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reloader28 · October 25, 2009, 09:32 PM

My brother and I were elk hunting a couple days ago and it was really foggy. When it started to lift we moved down the mountain aways and found 2 cows and a bull at 660 yds. The fog moved in again and we walked to where we thought we would have a good shot and waited a few min for the fog to lift. When it lifted we were 160 yds out and just slightly above them so he tried a high shoulder shot. As normal the elk dropped in his tracks like he was dead, but as we watched, about 2 min later he tried to get to his knees. Before we could shoot again the fog moved in and we couldnt see anything. The next time we saw him, he rolled down the hill 20 yds and than and before we could shoot the fog came back but we heard him roll to the bottom of the gully. It took maybe 4min to clear again but we never saw him again. You could see where something dragged itself about 50 yds, but then the trail cleared and we lost the tracks. No blood any where. We are good trackers and VERY rarely miss, but after 3 of us looking for 3 days, the only thing we can come up with is he barely hit his back and basically "stun-dropped" him. We pride ourselves in always finding our animal but this has us baffled. Any one heard of this before?

October 25, 2009, 09:32 PM	#1
reloader28 Senior Member Join Date: October 13, 2009 Location: nw wyoming Posts: 1,061	anyone "stun-dropped" an elk? My brother and I were elk hunting a couple days ago and it was really foggy. When it started to lift we moved down the mountain aways and found 2 cows and a bull at 660 yds. The fog moved in again and we walked to where we thought we would have a good shot and waited a few min for the fog to lift. When it lifted we were 160 yds out and just slightly above them so he tried a high shoulder shot. As normal the elk dropped in his tracks like he was dead, but as we watched, about 2 min later he tried to get to his knees. Before we could shoot again the fog moved in and we couldnt see anything. The next time we saw him, he rolled down the hill 20 yds and than and before we could shoot the fog came back but we heard him roll to the bottom of the gully. It took maybe 4min to clear again but we never saw him again. You could see where something dragged itself about 50 yds, but then the trail cleared and we lost the tracks. No blood any where. We are good trackers and VERY rarely miss, but after 3 of us looking for 3 days, the only thing we can come up with is he barely hit his back and basically "stun-dropped" him. We pride ourselves in always finding our animal but this has us baffled. Any one heard of this before?