{"id":489,"date":"2018-10-14T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-10-14T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T06:30:52","slug":"2018-elk-season-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/2018-elk-season-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Elk Season &#8211; Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going Elk hunting for the first time this year! A lot of preparation has gone into this trip with much help from family and friends! We will be hunting Area 10 in the White Mountains of Arizona for two weeks!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mike for all of the shooting instruction, a 30-06 is a little different than a 12 gauge shotgun! &#8220;Control your breathing!&#8221;. Can&#8217;t wait to experience this with you and the family! No mud this time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Corbett for geeking out with me on the various rounds and guns there are and for helping me acquire a very nice scope and laser range finder! A true friend indeed!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the IBMers that are backing me up while I am out. I learned a long time ago that if you don&#8217;t take the vacation you earn you will burn out. Thanks for the help team IBM!<\/p>\n<p>One of many steps is prepping the Airstream which will be home for two weeks. Here is a video of the removal from the RV Garage:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-489-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Airstream-Removal.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Airstream-Removal.mp4\">https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Airstream-Removal.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going Elk hunting for the first time this year! A lot of preparation has gone into this trip with much help from family and friends! We will be hunting Area 10 in the White Mountains of Arizona for two weeks! Thanks to Mike for all of the shooting instruction, a 30-06 is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/2018-elk-season-preparation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2018 Elk Season &#8211; Preparation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MROt-7T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":497,"url":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/elk-hunt-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":489,"position":0},"title":"Elk Hunt &#8211; Day ?","author":"bradschauf","date":"October 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is my office view this morning.... 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