Nebraska Box Elder Bull Tag

[Dos Perros]

Well to sum up my Nebraska Box Elder Elk pursuit….

124 phone calls

1 new .300 WSM Kimber montana rifle

1 new Swarovski z5 scope

3 sets of scope rings

5 rifle sight in sessions

90 practice rounds shot

6 G&P employees talked to

1 layoff

1 new job (with not as good vacation policy or paternity leave)

7 full days of boots-on-the-ground scouting

5 public properties scouted

15 landowners who gave permission

71 parcels owned by those landowners

26,400+ total private acres accessed

11 days hunting with 17 morning/evening sits (archery and rifle)

19ish tanks of gas

3 nights of motel stays during bad weather

2 nights slept in the truck, remaining in tent

30 doves shot

1 coyote shot

1 firstborn child (son) born during the middle of the rut

1 fiancé who let me return to hunting days later. (She was as excited for the tag as me)

87 miles walked (156,000 steps)

3 bulls seen during the daytime

1 bull seen in the dark

1 (multiple hunt) game of cat and mouse with this bull.

1 54 yard shot on a bull in the Box Elder canyons.

0 steps taken by the bull after the shot.

4 hours of caping, gutless method field dressing, deboning and packing.

2 freezers full of delicious elk meat

Lots of thank you cards sent.

1 awesome opportunity I’ll never forget.

Put in for your elk tags folks! You might just draw it with one point like I did ; ) And thank you to everyone in this thread for their help.


PS - DIY does not equate to cheap! Yikes.

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All those numbers and no score?! The timeline doesn't quite match up, but I'd say those 4ths are what poked Icarus out of the sky.

 

[Dakota Dude]

Way to go, Dad! Nice work. Awesome bull too.

 

[mhammond86]

That's a great bull! Well done!

 

[Mudslinger]

Congrats on an awesome bull and a future hunter!!!

 

[rvalleyp]

congrats on the great bull

 

[North Idaho Stickbow]

I have nothing to add other than I am constantly amazed at the high quality bulls and beautiful country Nebraska has to offer. I never would have thought, but what a cool state.

 

[Wastinshells]

All those numbers and no score?! The timeline doesn't quite match up, but I'd say those 4ths are what poked Icarus out of the sky.

Thanks everyone!

Dos: Timeline? Elaborate, I’m genuinely curious since I didn't really provide a clear cut one and bounced around on stats.

If its about the not hearing bugling, I’d be willing to wager that rifle that if you talked to the landowners and hunters around where I was you’d hear it was a weird warm quiet year. Mostly night time bugling except for that last weekend I hunted. My bull bugled till 10am and 730am.

 

[Pooner]

Congrats and good work . You are much better at keeping track of details than I am!

 

[Dos Perros]

Thanks everyone!

Dos: Timeline? Elaborate, I’m genuinely curious since I didn't really provide a clear cut one and bounced around on stats.

If its about the not hearing bugling, I’d be willing to wager that rifle that if you talked to the landowners and hunters around where I was you’d hear it was a weird warm quiet year. Mostly night time bugling except for that last weekend I hunted. My bull bugled till 10am and 730am.

I meant that those 4ths, as tall as they are, could have been responsible for poking the Greek mythological character Icarus from the sky.

Sorry sometimes I’m not good at compliments.