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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: longstevo on November 08, 2010, 09:37:40 PM

Title: My first bull elk
Post by: longstevo on November 08, 2010, 09:37:40 PM: I got a my first bull elk yesterday. He's not a bad one, especially for the 'Wetside.' He's a 5X4, although you can't see the fifth point on the left antler in the picture.

I was hunting with a new hunting partner in his 'secret spot,' and he sent me down a ridge where he'd seen elk the day before. I was sneaking through the woods when suddenly I see this guy standing behind two pine trees, offering me a textbook broadside shot at sixty yards. I pulled up and saw brow tines and fired. I didn't feel good about the shot at all, thinking that it went too far back - a gut shot. The bull took off and ran.

I followed, expecting a blood trail, and I followed where I thought he went. As I came up over a small gulley only seventy yards from where I first saw him, he was standing there facing away from me. He turned his head back to look at me, and I planted one right in his neck, dropping him on the spot.

The first shot was actually a good shot, getting him right in the liver.
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Post by: ser300wsm on November 08, 2010, 09:40:06 PM: Congrats to ya, very nice bull :brew:
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on November 08, 2010, 09:40:15 PM: Great looking bull! Your on a roll this year. Making up for lost time.
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Post by: remington300mag on November 08, 2010, 09:40:49 PM: Awesome bull!! Congrats to you on that one!! Love the Red color of his antlers!
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Post by: SnakeEyes on November 08, 2010, 09:42:27 PM: Congrats!
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Post by: h2ofowlr on November 08, 2010, 09:42:43 PM: Nice looking bull, congrats.
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Post by: Bigfoot on November 08, 2010, 09:44:19 PM: Nice bull Stevo. The first one is always the best one.
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Post by: WDFW Hates ME!!! on November 09, 2010, 06:10:39 AM: Very nice bull... Love the length of the main beams...
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Post by: MIKEXRAY on November 09, 2010, 07:02:17 AM: Better take the new hunting partner out for a steak dinner . Congrats on the bull . Mike
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Post by: gtrplr on November 09, 2010, 07:33:15 AM: Nice looking bull! What unit?
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Post by: Sneekee23 on November 09, 2010, 07:50:43 AM: Great looking bull :brew:
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Post by: bucklucky on November 09, 2010, 07:54:06 AM: Congrats on your bull!
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Post by: elkslare on November 09, 2010, 10:44:31 AM: Awesome bull, I love the coloring of the antlers on some of these west side bulls.
:tup: Great looking bull. Congrats
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Post by: tip on November 09, 2010, 10:51:12 AM: nice bull, congradulations
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Post by: longstevo on November 09, 2010, 04:03:59 PM: Thanks guys. He was the second elk I saw on the weekend and was pretty much handed to me on a silver platter. I was just in the right place at the right time.

We were hunting near St. Helens, many many miles from the roads! ;)
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Post by: HerdBull on November 09, 2010, 04:28:50 PM: Congrats on your 1st one Stevo :brew: You will remember this one for many many years! Meat does not taste bad either!?

I too got my first Bull, a 5X4, with my bow at roughly 28 yds 4.5 mi in the Goat Rocks 16yrs ago tho :chuckle:
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Post by: Lightning_Rider on November 09, 2010, 04:34:51 PM: congrats on a great bull!!!!
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Post by: whacker1 on November 09, 2010, 05:24:09 PM: Congrats - Very cool - Nice long main beams .
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Post by: 400out on November 09, 2010, 05:25:29 PM: Way to go :IBCOOL:
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Post by: Titan-1 on November 10, 2010, 05:35:13 AM: Good work!!! :tup: :brew: :EAT:
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Post by: sdwwaverider on November 11, 2010, 05:40:12 PM: Right on! I've got one with red antlers too. Alder bull I believe. Rubbing on fir gives them that dark almost black antlers (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). Congrats.
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on November 11, 2010, 05:45:16 PM: Way to go :IBCOOL: nice bull. Yep its the alders, some times the blackies have the color to.
Title: Re: My first bull elk
Post by: longstevo on November 13, 2010, 08:11:47 PM: Yeah, there's a lot of alders in the area. It is a really pretty color.

I just started working on the skull today. I forgot how big these creatures really are.
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Post by: PacificNWhunter on November 13, 2010, 08:27:27 PM: Great westside bull!
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Post by: tritt007 on November 15, 2010, 11:42:42 AM: You didnt happen to be staying in a camp with a large canvis tent with a neon open sign did you?
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Post by: huntlakewood on November 15, 2010, 11:45:50 AM: Very nice job
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Post by: jasfireman on November 16, 2010, 02:26:19 PM: congrats nice looking bull! :tup:
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Post by: teanawayslayer on November 16, 2010, 02:31:24 PM: It's a memory you will never forget. good job on a nice bull
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Post by: madmack76 on November 16, 2010, 10:05:16 PM: nice bull
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Post by: Tony 270 on November 16, 2010, 10:07:38 PM: Nice elk, congrats
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Post by: DOUBLELUNG on November 16, 2010, 10:22:23 PM: Congrats to one of the good guys! You'll never forget your first elk, blacktail, whitetail, splittail ...
Title: Re: My first bull elk
Post by: longstevo on November 17, 2010, 05:55:10 PM: Quote from: tritt007 on November 15, 2010, 11:42:42 AM
You didnt happen to be staying in a camp with a large canvis tent with a neon open sign did you?

Nope. That wasn't us. We had a rough spike camp and that was about it.
Title: Re: My first bull elk
Post by: carpsniperg2 on November 17, 2010, 06:25:27 PM: congrats on you bull!