Chose the wrong spot - Opening Morn
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From: cnelk
03-Sep-18
Wouldnt ya know it.... I chose the wrong spot to hunt opening morning!!! :>)
My tree stand is just to the right on the edge of the opening
From: drycreek
03-Sep-18
You're seeinelk :-)
From: JTreeman
03-Sep-18
Ha, story of my life!
—jim
From: Ucsdryder
03-Sep-18
You don’t want to kill one opening morning! Then what will you do in September! It looks like he was bugling too!
From: ki-ke
03-Sep-18
stinking trail cams.....lol
Look at how sleek and fat those 1st of September bulls are! SOOOO tasty.....
From: COHOYTHUNTER
03-Sep-18
Where is this exactly? By exactly, I mean the GPS coordinates..
From: BULELK1
04-Sep-18
Damn the luck-------->
Save him for when ' Team Brad ' all show up later this month! haha
Good luck, Robb
From: WV Mountaineer
04-Sep-18
Ha! I’m betting if you’ve set your mind on this one bull, he’s living on borrowed time.
Get ‘em Brad.
From: LBshooter
04-Sep-18
Well you know they will be there tomorrow lol
From: ELKMAN
04-Sep-18
good problem to have though!
From: Grasshopper
04-Sep-18
At least it wasn't a photo of a guy stealing your other camera.
Keep the faith, it's gonna happen
From: elkmtngear
04-Sep-18
Dangit!!!
Missed them by that much!
From: Vonfoust
04-Sep-18
Story of my life. :)
From: Straight —» Arrow
04-Sep-18
just make an adjustment before morning two.....I have had small adjustments to where I'm sitting payoff pretty big before on subsequent mornings.
From: nowheels
06-Sep-18
That stinks! I had a similar situation with a 150 class WT in September a few years ago. I had the camera set up on a line of pre-rut scrapes on a ridge behind my house. On that evening I decided to hunt a clump of persimmons a mile or so from the house to try and kill a doe. He took a couple of selfies giving me a great look at his rack and then walked off. The last picture showed him walking over the ridge about 15 yards from my stand.
I got a couple other pictures of him at mid day in early November and then he vanished. Never saw him in person.
I hope you get him. Out of curiosity, how far away were you hunting that morning?
From: Lost Arra
06-Sep-18
cnelk doesn't seem to choose the wrong spot very often so I'm expecting the next photo to include a dead animal
From: Vonfoust
06-Sep-18
"cnelk doesn't seem to choose the wrong spot very often so I'm expecting the next photo to include a dead animal"
Hoping so. Expecting it as well.
From: weekender21
06-Sep-18
That's some good intel! If they're in bow range at first light you might have bumped them getting in there anyway. Sorry, "half full" perspective!
From: md5252
06-Sep-18
Very easy to second guess yourself when that happens. Did it to myself a few times, including recently with a big bull elk. You never know how it could’ve played out had you been there. Lots of things like wind, cows, etc. could have come into play. Lots of “what if’s” in Hunting. A definite downside to cams too. Sometimes ignorance is bliss...
