Jarrod Elk

Jarrod Secundo tells the beginning of his story of getting an elk up in the mountains. “Relatively small one. I hunted did pretty hard. Probably two weeks straight and I just kept getting into cows all the time. I was really waiting for the weather to set in hoping and thinking that the snow was going to push the animals around and maybe get some bulls moving around and I was right. It just didn't happen until the second to last day of the season. And sure enough we got you know three or four inches of snow up in the mountains and I hiked up and I was getting into some elk sign you know in the fresh snow and then and then I got into the wolf sign and I was like Great. They're already going to be spooked and riled up. By the time I catch up to them. So I get up there and you know this is early November. And so the elk are simply a little more quiet that time of year and I start hearing all these cows calling and I'm like man, My immediate thought was that there was other hunters close to me just based on how loud they were. I figured they were inexperienced hunters or something like that but I'm sitting there and I'm like Man I hope I hear a bull. I hope I hear a bull and sure enough one bugles off way up the mountain and then two more bugle off. So I was able to glass the first one I heard and he was just a big, big six by six and he was probably I don't know seven or eight hundred yards when I glassed him. I didn't have like a real real good vantage point on him.”