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Morning 2: Wind was poor for the primary basin we hunt so we headed towards the north edge of the Mesa where two small, narrow valleys converge into some beautiful meadows. We had to walk across wide open grass to get up and above it. Just as we reached the bushes and trees above the valley I...

Day 1 morning: Hiked into the west side of our favorite basin, wind out of the north. On the east side we located eight elk, two small bulls right at first light. Just beneath them was a group of deer, nothing obviously big enough to be worth stalking across the basin. As they moved south to...

One more hour left to finish up 24 hours of driving. Got two 10 minute naps last night. Gonna get in, shoot my bow, print out tags, eat, sleep 4 hours then head up to the Mesa! Feeling like crap but I’ll forget all about that when I see some big ol buck deerz... Beautiful drive.

The one I just shot didn’t even move for 5 seconds after being hit. 80 yards is okay if you can read the situation!

Have fun out there! It’s crazy how much shit you can bring, especially the first time [emoji23] make sure you leave room for meat!

Beautiful bows and arrows. Looks like a lot of fun

Thanks guys! Yeah I’ve definitely thought through the mistakes a lot. Hopefully not mistakes I will repeat.

He disappeared downhill around the trees and the huge buck busted out to the left confused. As he trotted off I saw that he was well past his ears, heavy horned, and extremely tall. It hit me that I hadn’t even considered waiting for a shot at the big one. I don’t know if I’ve ever been more...

I hiked way around along the cliff edge and looped back towards a big tree 100 yards uphill of him. Once I got up there, I was very disoriented and almost walked into clear view of his tree before relocating it. I would’ve pinned it on OnX before the stalk but my phone had died. The wind was...

Nice lookin bucks!

I grabbed my bow and headed off. Would be about a mile to where he was up and down a few hills. I knew a bush I could sneak up behind to get a better look at his position from 200 yards away. I’d taken note of the bush on my previous stalk as a good glassing waypoint. In this picture my...

Morning 3 continued: We reached my initial glassing knob. Terry sat down with his spotting scope and I looked around with my dads binoculars he lent me. We were glassing everything inside the green from the red arrow. Any stalk would be 0.75-1.5 miles. After 20 minutes we were starting to...

Arrow barely got off the string [emoji23]

Thank you, I’m just hoping I get a chance to fill the tag. It will sting a lot more if I don’t get enough meat for the year.

Morning 3: One last morning hunt then headed back to Portland for the work week. Terry and I decided the night before to head back up to the basin and give it one last shot. We got started late and headed out after first light. The trail winds through a small, west facing basin that has strong...

Day 2 afternoon: Terry had to run back to grab his jacket he’d left at the old spot. I took a nap because we’d already logged 9 miles and 3000 feet of vertical gain in some very loose rock and dirt. He got back and had seen bucks just off the trail so I snuck back down the trail to see if I...

I’m 22 now lol. And yeah, I thought he was toast. He had blood coming out of his nose and mouth as well.

More to come... might have to wait until I have time tomorrow/Friday though. Very busy working and preparing to head to New Mexico.

No bull :(

I wanted to try and stalk in and get another arrow in him but Terry talked me out of it. The bull was in a comfortable bench surround by steep, nasty terrain. Hw figures he’s bed down and we’d find him in the morning. We backed out and hiked back to camp. On the way back we ran into a few does...