2017 Colockum Muzzy Bull Hunt

[teanawayslayer]

We'll be in the area from Friday until the 7th. Where abouts are you camped? We'll stop by.

[cmiller85]

We'll be in the area from Friday until the 7th. Where abouts are you camped? We'll stop by.

PM Sent.

[Mr T]

Thanks for the post and especially the video.  Those bulls are great but I really liked seeing the cows!  Will be there for a chunk of days for the muzzy season.  Drew a cow tag and hoping to finally seal the deal on my first elk!   

[Duckhunter14]

Great write up man. Good luck this coming weekend/week. Hopefully see you on the hill. Shoot me a PM if you'd like to swap numbers. We'll be up there chasing a big bull too.

Clint

[cmiller85]

Well...I've got about everything I can think of all ready to go and am heading out the door.  Its go time! 

I'll be on the lookout for two different bulls. Hopefully they are still alive!

[Rainier10]

Good luck man, text me if you get in a bind.

[cmiller85]

Well...Bull down. Got him all packed out and to the processor.

Not the success story I had hoped for. It's kind of a long story...

[PlateauNDN]

Tag

[Hoythunter]

Well, sounds like you best get to type'n!

Congrats

[X-Force]

Looking forward to the story

[Southpole]

tagging

[PlateauNDN]

It's been 12 hrs and nothing yet? Not even a pic to share........

[elkrack]

Plat is right you know!😜

[GreggHunts2hard4u]

Killin me with anticipation bud! Cant wait to hear how your hunt went and see the bull you killed!

[cmiller85]

Friday, 9/29/17

The day had finally come. We left Friday afternoon around 4:30pm to get up into the woods and pull some trail cameras. I dropped my Dad off to get his camera and I drove down to another spot to get my camera. As I made my way down to the camera, I heard what I thought was a bugle and saw some good looking, fresh elk sign. Things were looking good so far!
As I arrived to the camera it was still there. My first worry is that it will be gone each time I leave one out. I pulled the card and checked out the images. A few does, a couple cows/calves, a 1x2 spike and a few moo cows. Things didn’t look promising, but this was just a last minute shot in the dark to see if we could locate a monster to chase; no big deal.
I had about an hour to dark so I packed the camera up and let out a bugle. I got an immediate response from the exact same spot I had seen that 7x7 when I put up the camera the week before. So, I ran on down the hill to see if this was the same bull or not.

 I got down into some thicker bedding areas and there was a ton of fresh sign. It looked awesome! There was significant elk activity in there and it was all fresh. Well, the wind picked up as I worked my way toward the bull. As I closed in on where I thought he might be, I jumped a spike who took off back down into the draw. The wind just got worse and the bugling stopped. I ended up working my way around the hillside with no luck of seeing anything.

I hiked out in the dark, and went to pickup my Dad at our rendezvous point. He didn’t have much luck either and his camera, that was trying to catch a glimpse of that other monster bull (pictured below) from the first part of September, came up empty as well.

Our plan quickly became to go setup a makeshift camp and head back in to where I had videoed that huge 6x6 with the low dropping whale tail, one of the two target bulls, on last Sunday, 5 days before. It was the most recent sighting of a shooter bull so that would be our starting point. After a little thought and discussion, we decided to split up. I would go into where I saw the huge 6x and Dad would run down around lower trying to locate the huge 7x7, the other shooter bull. My cousin, Ryan, came up to join us and he would go off in another direction to try to locate something as well.

I was pumped! I got everything laid out and off to bed. Didn’t know if I was going to sleep that night but I did. The wind at this point was just crazy. Not what you wanted to have happen on opening day, but maybe it would subside by morning…