Hunting Washington Forum

Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Goldeneye on November 16, 2009, 06:54:30 PM

Title: My 09 Rosey
Post by: Goldeneye on November 16, 2009, 06:54:30 PM: Here's my bull from this year. Came out of unit 506. I knew the area he lived in. He stayed with a little group of cows. I had been working this particular area steady for 6 days before he made a mistake. He showed himself on the bottom of a nasty clearing after his cows came out just before dark. It took me about 20 minutes to work my way too him after he was down for good. I had caught a look at him right at the end of shooting hours a couple days earlier. He bedded behind a log that afternoon before I could ID his antler points in the timber darkness. The only shot at that time was a the rear part of his back and gut. Not a shot I'll take. Anyways this time he came out a little earlier and gave me a walking side shot more in the open. 1st shot hit behind the shoulder and blew the bottom off of his heart. He dropped like a 2 foot putt with his head down. Range was 284 yds through the finder. As I was getting on the radio to call my partners in to help pack out the meat he got up and took off running. I was confident of my shot, but, didn't want him getting into worse country so I busted his front shoulders. That ended the matter. No more movement. I recovered my slug under the hide on the off side shoulder. That bullet pretty much retained all of it's mass. Anyways, as you can see in the picture by the time I got to him it was nearly dark, so we had a night pack out. That's my story...
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: h2ofowlr on November 16, 2009, 06:56:32 PM: Always good to get one down. Good elk steaks for winter.
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: DUGANDEER on November 16, 2009, 06:57:55 PM: Congrats. That will be some good eating.
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: Huntbear on November 16, 2009, 07:04:09 PM: Congrats on the bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: chim-chim on November 16, 2009, 07:05:28 PM: Congrats now the work starts
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: gtrplr on November 16, 2009, 08:35:03 PM: Nicely done!
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: PacificNWhunter on November 16, 2009, 08:45:23 PM: Way to go!
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: C-Money on November 16, 2009, 09:01:10 PM: Good shoot'en, Nice Bull!
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: Broken Arrow on November 16, 2009, 09:06:15 PM: nice job....good bull
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: tinman on November 16, 2009, 09:17:38 PM: That elk and that story sound vaugly familier. How did the rest of the season go?
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: hornhunter on November 16, 2009, 10:21:25 PM: nice roosie!
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: Bean Counter on November 16, 2009, 10:42:03 PM: I love that amber/red color they get from rubing on cedar. :drool:

Great work, and good story.
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: ET on November 17, 2009, 08:11:38 PM: Excellent job, I knew you would get something. You'll have to tell me all about it over a nice xmas beer.
Title: Re: My 09 Rosey
Post by: wadu1 on November 18, 2009, 12:44:56 PM: Two in a row, way to go TM