well, looks like another year with no elk. I shot and missed and so did my buddy, he cheats though and uses a compound bow, I'm using a black widow recurve, running about 55 pound draw weight. We had a really good hunt, we were into elk every day but one. They were bugling good, just refused to come in, so everything turned into a silent stalk, trying to stay in front of them early morning when they were going up the mountain into their beds,on the second to the last day, I got a good shot at around 15 yards. Grazed a nice 6x6 bull, just under the kill zone, caught his brisket area on his lower chest, arrow had blood, but not one drop on the ground. Still trying to figure out how I missed, guess a combination of adrenaline, and maybe some fatigue. We hunted hard morning and evening for 10 days straight. I had clocked over a hundred miles on horse and foot for the entire hunt, on my gps. So I did not get any pics, I didn't even really use my knife. But I have a deer hunt coming up in November, and another elk hunt in December.
