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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Goldeneye on November 13, 2014, 08:53:51 PM

Title: My 2014 Bull
Post by: Goldeneye on November 13, 2014, 08:53:51 PM: My 2014 Bull is a 5x5. He's a Roosevelt and came out of SW Washington. Our group of 8 hunters did pretty well this season. All together our camp got a cow (hunter had drawn a permit), 2 5x5’s, and a 6x6. I can’t complain at all about this season. We experienced everything from driving wind and rainstorms to t-shirt days. This bull was put down in a brushy hole as I caught him moving across an opening. He was about 30ft from freedom when I pulled the trigger. He immediately did a 180 and went out of sight. I could tell he was hit hard. Later found to be piled up about 20 yards downhill. The shot went in through the front shoulder taking out the top of the heart and one lung with the bullet found under the hide on the opposite side. A pretty clean kill. He now resides in my freezer.
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on November 13, 2014, 09:07:46 PM: Congrats very nice!

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Post by: _TONY_ on November 13, 2014, 09:07:52 PM: :tup:
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Post by: D-Rock425 on November 14, 2014, 11:14:43 AM: Not a bad last day bull. ;)
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Post by: elkoholic1 on November 14, 2014, 11:16:06 AM: :tup: congrats!!
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Post by: grundy53 on November 14, 2014, 11:19:36 AM: Nice work! Sounds like you guys had a great year!
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Post by: elk247 on November 14, 2014, 11:35:32 AM: Nice work! Your group has been sucessful year after year, to me that's what it's all about!
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Post by: h20hunter on November 14, 2014, 11:42:22 AM: Nicely done sir.
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Post by: woodswalker on November 14, 2014, 11:45:34 AM: Very nice!
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Post by: hntrspud on November 14, 2014, 11:51:11 AM: Well done Goldeneye! Those bulls have beautiful colored antlers.
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Post by: oneshot12 on November 14, 2014, 11:59:15 AM: :tup: congrats
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Post by: Watimberghost on November 14, 2014, 12:05:30 PM: Right on :tup:
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Post by: D-Rock425 on November 14, 2014, 01:07:11 PM: You guys did good.
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Post by: Shrimper on November 15, 2014, 12:37:23 PM: Great bull! Congrats...
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Post by: HuntinCrazy on November 15, 2014, 12:55:35 PM: :tup:great job.... What caliber were you shooting? To me it looks like a .338mag. I have never recovered any bullets from my critters. :dunno:
Title: Re: My 2014 Bull
Post by: Goldeneye on November 15, 2014, 02:30:30 PM: Quote from: HuntinCrazy on November 15, 2014, 12:55:35 PM
:tup:great job.... What caliber were you shooting? To me it looks like a .338mag. I have never recovered any bullets from my critters. :dunno:

It's a .300WM. Handloads with the old 180gr barnes X BT. It's my pet load for that gun. Can't get those bullets any more. When I run out of them I'm going to need to figure something else out with a bunch of range work. I started recovering a lot more slugs once I went to these bullets a number of years ago. They tend to hold their mass pretty well and tumble once inside. Animals never have gone very far after taking a body shot from one of these loads.