Elk Hunting with Morgan Abbott

 

Show Notes:

 

I’m talking to listener Morgan Abbott. He grew up in rural Utah, hunting with his dad – he shot his first deer at four years old! Today, he’s 23 and plans to take additional time off work so he can spend more time hunting. Just a few weeks ago, Morgan got into the Wasatch limited entry muzzleloader and shot elk with a friend of his. His friend drew the tags and they put their plans together, started placing trail cameras and locating cows over the summer. 

 

They showed up the night before the hunt, checked their cameras and didn’t see what they wanted. They were discouraged but woke up on opening morning and started glassing from square one. They hiked into a canyon and then another location and glassed up a 300-310 bull, a straight 6 point. His friend wanted to shoot it, but he thought they could do better. A third friend wound up joining them and they started bugling and some bulls started to respond. They spent a couple of days bugling and tracking, but nothing was happening.

 

On the fourth day, Morgan got to the trailhead they were working early, but someone had beat them to it. They decided to try a totally different area altogether and drove about an hour to another spot. He ripped a bugle and had 4 bulls answer immediately! They chased bugles all morning, found some cows and a 5 point, but they wound up letting him go and went back to camp. The next day, they woke up at 4am to hit the trail and were the first ones in the canyon. They bugled but it was dead silent. Right when they started to get discouraged again, they heard a long bugle about 10 minutes after shooting light, saw two cows through a small opening, and spotted a 6 point! After a lot of hard work to home in, they wound up getting it. It came in at around 330.

 

All the stress just left them after they shot the elk, and I know there’s no better feeling. It’s all worth it and it really is such a humbling experience. You don’t always realize how tired you are after the chase until it’s all over. Morgan said his pack out was exhausting but they wound up going home proud.

What’s Inside:

Morgan’s experience on the Wasatch Elk Hunt.

How to bugle.

How the chase humbles you when you finally get your kill.

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Short Description:Listener Morgan Abbott tells his intense story about getting a 6 point elk on the Wasatch hunt in Utah. After almost a week of bugling and tracking cows and bulls, they finally got their kill, which was a humbling experience for the whole crew. 

 

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