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

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.

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

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.

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

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

bkkeys,

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

EKM

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.