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New Mexico Bull
« on: October 06, 2020, 05:46:23 PM »
New Mexico didn’t disappoint.

It fit the traditional format of “this hunt is tough and we may be lucky to kill anything”. On day 8 of 10, Dirk and myself still had our tags in our pockets and we were getting a little nervous. We had been on bulls but nothing in our playbooks seemed to be working.

Get close and cow call...the elk run away
Try and cow call from a long ways away...the elk run away
Get close and bugle...the elk run away
Bugle from along ways away...the elk run away

On day 8 after getting winded by a herd with 3 bulls bugling we were in the dumps and really questioning what we were doing. We decided to hike out and regroup. On the hike out we decided to bugle one last time and to our surprise we heard a faint bugle. We went in to chase mode and got across from the bugling bulls. After about a 15 minute bout we had called the giant into 30 yards but Dirk had no shot. We watched the bull take a cow back across the ridge and as soon as it crested, I decided to run across the drainage and get right back on them. Once there the bulls were bugling like crazy. Dirk motioned me to move forward and setup. After a crazy 10 minutes of lip bawls, grunts and back and forth craziness Dirk had a migraine and had lured this bull into 25 yards and I placed a good arrow into it. He tipped over within 75 yards.
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2020, 05:53:16 PM »
 :tup: absolute masher..

Well done.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2020, 05:57:42 PM »
Well done, congrats on a beautiful bull!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2020, 05:59:23 PM »
Congratulations and what a amazing bull!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2020, 06:03:28 PM »
WOW!  What a bull!  Congrats to you and your crew
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2020, 06:20:40 PM »
Congrats on nice bull!
Was the a guided or do it yourself? How long did it take to draw? Looking to go to there

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2020, 06:27:11 PM »
Absolute monster. Congrats!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2020, 06:34:31 PM »
Stud bull Jason, CONGRATS!
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2020, 06:34:44 PM »
Beautiful bull. When do we youtube?

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2020, 06:44:00 PM »
Dandy! Nice work!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2020, 06:50:16 PM »
Geeze, Jason.

What do you do for an encore?
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2020, 06:57:37 PM »
Wowza !!! Nice work  :tup:

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2020, 07:14:36 PM »
Great bull Jason.
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2020, 07:25:41 PM »
Been able to chase goats yet?

Impressive bull
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2020, 07:42:14 PM »
What a dandy! Way to stick with it!!
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #15 on: October 06, 2020, 08:03:17 PM »
Been able to chase goats yet?

Impressive bull

Not yet. Hoping to get up there next week.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #16 on: October 06, 2020, 08:04:12 PM »
Great bull Jason
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2020, 08:16:59 PM »
Wow! That thing is a tank! Way to stick with it!
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2020, 08:21:38 PM »
Congrats on nice bull!
Was the a guided or do it yourself? How long did it take to draw? Looking to go to there

It was all DIY. After not being able to draw a tag for the 8th year in a row, I bought a unit wide landowners tag (public land).

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #19 on: October 06, 2020, 08:30:16 PM »
Nice bull
Great job

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2020, 08:34:02 PM »
Nice! His ears are as big as your head!!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2020, 08:42:26 PM »
Very nice!!! What unit?

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2020, 08:47:33 PM »
Right on! Way to keep after it!  :tup:

Congratulations on a beautiful bull!
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2020, 08:54:28 PM »
That makes for a great hunt when you tag out towards the end of the hunt!👍🏻 Great bull
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2020, 10:01:47 PM »
wow awesome bull

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #25 on: October 06, 2020, 10:14:59 PM »
Too bad you  didn't have a better caller, lol.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #26 on: October 07, 2020, 08:26:20 AM »
That makes for a great hunt when you tag out towards the end of the hunt!👍🏻 Great bull

I was thinking “stressful”, LoL

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #27 on: October 07, 2020, 08:26:59 AM »
Too bad you  didn't have a better caller, lol.

