My 2007 Bull

[TheKid#10]

Sounds good, I've got you booked. I'll need a down payment of a pint of Crown though.   

Hey, you never know about the drawing. I personally know two guys that each drew separate Peaches Ridge Modern tags this season with zero points each!!

Just rub those ivories together in your hands and pray to the elk gods the night before you submit your choices.

It's worked for me.

[M_ray]

What if I prefer Pendleton?

[Opportunist]

Great looking bull!, even if he was the little one! I'll take that kind of little one any day of the week.

You and M-ray both screwed up and ended your dream hunt too soon I bet that is part of your reasoning behind wanting to guide someone else, just getting to go along and enjoy a hunt like that can be as good as hunting with the tag in your wallet!

I know after my Peaches hunt this year my dad (who is a die-hard west-side hunter) is going to put in for the rifle or muzzle little naches hunt.

Hell I'll up the ante on your 'guide fee', I'll buy the whiskey and drag the hayburners over just to get to go along!

[M_ray]

You and M-ray both screwed up and ended your dream hunt too soon

Ya some might say that and I know there were much larger bulls in there and I know what you are saying. If I passed I would have had a blast hunting them for the next 11 day's, but the shot I had was too perfect, 75 yards quartering slightly with my goal I had set prior to my hunt (a mature six point) standing there! It wasn't that tough of a decision for me I'm not afraid to admit I haven't killed enough of them to be passing on a pretty mature bull. Tmike's dad allways Say's " shoot on the first day, What you would shoot on the last day"

Also I have 10 points in Oregon and I plan to pass this type of bull there and I'll get a bigger one than this guy I'm sure. I have passed before and come home empty I have had friends that I have hunted with that did the same it depends on the situation, another goal I had was to not come up empty this time!

I stuck with my goals and it paid off I don't regret it, I'm not sure what the Kid's goal was but I think from his story he may have been after another bull in this herd.

[Opportunist]

That's a good kind of screw up. I'ts never a mistake to take a trophy animal you have set your goal for, it just sucks to end a hunt too soon.

It's easier to call the wife and say I have to stay longer to fill my tag than to explain I want to hang out in camp and drink for the next week.

M-ray what are you thinking for an Oregon elk hunt?

[robb92]

Congrats on the nice bull!!!!

[M_ray]

Opportunist

it just sucks to end a hunt too soon.

I couldn't agree more there was defiantly a part of me that was bummed that it was over so quick.

It's easier to call the wife and say I have to stay longer to fill my tag than to explain I want to hang out in camp and drink for the next week.

But as far as that went I did have an extension to my hunt if you will, my buddie drew the East side raffle elk tag so I got to spend some of the time off I had for planned for my hunt with him in the Blues chasing more elk but it was bitter sweet to see the quality of bulls that he was passing were far larger than the one that I shot though.

As far as Oregon goes I have been putting in for Wenaha or Walla Walla this last year I had changed and put in for Starkey Experimental Forest but got the call from the Oregon Fish & Wildlife that all non-res tags for Starkey were allocated to outfitters so I changed my choice to My Emily. tmike was in for Emily as well as another friend of ours and our other buddie drew. Going into this next year I have just about max points for the Forest if I want, almost max for Emily and I am probably 1-2 more years from Wenaha or Walla Walla. So I am in a Oregon Elk snit already and it's not even Christmas!