Back at the Mac!! Moose hunting!!

Ralph and I are in Whitehorse, Yukon right now. We just flew back out of our MacMillan River Adventures moose camp and had a great time!!

We flew in on the 13th and I had my bull down by the 15th!! I shot my moose at 5 feet from me!! WOW, what a rush!! He is a beautiful bull, heck I don't even know how long my Beman was actually off of my Hoyt before it hit him!! :)

Ralph shot his bull a couple of days later at about 12 yards!! Yes, his bull is bigger then mine. Steve (our guide), Ralph and I walked up to his bull with Steve using the boat paddle as an antler and really got the bull worked up!! He was mad, thankfully Ralph shot him!! :)

It has been a great trip, we met new friends, the Cross brothers - Greg & Steve, and we spent sometime with the new outfitter & his wife, Don & Jackie Lind. The weather was a hair warm, and the bulls weren't moving as much as we had seen in the past, but it was an awesome hunt!
We love the Yukon!!!

We heard that Joe & Zendal, who are in Alaska at Renfro's Alaskan Adventure's moose hunting, Zendal shot a nice moose!! Yea Z!!! Congrats!!! We also heard that Gary got his first elk in Colorado with Winterhawk Outfitters!! Congrats Gary!! I heard he pulled a Freddy and started to cry!! :)

We have some traveling to do before we get home later this week. We wish everyone well!! God Bless!!

Our hunting season has begun!!

It is crazy already and the season has just begun!! I (Vicki) shot a beautiful bull elk on Sept. 8th, last Tuesday at the Cielo Vista Ranch in Colorado! Wow! He ended up scoring 358 6/8" 6x6!! We took pictures of him and then went into town to get Ralph an elk tag. He hunted Wednesday night and Thursday morning, he had a few encounters, but nothing to shoot at. Then we went back to the camp and I turned on my phone, there was a text message from Ralph's Mom, it just stated that we fly out to Whitehorse on Saturday, not Sunday like we were thinking!! Yikes!! Can you say 'throw EVERYTHING into the truck and drive like mad back to Illinois!!!
We arrived at home yesterday about 4:30pm!! We played with RJ the rest of the day and evening.

This morning Mom picked up RJ for the Boy Scouting Event that the Hoffman Estates, IL Cabela's was having today! We washed socks & undies, re-packed, made sure batteries were charged, cut up the Elk backstraps, loaded up the turck and left our house at 11am this morning for the airport!!

We are now sitting in the Vancouver, BC airport waiting for our 10:55pm flight to Whitehorse!! We get into Whitehiorse around 1am, then look for Don Lind from MacMillan River Adventures at the airport. If he couldn't make it, he told us to take the shuttle to the hotel and be ready to fly out tomorrow am for camp!!

As the saying goes..... 'Who needs sleep?' Hopefully we will have some great news to post when we get off of the Mac Millan River!!

Be safe and God Bless!!!

Ralph & Vicki

Cielo Vista - Colorado! Elk hunt

All I can say right now is THANK YOU all at Cielo Vista for getting that elk monkey off my back!! This was my 6th elk hunt and finally I got an elk! Not just an elk, a beautiful bull!! We will update more later wjen we get better phne service!! Wow!!!!!!! Thank you Lord!!!

It's Hunting Season!!!!! First to Colorado for elk!!

It is finally here!! Hunting season!! Yea!! We are trying to get everything packed up and ready to go to head out for Colorado tomorrow! (Wednesday 9/2) We will be hunting at Cielo Vista in Colorado for elk!! We can't wait!!

We have been shooting our Hoyt's non-stop and they are ready to go!! I hope that we will be ready to leave out tomorrow! There is so much that need to be done before we leave, because this is the start of the hunting season and we won't be in the studio too much from now until mid-January!! Trust me, we are not complaining!!

Ralph and I won't have cell phone service or internet while in Colorado and we will be back home around the 11th. If we are succesful, we will make sure someone posts the news up here for us!! We will be able to post on the drive home, as well!!

We then fly out on the 13th for Whitehorse, Yukon!! MOOSE hunting!!! Yes, the MacMillan River is calling us back and we cannot wait to get there!! Again, we won't have cell or interent service, but we will have a satellite phone and we will make sure someone posts on here if we are successful!!

We also have Joe & Zendal leaving out for Renfro's Alaskan Adventures for a drop moose camp on the 15th of September. Gary is also leaving out for Colorado in the middle of September for an elk hunt with Winterhawk Outfitters!! The boys are going to be busy!! Then comes deer hunting for the guys!!

We want to wish everyone a safe & succesful hunting season!! May God bless all of you!!

Vicki & Ralph!!