Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: NWbowhunter on August 29, 2010, 04:07:36 AM
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OK the question. you are Archery or Muzzeloader Elk hunting you choose, 3 point or better and Cow's are legal. you are still hunting this trail and you see this. Consider everything, Head partway behind tree wont see you draw your bow or bring up the Muzzeloader, decent Vitals exposed, all your buddies have shot elk the past few years and you haven't..Would you take the shot? Be honest.
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First day of the season...no. Is there a calf behind her? Can't quite see if there are any horns in that view. It looks bald to me. I don't see any junk hangin either. Few days into it...yes
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1st couple days, I'm waiting for her boy friend whose still in the brush, after that, its game on!
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Looks like it could be a young bull to me, it is awful blond and has a pretty thick neck for a cow... Probably a spike, don't shoot.
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Pass............ Look closely, you can see every rib on that elk regardless what it is cow or bull !! :twocents:
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Pass. Not enough info.
Gee, kinda reminds me of being 9yrs old in hunter's ed!
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im passing, quartering to me and most of its vitals are blocked by it leg being back. would be hunting for a decent bull that early in the hunt too.
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Archery No, quartering to me and possible spike! I would draw and be ready in case she if that's what it is offered a better angle or her BF decided to show himself.
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pass... I'd just sit and watch...and wait. then be >:( nothing came out.
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im passing, quartering to me and most of its vitals are blocked by it leg being back. would be hunting for a decent bull that early in the hunt too.
Under the rule, don't pass on the first day what you would shoot on the last........ I would wait until the right front leg moved forward and then shoot. This year anyway I would. I lost my freezer full of meat last week and really need to refill it. If you zoom in closely it is definitely a cow and yes it is a little thin.
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All depends on your Goal. If your look for Meat.... with one TRIP, I would take COW! If your going there for BIG Bull so your going back and forward and back and forward looking for PERFECT Bull.. Maybe end up no luck and season Closed! :yike: time go by fast!
Mulehunter
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id be at full draw ablalutely, but would not even think about touchin her off til i saw lots of ivory or none at all, to many spikes hangin around.
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I would wait to see if there were others behind and by then it would of moved forward and could see the head clearly. I have found dead wasted spikes before and it sure disgusts me to think that someone would shoot without being sure and the be coward enough to just let the animal go to waste >:(
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i would get ready for it to turn for a better shot but ya!!! im a meat hunter! love the elk meat!
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My rifle would be shouldered for sure!! I had one like this last year at 80 yards where I had my rifle up for what seamed like forever! Finally I lowered my rifle and pulled up my binos :bash: when this 5x5 bull :bash: :bash: took one more step and I could finally see its head :o. I hunt with a smoke pole so no scope, I'm sure if I did have a scope I could have seen the antlers sticking out from the other side of the tree. Ended up not getting that guy but tagged out last week of the season so it all worked out for me. :chuckle:
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If I have never killed an elk before a cow will do. They will eat just as good. :drool: :cue:
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The first picture doesn't tell you much since you're assuming all of a sudden the elk just appear like that. If you're hunting that trail, you would have seen the elk coming into that position already. And you already knew that it was a spike so it's a no go.
I believe it will be more appropriate to ask whether you will take this shot or not.
