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Not according to the picture in Bowhunting World this month. Still using a tab.

Then again, he was also probably promoting a product he's never used and shooting it at an animal he knows nothing about.

I know this is going to be a tough question for you but if you were to pick one hunt as your most memorable, which one would that be?







Well that is a tough question. Every hunt for me is memorable for one reason or another. But I think it would be the hunt for my current world record typical Yellowstone elk with Pope & Young.
I saw that elk the year before I actually got that elk. I had already shot my elk in Montana and was mule deer hunting. It was four days after I had shot my elk that I saw the huge bull and watched it for couple of hours in a very approachable spot. But I had no tag in my pocket. So I thought about that elk everyday and every night for a year and went back there in the year 2000 - with high hopes and a lot of trepidation that I would never see him again.
But I did find him. My guide and I found that elk the first day we looked for him - in the same dark canyon a long way from the road. Like a lot of bull elk, he had come back to the same area to rut even though he wasn’t local. We covered a lot of ground and found him a couple of times before I finally shot him. That was really memorable because of all the thinking I did about that bull the year before I actually got it - and




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the fact that he is just an immense animal. I believe he was bigger the year before I got him than he was in 2000. He was a big 7” x 7” in 1999 and he was a 6” x 7” when he was shot. He looked very much the same - I mean there was no question - he was the same elk. I think the drought in 2000 had probably made his antlers just a little bit smaller. But it's still the 14th largest elk ever shot on record in North America with bow or gun and the current world record with Pope and Young for the typical Yellowstone category. It's also the world record for Safari Club International with bow and gun. So it’s an awesome animal and it was just an awesome hunt.