Mt View archery elk hunt.( Updated 9-22)

[BULLBLASTER]

great job on the bull!
I headed home today, beaten down and used up... the mountain won. it was a great experience and definitely not for the fain of heart. Huntnnw is staying it out... that guy is a freak!

[Elkterd]

Ditto....BullBlaster, great job by hangin in there,as you know I headed home yesterday, the Mtn got me too, Good meeting you and good luck on the Moose hunt!,,,

[BULLBLASTER]

Ditto....BullBlaster, great job by hangin in there,as you know I headed home yesterday, the Mtn got me too, Good meeting you and good luck on the Moose hunt!,,,

have you heard from Berger?

[fly4fish]

Going into this hunt, I set a herd bull standard until the last 3 days, when a satellite 6 point would work. With two warm days left to hunt and in a moment of weakness, I filled my elk tag with a trophy spike. After chasing an uninterested herd bull, this dude gave me way too long to think about the tag soup I ate last time I had this tag. An arrow to the lungs sealed the deal. An easy pack and good footage being the deciding factor, figuring if I was gong to go small, then might as well be unique. 

I had more close calls on herd bulls than I can count. I'd say 10 situations that didn't just quite work out on 320 - 360 type herd bulls. All I needed was good luck, but got none. Cooler weather would have helped too. The second half of the season was near or above 90 degrees every day!  Had a great hunt though, and would us two points over again to draw this tag.

[fly4fish]

Going into this hunt, I set a herd bull standard until the last 3 days, when a satellite 6 point would work. With two warm days left to hunt and in a moment of weakness, I filled my elk tag with a trophy spike. After chasing an uninterested herd bull, this dude gave me way too long to think about the tag soup I ate last time I had this tag. An arrow to the lungs sealed the deal. An easy pack and good footage being the deciding factor, figuring if I was gong to go small, then might as well be unique. 

Oh, and by "trophy spike", I mean every spike hunter's dream bull. 

[MLBowhunting]

Nice bull.  Love it 

[SnakeEyes]

Nice job! Thanks for sharing.

[BULLBLASTER]

Glad to see the success pics!
Kind of bummed i couldnt make it happen, but glad for the guys that did.
Rumor has it that shane filled his tag with a last day meat bull today... i guess we have to wait for him to telk us. 
this was truely the hardest hunt i have ever attempted, i gave that place all i had even though i gave up a few days early. It takes a different kind of crazy to put in the effort every day in there. Great job guys!
It was an awesome experience to chase amd actually have chances at world class bulls. An experience ill never forget.

[MLBowhunting]

  As a bowhunter thats all we can ask for is a chance.     Hope I can draw that tag someday.

[TheHunt]

Great job...  Congrats.

[huntnnw]

I am back... I did shoot a fork horn on the last morning. I'll post pics and more about hunt later.

[SkookumHntr]

-Sounds like you guys gave it your all! Love reading the stories!!

[ELKBURGER]

I'm finally home and settled in and getting reacquainted with my family. It was great meeting many members from the forum who also had the tag and congrats to those who were able to fill a tag.
The bulls started talking the last few days in the area we were in. I had a good friend join me for the last 5 days of the hunt and he was a great caller. He called in many small bulls into shooting range but I was holding for a true quality bull. The last fading light of my season had me within 20 yards of 2 350" bulls screaming thier heads off in the brush that only left me with a frontal opportunity with a thick fir bow separating me and the bull. The bull caught my movement and bolted.
This was the best elk hunt that I've been on. I saw more bulls in the last 3 weeks than I've seen in 20 years hunting elk on the Westside.
I had a blast and that's what it's all about!  A nick rack would have been nice too!

[SnakeEyes]

It is so fun to have close calls like that. That really makes the hunt whether you notch a tag or not. Glad you had a great hunt.

