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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: MattySuto on July 31, 2014, 10:17:14 PM

Title: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on July 31, 2014, 10:17:14 PM: This guy roams my inlaws property on the island ... Was fortunate to have him cross the road the other morning and got this picture of him... With a little help from Instagram I made this cell phone pic look this good... I think Olympia should have a one time raffle for a tag to get this guy..I know they wouldn't make a huge profit but he's the king of this island and he will go to waste to some cyotes sometime.... I think he would look great one someone's wall... Wish it was mine
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: Greenhorn on July 31, 2014, 10:25:33 PM: Great picture! I wonder if he knows when the rut is?
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on July 31, 2014, 10:29:16 PM: Last year I went in the woods an sprayed elk fire all over this area and I got him all fired up.... He knows!! Got him bugling and he came in pretty hot with the cow calls I was doing.... I just out myself in a safe spot so I didn't get ran over!!
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: Bmcox86 on July 31, 2014, 10:30:51 PM: Someone should bring him a few cows
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: mkcj on July 31, 2014, 11:23:43 PM: Quote from: Bmcox86 on July 31, 2014, 10:30:51 PM
Someone should bring him a few cows
:yeah: :tup:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: spin05 on August 01, 2014, 01:49:08 AM: Wish Camano is. had one of those. All we got is some turkey......
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: 7mmfan on August 01, 2014, 06:04:43 AM: Awesome bull! Personally, I think this guy should be left alone. He went out of his way to find a sanctuary out there on the island, we should just let him have it. Enjoy the fact that you get to see him and enjoy him alive, because once he's dead, he's dead. There are plenty of elk elsewhere to kill. :twocents:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: seth30 on August 01, 2014, 06:14:09 AM: Just a matter of time before he meets his fate on highway 20. :bash:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: link on August 01, 2014, 07:21:26 AM: Go to waste? If he can make it through his lifetime without being poached, killed by a car, or a predator, then good for him.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: luvmystang67 on August 01, 2014, 07:47:14 AM: It'd be really cool to find his sheds.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 01, 2014, 07:50:19 AM: Yeah i have heard alot about this ole bull, but i have never actually seen him. from all the pictures he is gorgeous! and on top of that... i mean if there was a tag open for it.... it would still be hell to find him and get access to land to hunt him.. and good luck takin him down with a shotgun... you look at bow mainly! b/c Rifle is illegal on the island
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: singleshot12 on August 01, 2014, 07:52:37 AM: Quote from: link on August 01, 2014, 07:21:26 AM
Go to waste? If he can make it through his lifetime without being poached, killed by a car, or a predator, then good for him.

:yeah: I can't believe he has even made it this long without being sniped by a poacher
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: Boone on August 01, 2014, 08:18:11 AM: Quote from: irishevox on August 01, 2014, 07:50:19 AM
Yeah i have heard alot about this ole bull, but i have never actually seen him. from all the pictures he is gorgeous! and on top of that... i mean if there was a tag open for it.... it would still be hell to find him and get access to land to hunt him.. and good luck takin him down with a shotgun... you look at bow mainly! b/c Rifle is illegal on the island

Obviously you have never seen the damage a 12 guage new age slug gun can do. Hunted big WI whitetails for years with slug guns as that was all we could use. Inside 100 yds it would be all good.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on August 01, 2014, 08:24:13 AM: Quote from: luvmystang67 on August 01, 2014, 07:47:14 AM
It'd be really cool to find his sheds.

