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It all started when my 2 hunting partners and i found out we drew White River archery tags. We knew are work was cut out for us being that we had never stepped foot in this unit. We spent 7 weekend scouting trips, all but 1 trip was an all weekend backpack trip. We saw and video'd a lot of good bulls and also got plenty of trail cam pics. We started are hunt by hiking in the day before the opener and being way back in for opening day. Went to our planned spot for opening morning and got on elk right away. I was first shooter and as we crept on some cows that we could here my buddy Mike moved to my right and ended up making the right move. He could see a 5x5 that I could not so he drew back and stepped up a little farther exposing a big 6x5 which he smoked at 40yds. The bull went less than a 100yds and was piled up, we spent the rest of that day getting that bull out. It was a great start but the next 8 days elk were hard to come by and not much for bugling. My other buddy Adam had to leave the second Sunday as his vacation was over. The next day on Monday I almost got a shot a 5x5 but one of his cows busted me as I was drawing back and they all ran off. We spotted the bull I ended up shooting on Tuesday night and went in after him on Wednesday morning. They had moved down closer and we busted them earlier than we thought we would run into them. This bull along with a smaller one and some cows moved into the timber. I moved to where they went in and cow called getting a response right away. My buddy Mike bugled below which got the bull pissed off and he came into 16yds. I smoked him and he went less than 100yds. 2 really good Bulls and 2 arrows, one heck of a season and so much fun.
Hope you guys enjoy, I know we did. Good luck to everyone else
Thanks Chris
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Pics of my buddies
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Pics of mine
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Pics of them together
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Congrats! That is a hell of a whale tail on the one!
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Nice work
pretty sure I photographed that big 5, ill try and find it
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Sounds like an amazing hunt!!! Congratulations!
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Congrats, two very nice bulls there!
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Nice bulls to bad Adam didn't get to wack one
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Congratulations! Beautiful Bulls.
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Nice job!!!
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nice bulls!
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Some GREAT bulls! Congrats
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Doubled down. Nice bulls and 2 for 3 ain't bad!
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Very nice bulls...
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