2020 Best Bull Elk Hunt Photo Contest, sponsored by Kifaru

[Dust Rider]

Little 6x6 still hanging tight with 35 cows on Saturday 10/17. Benelli SBE II 12 gauge with a 300 grain slug. Bang Flop in the alfalfa patch. SW Montana

 

[wakedye]

Here is my first bull and my second elk. First elk was a cow taken a week before this bull.
2020 Wyoming general unit.

 

[Laramie]

Here is my first bull and my second elk. First elk was a cow taken a week before this bull.
2020 Wyoming general unit.
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Great pic! Contender imo

 

[Flatgo]

Little 6x6 still hanging tight with 35 cows on Saturday 10/17. Benelli SBE II 12 gauge with a 300 grain slug. Bang Flop in the alfalfa patch. SW Montana

SW Montana? rifle season doesn't open till the 10/24.... and i am pretty sure you are not in a wilderness if you killed it in an alfalfa patch... what's the story?

 

[ispeakelk]

Congrats! Maybe it's just the photo but his body looks unusually small. Was he normal?

I was thinking the same thing, no offense to the shooter, I'd shoot him too, but that has to be the smallest bodied elk I have ever seen...

 

[Dust Rider]

SW Montana? rifle season doesn't open till the 10/24.... and i am pretty sure you are not in a wilderness if you killed it in an alfalfa patch... what's the story?

Weapons restricted area 309. Read the regs.

 

[Laramie]

SW Montana? rifle season doesn't open till the 10/24.... and i am pretty sure you are not in a wilderness if you killed it in an alfalfa patch... what's the story?

This question could have been asked with a bit more respect...smh. At a minimum, if you are going to question someone's harvest legality, at least take the time to look into the regulations prior to posting it for the world to see. To Dust Rider, congrats on a nice bull!

 

[Flatgo]

Weapons restricted area 309. Read the regs.

I apologize. I never new you could hunt early in the weapons restricted area around Bozeman, and frankly never looked at 309 because I don't have access to private property in the area. Congrats on your elk!!!

 

[Intheaspen]

Some great photos in here!

 

[JakeSCH]

First bull

 

[PRH]

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*Didn’t realize we had a youth thread going so I posted/moved this over there as it seemed more appropriate.

First of many more hunts with my 5 year old daughter.

This bull was taken on a ranch that I guide on here in CO that has a population problem so the CPW offers early bull hunts.

Nothing better than hunting with your daughter! Great pic.

 

[NC_Hunter]

So thankful that Colorado was good to me this year! Unguided DIY on public land and because I was hunting solo, I had to shoot this picture myself!

 

[huntinfool84]

My daughter with her first bull

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[jblam]

Nevada archery 2020, first archery elk!

 

[davsco]

wow some real nice elk here! but cmon guys, STORIES! private v public, diy vs guide, how many miles in, how many days hunting, spot & stalk or posted, how far was the shot, etc etc!!

 

[Laramie]

wow some real nice elk here! but cmon guys, STORIES! private v public, diy vs guide, how many miles in, how many days hunting, spot & stalk or posted, how far was the shot, etc etc!!

It's a best photo contest. Many of these have writeups with the stories in a different thread.

 

[Scooter37]

My son with his bull from this years outing. Public land DIY. Walking your butt off pays dividends. Nice bull gave himself away with a faint bugle we heard through the whipping wind while he was rounding up all his cows 10-16-2020. Hard to pick out the sound around all the burned timber creaking and groaning in the wind but sure glad we took one more look in this basin. Nerve wracking to have trees snapping and falling through out the afternoon and night as the wind picked up.

 

[wmd]

Opening day South Dakota elk.

 

[lyingflatlander]

Montana opening day rifle 2020.

 

[elkocd]

WY General Bull