Unfortunately he didn't harvest a bull.
It was my nephew who drew the tag. He and his dad took 4 trips over to the ranch. Only saw one bull, small 5x5 on trip number three, he passed on it counting on a bigger bull later. Weather never pushed any quantity of elk through the ranch. Most he saw in a trip was 30 or so cows and calves. The ranch owner felt bad, (Cole Hansen sounds like a great guy by the way!), but it was just one of those odd years with no snow. They saw TONS of bucks! Would be a great deer tag! A couple deer hunters did video a couple 300+ class bulls that showed up mid-week one week, and showed my bro the footage when they met up on the following weekend. One local coyote hunter told them that you can literally count on seeing 1000 elk through that ranch on a normal year. They pounded the entire property every time over. Guess that's hunting! Feel bad for my nephew though. Sounds like a normal year would produce a 300 class pretty easy. Looks like the weather finally pushed the elk down just before New Year's Day, just after their last trip. We stopped at Oak Creek on our way over for a goose hunt in Pasco on Jan. 1st and saw PLENTY of elk then, just too late!
By the way, a local informed him that a 380 class bull was poached just west of the ranch property in December. Made me sick to hear!!
