Thanks, not bad for my first one. My buddy and I were walking a crk bottom trying to cut some tracks. Didn't see anything too fresh when we hear a cow mewing. We walk a few more steps and see a cow at 25 yards. She is facing away from us feeding. We sneak back a few yards to some cover.

We just waited on them and sure enough, that cow was the lead cow and here comes the rest. Calf, calf, cow, cow. They were making their way toward us at approx 50 yards. Wind is in our faces and we are hidden so we wait.

5th elk to walk up the trail has horns. Legal bull. Crap there's a cow in front of him. Wait, wait, ok clear shot.

All I had was a head shot but like I said, we were at close range.
Bam! Dropped in his tracks! First elk down.

520 yards of rope to a landing. Took him out whole.