Got my elk!!! (Pic)
09-07-2004, 11:45 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lingle WY USA
Posts: 527
Got my elk!!! (Pic)
Here's the story:
Friday night my brother and I back packed in about 5 miles and barely made it to camp. The bulls were going crazy!!!! I called a spike in to about 10 feet from my brother that night and, having never hunted before, you can imagine how big his eyes were.
We woke up the next morning and nothing was bugling...absolutely nothing. We walked up a drainage about 2 miles and got into a bunch of bulls. It was raining pretty hard but not bad enough to give up the hunt. I called in several 5x5s and raghorns but nothing to even think about shooting as far back as we were. The bulls were really responding to cow calls.
We came to a drainage and could hear several bulls on the far mountainside. Well I watched a nice 320 clas bull come off of the mountain and set-up. I realized that he started heading up the drainage so I boogied to a set of rocks over looking the drainage, trying to cut the distance. Well just as soon as I get to the rocks I see antlers coming down the drainage. My brother is still walking to where I ran to so I motion (VERY adamantly) to get down. The bull bugled once at 30 yards, stepped into an opening (moving left to right) at 40 yards, I cow called, held my 30 yard pin 6" above centerline (I shoot 1 pin), and let it fly. The hit was perfect, entering behind his right shoulder and breaking the off side shoulder and exiting. He went about 30 yards (nearly running over my brother), stumbling and laid down. It was over in less than a minute. What a fantastic, sad, joyous, exhilarating, and emotional moment.
When I shot him I didn't really look at the horns, thinking he was the same bull (320 class) as came off the mountain side but as my brother and I approached I began to realize he was MUCH bigger than 320. I couldn't get my hands around any parts of the main beam!! Also his body was so large it kind of misled me as to how big his horns really were.
I leave the rest of the story with the visual of me and my brother packing out 150 lb. packs 6 miles, uphill, through dangled creek bottoms.....TWICE!!! Got the last load out on Mon. (Labor Day).
This bull has 48" main beams and a 42" inside spread and 13" bases. His mass is truly incredible. One Pope and Young scorer got a gross green score of 380 4/8 and another got a green score of 378 6/8. A great bull!!
This is my fifth bull in 5 years. It's been a great run of success and needless to say, I've worked incredibly hard for this success. What an honor to take such a great animal.
My gear was a Mathews MQ1 70 lbs. w/ GoldTip Big Game 100 arrows tipped with 125 gr. Snuffers weighing 525 gr. I used Primos Sound Plate diaghram calls and Hyper Lip Single.
09-07-2004, 12:05 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Norman OK USA
Posts: 3,318
RE: Got my elk!!! (Pic)
Great bull CG. Where did you kill him? I'm from wyoming, I spent a lot of time above meeteetsie and in the big horns this summer. I wish I was there to hunt right now. Great job.
I can only imagine the thrill of chasing such majestic animals up high in the hills. 
