go through.
Elk heart taco.
I had some great sage grouse hunts during our short season. Neat was that one of the better areas I found was within sight of the house (convenient too).
Sage grouse flats at daybreak.
During September and early October, I was hunting elk pretty hard and didn’t get out much for ducks, but I got out a couple times. This was a real neat hunt, on a really cold morning in October, went 3 for 3.
In general, I'm trilled by the duck hunting, no amazing hunts, but every day there are ducks to be found.
We made sure to not give the fish a break.
I’m getting better at catching these spotty yellow ones, but I haven’t gotten one of the real bigguns yet.
In late august a forest fire blew up near one of our favorite lakes in the mountains, we haven't been in to see what it looks like now. Sounds pretty bad.
Deer friends showed up to winter around the house, they really like the lawn.
Traffic gets old some days. Heading into the mountains to elk hunt.
The project started with site prep in July. We did the site prep ourselves, 600 tons of road base to improve the grade of the existing driveway and add the new drive as well as 10” plus base for the concrete in the building. We still aren’t 100% done because of the delays with the building. The building was an absolute nightmare. One of the worst decisions/purchases of my life. One building, 2 attempts, 3 months, 4 million phone calls, and 5 billion f-bombs. Final product is good enough.
Along with trying to get the building done, I was trying to fill a horrible bull elk tag (got it as a leftover that no one else wanted). Didn’t end up even close to getting a bull, but did hunt my ass off and see some neat stuff.
Raghorn the evening before the season started.
Elk hunting is hard.
Used the snowgoose as transport into an elk camp for a couple days. I've always wanted to boat camp with it.
Had some weather that I was hoping would get the elk moving, but it wasn't quite enough snow to push them out of the high mountains.
Took some time off to fill another cow tag in a different unit near the house that was loaded with elk. We combined elk hunting and scouting with getting firewood and shooting some ruffed grouse. This is why we are living here. Just perfect.
Got a cow early one morning, the pack mule showed up before I was even done breaking it down. Pack out was nearly 3 miles, so I was glad it was a small elk.
Leaving the woods heavy. That was a steep hill.
Firewood, not sure how much we will go through.
Elk heart taco.
I had some great sage grouse hunts during our short season. Neat was that one of the better areas I found was within sight of the house (convenient too).
Sage grouse flats at daybreak.
During September and early October, I was hunting elk pretty hard and didn’t get out much for ducks, but I got out a couple times. This was a real neat hunt, on a really cold morning in October, went 3 for 3.
In general, I'm trilled by the duck hunting, no amazing hunts, but every day there are ducks to be found.
We made sure to not give the fish a break.
I’m getting better at catching these spotty yellow ones, but I haven’t gotten one of the real bigguns yet.
In late august a forest fire blew up near one of our favorite lakes in the mountains, we haven't been in to see what it looks like now. Sounds pretty bad.
Deer friends showed up to winter around the house, they really like the lawn.
Traffic gets old some days. Heading into the mountains to elk hunt.
Only criticism, you need to train the dog to pack out the elk.