:yeah: Somebody has got to have some pics of those, I agree let him be.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 01, 2014, 08:25:08 AM: I do agree inside 100 yards.... i guess i am partial to bows...
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Post by: quadrafire on August 01, 2014, 08:25:49 AM: Be cool to find his sheds every year
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 01, 2014, 08:28:09 AM: agreed
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on August 01, 2014, 09:41:50 AM: Maybe it was a bad choice of words on saying a waste... But you are all right he ahold be left alone but it's hard to see him sit out there and not be able to hunt him ... But I was just throwing thoughts out there on what people thought about a raffle hunt... I know exactly where this bull lives and hides and he has it made... Such a majestic animal... And yes to find his sheds would be great only problem is last year when he dropped them he crossed the road with them and came back with out em and the owners land he dropped em on are not the most pleasant people meaning they out a chain link fence up around there yard so he and other deer can't come in there yard and they posted everything else they own..... Owell can win them all...
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 01, 2014, 10:01:03 AM: i don;t think to leave him alone if he was aavail to hunt... i mean would you just rather him die of old age and then... no one gets to enjoy the taste of a big bull... plus he is lonley
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: hollymaster on August 01, 2014, 10:20:22 AM: Quote from: Bmcox86 on July 31, 2014, 10:30:51 PM
Someone should bring him a few cows
:yeah:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 01, 2014, 02:35:07 PM: This is funny how this same bull has popped up on here for the last 2 or 3 years now :chuckle: I just do not forget things like this :dunno: :tup:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on August 03, 2014, 10:03:32 PM: Quote from: BOWHUNTER45 on August 01, 2014, 02:35:07 PM
This is funny how this same bull has popped up on here for the last 2 or 3 years now :chuckle: I just do not forget things like this :dunno: :tup:

Probably me posting about him.. I see him all the time ths prolly the closest
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: h2ofowlr on August 03, 2014, 10:09:00 PM: I remember when the pictures popped up with him in La Conner a few years back. He probably had a fun swim.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 04, 2014, 01:53:36 PM: Yeah I seen one just before the Twin Bridges going toward Anacortes :yike: I just wonder if he is the guy ...a lot of crazy things happen in these parts .. :chuckle:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: rosscrazyelk on August 07, 2014, 01:52:45 PM: I heard the state is going to reintroduce wolves on Whidbey to take care of this growing problem. :chuckle:
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: hillbilli on August 07, 2014, 02:07:23 PM: think there needs to be a plan in work to import a cow or two for this lonely fellow.. and we all know wolves only eat the sick and crippled right?
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: jclancy on August 07, 2014, 10:02:34 PM: I would like to see him where abouts on the island us he. My family lives there and has retired retired from the navy and own an Island on the restaurant.. I believe they need to bring him a few cows as well.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: xxlx7 on August 08, 2014, 12:48:09 AM: This elk lives on my uncles property, he has each set of sheds since it appeared there. Its an impressive bull, but it made that trip for some reason. I was talking with my grandpa, there used to be a heard out on whidbey in the 50's, but they got wiped out by hunters and poachers. This bull has had a couple people try to poach it, lucky for it though it usually always has eyes looking out for it.
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on August 09, 2014, 07:20:09 PM: Quote from: xxlx7 on August 08, 2014, 12:48:09 AM
This elk lives on my uncles property, he has each set of sheds since it appeared there. Its an impressive bull, but it made that trip for some reason. I was talking with my grandpa, there used to be a heard out on whidbey in the 50's, but they got wiped out by hunters and poachers. This bull has had a couple people try to poach it, lucky for it though it usually always has eyes looking out for it.

What are the chances your uncle would hook me up with a set of sheds?? I watch this guy all the time ... I take it you uncle owns all those fields of there an more... Will he shut the door in my face if i ask to deer hunt back behind his house?!
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 11, 2014, 07:52:58 AM: i want to know to... i would love some.... Matt when we going to hunt
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: MattySuto on August 11, 2014, 10:36:00 PM: Quote from: irishevox on August 11, 2014, 07:52:58 AM
i want to know to... i would love some.... Matt when we going to hunt

Soon!!!! As you can see trying to score hunting land....
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: irishevox on August 12, 2014, 10:17:59 AM: i got places for duck and goose... but deer for me is a bust still working on it... might have a place out in Sedro for elk... we shall see... though for that
Title: Re: WHIDBEY islands lone Bull
Post by: elkboy on August 12, 2014, 10:23:45 AM: Add one more vote to relocate a few cows for this pioneering bull! Poor lonely guy... :'(