Good job!

Cheers to you!!!! Congrats!!!

dam, that was quick. Way to go. Are you allowed any more? or are you done pullin the trigger yourself? If you need something else to do we (ELKINMTCWB and me) are leavin from Helena at 5pm this evening. We could use a camp cook/elk caller/meat packer (hopefully). We'd buy all your food anda nice souvenir (keychain, ball point pen,etc) LOL.

Again. Way to go. look forward to the pics.

good luck to everyone out there

CONGRATS ELK

Way to go man,that was damn quick,now you have to wait a year to shoot another.
BBJ

Congrats Man!!! Good Job. If your having touble posting pics, you can send them to me at [email protected] and I'll post them for you.

Congrats, I can't wait til the day that I can hunt elk.

Thanks for all the support. This is a very busy year for me as I just bought a house and am pressed for time to move, hunt, and prepare for some out of town people who are coming in elk hunting the third week of september. I have been battling a ruptured disk and was able to hunt, thanks to some good painkillers. I told the surgeon that the only way I was going to miss hunting is if my funeral was planned for the same week. I am about as diehard as they come when it comes to elk hunting.

I have been using pretty much the same tactics as elknut uses, for a few years now, and can verify first hand that it works. I knew where the elk would be and started in the right spot to begin with. I hunt about 5 miles in on the trailhead and bivy when I go in. Sleeping under the stars is part of my adventure. The first setup we located several bulls bugling. I moved up the hill and stayed cross wind and off to the side of a well used beding area, that usually has 7-8 different bulls using it.

The second setup I made a novice mistake and did not think out the situation. After going into the routine of two hot cows with one getting nervouse, I let out some huff and grunts and told the make beleive cow that she wasn't going anywhere. Just then a decent 5x5 ran down the hill taking out everything in his way. He stopped at 20-25 yards and did not present a good shot, so we had to let him go. He winded us in the now swirling wind and took off in the opposite direction. Not liking the spot, we moved cross hill to a group of 3-4 bulls that were now getting pretty mad.

On the third setup, which was one hour into the hunt, I started the same routine that I used on the bull that walked(ran) and after doing the last chuckles I looked over my bugle bat and saw the bull that I killed standing at 50 yards or so. I thought that I was busted when he started walking to me. I waited till he walked behind a big pine tree. Thats when I let him have it. It was a quartering away shot and the arrow blew trough and out the front. There was a blood trail that blind man could follow. This is where I recommend the cut on contact. The arrow never slowed down on the pass through and burried halfway up the shaft into the dirt. I sent the picture to someone else to help me get it posted here.

I am heading up friday night for 2 nights to help my partner tag out. Then its on to moving into the new house, then hopefully I will be ready for my guests. After that, its on to NE for an archery white-tail, then back to Idaho for a trophy mule deer hunt that I drew on. I have my elk and bear out of the way, now its on to 2 more tags. It has been a very memorable season so far with much yet to come. Good luck to all of you.....................................And thanks for all the advice elknut, as you put the edge on the blade. This is 6 elk in 6 seasons on the first week of the hunt.

Here's your pic Elkcrazy8. Congrats on the bull, I hope to go elk hunting one of these days.

6 elk in 6 seasons in the first week!!! You must be doing something right.
Congrats once again.

Congrats on a bull!