Post by: mb on September 18, 2024, 06:16:34 PM
Post by: blindluck on September 18, 2024, 06:46:46 PM
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Post by: royalbull on September 18, 2024, 08:41:17 PM
Post by: Elkstalker on September 18, 2024, 08:44:05 PM
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Post by: jrebel on September 18, 2024, 09:02:21 PM
Post by: elkrack on September 18, 2024, 09:12:48 PM
Post by: pd on September 18, 2024, 09:48:16 PM
Hello my name is Brent. I shot a very very nice bull on Monday and have been looking since then. It was in the high creek drainage area it was a good shot just couldn’t find him my arrow should still be in him minus the last 6-8 inches. I have the part that got broke off to prove it. Please please call me I’ve been sick over this. My number is +15094606718
Good on you, Brent. This is the honorable thing to do.
Archery is like this sometimes.
Post by: Rainier10 on September 18, 2024, 10:37:41 PM
Post by: elkrack on September 18, 2024, 10:40:07 PM
Man I hope you can connect the bull and the hunter that lost it. It would take the sting out of what could have been a hunt of a lifetime.
they connected and it is the bull! :tup:
And a really nice bull
Post by: Dan-o on September 18, 2024, 11:12:25 PM
Post by: JakeLand on September 19, 2024, 04:56:12 AM
We need pics
Post by: mb on September 19, 2024, 06:00:24 AM
Post by: bearpaw on September 19, 2024, 06:12:43 AM
Post by: boneaddict on September 19, 2024, 06:16:59 AM
Post by: LDennis24 on September 19, 2024, 07:07:23 AM
Post by: C-Money on September 19, 2024, 07:19:35 AM
Post by: NorseNW on September 19, 2024, 07:27:49 AM
Post by: CamoDup on September 19, 2024, 07:34:53 AM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on September 19, 2024, 09:50:29 AM
Post by: mb on September 19, 2024, 12:53:06 PM
Post by: mb on September 19, 2024, 12:55:43 PM
Post by: bearpaw on September 19, 2024, 01:01:55 PM
Post by: MADMAX on September 19, 2024, 01:25:25 PM
Nice bull, I'm sorry he lost his meat, but I'm glad to see he had closure and at least recovered the antlers. Great to see hunters helping each other out like this!
Heck yea :tup:
Post by: jrebel on September 19, 2024, 01:34:16 PM
Post by: Mfowl on September 19, 2024, 01:47:47 PM
Post by: geauxtigers on September 19, 2024, 01:51:41 PM
Post by: Taco280AI on September 19, 2024, 01:55:27 PM
Nice bull, I'm sorry he lost his meat, but I'm glad to see he had closure and at least recovered the antlers. Great to see hunters helping each other out like this!
:yeah:
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 19, 2024, 02:42:46 PM
Post by: Griiz on September 19, 2024, 02:52:08 PM
Post by: Pathfinder101 on September 19, 2024, 02:53:40 PM
Post by: High Climber on September 19, 2024, 02:56:13 PM
If you don’t mind, please share the circumstances. Where was the hit, and how far did he travel? Did he end up in the general direction you thought or somewhere completely different?
Post by: HntnFsh on September 19, 2024, 03:00:12 PM
Post by: greenhead_killer on September 19, 2024, 03:56:10 PM
Post by: rosscrazyelk on September 19, 2024, 04:30:40 PM
would of looked better with a tag wallet on it though :chuckle:
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on September 19, 2024, 04:49:41 PM
Post by: stickbuck on September 19, 2024, 05:09:34 PM
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Post by: dvolmer on September 19, 2024, 05:12:17 PM
Post by: String Bender on September 19, 2024, 05:38:59 PM
Post by: Pinetar on September 19, 2024, 05:55:18 PM
Beautiful bull! Congratulations to the hunter and hat's off to the gentleman that found it and reached out here. You are a good man!
:yeah: Great job to all involved
Post by: highside74 on September 19, 2024, 06:01:27 PM
Congrats glad you found your bull :tup:
If you don’t mind, please share the circumstances. Where was the hit, and how far did he travel? Did he end up in the general direction you thought or somewhere completely different?
This would be a great addition to this story. We could all learn from how this bull traveled after being hit.
Congrats to the hunter.
Post by: RightPlace-RightTime on September 19, 2024, 06:46:48 PM
Post by: addicted1 on September 19, 2024, 07:19:06 PM
Post by: mr.ktm95 on September 19, 2024, 07:29:27 PM
Post by: bigdub257 on September 19, 2024, 08:03:25 PM
Congrats glad you found your bull :tup:
If you don’t mind, please share the circumstances. Where was the hit, and how far did he travel? Did he end up in the general direction you thought or somewhere completely different?
