Live Hunts - Idaho Archery Elk Hunt - September 9

Live Hunts - Idaho Archery Elk Hunt - September 9 - Day 4

September 9 - Day 4
Idaho Archery Elk Hunt

Sunday A.M.
This morning I started the hike up the mountain 2.5 hours before light. As the sun was just starting to give some shooting light, and I was near the top, I saw a raghorn 4x4 bull about 500 yards away already headed to timber to bed. That was the only elk I saw that morning. I did hear 2 single bugles at about 9:30 a.m., but that was it, they never came closer when I cow called. Because of having seen the bull and cows the evening before, I decided I wanted to hunt my last 2 days of the hunt in this location. So, I went back to camp after the morning hunt, to prepare my equipment to spend the night on the mountain, and to spend some time with my wife and girls before going up for a few days. I didn't hunt that evening.

Lots of pretty country, but no elk

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Trip Notes
This hunt takes place in central Idaho, roughly between Salmon and Idaho Falls. It is a self-guided hunt on National Forest, which is public land. It's my first hunt in Idaho - and it's always exciting hunting a new area. My pre-hunt research helped me to decide on hunting Idaho, and narrowed it down to a particular unit (which will have to remain un-named for the time being) in the central part of the state. Biologists and Forest Service officials have told me there are good numbers of average 5 and 6 point bulls in this unit, with the definite chance to run into a really big bull. This area is completely limited and draw-only for rifle hunters, so the bull:cow ratio is good and the bulls have had a chance to get big.

Equipment
I'm shooting a Martin Jaguar bow, set at 72 lbs. Arrows are 29-inch Easton 3-60 ACC's, with Wasp 125 gr. 3-blade SST Hammer broadheads. Depending on the terrain, I'm wearing almost exclusively Predator camoflauge. I have Fall Gray, Spring Green, Fall Brown, and Evolution with me on the trip, and will probably use all of them. Predator is awesome, and particularly in the Rocky Mountain West. I've also got a new Master Guide backpack made by Crooked Horn Outfitters that I'm eager to try out.

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