I will start out by saying thank you to Branden for pointing me to some decent areas to check out.

all in all i had a good trip, i did have a hard time finding a decent place to camp, but other then that it was a good trip, i ended up camping by a lake which was nice but it was right out in the open, and i had 60 mph winds a couple of nights so that kind of sucked.

I spent 6 days just scouting trying to find some Elk, and to be honest they were hard to find, i found two areas that had decent sign and concentrated on them, on the forth day it finally paid off, i left camp that morning and it was snowing it was about a 30 mile drive to where i was going to hunt, the roads were pretty slippery from the snow, i got to where i was parking my truck and was about 35 minutes later than i wanted to be, and i still had a 8 mile ride on my quad to get to where i was hunting, it was all ready breaking day light when i got there i parked my quad and headed to where i want to take a stand watching a draw, when i got there i couldn't see the draw as good as i wanted to, so i decided to move up to the next ridge so i could see it better, i had went about 300 yards as fast as i could because i was so late getting there already and still had a couple hundred more yards to go to get to where i wanted to be, and needless to say being a flat lander i was huffing and puffing pretty bad. when i looked up the ridge and i could see the tips of a rack starting to come over the ridge, i dropped to my knees and there he was looking right in my direction, i didn't know if he saw me or not, there wasn't much cover around me. i was afraid to try to set up my shooting sticks because he was looking right at me, so i decide to try to free hand the shot at about 175 yards, being winded i was having a hard time holding steady on him i touched one off and he ran straight at me about 30 yards i touched it off again and he turned and ran about 125 yard, now he is around 200 yard, i couldn't believe now tuff he was, the adrenaline finally kicked and i could told steady i touched off one more shot and down he went. i hit him with all 3 shots. i finally got a bull, he is no monster by any means a small 4 x 6. but i am very happy with him.

i need to take the time and figure out how to post a picture on here, i have some real nice scenery pictures to.
Branden said he will add some pictures of my bull for me. so they will be hear soon.

i can't wait till next year.

Kevin

Kevin,

Let me be the first to say congrats...great job...sorry about getting the H1N1 while you were here...but glad I could get you in a good area...here are the pics

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/1.../1028090853.jpg
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/1...evinbullpic.jpg
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii188/1...Kevinelkpic.jpg

Not many people can go into an unknown area and kill a bull good job!

Great job Kevin! A wonderful bull for sure!!!!

Great job buddy! Seen one of the pics before but never heard the story! Looks like you definitely put in your time and had a good friend show you the way. Congrats again!!!

Great job Kevin. Glad you got your bull. Congrats.

Congrats on your first bull Kevin! I know your hunt this year started out kind of rocky but it's good to hear it turned out to be successful.

sweet! nice bull kevin. i'm definetely jealous.

Thats awesome Kevin, I'm happy for you man.

Congratulations on your first bull, nice job!

Thanks everyone, it was a fun trip, can't wait to next year, i don't know what state i will end up in, i will just have to see where i draw a tag at, but god willing i will be someplace out west next fall.

Kevin

Happy for you...sorry we did not meet up!

Branden

i am sorry to that we didn't get to meet, maybe in 2010, just have to see how the draw goes.

Kevin

Congrats on your first bull! Good luck on the draws for next year.


HANK

Nice job kevin.

hey man it doesnt need to be a trophy the trophy is in the eye of the beholder, or my modow the trophy is in the size of the backstraps

Congrats on your Elk!