Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: rasbo on September 21, 2010, 11:28:16 AM
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buckhorn2 left me a message to post this,pics and story coming....oh its a 6x7
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Score!!!! cant wait for the story.... :)
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To say that and follow it up with no pics and no story.........that just isn't right. That's awesome. :tup:
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;)
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Yea he has a story ! Nice Bull too.
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:bash:
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WOOHOO!!
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I just got home and finished hanging the elk up at my friend Pauls the one with the permit. We had help from some friends I have met on here as to where to look and where they had seen elk. We went up sunday morning to see where he was to hunt and during the day saw 30 bulls it rained and was foggy so hard to see much way up the 3000 it would blow in and out but we talked to some bow hunters in the toutle. We could;nt go down into his area until monday morning and there were 4 permit hunters at the gate waiting for daylight. We went down into the bottom and followed another hunter who wanted a big bull and the guy behind us wanted anybull so we did;nt know what to expect. We saw 5 bulls that first drive in but none that we wanted so headed up to the 3000 and fog we went to a spot a guy on here suggested where there was a wallow and there were two five points right in the middle of it that was in the loo wit then it got foggy and we headed back to the forrest learning center to glass. It closes at 5 so you have to walk in and glass the bottom of the mud flow and we spotted some elk coming accross the toutle river about 2 miles away so we headed to the gate and went on a speed run to try to get to them before dark. We had to walk up the river and all the time this bull was screaming and wene we saw him he was 350 yards out on the other side of the river. My boy said if he got him he would swim over so Paul shot hitting him a little far back and had to shoot a couple more times to put him down. Then the fun started my grandson tried to cross but it came up to his chest and he had to come out and my boy tried and he made it across it was about 25 feet wide there and he cleaned the elk and propped it open and had to cross again right at dark he was just beat his sweat pants got soaked with water and weighed alot. We went down this morning and waited for 2 other permit holders to go in before us and both shot there bulls we saw one it was a nice 4 by 5. We got across the river again it had dropped a little in the night and used our rope we had 2000 feet of 9 16th inch crab line out and it took 2 and a half hors to get him to the truck it was a nice 6 by 7 Pauls best elk and he was beyond excited I will get my camera and post pictures. Thanks Jay for your help and bucklucky for helping us it was special.
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Right on, cant wait to see some pictures!! Glad he ended up with a good hunt.
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First picture is Paul and the elk was taken over him next to the bluff across the river.
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A couple more.
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Nice pics! He looks happy! Congrats again !
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As you can see pulling him 2000 feet backwards ruined his cape so now we have to get one rifle season to replace his. The toutle river was chest high and really swift and we felt just to dangerous with a pack on even though we had help offered from site members it just was;nt worth the chance it did;nt hurt the meat it just shaved the hair off.
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Good bull, Congrats to the hunter
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Very Nice!! Congrats!
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Congrats! Its those hard stories of the hunt that make them soooo much better when we look back in hindsite. Nice Bull and Congrats again!
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Crograts on a great hunt
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sweet :IBCOOL:
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Nice bull and great job! Thought it maybe had the blacktail hair loss thing going on though :chuckle:
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Great story and nice bull.... ;)
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Congrats! Nice looking bull.
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Thats a nice bull Dale..Better safe than sorry with the river..Congrats to you buddy,,great bull..
Hunterman(Tony)
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What a great hunt - kudos to the hunters who have 2000 ft of rope when you really need it ! I enjoyed watching that. Thats one place you don't have a lot of options - you can't safely take any pack animals across the Toutle there - almost like quicksand in spots. Nice Bull. Buckhorn - my wife and my co-worker both send you a very big thank you.
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Jay we can;t thank you enough either for your help it;s a hunt to remember for us. We will be sure to come bye elk season if your not camping but if you are good luck. My buddy took his elk to Bucklucky today and is still so excited.
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Nice bull ;)
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Nice bull :)
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Sweet, Good Job.. ;)
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wow congratulations to the hunter. I had a cow tag for the mudflow just this year. I am still in high school so i didnt get out until the 4th day of the season but i thought it was going to be a one day hunt and over... I was surprised when we saw 4 bulls the first day...17 bulls the 2nd day and on the last day i took a tough shot at a cow in the timber but came up empty. My advise is to get out there the opening day if you draw this tag and i had better luck in the timber than in the actual mud flats. I hope to get drawn for this unit again soon. The funny thing is that me and the group i was with ended up killing a 5x4 bull on public land (gmu 520..winston) and nothing in a draw only area, but i guess thats hunting right???
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Great looking bull - congats!
