Well, I kept telling myself "Don't shoot the first bull you see" unless it is one of the big ones that I have caught on my trail cam in the last two months. Well guess what?
I had told myself I was going to sit in my spot for 12 days straight to get one of these and I only lasted one day
Hadn't had a bull on the camera for two weeks. Only saw a bird the first day. The second day, I decided to chase after some other elk my dad and I had been watching and followed a bull bugling somewhere up ahead. I finally came to the bottom of a clearcut and the herd was heading into the timber about half way up. I only had a thin shot that I could see the cows heading into the timber through. I finally saw the bull and had a short time to decided on the distance. I was guessing about 400 yds but it was 360 and up at about a 45 deg. angle. I hit him right through the top of the backbone and he dropped like a sack of rocks. He was the first bull that I saw
I wish I could bring that bullet back. That evening (Tuesday) after packing my elk out I went to get my trail camera and watched 4 cows and one of the big bulls that I had on my trail cam walk through my little meadow, 200 yds away!
I had a blast hunting the bulls early and am looking forward to doing it again (in another 10-15 years)!
I ended up packing up a chainsaw to get this bull out from under the trees where he got stuck.
