Congrats!!! I've never hunted anything but quail, doves, ducks, pheasants, etc., and that's been 30+ years ago. But I did have a close encounter of the elk kind this Labor Day up in Estes Park. That's me at the far right, with the video camera and tripod. That boy was close.....right after this was taken, he walked up closer to me and stepped over the guardrail and crossed the road. When he came over the guardrail, I slowly stepped over it also onto this side of it.

He didn't mess with me, but he sure gave me the stinkeye. A couple minutes earlier, his whole family was all around me, then he came up to shoo them away from me and back across the road.