Author Topic: My first bull elk (Read 9416 times)

longstevo · « **on:** November 08, 2010, 09:37:40 PM »

I got a my first bull elk yesterday. He's not a bad one, especially for the 'Wetside.' He's a 5X4, although you can't see the fifth point on the left antler in the picture.

I was hunting with a new hunting partner in his 'secret spot,' and he sent me down a ridge where he'd seen elk the day before. I was sneaking through the woods when suddenly I see this guy standing behind two pine trees, offering me a textbook broadside shot at sixty yards. I pulled up and saw brow tines and fired. I didn't feel good about the shot at all, thinking that it went too far back - a gut shot. The bull took off and ran.

I followed, expecting a blood trail, and I followed where I thought he went. As I came up over a small gulley only seventy yards from where I first saw him, he was standing there facing away from me. He turned his head back to look at me, and I planted one right in his neck, dropping him on the spot.

The first shot was actually a good shot, getting him right in the liver.

ser300wsm · « **Reply #1 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:40:06 PM »

Congrats to ya, very nice bull

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #2 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:40:15 PM »

Great looking bull! Your on a roll this year. Making up for lost time.

remington300mag · « **Reply #3 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:40:49 PM »

Awesome bull!! Congrats to you on that one!! Love the Red color of his antlers!

SnakeEyes · « **Reply #4 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:42:27 PM »

Congrats!

h2ofowlr · « **Reply #5 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:42:43 PM »

Nice looking bull, congrats.

Bigfoot · « **Reply #6 on:** November 08, 2010, 09:44:19 PM »

Nice bull Stevo. The first one is always the best one.

WDFW Hates ME!!! · « **Reply #7 on:** November 09, 2010, 06:10:39 AM »

Very nice bull... Love the length of the main beams...

MIKEXRAY · « **Reply #8 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:02:17 AM »

Better take the new hunting partner out for a steak dinner . Congrats on the bull . Mike

gtrplr · « **Reply #9 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:33:15 AM »

Nice looking bull! What unit?

Sneekee23 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:50:43 AM »

Great looking bull

bucklucky · « **Reply #11 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:54:06 AM »

Congrats on your bull!

elkslare · « **Reply #12 on:** November 09, 2010, 10:44:31 AM »

Awesome bull, I love the coloring of the antlers on some of these west side bulls.

Great looking bull. Congrats

tip · « **Reply #13 on:** November 09, 2010, 10:51:12 AM »

nice bull, congradulations

longstevo · « **Reply #14 on:** November 09, 2010, 04:03:59 PM »

Thanks guys. He was the second elk I saw on the weekend and was pretty much handed to me on a silver platter. I was just in the right place at the right time.

We were hunting near St. Helens, many many miles from the roads!

HerdBull · « **Reply #15 on:** November 09, 2010, 04:28:50 PM »

Congrats on your 1st one Stevo

You will remember this one for many many years! Meat does not taste bad either!?

I too got my first Bull, a 5X4, with my bow at roughly 28 yds 4.5 mi in the Goat Rocks 16yrs ago tho

Lightning_Rider · « **Reply #16 on:** November 09, 2010, 04:34:51 PM »

congrats on a great bull!!!!

whacker1 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 09, 2010, 05:24:09 PM »

Congrats - Very cool - Nice long main beams .

400out · « **Reply #18 on:** November 09, 2010, 05:25:29 PM »

Way to go

Titan-1 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 10, 2010, 05:35:13 AM »

Good work!!!

sdwwaverider · « **Reply #20 on:** November 11, 2010, 05:40:12 PM »

Right on! I've got one with red antlers too. Alder bull I believe. Rubbing on fir gives them that dark almost black antlers (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Congrats.

Boss .300 winmag · « **Reply #21 on:** November 11, 2010, 05:45:16 PM »

Way to go

nice bull. Yep its the alders, some times the blackies have the color to.

longstevo · « **Reply #22 on:** November 13, 2010, 08:11:47 PM »

Yeah, there's a lot of alders in the area. It is a really pretty color.

I just started working on the skull today. I forgot how big these creatures really are.

PacificNWhunter · « **Reply #23 on:** November 13, 2010, 08:27:27 PM »

Great westside bull!

tritt007 · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2010, 11:42:42 AM »

You didnt happen to be staying in a camp with a large canvis tent with a neon open sign did you?

huntlakewood · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2010, 11:45:50 AM »

Very nice job

jasfireman · « **Reply #26 on:** November 16, 2010, 02:26:19 PM »

congrats nice looking bull!

teanawayslayer · « **Reply #27 on:** November 16, 2010, 02:31:24 PM »

It's a memory you will never forget. good job on a nice bull

madmack76 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 16, 2010, 10:05:16 PM »

nice bull

Tony 270 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 16, 2010, 10:07:38 PM »

Nice elk, congrats

DOUBLELUNG · « **Reply #30 on:** November 16, 2010, 10:22:23 PM »

Congrats to one of the good guys! You'll never forget your first elk, blacktail, whitetail, splittail ...

longstevo · « **Reply #31 on:** November 17, 2010, 05:55:10 PM »

Quote from: tritt007 on November 15, 2010, 11:42:42 AM

You didnt happen to be staying in a camp with a large canvis tent with a neon open sign did you?

Nope. That wasn't us. We had a rough spike camp and that was about it.

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #32 on:** November 17, 2010, 06:25:27 PM »

congrats on you bull!

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