This would be a great addition to this story. We could all learn from how this bull traveled after being hit.
Congrats to the hunter.
A back story would be interesting and probably educational for alot of us. Great outcome!
Post by: TeacherMan on September 19, 2024, 08:14:38 PM
Post by: follow maggie on September 19, 2024, 08:17:36 PM
Wow! What a bull. I wish you could have retrieved the meat, but good on you for keeping after it.
Post by: Roslyn Rambler on September 19, 2024, 08:33:47 PM
Post by: blindluck on September 19, 2024, 09:44:06 PM
Post by: BoomWhop on September 19, 2024, 11:05:29 PM
Post by: Scruffy on September 19, 2024, 11:46:44 PM
Post by: C-Money on September 20, 2024, 06:23:24 AM
Post by: Sneaky Squirrel on September 20, 2024, 07:38:55 AM
And congrats to the hunter. The overall outcome wasn't what you had in mind but you got closure knowing the bull died and have memories to look at of the hunt.
Post by: Elkstalker on September 20, 2024, 07:47:17 AM
Hello my name is Brent. I shot a very very nice bull on Monday and have been looking since then. It was in the 328 area it was a good shot just couldn’t find him my arrow should still be in him minus the last 6-8 inches. I have the part that got broke off to prove it. Please please call me I’ve been sick over this. My number is +15094606718
Good on you, Brent. This is the honorable thing to do.
Archery is like this sometimes.
Post by: Elkstalker on September 20, 2024, 08:18:03 AM
Post by: scudmaster on September 20, 2024, 08:20:32 AM
Post by: Huckleberry on September 20, 2024, 08:28:55 AM
Post by: High Climber on September 20, 2024, 08:46:06 AM
I want to start by thanking this forum and Mike the guy that found my bull and was kind enough to post it. Maybe for curiosity and possibly educational reasons I can give you a bit of the search story. I’ll start by saying it was a double lung shot, an hour after I shot him we started on blood. We found 2 different 2x1 piles of blood with tons of bubbles in it. Figured we would find him shortly after, but nope .54 miles down the drainage in the bottom he decided to work uphill a bit odd but not alarming. At that point we, me and my 3 buddies could obviously see he had done a 360 not wanting to enter a little meadow and started back straight down to the bottom, but shortly after that is where we completely lost blood. We then started a zig zag pattern looking for blood or my bull, it was about 3-4 hours later one of my friends said he found a drop of blood. It was 200 yds uphill from where we lost blood. That’s against everything I’ve ever been taught or seen when an animal is mortally wounded. We then spent the next day and a half combing that hillside with no luck. Finally this bull was 490 yards uphill from last know blood drop. In one of my tracks on onX I was 56 yards from him the day I shot him, if I would’ve continued west instead of veering south I would’ve walked right into him and would’ve been able to recover the meat too. Again thanks to Mike he brought me some peace again. I was sick over this.Thanks for posting this. Only way to find that elk would be a dog or just plain luck. Lots of that area is impossible to track by hoofprints alone. Elk hunting brings us the highest of highs and then can also bring the lowest of lows, glad you got some closure on him :tup:
Post by: elkrack on September 20, 2024, 11:11:41 AM
Post by: bearhunter99 on September 20, 2024, 11:22:39 AM
I have only lost one animal in my life. I had a 300 yard steep downhill shot on a big bear (2nd biggest I have ever shot). Had a great rest - boom - whop (that sound is unmistakable). he spun out of there and was gone over the ridge. We looked for two days. Never found a spot of blood. I was second guessing the sound I heard. A month later during modern we found him - he rolled into a small brushy washout. I walked within 50 yards a couple of different times when searching for him but where he was at was basically invisible. Still managed to salvage the skull and claws so it was a little bittersweet!
Post by: hunter399 on September 20, 2024, 11:43:56 AM
I've never seen or been helped in a recovery process, actually the opposite from a member on HW.This is a great story with a great ending.
Gives me hope that there is still a few good people out there.
Congrats to the hunter.
