DIY Archery double... have you done it?

[type2bowhunter]

I'm hoping to hear from some guys who have arrowed an elk and a deer from the same unit, same season. Tell us your story and include some photos!

 

[Coveyleader]

Yes, our group has done it many times. Big time overlap where we hunt so it’s not really a hard thing to do, and killing one doesn’t consume much time in terms of packing. If your solo back pack hunting, way different story.

 

[Blockcaver]

Yes, a few times but usually bowhunted whitetails rather than mule deer if I had a WT draw in November and bowhunted elk in August/Sept. Different parts of the state.

 

[Maxhunter]

Yes i snuck up on a mule deer and shot it at 25yds then 2 seconds later an elk bugled. I went about 100 yds bugled and it came in and I shot the bull at 32yds. It had been only 9 minutes from when I shot the deer. This was in the evening. My buddy’s moose season started the next morning. We didn’t get back to camp and bed until 3:00am. Also another buddy loaned me a game cart he made and the dang axle broke with two elk quarters. I had to walk about 1.25 miles back to get the pack frames. This was in WY 1994 first time I ever hunted the place.

 

[cnelk]

I once killed 2 elk within 20 mins during archery season - one cow, one bull

 

[khunter]

Couple times. Once managed Elk, Bear and Deer all within 1/2 mile of each other at 10,000 feet.
Bear was on elk gut pile so made that one pretty easy.

Then there was the bull elk arrowed day prior to moose season followed by moose a few days later. Elk tag was an afterthought, bought at gas station when gassing up on way to moose hunt, dead elk 90 minutes later. The ink was barely dry on that tag.

 

[type2bowhunter]

Yes i snuck up on a mule deer and shot it at 25yds then 2 seconds later an elk bugled. I went about 100 yds bugled and it came in and I shot the bull at 32yds. It had been only 9 minutes from when I shot the deer. This was in the evening. My buddy’s moose season started the next morning. We didn’t get back to camp and bed until 3:00am. Also another buddy loaned me a game cart he made and the dang axle broke with two elk quarters. I had to walk about 1.25 miles back to get the pack frames. This was in WY 1994 first time I ever hunted the place.

Awesome story and probably a great memory to look back on.

 

[Maverick1]

Have killed a moose, elk, and bear on one trip. (Different units, though, so does not meet all of your criteria.)

Have also killed a bull elk, a cow elk, and a bear (over the first elk carcass) - all in the same trip, a couple of different times over the years.

So, yes, doing an archery double is certainly possible. Even an archery triple. Lots of time packing meat off the mountain. It's a good idea to plan ahead for meat storage so you can keep hunting and fill the other tags. The desire to make it happen, physical ability, logistics/planning, time off, and several tags are required.

Getting harder to draw the tags to make that happen, though. Used to be easier.

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[cnelk]

Another time my son and I doubled up at the same time.
He killed the bull and I shot the cow.

 

[Taudisio]

I have doubled on deer in the same day with a buddy if that counts, almost tripled, but we didn’t recover the third guys deer.

 

[Seth]

Archery mule deer and bear in the same unit and same week two years ago. Didn’t have an elk tag, but saw several. Very doable when their home range overlaps.

 

[Blockcaver]

Buddy and I doubled on elk twice on the same day over the decade we bowhunted together.

 

[Scoot]

Yes- shot 2 nice squirrels one day.

 

[fulldraw1972]

I have never done what you described but I have multiple doubles.
1st one was whitetails shot a buck in the morning, then shot a doe in the evening and a buck an hour after the doe.
2nd one was I shot an antelope buck first thing in the morning and 2 hours later my buddy shot his.
Last one was a shot a whitetail buck and then 5 minutes later I shot another one.
All of them were archery hunts.
I have never had an elk tag and a mule deer tag at the same time for the same unit.

 

[Maverick1]

Another time my son and I doubled up at the same time.
He killed the bull and I shot the cow.

I recall you had a video on that.