Montana was good to me
09-09-2007, 10:50 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4,487
RE: Montana was good to me
YES IT WAS!!!!!
HOLY BULL ELK, Batman!!! Congrats on that fine trophy. I was wondering when some elk harvests would start rolling in. It was worth the wait. That is a BEAUTY.
What's the story behind that beast?
HOLY BULL ELK, Batman!!! Congrats on that fine trophy. I was wondering when some elk harvests would start rolling in. It was worth the wait. That is a BEAUTY.What's the story behind that beast?
09-09-2007, 12:41 PM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jackson, Missouri
Posts: 7,051
RE: Montana was good to me
Can you give us some details surrounding the event? Were you calling? What calls, if so? How were the conditions? Did you call him away from the herd, or did you set up inside his "hot zone?"
We need answers, man!
We need answers, man!
09-09-2007, 01:37 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: WEST PALM FLORIDA
Posts: 2,890
RE: Montana was good to me
Short story ,
Montana's was hot last week , 90's during the day and down towards the 40s most of the nights , opening morning my guide and myself did some spot an stalk , got within 100 yards and the wind was wrong , swirling , the bane of elk hunters . called it a mourning . Went back for the afternoon hunt , and sat on a water hole , I was instructed not to shoot mully bucks , and as luck would have it saw plenty and had 2 shooters within 25 yards . around last light I cussing my guide for not letting me shoot mully's when 8 cows run into the water hole , they drink for awhile and I here a bugle close , see antlers comming and get ready , I cant stand because 8 cows are 5 to 10 yards from me , He comes in , to my right , the wrong place for a right hand archer whos seated , most of us have been in this situation , I get turned as well as posable and draw , hes 25 yards , ancor and place my pins getting ready to release and notice my bottom limb is touching a tree limb , a small limb , and Im thinking just release , you know how we tend to rush in the heat of the moment , anyway I decide in a split second not to do it and ruin my chance and let down , I look down and one of the cows is looking right at me , I wait and she returns to drinking , I spin slightly on my seat and reach around the limb kind of contorted , get to ancor place my pin and release , he bolts , the cows bolt , he stops on a ridge 50 yards from me an turns to look at his cows , they were still 20 yards from me , as I watch his left back leg starts to quiver , 10 seconds later hes on his back with feet in the air , just like wide world of sports . I get down with cows barking at me and retreve my arrow which has completly passed through him and buried in the ground , there is no blood trail , but I sliced his heart in half .
P. S. I changed my rig around a bit this year largly in part to Straightarrow's "heavy arrow high foc " theroy , and Im shooting better than ever , my bows quiet , and I got a complete passthrough on an 800 pound elk , shooting 28 inches and 62 pounds , g5 striker broadheads , they will cut you if you just look at them . Bull green scored 350
Montana's was hot last week , 90's during the day and down towards the 40s most of the nights , opening morning my guide and myself did some spot an stalk , got within 100 yards and the wind was wrong , swirling , the bane of elk hunters . called it a mourning . Went back for the afternoon hunt , and sat on a water hole , I was instructed not to shoot mully bucks , and as luck would have it saw plenty and had 2 shooters within 25 yards . around last light I cussing my guide for not letting me shoot mully's when 8 cows run into the water hole , they drink for awhile and I here a bugle close , see antlers comming and get ready , I cant stand because 8 cows are 5 to 10 yards from me , He comes in , to my right , the wrong place for a right hand archer whos seated , most of us have been in this situation , I get turned as well as posable and draw , hes 25 yards , ancor and place my pins getting ready to release and notice my bottom limb is touching a tree limb , a small limb , and Im thinking just release , you know how we tend to rush in the heat of the moment , anyway I decide in a split second not to do it and ruin my chance and let down , I look down and one of the cows is looking right at me , I wait and she returns to drinking , I spin slightly on my seat and reach around the limb kind of contorted , get to ancor place my pin and release , he bolts , the cows bolt , he stops on a ridge 50 yards from me an turns to look at his cows , they were still 20 yards from me , as I watch his left back leg starts to quiver , 10 seconds later hes on his back with feet in the air , just like wide world of sports . I get down with cows barking at me and retreve my arrow which has completly passed through him and buried in the ground , there is no blood trail , but I sliced his heart in half .
P. S. I changed my rig around a bit this year largly in part to Straightarrow's "heavy arrow high foc " theroy , and Im shooting better than ever , my bows quiet , and I got a complete passthrough on an 800 pound elk , shooting 28 inches and 62 pounds , g5 striker broadheads , they will cut you if you just look at them . Bull green scored 350
