Found 6x7 bull looking for shooter!!!! (Update)

[Widgeondeke]

Forgive me for not reading through all the replies but, just to clarify, this is in Washington correct?

Yup

[MeSacHappy]

This turned out about as well as it could have. I will let gotcha or "The Shooter" sum it up in detail.  I know "The Shooter", he is my girlfriends boss.  He is a dedicated and avid hunter, shoots his bow almost every day of the year, and has the very highest of hunting ethics...he did the right thing.

The OP also appears to be a stand up dude who went above and beyond to help recover this animal.

This probably seems like a strange first post. I will properly introduce myself on the introduction thread here in the near future.

[CedarPants]

Glad it worked out!!

[MtnMuley]

gotcha definitely deserves 

[Birdguy]

So looking forward to the rest of the story!! Great job by all involved to find the owner  .

Gotcha, well done! You would be welcome in my camp anytime!!

[huntnphool]

This turned out about as well as it could have. I will let gotcha or "The Shooter" sum it up in detail.  I know "The Shooter", he is my girlfriends boss.  He is a dedicated and avid hunter, shoots his bow almost every day of the year, and has the very highest of hunting ethics...he did the right thing.

The OP also appears to be a stand up dude who went above and beyond to help recover this animal.

This probably seems like a strange first post. I will properly introduce myself on the introduction thread here in the near future.

 That's fantastic, so cool it worked out for everyone.

[bearpaw]

wow, that sounds pretty awesome... 

[DOUBLELUNG]

What a stud! Good on you Gotcha

 


I'll add, I hope there is plenty to learn (without having to go into it for pages on end) on the lessons of shot placement.

You are right, and it could easily go on and on.  I just would add, archery is a whole other ball game when it comes to killing elk.  I've always been a rifle guy for the most, hunted archery off and on for many years but not full time.  I've learned that patience with your archery shot is number one, and I'm learning to let the animal walk if your not 100% sure, that's hard to do when you come from a rifle background like I have.  Another topic that this thread might bring up is, Should you notch your tag on an animal you didn't find in time and now is rotten?  I personally wouldn't say this was my bull on this forum, too many experts on here to trash a guy.  I wouldn't tag an animal that I never could recover, just my 2cents.  That doesn't mean I won't put every effort towards finding said animal, animals get lost in every weapon category.  Flame on

It is a personal choice whether to quit hunting when you know you killed the animal and can't find it in time.  I have done this on two special permits, last year on an archery bull that I made a "perfect" frontal shot on, watched the entire arrow disappear into tracheal opening, heard him fall, heard him crash - three of us looked for several hours until I knew there was no chance of recovery as it had been 8 hours and temps had reached upper 80s.  Another, a  spring bear a few years ago, rifle, 102 yards broadside with 165gr .308, saw my bullet hit behind the shoulder, found hair, blood and bone on the offside of the tracks where the bear lunged.  She bailed down a steep dense heavily vegetated slope - then came rain, then hail, then rain again.  I wrote about both these on here.  On the bear, a member on here PM'ed me 3 days later, we traded locations and descriptions of the bear, long story short he found her 0.6 miles as the crow flies form where I shot her.

20 years ago this fall, on my Wyoming sheep hunt, my buddy and I spotted a good ram across a deep steep canyon - he stayed to watch the ram, while I bailed down and up.  Following his hand signals, I came up from below and made an extreme high angle shot, the ram ran.  I got up to where he had been standing, found hair and blood, and began searching.  Nothing.  About an hour later, my buddy got up to me and was able to describe seeing the ram run about 200 yards, stop, turn back, stand and lick the high grazing wound behind his shoulder, then walk off further away.  Had he not been able to confirm it was not a lethal wound, I would have really been torn on whether to continue hunting.  As it was, we continued to where he had lost sight of the ram, and several hours later spotted a similar bedded ram which I killed.  It was not the ram I had grazed earlier. 

As long as a hunter makes every effort to recover an animal at which they shot, I won't condemn them for choosing to continue hunting.  In my own personal ethics, I would not feel right continuing to hunt if I was confident I killed the animal and didn't recover it.  However, wild animals live short lives and die violent deaths, regardless of whether we choose to participate.

[DOUBLELUNG]

This turned out about as well as it could have. I will let gotcha or "The Shooter" sum it up in detail.  I know "The Shooter", he is my girlfriends boss.  He is a dedicated and avid hunter, shoots his bow almost every day of the year, and has the very highest of hunting ethics...he did the right thing.

The OP also appears to be a stand up dude who went above and beyond to help recover this animal.

This probably seems like a strange first post. I will properly introduce myself on the introduction thread here in the near future.

 That's fantashttps://hunting-washington.com/smf/Smileys/default/thumbsup.giftic, so cool it worked out for everyone.

[Alchase]

This turned out about as well as it could have. I will let gotcha or "The Shooter" sum it up in detail.  I know "The Shooter", he is my girlfriends boss.  He is a dedicated and avid hunter, shoots his bow almost every day of the year, and has the very highest of hunting ethics...he did the right thing.

The OP also appears to be a stand up dude who went above and beyond to help recover this animal.

This probably seems like a strange first post. I will properly introduce myself on the introduction thread here in the near future.

Outstanding first post!

And welcome!!

[huntnfmly]

Cool cool glad this turned out well.
I was hoping it would

[mcquinn]

Well kingsalmon12 you are an incredible man! I had no clue where this bull was found originaly but I figured I’d tell him my story so I sent him a message that I held a tag and lost a bull on sept 10. He asked me to Describe the bull, then he asked the location, the shot, the road direction after the shot asked me a bunch about the bull. Low and behold he found it a few miles from the shot after we bumped it out of his bed before the rain.  After interrogation that was better than Hillary Clinton’s emails he said come get your bull. We worked with wdfw to get the ok to recover the trophy. His uncle and him brought me to the bull which they never touched and the couple thank you gifts I gave will never fully show my appreciation. [img][/image

Way to raise the bar on being an epic sportsman!

[elkoholic1]

 

[ljsommer]

Awesome story, thanks for the update!

[N7XW]

Glad it worked out as it did.