2021 Elk Meat Pole

[roosiebull]

Montucky. 40 yard quartering to shot and tucked it just right. Died within sight

daayyyuuummm! nice work man! a short little recap of how that bad boy came to be would be cool, beautiful bull! Hoyt needs to buy them pictures from you, haha....

well done and congrats on a stud bull!

 

[mtnwrunner]

Man oh man.......those are some damn nice bulls fellas. Way to get it done. Nice to see all those this early in the huntin season. And Dos Perros........that is simply a beautiful creature.

Randy

 

[roosiebull]

Second day of season, caught this ol boy on a travel corridor between 2 herds. 49 yds, hit a bit back, liver, 1 lung. Recovered the next morning. Cutting up now and so far very minimal meat loss, thankfully.
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nice! i dig big 5's, and he qualifies!

 

[roosiebull]

UT Limited entry, shot him Saturday morning as he pushed his cows up the hill to bed. Solo hunt and first branch antler bull. Shot him with a G5 dead meat at 15 yards, went 50 yards and piled up.

dandy! that huge whale tail 5 on the one side is so cool... well done!

 

[roosiebull]

I am a little feller, 5' 7", helps me sneak through the timber like a ghost puma.

haha, that's an incredible bull you got killed man!!!

you are going to have people getting surgically shortened for next elk season.... i can't imagine what that thing looked like alive, through the peep.... they always look bigger when they are alive, and that's a true giant as it is. one of the best parts about hunting is these encounters we get to have, people who don't hunt will never know what they are missing, and those encounters stay in our heads forever..... no amount of description can depict the event, what it was actually like.... again, huge congrats!

 

[roosiebull]

What a stud! His neck is huge. Beautiful bull!

your neck would be huge too if you had to pack them antlers around over half the year

 

[LostArra]

2021 OR archery Elk
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Those pics look just like I imagine Oregon hunting. What was the shot? 5 yards?

 

[LostArra]

your neck would be huge too if you had to pack them antlers around over half the year

Can you imagine what it feels like after he drops one side? Probably walks in a circle until he loses the other. It's no wonder big matching sheds are found close together so often.

 

[davsco]

wow some hard work and some great results, color me jealous!!

 

[gonhunting247]

Those pics look just like I imagine Oregon hunting. What was the shot? 5 yards?

Actually got a shooting lane at just under 30 yards, but had him at less than 20 and couldn't see enough to shoot multiple times on 3 different occassions. I finallly was able to slip in between the cows and him. I lucked out and was able to get where he had to cross the lane as he circled around me.
There are definitely a ton of places that you truly can't see more than 5 yards where we hunt, but if you can move along with the herd sometimes small openings present a little better shooting distances. More times than not the elk win in this brush, but it's so cool being right in amongst them with all your senses on overload. You can see the trees shaking, hear the bull raking, the cows are so close you can hear them chewing and when the bull bugles you can feel it as much as hear it! It's impossible to completely explain, but you all probably know exactly what I mean .
It was one of those perfect times where everything was like I imagine. Cows were talking and filtering by, satelite bulls were circling and talking, I was raking brush and calling, while he was raking and screaming so close you could feel it as much as you could hear it. It's amazing how close they can be and still not see such a big animal! After the shot I took pics of a satelite bull still filtering by in the same lane at 15-20 yards. It was perfect and the wind never betrayedme, as it so often does!
The tracking job turned out to be one of the tougher tracks we've ever completed with very little blood reaching the outside of his body cavity. Thank goodness my brother came out and gave me a set of fresh eyes and a boost of energy right as I really needed it. I'd been at it for 6 hours and the dry/hot weather combined with very little blood made it mostly just a tracking job with a speck or smear of blood every 15 or 20 minutes just to confirm we were still on the right elk tracks. When we finally found the needle in the hay stack so to speak, we couldn't take much time for pics because of the need to get him skinned and quartered and packed out, as I was already pushing the limits for meat spoilage due to the long drawn out track. Thanks again to my brother for hanging in with me half the night to get him out and to the cold storage so the meat could cool! It was pretty dang hot out and him staying up half the night to help me pack out made a big difference on the quality of a lot of good eating

 

[Jaker_cc]

Montana general tag. I heard exactly 6 bugles and my season was over. He’s (obviously) my biggest bull, but more proud I’ve killed 6 points three years in a row with my bow, all DIY public land on easy to get tags.

That’s a Toyota Tacoma in the second pic. I haven’t scored him yet but he’s over 48” wide.

Congratulations on a lifetime achievement. He’s a beautiful bull. Looking at him will bring you many years of memories of that hunt.

 

[Extrapale]

Montana general tag. I heard exactly 6 bugles and my season was over. He’s (obviously) my biggest bull, but more proud I’ve killed 6 points three years in a row with my bow, all DIY public land on easy to get tags.

That’s a Toyota Tacoma in the second pic. I haven’t scored him yet but he’s over 48” wide.

Amazing. He'll score well for sure. Congrats. 371 gross?

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[Dos Perros]

haha, that's an incredible bull you got killed man!!!

you are going to have people getting surgically shortened for next elk season.... i can't imagine what that thing looked like alive, through the peep.... they always look bigger when they are alive, and that's a true giant as it is. one of the best parts about hunting is these encounters we get to have, people who don't hunt will never know what they are missing, and those encounters stay in our heads forever..... no amount of description can depict the event, what it was actually like.... again, huge congrats!

Thankfully I really only saw his left side dagger before I shot. Saw that one point and thought "oh he's a good bull Ima choot 'im." When the arrow hit he turned away and ran and I saw him turn his head 270 degrees and only then did I see it all.

 

[Dos Perros]

Congratulations on a lifetime achievement. He’s a beautiful bull. Looking at him will bring you many years of memories of that hunt.

Congratulations to you as well, great bull in beautiful country.

 

[NDGuy]

Once in a lifetime ND Elk Tag. Taken north of Medora & Teddy Roosevelt Park Sep 4th. Called him in with a few other bulls and shot him at 100 yards. Crazy fog rolled in, it was crazy having near zero visibility hearing those bulls. Trip of a lifetime, bulls were screaming!

Whole thread is here if you want to read the recap.

 

[Elkhntr08]

Beautiful bull!

 

[NDGuy]

That’s a Toyota Tacoma in the second pic. I haven’t scored him yet but he’s over 48” wide.

Boy that bull is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal

 

[NeHunter13]

Awesome reading all these posts! Makes the next month before I get to be out there all that much more exciting. Good work Fellas.

 

[WoodrowCall]

Once in a lifetime ND Elk Tag. Taken north of Medora & Teddy Roosevelt Park Sep 4th. Called him in with a few other bulls and shot him at 100 yards. Crazy fog rolled in, it was crazy having near zero visibility hearing those bulls. Trip of a lifetime, bulls were screaming!

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Wow! What a dandy! No doubt you’re proud of that one.

 

[NDGuy]

Wow! What a dandy! No doubt you’re proud of that one.

Couldn't have asked for a better bull. He had everything I wanted and that cool 7th on his left side.