Camping
Jul 09 2008
As if I don’t get enough camping in during the fall, I decided to head to the hills this weekend to do a little scouting and avoid the almost 100 degree heat that hammered our area on Friday. Rinda and I decided to load up and do a little old fashioned camping in an old burn up above Mike’s cabin in the Beartooth Mountains. The weather was much cooler and the wildlife was abundant. Our slumber was interrupted at 3:15 by coyotes yelping and to my surprise the elk began bugling at about 4:30. No visits from Mike’s bears though. A pretty cushy camp by fall standards, but it was good to get out of the summer heat and get into the hills. We are extremely fortunate to live so close to such magnificent country…particularly, with $5.00 per gallon gasoline. No doubt, fall is right around the corner with our first hunt, the antelope archery opener starting on the 15th of August.
Guy Answers Reader’s Questions
Feb 26 2008George Gribben, via Email
I’m going on my first elk hunt to Colorado with my buddies, November 2008. We are easterners from Ohio who love the west. We will be hunting the third rifle season (Nov. 1-7). It is a drop camp, we are going in 12 miles by horses. We need your advise for calling elk during that time of the year. Do you recommend bull bugles or cow calls? Are they helpful or detrimental? If they would help what calls would you suggest? We will have bull and cow tags. Any help you could give would be appreciated. We are fans of Eastmans.
On the Lighter Side
Oct 30 2007
Pack Horses
By Chris Dahl
I once read the horrific account of a man who, deep in the back country, was kicked in the face by a mule while trying to load an elk quarter. His partners made heroic efforts to get the man out of the mountains to medical help, where fortunately he recovered. Grimly, I nodded. Boy, was he lucky. He got his elk.
For the serious big-game hunter, horses and mules are like you-know-what - can’t live with them, can’t live without them. They carry us far into the elk woods and then carry our game out. But, also - like you-know-what - the misery endured for these simple services can drive a horseman to insanity; or in extreme cases, to llamas.
Reader Comments on A Threat to Hunting we can Eliminate
Jun 12 2007
The feedback regarding Mike Veile’s letter to the editor (see the June/July issue of EHJ, page 98) regarding big game auction tags has been tremendous. As expected there have been some readers condoning the practice and even more opposed to the idea. Below we have posted some of the more articulate responses we have received thus far regarding this very controversial issue facing our hunting heritage here in the West. If you would like to comment on the article please send me an e-mail to guy@eastmans.com and we will get your comments posted as soon as we can.
BC Bear Hunt Recap
Jun 12 2007
We have finally made it back onto US soil after our two week Grizzly hiatus in Southern British Columbia. I have finally found a place that has a larger grizzly bear density than my elk hunting stomping grounds her in Wyoming. Nate and I glassed up over 20 bears in six days with two of them being true trophies. We bumped another three bears face on the trail while horseback, making the final grizzly tally right at 23 bears in six days of hunting. We encountered some very warm, sunny spring days along with some horrendous rain storms, as well as snow and hail. A little of everything and some very long days to boot - you gotta love springtime in the Rockies.