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Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« on: October 10, 2009, 10:59:33 AM »
Here's a bull I have pictures of during archery season... kind of interesting.


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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2009, 11:05:55 AM »
CRazy but I bet he lives

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2009, 11:07:17 AM »
Nope, he didn't make it... :chuckle:

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2009, 11:08:40 AM »
Your dad shoot him?

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2009, 11:11:48 AM »
Interesting pic, thats for sure.
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2009, 11:18:13 AM »
I told him we weren't going after that bull, based on that picture... figured we could do better.  We ended up killing him a couple days later, though we didn't know it was him at the time, and he ended up being a little better bull than I originally thought.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2009, 11:27:19 AM »
You saw him when he was wounded and you let him go? Just currious, if that was the case, why you would leave a wounded animal out there to suffer.
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2009, 11:29:13 AM »
cool picture, good quality camera too.

kinda hard to judge score since you can't see his left back end but if it matches the right I'll say right at 345"-355"?????

good looking bull for sure, tell your dad congrats!

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2009, 11:30:49 AM »
hit that mystery gap betweeb vitals and spine just flesh glad to see some one get him probably would of surived but if infection set it probably not
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2009, 11:32:23 AM »
was the hole from an arrow? I see his back legs a little torn up too, maybe he was a fighter? they're getting pretty violent up there these days.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2009, 11:32:49 AM »
wow that is kind of a weird situation. Cool that you ended up killing him in the end. I think that he would have lived also if you had not killed him. Out of curiosity what was the wound like when you knocked him down.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2009, 02:34:10 PM »
Tough to kill him when a trail cam is taking the picture ...?  Anyways, I talked to the guy that arrowed him and he got a second Hail Marry and hit him in the hind leg too, hence the reason it looks a little torn up. 

It didn't slow him down much though, he was running straight up and down that steep country working his cows and chasing other bulls off all the next morning.  We finally caught up with him the following night and he was screaming his head off and working his cows up into the grassy hillsides for an evening feeding.

I'll post a better story and some kill shots on the elk forum.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2009, 02:35:23 PM »
Oh, and he was pretty festered up when we skinned him out.  Quite a bit of yellow fluid under the skin around the wound site, but it seemed to clean up good and nothing smelled funny or anything.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2009, 02:47:48 PM »
what unit was that muledeercrazy?  Looks like a bull i have photos of.
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2009, 02:57:22 PM »
my old boss got a really nice bull had a broadhead in its chest that had been there a long time and it formed a big blood clot around it. he had seen that bull a few times and it didnt seem to have any ill effects until he shot it. tough tough animals.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2009, 03:04:18 PM »
what unit was that muledeercrazy?  Looks like a bull i have photos of.

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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2009, 03:40:19 PM »
mossback link didn't work..

I would score him at 347"
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2009, 08:53:47 PM »
cool pic and story
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2009, 10:20:10 AM »
mossback link didn't work..

I would score him at 347"
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2009, 10:25:51 AM »
hit that mystery gap betweeb vitals and spine just flesh glad to see some one get him probably would of surived but if infection set it probably not

Nope.  That placement is above the spine.  Assuming this is the side of entry, this bull will very likely survive.  Infection is always a possibility.  Extremely poor shot in any case!!  :bash:
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Re: Wounded Bull During Archery Season
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