Glad you enjoy it!

I wish it had a different ending, but that is how it goes sometimes. Thanks for watching.

As Ray says in Trailer Park Boys, "That's the way she goes"

Thanks. I wish it was a different outcome, but such is how it goes at times.

I’d love to hear how that’s hunt went🤝

Yup. I use that a lot when fishing.

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

Yeah, but if I had done my job, he would have been done growing bigger. Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching. You can get that bino harness at www.FHFGear.com

Thanks. That one is etched in my memory until the ends of time. Uggh!

@@Fresh_Tracks Here is my memory moment. I was 16 years old. It was October 4 1980. 7 of us split up and I went up an unsuspecting ridge off an old logging road. I was catching my breath and started making some little grunts like a bull does after the bugle. I hear the the sound of a big animal getting up. Maybe 75 yards the biggest 6 point bull I have ever seen walks up out of the brushy draw to the open hillside in the bright sunshine. I pull my 740 30-06 up and catch him in the scope and pull the trigger before my stock hits my shoulder. He takes off over the hill. I was looking for blood where he was standing and hear 5 shots and then 5 more. I never saw blood or hair, only jagged tracks headed toward the shooting. I look for a couple hours and it started to get dark so I headed back to the pickup. Everyone but Dad was there. A couple hours later a local farmer drives up to where we were. The shots were Dad's. He heard a different bull bugle and put the sneak on him. No snow on the ground so Dad kept putting holes in the big bull until he fell over.When we skinned the bull it had 9 bullets in it with 4 in the head and neck. We did not write down the weight of the quarters but I remember the neck weighed 50 lbs and the hide weighed 82 lbs. (we ran out of pack boards and I carried the hide rolled up in my arms like a baby). We had a hunting partner that hunted the Selway from 1960's on. He said the bull would have been near a thousand pounds live. I close my eyes and can still see the one I missed. But I can walk to my hallway and see the rack off the one Dad killed. RIP Dad I miss you every day.

I hope you do. It is a great time. Thanks for watching.

Yeah, OH MAN!!! What I wouldn't give to have that shot back.

I have a couple of shots like that which I'd love to have back too!!!

Fortunately, he is coming deer hunting with me this season. It will be the highlight of the year.

Randy Newberg, Hunter Enjoy every Minute of it!! My two sons and I are going for Caribou in September I cannot wait. Something we have wanted to do for a really long time and finally it has all come together.

Very sorry to hear that, Tate. I hope your condition improves. As you might expect, we get hundreds of requests to have people join us or us join them. They are all requests I would love to take up, but given how busy we are producing the content we have promised the groups who fund our platform, I don't have time to take any of those kind invitations. I wish it was different. I hope you understand. You are in my prayers.

+Randy Newberg, Hunter I totally understand and thanks, one of the biggest questions I have to ask is are you gonna try to do some hunts here in Idaho cause that would be awesome there some really great hunts here and I haven't really seen anyone come here to hunt they thinks it's to hard to find anything and film at the same time if you came here you could prove them wrong by hunting here giving and elk or deer or black bear or wolf or Mountain Lion the howa handshake and catch it on film on public land

Unfortunately, we have not been to CA and given our model is to show people the opportunity that exists on public lands in the Rocky Mountain States, we probably will not get to CA. We also have not been to OR or WA. Sorry about that. I hope you find some information in our content that is worthwhile. Best of luck to you.

Damn wind is right, but if the shooter (me) fails to hold for the wind, the result is probably the same. Difference in that wind between a 7mm and a .308 is about 3-4", depending on the loads/bullets compared. I would have still missed, or made a marginal hit. Just a big mistake on my part.

with 7mm rem mag would've been different ending on that elk hunt :)

The .308 Win is far more capable than I am. If I miss, it is operator error. There are some great cartridges today, but I have had great luck with a .308 Win when I do my ob. Thanks for watching.

Using a 300 mag with that distance and windage would have changed the bullet path by 2 inches. Still a miss. 308 is a fine cartridge and as Randy said, it was the operator. Shooting in wind is tough, especially when you are sitting in a spot where it feels fairly calm but the bull is out in the wind.

