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Offline WalleyeJason

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Day 3 update.
« on: October 03, 2013, 12:46:17 PM »
Wish I could say BBD. But this bull gave me the slip. Located him two days before the opener. Opening morning before daylight we let out a locater and he told us right where he was.
We snuck around his down wind side, and we got within 75 yards. He was screeching an he had high ground. But he kept moving away from us.
We didn't push him to hard, hoping not to blow him out.

I hope to meet up with him again soon.
Back to camp!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2013, 12:48:27 PM »
I heard all this already  :chuckle:.  Stay with it good luck.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2013, 02:23:01 PM »
I was up there with these guys last weekend.  They're gettin' after it and passing on the dinks, but elk quit talking in the areas they were hitting.  I got real close to a couple of cows, called in another elk close that I didn't get to see (came in silent to a cow calls).  Ate like a king, drank good whiskey. 

So, a good weekend for me - but they still had three unnotched tags as of Sunday at noon.  Getting to be crunch time!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2013, 02:50:36 PM »
Sounds like a great time!
I hope you get him, good luck!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2013, 02:58:50 PM »
Hopefully we will see a BBD post soon! Keep after him!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2013, 03:12:43 PM »
I've heard they quit talking up there too. Good luck, Jason. Stick with it and you'll get it done.

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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2013, 11:17:56 AM »
Well :dunno:
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2013, 09:12:08 PM »
Hail Mary BBD.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2013, 09:15:30 PM »
pics !
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2013, 09:24:21 PM »
Quote from: WalleyeJason on October 10, 2013, 09:12:08 PM
Hail Mary BBD.
Well, those make for the best stories... dont hold out on us, man!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2013, 09:30:35 PM »
where is he hunting?
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2013, 09:45:01 PM »
He drew the Peaches Ridge Quality Bull ML tag
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2013, 09:58:39 PM »
Oh now that is a good tag to have.  Hope he can close the deal.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2013, 10:03:10 PM »
Today was the last day.  Got a teaser pic... it aint a spike!!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2013, 10:14:45 PM »
Not sure who got it or if that was the only one.  Looked like it might be a good bull, though.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2013, 06:45:00 AM »
This is useless without pics.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2013, 07:01:18 AM »
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2013, 07:32:17 AM »
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2013, 07:42:51 AM »
Very restless group today.: c
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2013, 08:03:32 AM »
You better come up with some pics pretty quick Jason. People been banned for less...
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2013, 10:03:13 AM »
Did pics ever get posted?
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2013, 01:25:15 PM »
Quote from: WalleyeJason on October 10, 2013, 09:12:08 PM
Hail Mary BBD.

Dude....you can't just do that and leave.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2013, 01:53:27 PM »
BBD?????????????? :bdid: :rolleyes:
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2013, 02:12:39 PM »
Quote from: sven on October 14, 2013, 01:31:17 PM
Quote from: jackelope on October 14, 2013, 01:25:15 PM
Quote from: WalleyeJason on October 10, 2013, 09:12:08 PM
Hail Mary BBD.

Dude....you can't just do that and leave.


 :yeah: :yeah: :bash:
He was active on October 12th.  Where are the pics?!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #24 on: October 14, 2013, 02:18:29 PM »
He has us all fooled.....BBD actually means big beer down....must have been another close call and came back to drown his sorrows  :chuckle:
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2013, 03:23:04 PM »
Sorry about not getting things posted right away.

I didn’t connect with a bull. My Uncle was able to get a bull on the last day, in the last hour and a half of the Muzzy season.

The first 5 days of the season we had contacted several bulls and could get them close, but never gave us the real opportunity to shoot. About day six, the bulls stopped talking. We had a hard time locating them, and it seemed like the cows had started to fall off from the bulls. We’d spot a couple of cows and call, but we could never get any response. It was getting harder and harder to find some elk. We looked high and low for a couple days and only could find cows.

On the last day we were headed to a spot where we had consistently been seeing some cows, hoping that there had to be a bull close by that we could hunt down. About half way to our spot as we were driving I see a cow on the road. I roll out hoping she had some trailers behind her just in time to see 3 elk crashing back down the hillside. I couldn’t see any horns but my uncle had seen a spike with the bunch as they went into the timber.

At this point, I’m just trying to fill my tag so any spike will do. I decide to cut in a little lower and my uncle goes up the road a bit and we try to put the squeeze play on this spike. I’m in the woods about 45 minutes and I hear a bugle. It’s probably about 400 yards away down in the bottom. I throw out some cow calls and run about 75 yards towards the bull and get set up in some reprod. I call again and this bull is now 75-100 yards out, but the trees block my view to him. He sounded young, but he also sounded hot. But before I could get him to come any closer, the wind shifts, I hear him grunt and bolt down and away. 

I worked till noon trying to locate him, but it looks like we blew him out.

We do a little lunch in the truck, trying to decide our last afternoon of hunting. I think I knew were that spike was headed so I get dropped off down the road about 2 miles and I head up a trail trying to find him. My uncle decides to head down the trail. I spend the next few hours looking for this spike and I can’t seem to find the elk.

Its about 5:40 and I’ve made my way back close to the road. In the other direction, I hear a shot. I know full well there is only one other person down there. I take off on a dead run. I get there just in time to help finish skinning.

We were just about right on where we thought the spike would be. We pushed him about 2.5 miles and we think we pushed him right into a bigger bull. My uncle said that as soon as he started headed down the trail he heard two bulls bugling at each other. One sounded younger and the other sounds more mature.

After some time everything went silent, and he couldn’t find where they went. As time was running short, he decided to walk a spur road back to the trail. Not long after that, all hell broke loose on the hillside coming at him. A Cow and Calf passed by and right behind them was this bull. He stopped at 12 yards, and got dropped right in his tracks.

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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2013, 04:01:54 PM »
Too bad you didn't fill your tag....your uncle has a nice bull
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2013, 04:16:53 PM »
Nice bull!
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #28 on: October 14, 2013, 04:33:54 PM »
Quote from: deerhunter_98520 on October 14, 2013, 02:18:29 PM
He has us all fooled.....BBD actually means big beer down....must have been another close call and came back to drown his sorrows  :chuckle:
It could mean Big bEAR down too !!  :dunno: :chuckle:
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #29 on: October 14, 2013, 04:48:08 PM »
I'm confused... sounds to me like they both filled there tags ??? :dunno: :dunno:
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #30 on: October 14, 2013, 04:59:37 PM »
Quote from: brianmtsinc on October 14, 2013, 04:48:08 PM
I'm confused... sounds to me like they both filled there tags ??? :dunno: :dunno:

I was unable to fill my tag.
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Re: Day 3 update.
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2013, 11:58:44 AM »
Thanks for the pic, nice bull, sorry you didn't get one.
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