[huntnnw]

 This hunt lived up to exactly what I expected as a permit bull hunt! It was amazing to chase big bulls everyday. Every bull I heard bugle and went after was over 300" and most were in the 320"-350" range, but 1 bull that I thought was a big 6x7 I had been chasing came into 12 yards as I thought here we go..and to my surprise it was a 270" 6x7 I let him walk and enjoyed the show and moved up to another bull bugling which was the big 6x7. I sat and watched him for over a hour as I was pinned down by a 5pt that was bedded 44 yards to my left I was unable to move on the bull like I wanted. I chased more bulls than I could write on here. The last 6 days I got into big bulls every morning and under 90 yards and it was becoming very frusturating that nothing was working to get them in. Sept 18th was the best day I got down into the bottom and about the deepest part of the unit and heard 8 bulls screaming. As I stood above listening I decided to dive all the way to creek where a bull was bugling and chase him first as the wind was blowing down the creek and then move my way up the canyon to other bulls if this one doesnt pan out. I get down there and the bull is on the other side of the creek and up about 900 feet in elevation..it was litterally a cliff and I really questioned WTH I was even doing.. I had him in a steep narrow avalanche chute..wind blowing up I decided to come up a draw over from him then sneak across to where he was..as I get close I still hear him bugling about 70 yards away thinking this is working out perfect! then I hear nothing for 10 min...then I hear branches busting above me! well this one is done! while this is going on I hear a bull right below me screaming! so I go back down filter water to replenish. I work over to where I thought he was and cow call nothing!! dang it. I leave there and decide to head up the canyon where I heard 3 bulls, but before heading up I decided to heat up a mt house and take a break...I was about done eating and I blow on my cow call and the bull by creek I heard earlier lights up! what in the world,so I pack up my stuff and head back he is going nuts! I blow one mew and he bugles 6-8 times...Im thinking maybe its a sattelite. As I get close I see litterally hundreds of rubs and huge dust pits where the bull has been rolling. I keep moving closer and notice he is in a small draw about 60 yards away. I catch movement to my left and its cows coming at me..then I realize this is a herd bull and notice the cows are going to hit my trail  and prolly freak out! they stop and turn around..I grab a mouth reed and let out a bugle before the cows can get back to herd...this gets the bull going then nothing for a few minutes.. I keep listening and watching then out of nowhere he pops up at 11 yards head on! nothing between me and him!  I cant draw...he pegs me and bust back down the draw... I move over to the draw and he is qtr away at 69 yards...I shoot and hit a limb at about the 60 yard area! bull walks up the hill. I gather my stuff and decide to head back up the canyon where I heard them earlier... I get to 100 yards of them and I spot a small 6pt bedded below me I cant go anywhere or he will see me,so I sit down for 2 hrs waiting for him to get up all the while listenting to 2 bulls scream non stop. He gets up and moves into timber, so I make my move I get to about 70 yards and let out some mews followed by a bugle bull goes nuts...he comes running out to me, but in a bad spot! 45 yards and all i can see is his head...this was a huge 6 I figured in the 360" range...they moved up the canyon and that was it. These were just a few of the better hunts...I got into bulls almost everyday and heard bulls bugle everyday from Aug29th till the end it was insane to hunt elk like this probably saw 40 plus bulls.

 Sept 19th the last day and I decide to head to some drainages that have had elk in them and since I hadnt been in there in several days it should be good. As I reach the top before going over I spotted a spike and 3x4 bull sparring down below and they were close to the pack trail. I go up and over and listen and call and nothing! silence. I decide well its the last day nothing is going on up here..Ill go back down to where I saw the small bulls and call. I walk 200 yards down a finger to where I last saw them and let out some cow calls.. I hear stuff busting below me..cow call some more and they are getting close. Now I see 2 of them a spike and a fork coming right to me. They come up below me, but on other side of finger and I have a big rockpile and cant see them.. I hear them they are close..the fork pops out above me and is walking right at me, but I have a bad shot he keeps walking and will be broadside soon.He hits the 7 yard mark he is almost broadside...I settle pin and whack right thru heart and lung...he just stands there! he takes off I blow on my cow call to stop him,but I shouldnt have as he was running up hill! closer to trail he ran 20 yards and fell over. Almost felt like a gift to have those bulls right by trail on the last morning of hunt. It was not the bulls I was after, but it was nice to leave with a bull for the freezer after hunting 17 of the 19 days. The hunt was pretty much everything I could have imagined, but the indians slaughtering the elk, some shooting elk and taking just the heads! it would put me bad mood watching this crap! road hunting in the dark with rifles on the top of the cab on blankets. The WDFW should put a disclaimer on hunts where this crap goes on and I could give 2 s%^*$ about what they think I harvested when i witenssed that BS. It was nice meeting board members down there. Ill load up some pics and a vid I have with that bull walking up on me later when I get them downloaded.

up to the 10min mark is me calling in the bull...not much after I shoot..couldnt edit it down
http://youtu.be/oNznaHY-a2w