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I was to have the 15th16th, 17th, 18th, 19th off for hunting. But the biggest job our Plant has ever attempted kept changing dates. The out of town contractor that was actually forming the Concrete we were to provide was having trouble getting all their ducks in a row. In the end the pour happened last week, the week of my vacation. So I volunteered to change vacation dates (Absolutely a all hands on deck size job for us). They gladly excepted and bent a bunch of things around so I could have the weekend + yesterday and today off.
Anyway on to "no good deed goes unpunished" and the trail cam proves it! here is the trail cam from the 2nd day I would have been Bear & Elk hunting if I hadn't been a good employee
This is a bear chewing on the arm rest of my tree stand at 8:34 AM of what would have been the 2nd day of my hunt.
The red arrow points to the straps hanging down.
This seems to be the bull elk that came by at 9:43AM that same day!!!
You might as well laugh at my luck with me, after all. . . that's all I can do about it.
So far no luck, I have next weekend left, I am going to try to hunt Friday night and all day Saturday.
. . .maybe one or both of these two will stop back by.
I'm not hunting today, I decided to use it to can the mountain of garden produce we are getting right now. Yesterday I spent 13 hours in the basin hunting and was under dressed, the wind blew the whole day & even though it was above 45 degrees, I spent hours in that stand shivering with the cold from the wind. I think I might have gotten a bit hypothermic as I was still cold after an hour long hike out, and froze last night in bed.
Anyway on to "no good deed goes unpunished" and the trail cam proves it! here is the trail cam from the 2nd day I would have been Bear & Elk hunting if I hadn't been a good employee
This is a bear chewing on the arm rest of my tree stand at 8:34 AM of what would have been the 2nd day of my hunt.
The red arrow points to the straps hanging down.
This seems to be the bull elk that came by at 9:43AM that same day!!!
You might as well laugh at my luck with me, after all. . . that's all I can do about it.
So far no luck, I have next weekend left, I am going to try to hunt Friday night and all day Saturday.
. . .maybe one or both of these two will stop back by.
I'm not hunting today, I decided to use it to can the mountain of garden produce we are getting right now. Yesterday I spent 13 hours in the basin hunting and was under dressed, the wind blew the whole day & even though it was above 45 degrees, I spent hours in that stand shivering with the cold from the wind. I think I might have gotten a bit hypothermic as I was still cold after an hour long hike out, and froze last night in bed.
So all in all I saw 3 bears, the Sow her cub and this guy. I'm happy with that in a state where you can't bait. My greed was my undoing. If I has stuck to the plan, and ONLY hunted bear, instead of getting that archery elk tag as well, in all likely hood I'd be telling you all about the shot I made. 
