Jarrod Elk 2

Jarrod Elk 2

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Last week, we left Jarrod Secondo glassing and tracking a herd of elk way up in mountainous terrain hoping to get a crack at a bull. “I’m sitting there and I'm like Man, I hope I hear a bull and sure enough one bugles off way up the mountain and then two more bugle off. 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 got him. I didn't have like a real good vantage point on him but I did see him. Maybe an hour left in the day and I started hiking up after him. Unbeknownst to me there was a smaller herd of cows right below me maybe 20 animals and they spooked, snow was pretty crunchy, it was real real hard to get around without making any noise. Once they spooked they started getting worried about it. So I was able to get eyes on the other two bulls. One was a spike and one was just a little rack horn and they were both below me and eventually this entire herd of elk rounds up and they've had enough of me and you know at this point we're talking. I don't know 50 or 60 animals had congregated maybe two or three hundred yards below me and I can see flashes of antler here and there but nothing guaranteed. So I let them do what they were doing and they ran off down the mountain maybe made it a thousand yards maybe fifteen hundred yards and they all stopped. The whole herd. Just one hundred percent stopped in their tracks turned around and came right back.”
Previous ReportHunting or video game
Next ReportPets and Traps