Congrats to mb for posting it up. 👏👍
Post by: Guitarnbow6213 on September 20, 2024, 03:31:25 PM
Post by: Guitarnbow6213 on September 20, 2024, 03:33:58 PM
Post by: CascadeCruiser on September 20, 2024, 05:10:27 PM
We're all wondering,was this Brent's bull? Hopefully yes...I've only lost one animal,in 40 years,and it still bothers me.Ive decided to think it was a cougar,drug it off.lol...We practice,we take the "good" shot,we give the critter time to expire,then we track.. . That's l we can ethically do...the % of lost animals is very low,and one more thing...WASHINGTON HAS PASSED A LAW ALLOWING TRACKING DOGS TO FIND ANIMAL...The decision is yours,however I would pay a tracker,whatever his cost,to find my Bull Elk...in fact,WSFW should now have a tracking dept.. for special cases,as finding Bull Elk..
Negative. If you go back to page 4 you can read a line from the hunter who’s bull it was.
Post by: Shoofly09 on September 20, 2024, 07:26:49 PM
Took me two days to find my first archery bull. I walked within 5 feet of it an 1.5hrs after shooting it. It died and slid under a thick juniper. Only found it two days later when I saw a magpie sitting on his horns. Got the meat but out smelled so bad I couldn't keep it.
Post by: 10thmountainarcher on September 20, 2024, 07:30:31 PM
We're all wondering,was this Brent's bull? Hopefully yes...I've only lost one animal,in 40 years,and it still bothers me.Ive decided to think it was a cougar,drug it off.lol...We practice,we take the "good" shot,we give the critter time to expire,then we track.. . That's l we can ethically do...the % of lost animals is very low,and one more thing...WASHINGTON HAS PASSED A LAW ALLOWING TRACKING DOGS TO FIND ANIMAL...The decision is yours,however I would pay a tracker,whatever his cost,to find my Bull Elk...in fact,WSFW should now have a tracking dept.. for special cases,as finding Bull Elk..
Negative. If you go back to page 4 you can read a line from the hunter who’s bull it was.
Elkstalker=Brent. It did end up being Brent’s bull.
Post by: highside74 on September 20, 2024, 07:34:30 PM
We're all wondering,was this Brent's bull? Hopefully yes...I've only lost one animal,in 40 years,and it still bothers me.Ive decided to think it was a cougar,drug it off.lol...We practice,we take the "good" shot,we give the critter time to expire,then we track.. . That's l we can ethically do...the % of lost animals is very low,and one more thing...WASHINGTON HAS PASSED A LAW ALLOWING TRACKING DOGS TO FIND ANIMAL...The decision is yours,however I would pay a tracker,whatever his cost,to find my Bull Elk...in fact,WSFW should now have a tracking dept.. for special cases,as finding Bull Elk..
Negative. If you go back to page 4 you can read a line from the hunter who’s bull it was.
The hunters name is Brent. He posted on page 1
Post by: CascadeCruiser on September 20, 2024, 08:11:56 PM
Post by: riverrun on September 20, 2024, 09:37:24 PM
Post by: 30.06 on September 21, 2024, 06:21:05 PM
Post by: Gonehuntin01 on September 30, 2024, 02:47:12 PM
Post by: high_hunter on September 30, 2024, 03:27:44 PM
We're all wondering,was this Brent's bull? Hopefully yes...I've only lost one animal,in 40 years,and it still bothers me.Ive decided to think it was a cougar,drug it off.lol...We practice,we take the "good" shot,we give the critter time to expire,then we track.. . That's l we can ethically do...the % of lost animals is very low,and one more thing...WASHINGTON HAS PASSED A LAW ALLOWING TRACKING DOGS TO FIND ANIMAL...The decision is yours,however I would pay a tracker,whatever his cost,to find my Bull Elk...in fact,WSFW should now have a tracking dept.. for special cases,as finding Bull Elk..
Great job HW community making the connection and bringing closure to Brent along with his recovered antlers. :tup:
Tracking dogs are legal and their use continues to increase along with those offering services such as myself. Still they are not a guarantee for recovery and even the data from the Trakar App shows a 1/3 success which is in alignment with my personal experience. Useful but certainly depends on lot of factors such as weather, track disturbances, and timeline. Its another useful tool in the box but no saying if it would have changed this outcome.
Post by: Roslyn Rambler on October 01, 2024, 09:34:18 AM
Post by: elkrack on October 01, 2024, 10:12:35 AM
Curious, how did you find this bull? Glass it up? Scavengers? Just stumbled upon it?
He smelled it then followed the nose. Lol
Post by: Birdman668 on October 01, 2024, 04:27:30 PM
Post by: LDennis24 on October 01, 2024, 06:49:41 PM
I wonder if this was him, The rack is so similar
Negative, your bull pics 3rds are way too big
Post by: dilleytech on October 04, 2024, 09:19:13 AM
Post by: Sakko300wsm on October 04, 2024, 01:07:23 PM