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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: longstevo on October 31, 2009, 11:45:05 AM

Title: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: longstevo on October 31, 2009, 11:45:05 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi113.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fn211%2Flongstevo%2F005.jpg&hash=b2f005e46cc4039f87172e0570a5c2bce20b6a64)

I saw a beautiful five point bull elk while hunting earlier this year, so I was trying to close the distance to get a picture of him (I was hunting early deer muzzle) and I got the surprise of my life.

Behind some bushes only fifteen yards away, I saw elk antlers moving in a feeding motion. Somehow I had stumbled upon a four point raghorn satellite bull without him knowing about me! Ha!

So I got a picture, but my camera doesn't have a great zoom, so this is what I got.
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: dontgetcrabs on October 31, 2009, 11:51:11 AM: NICE!
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: CoryTDF on October 31, 2009, 11:57:53 AM: Pretty cool man. Surprise of a lifetime :dunno: you need to get out in the woods more :chuckle: j/k cool story.
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: longstevo on October 31, 2009, 12:49:29 PM: Quote from: CoryTDF on October 31, 2009, 11:57:53 AM
Pretty cool man. Surprise of a lifetime :dunno: you need to get out in the woods more :chuckle: j/k cool story.

Well, ok, you're right. As I think about it, there's been tons of 'surprises of lifetimes.' I guess it was just 'one hell of a surprise!' :chuckle:
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 31, 2009, 01:05:50 PM: to me its always just cool to see elk, even if you can't shoot them. i have hunted a very hard game unit to kill elk for a few years now and some times we go a whole season without seeing elk. i love to just see them i hunted the rimrock unit this year and that was cool i got to see elk they were just way to many miles away :chuckle: except for the group we got into and another one bites the dust yeah!
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: Huntbear on October 31, 2009, 04:30:30 PM: I love being in the woods, and finding an animal I had no clue it was there.
Title: Re: Got a little surprise while sneaking up on a big bull
Post by: Craig on October 31, 2009, 04:44:39 PM: Busted!!!