Last week I connected with this bull after hunting him since Aug 30. I was solo, waiting for my hunting partner to get there the next day.
On the first evening of the second trip, I went up the ridge to check a camera at a wallow that I had found this bull at two separate times. Well the wallow was full of cattle and someone stole my camera. I returned to the top of the ridge to bugle and listen, planning my hunt in the morning. Well this bull responded from less than 200 yards. I got my pack on a bugle, raked and cow called when appropriate. After I went back and forth with them a few times, one cow and a spike came in to me. Shortly after they came in, he came from the wallow into 45 yards. I couldn't see where I hit him in the dark timber, but knew I had. He did a death run and I heard him go down.
He made it about 125 yards, probably a little less.
Arrow was an Easton Axis 300, TAW of 520 @ 270 fps. Iron will S125. The arrow was laying on the ground 40 yards down the hill from where the bull was standing. Still super sharp, but one side was a little duller than the other.
Pack out was not bad at all. I had a mountain bike I rode up the skid road then just coasted down to camp. About 1.5 miles each way. I was done by noon the next day.
Sorry I don't have great pics, but I was solo, it was dark and I had shit to do.
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On the first evening of the second trip, I went up the ridge to check a camera at a wallow that I had found this bull at two separate times. Well the wallow was full of cattle and someone stole my camera. I returned to the top of the ridge to bugle and listen, planning my hunt in the morning. Well this bull responded from less than 200 yards. I got my pack on a bugle, raked and cow called when appropriate. After I went back and forth with them a few times, one cow and a spike came in to me. Shortly after they came in, he came from the wallow into 45 yards. I couldn't see where I hit him in the dark timber, but knew I had. He did a death run and I heard him go down.
He made it about 125 yards, probably a little less.
Arrow was an Easton Axis 300, TAW of 520 @ 270 fps. Iron will S125. The arrow was laying on the ground 40 yards down the hill from where the bull was standing. Still super sharp, but one side was a little duller than the other.
Pack out was not bad at all. I had a mountain bike I rode up the skid road then just coasted down to camp. About 1.5 miles each way. I was done by noon the next day.
Sorry I don't have great pics, but I was solo, it was dark and I had shit to do.
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