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trophyhill
WKR
To read some of the comments, this sounds like a right of passage. An ordeal to be suffered through.
I hunt elk, and anything else, because I enjoy it. Will I get some bumps and bruises along the way? Sure. I might even feel like a complete failure at some point. A squirrel may chew the end off my water bladder tube rendering it mostly useless on day one of a 5 day backpack hunt (don't flavor your water). It just is what it is. I think about that trip and giggle about that damn squirrel. I whittled a plug for it and moved on.
One has to understand their experience level, their abilities, and their drive to succeed. Success being multiple things, not just a dead elk. If I take new guys out west, we sit down and write a list of things they want out of the hunt and a dead animal isn't allowed on the list.
Above all else. You must enjoy the journey, or this isn't for you.
This is supposed to be fun.
Jeremy
Who was it that said "embrace the suckage"? Anyway, there's only one way to find out if a guy (or gal) has what it takes. And that is to get out there and do it