Lucked out with both elk and bear (graphic, viewer discretion advised)

rc256

Got back home yesterday morning 2am from Montana wilderness hunting trip. I lucked out being the only one filled both elk and bear tag. Too tired to write essays, but the entire photo album is here: https://plus.google.com/photos/112007349005539184549/albums/5927383287710982049?authkey=CKOg9Pu1hqCEKw

Hilights:

1. It pays to hunt with an expereinced friend/mentor. My partner Philip is a Phd in biology and has 20 years hunting expereince.
2. US Wilderness code mandates no mechanic vehicles. So we uses outfitters to use mules to haul in equipments to basecamp.
3. Hardest workout ever, ten times more vigorous than deer hunting. Average 10 miles hiking with 25lb backpacking. When there is harvest, 50lb maet load 7 miles hiking with 1000ft climbing totally drains you physically.
4. 600 lb elk kill is heavy mother fucker. We need to debone the meat and only carry the meat for hiking back to basecamp 3.5 miles away.
5. Bear kill is lucky using elk carcass to ambush. Baiting is not legal but this is gray area if you use previous kill remains.
6. .308 is totally adequate, 165 gr bullet drops the games instantly. I am confident of its performance upto 300yd.
7. Get a waterproof boots is paramountly important. My Danner Raptor boots soaked through in heavy morning dew hiking. Probably I need water repellant spray.
8. Mountain hunting temperature varies greatly. It freezes at night and over 80F during day. Bundle up if you need to sit and ambush for a long time at dawn or dusk.

I will write the essays in several installments:
day 0 - into the wilderness
day 1 - call of bugle
day 2 - slave work
day 3 - bear luck
day 4 - rug marching
day 5 - patrol and wait
day 6 - falls and misses


Photo hilights are here:

htliu

请问外州人去Montana打猎，都有什么规定，
如猎照，鹿票价格。。。
谢谢

dengdengdeng

再看一遍，还是觉得很刺激。这个绝对可以投稿给杂志了。

happyfrog

rc256 发表于 2013-10-2 08:41
Lama

这个不就是传说中的神兽“草泥马”吗，没想到他还真的有能耐

rc256

Lama

rc256

my partner recommends lamas. i figure they are cheaper to maintain. if ever netters from this forum want to self organize a trip, we should figure out ways to rent lamas.

graywolfman

rc256 发表于 2013-10-1 11:04
Good question. If you don't have outfitter, you would need to carry the meat back to your car. Tha ...

这种深山老林长途跋涉，可能骡子、马是必备之物啊。

FJC

rc256 发表于 2013-10-1 10:04
Good question. If you don't have outfitter, you would need to carry the meat back to your car. Tha ...

看来不便宜啊，这一趟雇人雇牲口，一个人最少得好几千刀了吧

rc256

FJC 发表于 2013-10-1 10:57
请问楼主，那数百斤的猎物，都是步行的trail，肉都是怎么运出来的。。。是雇人背还是自己背？

头天打到猎 ...

Good question. If you don't have outfitter, you would need to carry the meat back to your car. That will be 13 miles one way and 1500 ft up/down hill. This probably should take say 6 person round trips. Then you have to drive to cold storage. The whole thing is probably 3 day effort. You apply salt and pepper.

We had drop camp outfitter. They take back to cold storage from drop camp. So we only have to make 6 person round trip for 3.5 mile hike.

FJC

graywolfman 发表于 2013-9-25 07:33
好啊，恭喜楼主凯旋而归。期待你的狩猎记。因为这里是中文论坛，所以提醒下次写正文时最好是用中文。多谢分 ...

我觉得至少比一句话里英文和中文单词混合交替使用顺畅多了。。。

FJC

请问楼主，那数百斤的猎物，都是步行的trail，肉都是怎么运出来的。。。是雇人背还是自己背？

头天打到猎物以后，是先运出来，还是背着肉继续后面多天的行程？中间肉会不会坏掉？

GTI

照片很帅，楼主猛男

PennWoods

这景，就是不打猎，光野营也很爽哈

PennWoods

rc256 发表于 2013-9-25 10:22
I already wrote half in English. I will probably ask someone to translate/typing in Chinese afterw ...

要不你写，俺们来翻。俺不能光吃肉么，呵呵…

tan0918

楼主帅啊！！
请详细讲讲怎么办tag，怎么找的地方？是花钱参加的活动还是联系了你那个熟悉本地的朋友自己去的？谢谢

happydad

帅呆了！
猛男呀！

HOUSCOUS

Damn!!! Awesome!!!

firerain

好事成双！once in a lifetime hunt!!!

rc256

Qingshi 发表于 2013-9-25 07:12
羡慕嫉妒恨！

呵呵，这个真够牛的。

Guide hunt may not yield better result. Usually guided hunt for elk is about $6-7k. Success rate is general 25-40% depends on how hard you are willing to work. Private land should have much better success rate and can be more expensive. Game warden said there was total four elk kills. There are four camps and some other hunters. So the success rate is about 25%. After the first three days everything is quiet no more bugling so there is virtually no chance after that.

ds008

恭喜RC收获两只