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Anyone selling a newer truck? My son needs a newer truck. Looking for under 30k miles. 4x4. Gas motor. Budget is 45 tops. Shoot me a pm

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So whats your plan on hunting the Fall birds. Sit water? Drive around?

Well its my sons 5bs bulk tag. We had a few good scouting trips and have a plan. I will try and post pics and videos and give updates for those interested. Went out tonight to a waterhole we like and heard a few bugles which blew me away. They been talking after dark but not today. About 50 yds before water this guy came in. Hope to see him in the morning. He had no cows with him. On way back to camp saw a bull pushing 20 cows hard. About a 310 bull but rutting hard. Hope to have a good morning. Up at 330am IMG_7729.mov

Well Guys Got my other sons 11m cow tag done pretty quick Called this little fella in. Will taste great.

Well guys we saw a bull 300 yds away about hour before dark Thought he was coming in but just never did Thx for following this thread. I'm just an avg Dad/hunter hunting with his kids We had 2 shots and didn't connect. saw 5 bulls over 350 just couldnt get close enough. calls just were not working for us. If u have the rifle tag and need some pointers on where we saw the big ones let me know If u have a guide please dont reach out thx larry for the bow for my son solid of u and we wont forget thx fellas

Funny u say that. Growing up my dad always said. If u bust your butt somehow u will get 1 chance. Pulling up to water till dark

Ok here we go. First started off last night when some whiskey and chipotle didn't mix well. Up at 130 am with the chits and never went back to sleep. Alarm was at 3 am anyways so let’s roll. first stop was where yesterday morning got on some good bulls. There is a meadow and spring there year round so always elk. Well not today. Some turd decided to camp right on it. No elk, no bugles. Crap!! Chipotle dump again get in truck and decide to haul as$ to where they were talking a few days ago where he got his first shot. Nada there also. dang Chipotle again!! we then decide to go where we started in the beginning where one of my first videos of that nice 6 pt. As soon as we pull in, 2 bulls screaming. Game time!! We make it that way and see the first bull. Solid 6 moving left pushing. 2 nd bull to the right screaming cant see it. We go for the left. Now about 200 yds away , but we getting behind. They r on a mission to bed. I try and catch up and throw a challenge bugle, he screams back. I get closer. He bugles, and so do i. He then does again and goes slightly down hill and i lose sight. We r hustling to get close since they cant see us and POOF!!!! Never heard or saw him again. Bull behind us bugles. Lets get in front. We head to his fence line where he crosses and long story short, never saw or heard. Crap!! Back to truck well chipotle struck again and we r gassed. Cant quit. I tell my son let’s go to the bedding area where we went before and jumped a bull. Big hill, just sucks but we know they r there. Start hiking in this ridge and head down at first. Thick and quiet. I look up and 5pt bull walking at us but little angle down hill. It’s really thick in there. I find a shooting lane. Son gets ready, kneels due to branches. Here he comes!! In the open cow call, he freezes broadside. Range 60 down hill. Aim, fire!!!!! Just over back. Son forgot to adjust for down hill shooting. Probably should have put his 40 on him but he didn't. Im just as mad at myself for not telling him. Arrow went about 6” over back. Bull gone. Devastation sets in. We just went over downhill shooting 2 days ago also but I should have told him. Fuk!!!! One last chance. Sitting water where those bulls were screaming this morning. Need a nap first.

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Well guys. No elk, no bugles. back at camp. Sipping some buffalo trace and knees blown out. Gonna ice them now. Hiked over 40 miles in a week. We have 1 more day left. Gonna give it our best. We will be on elk in am. Just have to cut them off asap. Forest is so fukin loud though. super frustrated and tired. U guys want to hear the crazy part. Even after all this. Feet hurt, knees hurt, crispis blown out, my other son starts his 11m archery cow tag friday. How the heck can i do that. I need mammason to come give massage. Im blown out. We love our kids and go full throttle. My dad was a marine and so was I. I remeber growing up my dad said quit being a pus$y. Be a man and stay at it. Pops was in vietnam and lost his 2 best friends first tour by bouncing betties. (If u know u know). He reminds me of that all the time. Which means enjoy life. So!!!! Back at it in the am. 320am is the alarm.

Water till dark. Looks to be getting hit solid.

