Got my elk
 

well after 4 days of hikeing and hunting, i finally got my elk, but with a price , i tore my acheillies tendon, so i guess its gonna be easy hunting for me for a while. but i got him, a nice 5 by 5, sneaked in on him while he was tearing up a tree and bugleing. i got with in 17 yards of him, about 40 or so yards above me on a another bench was the rest of the herd, i think he was trying to challenge the herd bull. i waited for close to 15 minutes , to see if the herd bull was gonna come down , but he wouldn't , so i took the 5 by 5, which , in my book is still a very nice bull. as soon as i get the pics developed i'll post them on here if your curious

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Congrats bk, sounds like some good fun and excitement. Hope your surgery goes well and ya heal up fast cause there is plenty of hunting to be done yet. I got my bull on Aug 23rd but i am waiting to get this picture posting thing all figured out with my new scanner before i make my post. Again congrats and get well soon.

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Congrads on your Bull Elk. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

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Way to go!! Lets see those pictures. I don't even hunt until November.

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Congrats on the bull. Hope you feel better soon.

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heal up quick, nice job on the bull, any bull is a good bull.

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ok here are some of the antlers, the ones up in the mountains where kind of dark, so i am trying to figure out how to lighten them up a bit. i gotta find a web site to see how to score him, since this is my second elk, i've never really gotten into how to score the antlers

or not,, guess my pics dont get along with the web site,, lol,, oh well i'll try again in a bit

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bkkeys,

Congrats on the elk.
If I may ask, what were you doing when you tore your Achilles tendon?

EKM

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from all the hikeing i had done chaseing elk,,they seem to like the nastest kind of terrain to live in. i am one of these kind of hunters that cant seem to sit still, and has to hike all over hell and back, but thats ok, i probaly would still do it again. still debateing as to whether or not to see the ortho surgen, or finish out my deer hunt, decisions decisions.

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I thought maybe you packed him out on your back which has been known to claim more than one tendon, knee, or heart over the course of a season. BTW to make the "remedy" as insurance friendly as possible I would recommend seeing the doctor sooner rather than later....

You can always ignore his advice and go deer hunting anyway, but at least then you'll know what kind of "fire" you are playing with. Good Luck.

EKM

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Yeah, that's good advice. I tore mine once playing football in high school and it took a long to heal up properly. Being young and dumb, I tried it out too early and ended up re-injuring it.

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well just got back from docs office,, its a partial tear, have to wear a special boot for awhile, he says it can take up to 5 months to heal, but will never be a 100 percent, the doc doesnt think i need surgery yet, as long as i am a good boy , and dont tear it completely. for some reason i still cant post my pick of my bull, but i did do a rough score , about 225, not real big,, but big enough for me

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EMAIL it to me, I will post it!!! I want to see how you did (so does everyone else!!!)!!!!! If not, set up an account with www.hunt101.com , its free, then download the pic from your computer to hunt101.com and then copy the URL and paste it insde the brackets that the image little button at the top puts out. All there is to it!!

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Right on - congrats!! Let's see some pics...

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Congratulation bkkeys on your bull, hope your healing up from your injury. cant wait to see your pics.

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ok lets see how this worked,,, finally figured out what the deal was,, i went to a different place to get the film developed,, and they made the pics to large to be posts,, so i think i figured out how to twik them abit to fit on here