Hot. Damn hot. Real hot etc.....
I was slated to be out in the '90s' for the last 2 weeks of October. Daytime highs in the upper 60s apart from the one day of snowfall that was gone by the afternoon.
My first hunt in 12 years that I saw literally zero sign anywhere. I was hiking an average 6 miles a day, the snowy Tuesday I covered 9 & didn't cross a single elk track! Muleys & antelope everywhere (it was great to see the antelope recovering after last winter) but no elk.
I spoke with Adam, the local possum cop (I've run into him every year since 2011 now) & he told me that not one elk had been tagged out of my particular unit since October 12th.
I ended up sacking it off 5 days earlier than planned & coming home. I still had a fantastic time, but it would've been a lot better with a couple of full coolers in the truck
It's very hard to whinge about a hunting trip where the weather was too nice though!
I was slated to be out in the '90s' for the last 2 weeks of October. Daytime highs in the upper 60s apart from the one day of snowfall that was gone by the afternoon.
My first hunt in 12 years that I saw literally zero sign anywhere. I was hiking an average 6 miles a day, the snowy Tuesday I covered 9 & didn't cross a single elk track! Muleys & antelope everywhere (it was great to see the antelope recovering after last winter) but no elk.
I spoke with Adam, the local possum cop (I've run into him every year since 2011 now) & he told me that not one elk had been tagged out of my particular unit since October 12th.
I ended up sacking it off 5 days earlier than planned & coming home. I still had a fantastic time, but it would've been a lot better with a couple of full coolers in the truck
It's very hard to whinge about a hunting trip where the weather was too nice though!
