2024 OFFICIAL ELK MEAT POLE

[BullsDeep]

Colorado 9/9

 

[HoytHunter24]

Washington public land Roosevelt bull

 

[Hunter609]

9/16 Oregon 4x7

 

[High Climber]

My pics kinda suck, i was solo and it was a few hours before my buddies showed up so i had him halfway taken care of. I had lots of history with this bull in the month leading up to the season and actually passed on him a few times during the season because he had broke his g6 and an inline point after his g4… I didn’t realize quite the caliber of bull he was! Had a few buddies talk some sense into me and the hunt was on. 18 yard shot on the biggest bull I’ve ever seen let alone shoot. DIY, public land, draw tag

 

[hoosierhunter11]

First elk hunt and was able to shoot this bull with my dad right next to me on day 8 of our 9 day trip. He bugled in our face and I shot him at 16 yards. I am hooked!

Colorado limited archery

 

[ndfb35]

Solo, general tag, public land 6x6 in Montana.

 

[preach]

After a few rut-frenzy mornings, we woke up to silence on September 19. After creeping to the bedding area, we found it abandoned and quiet. It was a beautiful morning, but unnerving.
We began making our way down the mountain, trying to figure out where the herd had gone. Had they been bumped by another hunter?
One last bugle down the drainage led to the first response we’d heard. We closed the gap, called again, and it was clear: this was happening.
My partner dropped back, calling and raking as I tried to steady my nerves.
This bull who we affectionately had referred to as “Chuckles” crossed the drainage and worked his way to 20 yards. He was quartering pretty hard, so I centered my pin and hit liver.
200 yards later, we finished him in his bed.
It was an incredible end to my first week of chasing elk.
God is good!!

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[UncleBone]

Not the best pics as I was solo and it took me 3 hours to find this guy after shootin him in some super thick stuff. Got him bugling yesterday am and called him into 30 yards before I sent one into him. Taken with my muzzle loader with a 320 grain fury universal. Couldn't be more happy with any of it!

 

[COelk89]

I filled my freezer on day 12 of 14 of my early hunt. It was a fantastic time and I saw some monster bulls and was into elk nearly every hunt. Ultimately this bull gave me a shot opportunity at 50 yds towards the end of the hunt. I was humbled many times during my hunt but ultimately persevered in punching my tag. This is my 2nd archery bull (and 2nd archery animal ever) and the first one did not go as swimmingly on the shot and recovery leading to some lost meat, so to have a perfect shot, find a bloodied arrow, and a dead elk within 100 yds of where he was was a great feeling. I passed a shot on a big bull that I did not feel comfortable with, so it was a bit of redemption on that front as well. Archery is freakin' tough no way you slice it.

 

[Scrappy]

Finally happened on day 12 in Montana. Just saw a heard walking by a couple hundred yards down the mountain. Slowly worked him into a killing mood with raking, grunting, and light bugles. He then proceeded to come up the mountain to kill me.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Well dots have finally connected after a month and a half of driving 2 1/2 hours at 3am.
OTC is pretty hard but man was I blessed today. First elk, first year hunting them.

I like girls.

 

[Flycast62]

Took me 15 days, but I got it done. Wyoming

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Looks like you worked for it. Congrats!

 

[BearGuy]

First ever bull for me. Shot at 40 yards 9/21 in northwest Montana.

 

[nphunter]

I’m back on the board in 2024, six 6 points in the last 7 years, called for a buddy with a OIL tag all last season and broke my streak, but it was totally worth it. Told myself I wasn’t sending an arrow unless he was over 300” and made it happen.

I spent the first week of the season hunting deer mostly, missed a giant 35” wide mule deer shooting off a cliff with him straight below. Spent the second week in the wilderness with the pack goats hunting elk which was super fun. Only saw one shooter but got super close and passed up several bulls, my friend that was with us missed a couple nice bulls.

After the wilderness hunt got rained out I decide to go to a spot in the desert where I killed a nice bull a few years back. The first day there we saw a nice 6x2 bull that my friend put a stalk on after that we continued up drainage. We had a plan to get to a far draw and watch it for elk coming into the drainage. We hiked in about 3 miles to this spot and had two large river crossings to make.

Once we got the spot we sat down to setup the spotters and eat lunch. We hadn’t been sitting down for 5 minutes and I looked up and saw elk headed into the drainage, a half dozen cows with this bull right on their ass. There wasn’t time to drop a couple hundred feet of elevation to get to the river so we decided to just back off the ridge line so they would see us. As we were moving back 4 more bulls came running down the same trail. One bull split off at the bottom and was alone going up drainage right below us. I took some film of him and then peaked over and didn’t see the rest of them. I told my buddy to keep an eye on that bull and I’d go back to the draw we just passed which was full of sign and see if the rest were coming up.

I walked a couple hundred yards back to the draw and slowly peaked in, I could see cow heads under me so I took a knee, nocked and arrow and got a range. The cows were moving at a decent clip and the bull was close behind. I had my range and slowly drew the bow, the cows stopped and looked over toward me but I already had the pin following the bull and as soon as he stopped I held slightly forward due to some high winds and executed the shot. The arrow didn’t drift and I hit more forward than I’d like but the arrow blew through the front of his shoulder, went through his heart and exited through his leg.

He hardly flenched on impact and the cows turned and walked away slowly up over the ridge 30 yards above and the bull followed. I could see blood pumping out both sides and knew it was bad news for the bull. He stopped and stood skylined for a few seconds and when the other 3 six point bulls walked up behind him he slowly walked off.

My buddy was down ridge and watched the shot. He couldn’t see the elk but saw me draw and watched them leave, I gave him the he’s dead hand signal and he walked up. Knowing the shot was well placed I decided to go check right away. I walked to where they had been standing and found all but 5” of my arrow which broke off inside (nock end broke off) the evolution Hyde worked excellent and looked like new laying there. We followed heavy blood up to the ridge top where he stopped and found a pile. We continued to follow blood slowly for about 30 yards and he was laying there just around the knob about 100 yards from the shot.
We admired the encounter for a minute, got a few pics and quickly went to work breaking him down. It’s was a long rigged pack out with just the two of us making multiple trips. It ended up being 13 miles of walking half loaded with meat, we packed meat from about 3:00pm until around 10:30pm. We had to go up and over 2 large saddles, cross two creeks and climb up out of the canyon, hard work but very rewarding.









10:30 In the moonlight


After passing though the bull.

 

[Sawtoothsteve]

Sept 14 Idaho Wilderness Bull. 5 yard shot, self called. 6 mile, 2000 foot vertical pack.
Best part, spending time with brother in God's creation

 

[Austin Kaufman]

2024 Nebraska once in a lifetime bull tag.

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[Frontier Mulie]

Congrats to everyone on your success. Wyoming 9-15-2024.