Sunday afternoon

Ever wonder what it looks like to bowhunt? There is a lot of this. 

So there I was, exploring another new area...but at least this was closer to my house. Again, I found it very thick and got closer to a driveable road than I thought I should be, so this hunt was kind of a bust. Short and sweet, I just did a lot of walking around. However, on my way out this fella in front of me on the road stopped, they were falling a tree up ahead, so we got to chat. Turns out he was in the same general area I was in and had the same comments. Woods are dry and crackly. His suggestion was to do what they had been doing and just staying on old logging roads and existing elk trails. The wind was squirrely everywhere, so he also said that was busting elk on them. I asked if he had even heard them bugling and he said not as much as they "should" which is kinda what I thought. Turns out they were camped up in there, and he mentioned on Saturday night, the elk were going nuts between 12:00 and 3:00 am! Not sure what it'll take to get them more vocal in the daytime, but we'll see. So, relatively uneventful, but a good trip nonetheless.