Saturday morning Chris and Todds elk hunt opened. We left our house at 5am and headed up to the fields by Hardware hoping to find 2 cow elk. We watched the sunrise and the temperatures drop. We left our house it was 22 degrees. By the time we got to Hardware area we were at 4 degrees. We didnt see any elk besides what was on the ranch. We did see a ton of deer on about every stinking hillside. We decided to head down Ant Flat road to see if we saw any herds. The hard part is with out a lot of snow to push them down the elk are still pretty high right now. We found a herd of 4 NICE bull moose and one cow moose with them right off the side of the road. It was hard to get some good picts but these boys were big!
When we got to the moose the temps were even lower.. I had layers on and my blanket in the back of the truck.
We made the loop and came down through Huntsville and over the divide. When we got back home we cut up Chris's deer and mostly did burger.
From there he went to take Steve and Taylor to his pheasant club where he guides. Taylor had bought a certificate for 2 hunters 6 birds at an auction and Chris told him if he did he'd give him a free guide. The boys loved the pheasant club up there and are wanting to go back. While they were out Todd and I went to Harold Crane to get him a swan. The last time they were there the water was so low so we just walked out the dike 1.5 miles in our waders carrying all our stuff. We found a nice place to set up along the bank and threw out some decoys. We had swans everywhere. I called in a bunch and got a lot to turn and circle us. No swans fell from the air though. I called so much I lost my voice. I wasnt shooting any ducks because I really wanted Todd to get a swan. Finally when there were no swans coming in a duck landed in our decoys and I couldnt NOT shoot him.
He was a nice 2nd year mallard with just one curl. We didnt get any swans but we had a fun night!
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