Agreed on a different cartridge selection. I've been researching 6.5 CM and the wind deflection for the 6.5 vs. 308 is substantial at longer ranges - not sure at under 400 yards though. N.AZ is notorious windy/gusty and perhaps this shot might have had a different outcome with that cartridge. EDIT: found this link ballistic data. If I'm reading this correctly, at 400 yds. the wind drift difference between the two cartridges (at 20 mph assuming tables are for 10 mph, multiply by 2) would be approx 4-5 inches. Therefor, WITH OPERATOR ERROR it would have likely been a hit. www.lrs-usa.com/2017/04/13/new-shooters-101-caliber-selection/

I just stick to my trusty 30-06

Good luck. I'll be out filming in WY and ID at that time.

Thanks. Good luck to you as well. Was this hunt in 4A?

Nope. We don't tell people where we hunt, but this was not in 4A. We did an antelope hunt in 4A the following year and I did see some nice bulls down in Chevlon Canyon.

I've got 3A/3C the last week in November. It's the first time I've actually been drawn for elk. My dad and his brothers all got drawn for a late 5A hunt a few years ago. All 4 of them filled their tags. It's a great area. Good luck!

there is nothing like Arizona elk season. I was raised deer hunting in Minnesota and always thought nothing could ever beat it. AZ elk hunting does.

I have all kinds of chambered Howa rifles; .308, .300 Win Mag, 7mm-.08, .270 Win, .22-250, .222 Rem, .300WSM, and multiple of some cartridges. Just depends on what I am hunting and where (weight concerns).

+kerr dogger - I hunt a lot of waterfowl, but not for the TV show. Sponsors want us to demonstrate western big game hunts, and that is what we do. Thanks for asking and thanks for watching.

+Randy Newberg, Hunter Gotcha, you'll have to get DU and Beretta on board, haha. Love what you guys are doing On Your Own Adventures, MeatEater, and Fresh Tracks have all inspired me to take the leap and plan a hunt. From the forest & fields of western Wisconsin to the high country of south western Colorado for an OTC public land elk hunt. This fall can't come soon enough.

And you were there in that canyon on that evening. Funny stuff.

Randy Newberg, Hunter I'm not mocking wether or not it was true I was laughing because the irony. I know how canyons work and for people that dont know im sure it looks funny.

I always try, but never draw and the general season dates never fit our calendar.

We don't give units.

We don't give unit numbers. Suffice to say, Unit 1 is a great hunt. A 26 Nosler will take an elk at most hunting ranges by placing high quality bullets in the right location.

Unit 9 is a good hunt

Unfortunately, I have to provide evidence to support that statement every once in a while. Thanks for watching.

Funny!! But happens to all of us!!

Yes, Matthew was using a long action caliber - .300 Win Mag.

I thought the bolt looked to long to be a 308...

A guy can always dream ;).

Thanks. I can assure you that many shows would not present the reality of a miss on such a fine bull. But, we are not about creating heroes, rather telling true stories of how it happens. Trying to film myself and the complications of that, took my focus off the actual shot. Not a good excuse, but give me that shot 100 times without that complication of self-filming and finding filming lanes through the burnt oaks, and I will make that shot 99 times. Purely operator error that is not a fault of equipment. Thanks for watching.

I hear ya! Thanks for your response. That would be difficult trying to film yourself like that. I miss too! I've missed shots that I should've made more than I would like to admit, without camera equipment!

I appreciate you showing the hunt for what it really was. I backpack hunt and get frustrated when I see nothing. I know they are there. I see the tracks and the droppings. I just don't see them! I have a lot to practice to do behind the bino's and spotting scope because my glassing skills need work.

Hmmm. Not sure. I've not yet applied for Wyoming, but I will this week.

Sorry, I thought I had seen where you had applied for or heard that you had a Wyo elk. Guess I misunderstood sorry. Good Luck with the draw. My Az Javalina got cancelled, I had hurt my back and have been going thru recovery. My next chance is Az bull elk then Nv. Good Luck in all your draws this year.

Congratulations.