Heavy Horned West Side Archery 5x5 -- First Elk --Story and Photos

[bowhntr]

Hunt Date: 9/9/12
West Side: Archery General Season

This Bull left his cows and was coming in bugling to a would be broadside shot, so upon him arriving at my shooting window I drew my bow back.  The bull then turned and froze quartering towards me (a bad bow shot) right as I was about to realease the arrow. 

Having never shot an elk before you can imagine what I felt like having this bull stare me down standing within 35 yards. Holding perfectly still already on my knees, I waited the bull out for 45 or so seconds with my bow at full draw hoping he wouldn't catch any movement. He finally began moving on his original path so I let the arrow fly with the propper broadside shot.

The shot was little further back than I had hoped so I ran parallel to the bull hoping for a second shot and sure enough he froze facing me head on, dipping his head below a small tree to get a look at me, so I realeased another arrow. "THWACK!". With his head dipped low to the ground I had hit him in his left antler (see the mark on his left G4).  That got him running again and but luckily he dropped 30 or so yards later.

[jackelope]

 

Congrats

[ellensburgpo]

Great bull. Congrats

[ShaneTyTrey]

Nice work

[cem3434]

Nice bull, congrats on a nice rosie!

[SniperDanWA]

Nice bull, congrats on a nice rosie!

 :yeah:X2

[pips4bucks]

That's a heck of a first elk!  Congrats!

[bowhntr]

I forgot to add that this elk went 585 lbs in the meat locker.  We cut 4"to 5" thick chunks of fat out of him in the field.

[Killercolin]

We cut 4"to 5" thick chunks of fat out of him in the field.

Beautiful Bull! Nice job!
As for the fat... Out of 13 elk Ive never really seen maybe more that .1" thick of fat on an elk before. Can they really gain that much body fat??? (Serious question) Sound like a Wal-mart elk then. 

[bowhntr]

I should have taken picks of the fat chunks.  My hunting partner who has many, many, elk kills under his belt said he had never seen anything like it as we were cleaning it out.  Below is another photo of him that shows his body size a little better.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Very nice Bull!! Congrats

[Elkpiss]

That is a fat sum bitch..big elk.. weird, usually there fukd out and burn all there fat during the rut.. I think u shot one of those gay elk... beauty bull duder..

[yakimarcher]

Congrats! My first bow kill was a white tail doe when i was about your age and i was pretty excited, you must be on cloud 9!

[deerhunter_98520]

Thats awsome...i love those big heavy 5s

[Huntboy]

Congrats.