Headed home from my first Colorado elk hunt and I’m hooked. I was shooting 140g bergers out of my 6.5 PRC Tikka. A group of 7 of us came and hunted in groups of 2-3 with OTC elk tags. Plan was to take the first legal bull I could and managed to do it on day 2. Me and a buddy did a quick 1.5 mile hike in to a small corner of public land on a mountain that is bordered by private and no access public trust land.
Right at sunrise my partner spotted two bulls, a nice 6x6 and a smaller rag-horned 3x1 bull with the main portion of his left antler broken off at the base along with the left tine broken off half way up. The right tine was clearly over 5 inches so he was good to go. 515 yards slight up hill with a light 4-5 mile per hour breeze.
I aimed for a lung shot and was able to spot my impact, exactly where I was aiming. He ran about 75 yrds and collapsed.
My buddy ended up missing his first shot but put 3 into his bull, one of which was a lung shot but the bull didn’t drop. Another hunter in the area shot the bull and lunged him a second time and he dropped. We were unsure of the laws of who would be able to claim the bull and after the group of 4 hunters challenged us to a fist fight over it my buddy said they could have it. We are both cops and didn’t want to get into anything crazy that would jeopardize our jobs.
I didn’t take many photos while processing but didn’t have too much meat damage. Berger did its job and opened up shredding the lungs and lodged into the inside scapula of the opposite shoulder since he was quartering slightly away from me.
2 other guys in the group also got some decent bulls.
Right at sunrise my partner spotted two bulls, a nice 6x6 and a smaller rag-horned 3x1 bull with the main portion of his left antler broken off at the base along with the left tine broken off half way up. The right tine was clearly over 5 inches so he was good to go. 515 yards slight up hill with a light 4-5 mile per hour breeze.
I aimed for a lung shot and was able to spot my impact, exactly where I was aiming. He ran about 75 yrds and collapsed.
My buddy ended up missing his first shot but put 3 into his bull, one of which was a lung shot but the bull didn’t drop. Another hunter in the area shot the bull and lunged him a second time and he dropped. We were unsure of the laws of who would be able to claim the bull and after the group of 4 hunters challenged us to a fist fight over it my buddy said they could have it. We are both cops and didn’t want to get into anything crazy that would jeopardize our jobs.
I didn’t take many photos while processing but didn’t have too much meat damage. Berger did its job and opened up shredding the lungs and lodged into the inside scapula of the opposite shoulder since he was quartering slightly away from me.
2 other guys in the group also got some decent bulls.
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