Elk with your bow?
12-24-2003 | 08:16 AM
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RE: Elk with your bow?
This is my best elk ....
I shot him in 1996 I think it was. I had located him and 3 cows in the steep draw and somehow managed to get between them and him. I did a bugle/squeal and he came right in - facing me. I was at full draw and he stopped at 12 steps and started rubbing a tree - facing me. I held as long as I could and let down when his head was down. He kept rubbing, and I drew again and held and held and again let down when I could hold no longer and when his head went down as he rubbed. On the third draw - bull still rubing the tree at 12 steps, he moved 90 degrees and started rubbing from the downhill side - and I shot him with a HC Excalibur bow, carbon arrows and 125 gr Thunderheads. He ran maybe 75 yards and piled up. Huge body, mature bull - scores like 280" or soemthing like that - great mass and character. I bugled a 6x6 in for my Dad 2 days later that scored like 250" or so - both in OTC unit, Colorado, pack in do it ourselves type hunting. Awesome, my best hunt ever.
I shot him in 1996 I think it was. I had located him and 3 cows in the steep draw and somehow managed to get between them and him. I did a bugle/squeal and he came right in - facing me. I was at full draw and he stopped at 12 steps and started rubbing a tree - facing me. I held as long as I could and let down when his head was down. He kept rubbing, and I drew again and held and held and again let down when I could hold no longer and when his head went down as he rubbed. On the third draw - bull still rubing the tree at 12 steps, he moved 90 degrees and started rubbing from the downhill side - and I shot him with a HC Excalibur bow, carbon arrows and 125 gr Thunderheads. He ran maybe 75 yards and piled up. Huge body, mature bull - scores like 280" or soemthing like that - great mass and character. I bugled a 6x6 in for my Dad 2 days later that scored like 250" or so - both in OTC unit, Colorado, pack in do it ourselves type hunting. Awesome, my best hunt ever.
12-24-2003 | 09:11 AM
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RE: Elk with your bow?
I got lucky this year and harvested my first bull. Shot a 4x3 on the first day of my hunt with a Hoyt Razortec and a Carbon Express Hunter Termenator arrow. My broadhead was a 125 Razorback.
Don't let anyone tell you that an elk doesn't jump the string like a whitetail because this one did and I was very lucky to get him. When I released he was broadside at thirty yards. By the time the arrow arrived I hit him square in the butt. When I saw him hobbling away I took another arrow and shot. This one hit him in the back of the neck at 61 yards. The broadhead went through the back of the vertibrae, severed the spinal chord and stuck in the front of the vertibrae. The first arrow went through the back ham, (but didn't pass completely through) and probably would have been lethal, but would have been a tough tracking job.
Don't let anyone tell you that an elk doesn't jump the string like a whitetail because this one did and I was very lucky to get him. When I released he was broadside at thirty yards. By the time the arrow arrived I hit him square in the butt. When I saw him hobbling away I took another arrow and shot. This one hit him in the back of the neck at 61 yards. The broadhead went through the back of the vertibrae, severed the spinal chord and stuck in the front of the vertibrae. The first arrow went through the back ham, (but didn't pass completely through) and probably would have been lethal, but would have been a tough tracking job.