Sat water 6 times and they hit after dark where i been

Well im selling everything. Man o man. Somthis morning. Get out there and have 2 big bulls bugling. Still dark. We pin point one bull amd head that way. We get 150 Yds and all good. I can tell they r moving though towards bedding area and soon as sun peaks they gone. We get about 80 yds from big 6 (320-330) and he has about 6 cows. I ask my son can u see your pins he says no. Chit!!!! They rip there bugles again. We stay put. Not sure what direction they gonna go. Well they turn away from us not towards us and it was a chase from there. Just pushed them. about hour into it i hear a bugle to the side. We head that way and oeak over ridge and boom there is a bunch of cows. Perfect. We freeze. Bull is somewhere. I tell my son be ready. Cows r 40 yds away and dont known we r there. The bull bugles. Game time. At this point no calling cause i think every time i cow call it says “ Im right fukin here”!!!! Insee the bull 65 yds but of course trees in way. We pick a shooting lane. Cows r feeding. I got all day buddy and my feet hurt so im more than happy waiting. Well 10 min into it bull bugles, still doesnt know we r there and they all run out of there. Not sure what happemed. back at it later

830pm dinner again

Heres my life right now same song and dance. On elk but just cant seal. Water not working. They bugked last 20 min. We tried to get on one this evening and bugled 1 time. Whole hike back in dark no bugles. So now knees r blown out tired as shoot out of whiskey feet hurt need to Find a rubntug mentally and ohysically exhausted. back at it 3 am

Well im frustrated. Here we go. head to another area and show up and soon as i open door about 4 elk were bugling. Was still very early another 45 min till light. We chill for a bit the 20 min before light we load up. Elk still talking but u can tell they gonna head to this big hill to bed. So we get in between. We focus on this one bull that was closest. We get over right in front of him and set up. Hes coming in. U can barely see now and my son says he can see his pins. Another bugle. Perfect, lets get it on. Bugle and coming right at us. There is a small little decline in front of us and hes right on it. We r in a small open area where hes headed. One more bugle and now buck fever is here cause its going down. Well!!!!! Not another bugle from him and after about 2 min im like wtf!! We head that way and gone.. Long gone. Not another bugle from him or any other elk. They all shut up. Couldnt get on them again. back out andnno where they r going so we jumped in tacoma and drover to the south side of the hill where they will bed on the north side. We head up this hill above 75 ft from top. We slow creep to where they bed and just chill about 30’min. Boom. We see a bull and 3 cows walking slow. We hang out about 30 Min and see what they do. We lose them. Chit!! Well a few of u on here said try some cold calling and get his attention if still there. Well i threw a few soft cow calls and u would think there was an atom bomb that went off. They ran faster than u could believe. Hahahaha. back to drawing board. I have no problem getting on elk every day. Even decent bulls. Just cant seal it. Never been stumped like this. Will try some new chit this pm.

Cody pull up my past posts. Do an search. If u want just small bass and trigger i have a guy. If u want groupers then i have a guy.

Well nada. About 30 min before dark a bugke about 1/4 mile away. so u make the decision and a. Sit and dont blow the last 30 b. Chase the bugle and u nnow where he is. Try and get in fromt. we stayed and nada. Walking back to truck in dark and bull is bugling. Solid 330 bull with 4 cows. This been our story last few days. Will be up early to new area and try get on bugles again. Just need them to talk a little so we can get in front. Toughest rut hunt i been on. But we keep trukin

Here for night. Hot. So hopefully they hit. Middle of unit. Usually sit together but this manmade blind was too small. See how this goes

Well today took a turn for the worse. Out at 4 am and bugles were cut by 75%. They would bugle one time and thats it. So chasing bugles was out today. Changing areas tonight to sit water. See how it goes. Time to shoot anything. Rut just isn't going here. Hot now this week so gonna be tough.

Not sure what happened tonight but they didnt want to play tonight. Water sucked and no bugles where we have been hearing them nightly. Back at it in the morning. 3 am comes quick. Just got back throwing a steak on.

They were videoing a flock of turkeys that came on in. Tons of turkeys out this year.

Here is the hunter sitting in the log and his brother. Just to put faces to story. We just blew a stalk and were gassed.

Not to often u see a biologist in middle of woods on the water tank u plan on sitting. He walked 10 ft in all sides of tank and then took a net and scooped for micro bugs. Was interesting.