I’m trying to teach him some stuff  :chuckle:

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #28 on: October 07, 2020, 08:31:59 AM »
Nice bull!  Welcome to the forum :chuckle:.  Guess the focus is on Mountain goats now? 

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #29 on: October 07, 2020, 08:45:56 AM »
It makes me so happy to hear that these frustrations happen to you as well.  Sometimes when we watch too much YouTube, it seems like the problem is just within us and that the "pros" don't have these issues.  I've wondered if I'm in the right location, or a horrible caller, or am just missing a critical piece.  Seems like persistence and luck is still a good portion of the game.  More relieving than anything else.  Nice bull!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2020, 09:23:45 AM »
Right on! Congrats!  8)

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2020, 09:29:05 AM »
Congrats.  great bull.  We had the very same issues this year, but we didn't connect on anything big..

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #32 on: October 07, 2020, 01:49:27 PM »
DANG!!!!!   Nice bull

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #33 on: October 07, 2020, 01:57:13 PM »
 :tup: WOW! Nicely done Sir!

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« Reply #34 on: October 07, 2020, 01:57:55 PM »
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #35 on: October 07, 2020, 02:00:33 PM »
Way to be persistent. Real nice bull.

I don't want this to sound like I don't want you to be successful--I really do--you do a lot of good for hunters, but it is heartening to know that callers as good as the two of you still have elk run away when you call.  The fact that you tell us that happens to you, too, makes us believers in your products.  Honesty is the best marketing.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #36 on: October 07, 2020, 04:29:39 PM »
Way to be persistent. Real nice bull.

I don't want this to sound like I don't want you to be successful--I really do--you do a lot of good for hunters, but it is heartening to know that callers as good as the two of you still have elk run away when you call.  The fact that you tell us that happens to you, too, makes us believers in your products.  Honesty is the best marketing.

We will always tell it how it is. We got our tails whipped for 8 straight days.

We believed in and stuck with our plan and most importantly never gave up. We are always reminding each other throughout hunts like this “it only takes one” and “it can happen any second”.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #37 on: October 07, 2020, 05:16:03 PM »
Wow thanks for sharing. It sounds like the herd was on to you but that last call caught the ear of a distant bull that didn't have their intel? Sweet end to a long hunt for sure!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #38 on: October 08, 2020, 08:26:37 AM »
Great bull! Congrats!
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #39 on: October 08, 2020, 12:19:53 PM »
Congrats on another good bull.
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #40 on: October 08, 2020, 01:08:55 PM »
Your last statement says it all!

"We are always reminding each other throughout hunts like this “it only takes one” and “it can happen any second."

Great bull man!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #41 on: October 09, 2020, 10:04:31 AM »
Your last statement says it all!

"We are always reminding each other throughout hunts like this “it only takes one” and “it can happen any second."

Great bull man!

I think it takes a lot of experience to begin to feel this way.  I think I'm just starting to get there.  You can feel a million miles away from elk, and then it just happens.

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #42 on: October 09, 2020, 10:20:49 AM »
Wow!   Not what you see close to home!

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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #43 on: October 09, 2020, 02:03:26 PM »
Your last statement says it all!

"We are always reminding each other throughout hunts like this “it only takes one” and “it can happen any second."

Great bull man!

I think it takes a lot of experience to begin to feel this way.  I think I'm just starting to get there.  You can feel a million miles away from elk, and then it just happens.

Yeah I took my cousins from Boise hunting one year up towards Indian Heaven Wilderness. It was SUPER dry all over the state. This was around 2005-2006. The first day we just drove around looking for sign in the usual places and don't see anything. So we went back to camp and I got out a map and looked for water furthest from all the roads. We picked a spot and went to the best looking approach on the map and started hiking. About a mile from the road we found a nice big scrape on a lodgepole and I told my cousin to hit his bugle. He hit that bugle and another bull answered and came in on top of us in about ten seconds. It was scary how quickly the elk were suddenly in our front laps.
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Re: New Mexico Bull
« Reply #44 on: October 09, 2020, 06:56:10 PM »
Dang!

 


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