Nice ! your buddy was chasing song dogs where ?? I missed that part. 
He was just outside Cody WY he got distracted looking for deer instead of yotes though its a trophy area they only give out 100 anybuck tags and 50 whitetail tags great area to drive just looking you can see 150" deer about anytime of day in the fields and there is about 200 head of elk that stay in there with some really nice bulls over 350"
Heres a couple bulls one was last summer and my buddy and I got this bull a couple years ago in the area