I spotted a bachelor group of three Muley bucks including this guy moving to a bedding spot at about 8 am. After spending the next 1.5 hours creeping and belly crawling around rock out croppings I managed to get 47 yards from the where the biggest of the group was bedded. I set up behind a tall rock and settled in to wait for a good shot. After about 15 minutes the bucks must have seen some small movement because the smallest got up and started to move out, the biggest gave me a broadside shot and waited around just a bit too long.
Here is my view from behind the rock as I was waiting for the deer to give me a shot. One deer was under the tree just to the right of the rock, the smallest was in the clearing to the right of that, and my buck was in the shadow, under the tree to the right of the clearing... You can't see any of them very well in the picture though.
I spotted this Antelope buck and 20 of his girlfriend's about 3/4 of a mile from the road as I was driving up to my intended hunting spot. I was able to hike around the other side of the hill from them and stalk within 290 yds... There wasn't a speck of cover closer than that.
I put a lot of boot leather down looking for elk over the course of several weekends this year. On a Saturday a few weeks ago, one other hunter and I decided to park one truck at Cow Creek Mountain, the other at Bull Gap and hunt our way from one truck to the other. What looked like about 3.25 miles of decent terrain on the topo map wound up being over 5 miles of constant and abrupt elevation change. We wound up having to hike out over Cow Creek Mountain because the route we had planned around it was blocked by a large rock wall. Didn't see hide nor hair of any Elk. Here's a pic looking back at Bull Gap.
After picking up my truck we went to check out another area that 300 head had been reported on the day before. On the way we saw a herd of about 100 elk on private land, and thought that we might be able to intercept them on a section of BLM that they were headed for. We ran along the ridges of the hills on the BLM section and got set up just in time for the herd to move through the valley about 170 yds below us. I knocked down this cow and another hunter got a yearling.
After an hour and a half of quartering and skinning, I hiked the quarters, backstraps, tenderloins and head out on two frame pack loads (not a smart move, my back is just now getting back to normal). Two hours to drive back and pack up camp and 2.5 hours to drive home. I don't think I've ever been as exhausted as when I rolled into the driveway.
The tallest mountain in the background of the last two pictures is Laramie peak, which was visible from where all three animals were shot.
Giving the quarters a rinse before heading to the processor.
10 ft^3 freezer, elk on the left, deer in the middle, antelope on the right.