Giving up the hunting homestead

[Lefty]

I had been excited about hunting the new territory. However after last week I spoke with my wife. I had decided where I was hunting was too far away,.. cost an extra 20-$30 in gas for each hunt. And was too risky to hunt by myself. I know what I was giving up, and would really messup the rest of this years plan
Not that it was too secluded for me, but considering the road I use although graded smoother than many country roads maybe has been driven by less than a dozen others in the past year.
Friday confirmed my choice. The rim on my pickup gave out, wrecking the tire. But only one spare. And the next seldom but nearly daily used road is hours away.

My wife said I can find elk closer to home I knew as much as I want to hunt here it wasnt going to workout


Wall to wall carpet and view of the waterfront

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Secluded private setting

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Saturday afternoons guests were deleated from the trail cam but I think its the same group from Thursday

[Lefty]

I shold have been asleep in my tent,.. but I wasnt walking, this rim was known for falling apart

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I wasnt home for the vistors Thursday evening or Saturday afternoon

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The fellow I had been planning to meet for drinks someday

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[easeup]

man, how far are those elk coming to get to the bar?

[Lefty]

Im guessing their weekly range is 10 miles in diameter,
I have found bedding sites 3 miles in two directions.Once rifle season opens up they head for even more isolated areanearby. Incredable open range habitat These guys cover a lot of ground

The bull has been a regular since March even when the tank was empty.

[elkaholic]

Thats a bummer about how rough the road/trail is. Sure did a number on your rim.. Someday hopefully you two will meet for drinks. The calves sure do look thirsty!

[Lefty]

Thats a bummer about how rough the road/trail is. Sure did a number on your rim.. Someday hopefully you two will meet for drinks. The calves sure do look thirsty!

The road isnt that rough, just a long long long ways in . My wife is right I can find another elk closer.
Friday night it was 1 hour and 45 minutes from the blind to my campsite by vehicle,.. just too far , and too short of a nights sleep
Some of the roads are very hard on tires, losts of sharp rock or that one rock right in the tire track

[easeup]

I have not been there so please dont take me too seriously....
but the road less traveled.........is more likely to have greater rewards.
so you might get an elk closer to home but are not you more likely to have more competition?

[Lefty]

I have not been there so please dont take me too seriously....
but the road less traveled.........is more likely to have greater rewards.
so you might get an elk closer to home but are not you more likely to have more competition?

Road less travel has always been the places I head.
One year I set up a out of state trapline by a road use indexis and agricultural use map. As a fur trapper my lines often covered the least populated counties of the states I trapped

I do spend a lot of time covering maps
The region I hunt I looked at the distance to regional population and this was the furthest vehicle use road with little to offer other recreational users,..No ATV-ers, no bikers, no skiers, no hikers and in all likelyhood the reason that bull had a chance to get big,.. lots of ground, low population and very little human visits, tough country
and maybe one other "advantage" it isnt a tradition place to hunt and it cant be hunted with common elk hunting methods

[easeup]

...No ATV-ers, no bikers, no skiers, no hikers and in all likelyhood the reason that bull had a chance to get big,.. lots of ground, low population and very little human visits, tough country.....

nice! good luck there.

by the way,my mrs. drives a minicooper...it wasnt too long ago that she called me to go rescue for she had a wheel break that looked a whole lot like your misfortune....( all from a pothole in the road).