Just now posting about my dad's elk hunt out on the West End this year... What an amazing bull and an awesome hunt. My dad had been seeing this bull in his month of scouting the area prior to the hunt. He had also seen a number of large 5x5's and a 6x6, plus a ton of brush rack bulls. This bull was truly a monster though. On the 2nd day of muzzleloader season, he had seen this bull in the morning but couldn't get a good shot opportunity so he let him be without aggressively pursuing him and risking the possibility of never seeing him again. Sure enough, the bull was back in the same spot an hour before dark. Just as my dad was about to pull the trigger on a large 5x5 with great mass, this bull came out from behind some cows and brush bugling hard. He quickly put a shot on him at 70 yards right behind the shoulder and the rest was history. It was a nice and easy downhill pack out about 150 yards to the truck. Couldn't ask for a better hunt. This is the Westside bull of a lifetime for my Dad and he is having it shoulder mounted.
