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Bull hunt
« on: October 29, 2012, 09:11:23 PM »
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This hunt started about 7 years ago when I first set foot in the unit. Not the best unit in the state but I know it well. Please no guesses on units or areas I'd rather that not go on a public forum. This is a quick day by day rundown. I'll add some more pics and video in the upcoming days.

Day 1 (3 days before hunt opened) broken shoelace. Hiked 75lbs into spot setup camp.  rain wind fog!  4 rag horn bulls right off trail. Mac n cheese! Tang!

Day 2 rain hard all night  turned to snow early morning hiked to glassing fog snow wind! Tried to wait it out wasn't happening.  Back to tent. Lifted about 10 am got little glassing in on and off the rest of day. 10 or so bulls biggest maybe 310ish steak and potato soup

Day 3hiked a couple hours to different glassing spot. Bumped a heard with decent bull right off trail saw 10 bucks 1 bull approx320. Bro killed deer packed it back to camp. Hiked to glassing spot saw bulls best approx 330  Chili and hot dogs

Day 4 hunt starts. hiked to glassing. passed on small 6 and 5. passed a stalk opportunity on 330 ish bull. Snow started falling heavy with fog. Back to tent gathered quartered wood stockpiled in tent. Hiked back to glass snow little visibility heard of 5 cows 2 spikes just below us. The same 6 and 5 too. Mac n cheese and hot dogs

Day 5 hiked to glass. snow fog little visibility! zero elk! decided to pack deer out to truck resupply and hunt out of different area.  Reached new location at 230am slept in truck

Day 6 woke at 5 started hiking at 530. Got to glassing about 730 spotted 5 bulls decided one a shooter huge bottoms! Mass! Droptine! broken fourth. Put a stalk closest was 670. dialed in waited for shot dropped him! 5 min later realized he was standing 2 more shots for sure one more hit. Hiked around and up to him bear spooked him brother watched him walk through a couple openings. No blood at site of 3 shots(3"snow) decided I should get back on original shooting hillside. Took me forever very tired no energy! Got back to my bro. Decided he would go check last spot he saw the bull. Waited. bro got on bulls trail hear over radio busted him he's coming out in opening. dropped down spotted him shot. no reaction out of bull. shot again just before he disappeared sounded like hit a rock. Got ahold of bro got back on trail good blood where I last shot he spotted bull 50 yards bedded so he backed out and I headed over we snuck in very slow and quite to find a dead bull. Couldn't budge bull he was wrapped up in trees. Took some pics quartered him. 3 solid hits. headed back towards truck right at dark. Fog and snow couldn't see 50 feet and we had some tricky traveling back to trail. Gps came in as life saver! Both dogged it back to truck made it about 1030. Very long 2 day stretch!!! slept in truck

Day 7. Drove to town ate a big good breakfast. Bs'd with some hunters headed back to trailhead. hiked.Hard snow.  boned out. load up hinds on each of our packs hiked out(1000' up) then a couple miles with some ups and downs. Felt a lot better with good sleep and food today even with meat on back. drove back to town for good dinner! Slept in truck

Day 8 another bro met us at trailhead. We ate breakfast hiked in towards down elk.  He dropped contents of his pack and we all dropped down to bull. One pack carried front/ misc meat, one pack carried front/ back straps,  and other pack carried head with cape. Switched packs regular to keep moving. Felt like break with any pack other than head. Reached brothers contents and loaded all meat in one pack and one brother headed for our first tent to hunt spikes and bring out our stuff. Now we have a pack about 100 full of meat and a pack that made the meat pack fill like a break. We kept rotating packs and eventually reached truck. Halelula!!! Btw hard snow all day plowed snow on drive out. Even had to chain up to get through a traffic jam on icy hill. Made it home late!

Day 8 8 am text. Do u mind coming back to help pack out a spike. Fortunately the rest of the fam went to help with some horses. Let me clean up the meat and take care of a wet wall tent. What a hunt. Deer bull spike




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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 09:20:39 PM »
brothers helping me out
Just reaching truck

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 09:23:38 PM »
Great Story and Great Bull! :tup:

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2012, 09:33:42 PM »
 :drool: way to go!! congrats

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2012, 09:35:13 PM »
Great story and great hunt. You earned that bull. Nice job and congrats on a good bull.

