This last weekend I traveled to the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico to Elk hunt with my dad. It was a great trip – we couldn’t have asked for better weather and we were successful in killing a cow elk on our first morning out. Some pics from my trip:
(Note: some pictures towards the end involve the skinning of a dead elk. Fair warning.)
The rolling grassland before we hit the mountains. |
Starting to get up into the mountains. |
A picture taken by Mom of her bootprint in the snow. |
Our campsite before we started setting up. |
The completed campsite. |
What I figured we would be sleeping in. |
What we actually slept in. My father is getting a bit fancy in his old age. Not that I'm complaining - they were nice digs for camping. |
The inside of the tent. |
The Elk cow Dad shot. Note that she fell about a mile and a half away from where we could get the truck to. Lucky for us it was uphill from the truck. |
Dad filling out his tag. |
The start of the skinning process. We ended up packing out the hide as well as the meat. Dad hopes to have it stretched and tanned. |
On one of our three trip back to the Elk to recover the meat. |
Me with a hindquarter strapped to my back. |
Dad with his hindquater headed to the truck. |
Mom got to carry the head (we needed it to give the lymph nodes and brain stem to the game warden - so they can check the populations for health and disease) |
And one of our ice chests full of backstrap - we'll have a loaded freezer for awhile. |
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What a great time for you guys! Any chance I'm going to get my hands - and by hands, I mean teeth - on some of that meat?!
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