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Title: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Joe Rothrock on October 21, 2015, 12:16:12 AM
Let me begin by giving a heartfelt shout out to some great people on this site. Site members known as Slayerz, Huntnnw, Campmeat, Caseknife, Sagerat 1, and NWBrew you guys ROCK! Each one of you guys contributed some form of information that was extremely helpful and started her on the path to a fun and successful hunt. Myself, my brother, and my wife got to camp the day before the opener and after setting up camp we rushed out to retrieve camera SD cards. They revealed a couple dandy bulls, but after a day and a half my wife gave a pass to a one horned bull that was begging to be shot. Good Karma came to her one hour before dark on the 2nd day. she saw a place she liked and simply elected to still hunt it that evening. My brother and I left her there and each set out on separate roads to look and listen for a bull. I was about a half mile away and my brother had the truck with him a good distance further than that. As she watched a steep draw (with no road in the bottom) a decent bull appeared. Bless her heart, she patiently waited and watched the bull travel from 250 yards deep in the draw all the way to 15 yards standing in the road next to her. I heard 2 shots followed by a radio transmission " Joe you better get over hear. " I frantically asked for an update, but there was silence on the radio as she was reloading. 2 more shots and a radio transmission " I've got 4 shots into him and he wont go down." With no road in the draw and an hour of daylight left I thought this was gonna be a rough night. As my brother ran for the truck and I ran toward my wife, she gets on the radio as says,  "he's down." I replied, "Can you see him?" She replied, "well yeah, he's only 5 yards off the road." Needless to say, I went from potentially the worst night of my life, to one of the greatest with that radio transmission. He's just shy of 40 inches, and yes there are bigger ones out there, but she's happy with the one she got and that's all that matters. Thanks for all the help and support that you guys provided. Even though my brother and I were not there to see it all go down, we had a blast and am very proud of her pulling it off by herself. I wish everyone could get the chance to go on one of these hunts.

Thanks again!   Joe and Teddy
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: chester on October 21, 2015, 12:21:02 AM
That's awesome, good for her being that patient. :tup:


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Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: jae on October 21, 2015, 12:22:27 AM
That is Awesome, Congratulations on a great Bull!
John
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: fishngamereaper on October 21, 2015, 12:24:13 AM
Nice bull. Talked to you guys in that area on opening day. We found signs of that bull in the bottom of that roadless draw, glad she connected with him.  :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: RadSav on October 21, 2015, 12:28:46 AM
That is fantastic!  Congratulations to the wife :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Falcon on October 21, 2015, 12:35:13 AM
Joe,

Congrats to you and your wife. Sounds like you did all your home work and came home with a great bull.
What a great story.  I look forward to having a great moose hunt come November in the same neck of the woods.

Thanks for sharing with the group👍

Bryan
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: bowtech on October 21, 2015, 07:29:00 AM
Awesome! Congrats.
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Widgeondeke on October 21, 2015, 07:37:49 AM
Congrats! I want to believe she could have drug it to the road, if required(all 5 yards  :chuckle: )
thanks for sharing
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Elkpiss on October 21, 2015, 07:51:02 AM
that's awesome.. Congrats to your wife, she is a moose killer now...  :tup:
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Post by: bearhunter99 on October 21, 2015, 07:51:15 AM
Congrats to your wife!  :tup: :tup:
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Post by: Jrzbullelk on October 21, 2015, 07:54:30 AM
Congrats and what a story  :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Ripper on October 21, 2015, 09:09:23 AM
I love this story!  :tup: Congrats to you and your wife.
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Buckblaster on October 21, 2015, 09:45:11 AM
Very nice bull, good job!!
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Post by: Buddyk-9 on October 21, 2015, 09:58:20 AM
Great story and nice bull. Any hunt with family is a successful hunt.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on October 21, 2015, 10:03:27 AM
Nice bull and great story. Thanks.
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: BullMagnet76 on October 21, 2015, 05:53:56 PM
That Is awesome, Congrats to your wife!!!!!    :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: USMC86 on October 21, 2015, 07:26:30 PM
Congratulations on a wonderful bull and thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: shanevg on October 21, 2015, 07:52:55 PM
Congrats!  Looks awesome!
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: CAMPMEAT on October 21, 2015, 07:56:33 PM
Thanks for the compliment Joe, I really appreciate it.. :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Vo2max on October 21, 2015, 07:58:23 PM
Nicely done! Great bull.
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Post by: higunner on October 22, 2015, 03:16:15 AM
Cool story.  Nice job
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: bowhunterforever on October 22, 2015, 06:52:03 PM
Nice bull and story :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Mark251 on October 22, 2015, 07:05:43 PM
Congratulations for your wife's bull  :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: Rhino on October 22, 2015, 07:09:57 PM
Awesome!
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: elkrack on October 23, 2015, 09:16:37 AM
Sweet :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on October 23, 2015, 09:22:31 AM
 :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: lonedave on October 23, 2015, 02:27:15 PM
Congrats to your wife!
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: 724wd on October 26, 2015, 03:54:33 PM
How cool?!   :tup: :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: trytough on October 26, 2015, 04:25:36 PM
Awesome!!!!!
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: gunnarnewt on October 29, 2015, 11:42:55 AM
 :tup:
Title: Re: My Wife's Douglas Bull
Post by: 250savage on October 29, 2015, 01:57:36 PM
Congrats. to your wife. That is a nice bull and a good story.
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