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2012, 09:40:18 PM »
Great bull!!!  Congrats!

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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2012, 09:43:37 PM »
Wow, nice bull!! Congrats Sir!

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2012, 10:01:19 PM »
great bull! think hed been doin much ass kickin? lol congrats!
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2012, 11:12:53 PM »
Thats one hell of a bull looks like it was a hard pack out with the snow fall congrats

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2012, 11:13:21 PM »
great bull! think hed been doin much ass kickin? lol congrats!
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2012, 11:22:03 PM »
Excellent! :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2012, 06:13:56 AM »
That bull is a stud! congrats

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2012, 06:29:05 AM »
 :tup:

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2012, 06:50:17 AM »
Awsome bull congrats. You earned him. :tup:

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2012, 07:26:21 AM »
good job dink.. tell the brothers hi. that's an awsome bull. hopefully see you at the show in Utah in a couple months

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2012, 07:50:22 AM »
very nice, way to work hard and get the job done.
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2012, 08:18:47 AM »
Sweet, congrats.
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2012, 08:19:33 AM »
What a toad! Congrats.  :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2012, 08:42:03 AM »
Thats whats its all about right there!!! :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2012, 08:44:06 AM »
That is an awesome bull!!  Lot of character in that rack.     :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2012, 08:46:23 AM »
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #21 on: October 30, 2012, 08:54:40 AM »
Hell of a season.  Can't ask for more. :tup:  Your bull was quite the fighter to break off those massive tines!

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #22 on: October 30, 2012, 08:58:26 AM »
nice work!!!!   :tup:

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #23 on: October 30, 2012, 11:35:43 AM »
Sweet bull Brent!!  When I get over there next time, i'll have to get to your place and see it in person.  Good job.  Tell Ben nice job on the buck.

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #24 on: October 30, 2012, 11:58:37 AM »
Awesome bulls and buck!!!!   :tup:   What gmu did you say that was again???   :chuckle:    :dunno: 

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #25 on: October 30, 2012, 01:07:24 PM »
Wow!  Great Bull, Good Story...

Thanks for Sharing...
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2012, 07:49:10 PM »
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2012, 08:07:38 PM »
Great bull! To bad he got himself all busted up  :bash:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #28 on: November 01, 2012, 06:22:03 AM »
Thanks for sharing the story and congrats on a awesome bull.

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #29 on: November 01, 2012, 07:00:26 AM »
Hell of a bull! Imagine what that big SOB looked like without his tines broken  :yike: Must not be to bad of a unit if you passed on multiple 320-330 bulls  :drool:

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #30 on: November 01, 2012, 08:24:55 AM »
Thanks guys for all the nice comments.

Deadyote- that's brad with the deer and you can stop by anytime.

400out- don't worry that deer was taken the last day of regular.

Buglebuster- I didn't say it was a bad unit just not the best

I will post up some pics and video of the rest of the hunt

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #31 on: November 01, 2012, 08:27:30 AM »
beautiful animal...hard hunt...great results...nice job :tup: :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #32 on: November 01, 2012, 08:19:20 PM »
Good synopsis and way to work hard for them
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #34 on: November 08, 2012, 09:10:08 PM »
This is the best I've eaten on a hunt. Normally it's cold food or mountain houses 

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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #35 on: November 08, 2012, 09:34:15 PM »
This is the best I've eaten on a hunt. Normally it's cold food or mountain houses 


Ahh yes...ramen, bacon, hotdogs,  and sour patch kids....eatin like a king in the back country  :tup:
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #36 on: November 08, 2012, 10:41:50 PM »
Congrats! Sounds like one hell of a hunt!!!
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Re: Bull hunt
« Reply #37 on: November 08, 2012, 11:31:21 PM »
This is a really inspiring thread, the pics are awesome.  What a stud of an old bull :yike:
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