2011 Bulls....post them here!!

[fishermunn]

Here's my first Montana bull, shot near Dillon. 8 degrees that morning but funny how success warms your soul.

[rfhd69]

 

Nice bull

[bonkellekter]

Definately some Dandy bulls dropped this year!!! Have not been on here for a while.... So here is My MT Bull (First pic) and my brothers Eastern WA Bull - Both are General archery bulls.

[PlateauNDN]

Nice bulls!!!!  I especially like your brothers!  Who says WA. doesn't have some nice bulls!

[buglebuster]

Nice bulls!!!!  I especially like your brothers!  Who says WA. doesn't have some nice bulls!

i see consistantly bigger bulls coming out of washington than alot of people shoot in montana or idaho.
those are very nice bulls, you say your brothers was a general archery hunt in eastern wa, must be NE corner?

[deerslyr]

Congrats to you and your bro on some great elk bonkellekter!

[wlandrum]

Congrats everyone.

[skybusterbo]

My 2011 bull. Disclaimer: I had two water bottles in my jacket to keep them from freezing... that's not my big belly.lol

[howlow]

Can u post a pic from a smartphone ?  If so how?

[b0bbyg]

Got my first bull this year.  I was happy to get him and on opening day!

Chased several bulls in the morning, only catching glimpses of them even though I was within 50 yards multiple times, just no openings or shooting lanes.  In the afternoon things were kind of slow so I made a plan to head into the wind to another area. He crossed in front of me at 40 with the wind in my favor. Had one shooting lane he paused in as I kind of spit out a whistle to stop him.

McKayla was not impressed but I am very happy for a first bull.

[igotbigbulls]

 

[Zardoz]

Women....huh!   
I am used to hunting elk in Colorado and I know that the west coast are a different family, but are the small multiple point antlers common on this species? Some look like the have deer headgear.   

[J Snow73]

Forgot to send mine in last year so here is my first elk, may not be a monster but made me very happy! Better late then never LOL

[tazman2800]

This is my 17 year old son's first elk and only his second animal( one whitetail doe).

 He shot it at noon on opening day in the Quoilmene unit. We found it at 250 yards and we had to watch it for 20 minutes because the left spike had a piece of velvet hanging from the the left antler and in the wind it would look like a 2 point, spike only unit.

He laid my 30.06 over his pack frame and shot it, the elk fell to its knees and then stood back up, he put another shot in it and it dropped in his tracks. He listened to his Dad when I told him to keep shooting at the elk until it goes down for good.

Then the fun began it took us 6 hours to get him to the road. All in all a great day and a very proud dad.

He was quick to remind me that he killed his first bull elk in only 2 years of hunting when dad has been hunting for 30+ years and no bull elk. I plan to remedy that Monday with my Peaches Ridge any bull tag.

We had Coulee Creek Taxidermy do the European mount.

It was the biggest spike elk I have every seen, 39" spikes.

Picture is not that great and I lost all my field pictures when I dropped my cell phone in a tank of sodium hypochlorite.

[bowhntr]

That euro mount spike looks awesome, I was wondering what one of those would look like.