WY is such an awesome place to hunt and this hunt took us 4 years to get tags ! 5 of us buds headed out for the bow season and we came home 2 for 5 . We all hunted hard and all had a chance at a elk . From one missing a big 5×5 to me hitting a bull of a lifetime and not finding it ! I was just sick about it and looked for him for 2 days
to find out we had other hunters in the area . I would guess they jumped him the day I hit him and ran him off the mountain !
Well with this tag they give you a chance at the gun season also if you don’t fill your bow tag .. So 3 of us headed back out with 2 tags in hand . The first morning we spent most of the time looking for elk and looking yet again for my big bull from early in the bow season .
Bad weather set in and we couldn’t see 20 yards . ( first day was a bust ) 2nd day we woke up with a foot of snow and knew this was not going to be a easy hunt at all . We all figured if we can get down some of these packed with snow roads to glass would be our only chance at finding
them .. We ended up finding 3 good bulls and 6 cows so we took off up the hills after them . 4 hours later we ran across them and the other shooter missed and the game was over 
( we are now 5 miles from the truck ) so one guy heads back to get the truck and us 2 hunters kept going in the area that these elk went . Seen them one more time with no shots taken . But on the way down the mountain we are real sure we found the big bull I had hit in bow season 
Rack was GONE 
Day 3 we got hit with another storm but that didn’t hold us back at all as we went out looking to cut tracks and put a game plan together … We found 6 sets of tracks crossing a old road and took after them . After about 3 hours we jumped them 5 bulls with 2 good ones and 3 smaller guys . We kept after them for another hour running into them one more time but it was the back of the pack and my last p.m. to hunt so I took the bigger of the 2 bulls I could see . He is a busted up 5×5 and no monster but it was a great hunt and plenty of meat in the freezer ! Our other hunter also scored the next morning on a big cow ! 
Way to keep after it! 
I’m guessing you still have that first bull on your brain. 
Great job capturing the beautiful country out there with those pics!
