Turboyota wrote:Only one real try until now but I am having fun so far. Got one good 363 elk to build upon but I saw another really big one right as he spooked because of me. He didn't run far and I gave chase. He was nervous now and didn't react to my calls. But a small cow did and closed in on me from behind. As she came closer and closer I turned around for roughly 20 seconds to scare her away. Well, enough to lose my big male in the woods. I can't believe that I didn't find his tracks. I must have gotten totally confused by turning around for the cow that I absolutely mixed up the place where I saw him with another similar looking batch of trees. And of course to my luck there were also two female grizzlies and a pack of wolves right in the path of the elk which he took the last time I saw him.
I botched my second try already with the first elk. Body shot and off into the woods. Well, time to run through the reserve and set up two tents then for my next hunts. I put the first tent in a good place in the mountains and fast traveled to the Everfall Lodge. Roughly 2 and a half kilometers to my desired tent spot. Started spotify and ran along the road to my target. Just 300 meters to go and loudly singing and dancing along in my chair I heard something very similar to a grizzly roar mixing in with the song I was listening too. No time to react, 2 seconds later the screen turned red and I lay critically wounded on the road without a first aid kid. Attacked me from behind the sneaky ******* and very rude. That second tent has to wait now, can't be bothered at the moment to run that again.
I look forward to my next tries. The ptarmigans already give me nightmares and now I must also look for "kevlar bushes"
Very nice comp BCKidd!!!!
When dealing with does while stalking a male, never try scare them away, if they run will scare anything around, even if they don't flee towards the male, the trick is to try to make semi circle that allow you get away from the does but still keep track of the male, and don't use a caller until your prey is off the "nervous" state, it wont attract the animal, but can attract females that were around. Well now you don't need to worry for anything else than, female intruders, grizzly attacks, kevlar bushes, invisible rocks or trees, but that's all... oh right the Ptarmigans only have hunter value when they are taken with airshot... and then we have the one shot rule.