My 2022 Oregon bull. I was there for 11 days, seven days before the opener. I had this herd pegged for a few days. On opening morning, the herd was a mile south of where they had been and they winded me at first light as I was walking in. They were already bedded down in the timber just off the road and they all spooked out of there. I did a two mile loop around through the timber and cut their tracks. I followed the tracks for 80 yards or so and was right on them. They had bedded back down in a meadow and I had to stand there, not moving for two hours. A couple of calves had me pegged but didn’t spook. One the cows and calves got up and milled away, the bull finally got up and offered me a window at 100 yards. It took three rounds but he went down. He wasn’t the big six I was after but he’ll do. It took me three days to pack him out four miles to the truck.
