Who has been in on a double bull or elk kill with someone? I managed to pull one off with a buddy of mine. After slow hiking together down a trail a few miles, I told my buddy that I was gonna sit and watch a draw for a while then make my way back. He said he was gonna keep going for a while and went on.
After he headed on, I grabbed a quick snack and a drink and spotted an elk down in the draw I stopped to watch. Further glassing showed 2 bulls feeding unaware of me being there. Both looked to be about the same size so I just waited for the first clear shot and took it. I could see that I made contact but was unsure of the hit and unable to get a follow up shot as both bulls just walked down out of site.
Hearing the shot, my buddy stopped and turn on the two-way to wait for the results. After calling him back up, I stood where I shot from and guided him down to where I last seen the elk. He spotted blood right away and waived me down to follow the blood trail. I told him to be ready as I wasn't sure of my hit and also there was another bull.
We trailed about 75 yards and seen my bull piled up. After the man hug, my buddy pulls out his phone to video my walk up to my bull when that other bull jumped up about 50 yards away. My buddy drops his phone and gets 3 shots off (all 3 hits which he points out to this day) and drops it on the 3rd. After standing in disbelief for a minute it was time for another man hug.
After the second man embrace, the search was on for his dropped phone. We found the phone still recording and replayed the whole scene. You can see me reacting to his bull jumping up then just the phone falling to the ground. The screen is black but we had full audio of the shots and the aftermath. Just an awesome set of events.....and then it got real!!!
Real meaning that we had two bulls on the ground 100 yards apart 2 miles in. That might not be bad for the seasoned mountain hunters but we are flat landers with only 2 weeks a year in the mountains. We each went to work on our bulls and made quick work of them. Then started to move the meat about a half mile to hang in the shade. While moving our meat, we met a local guy out hunting and had his motorcycle parked up the trail about a half mile. He offered to help us get our meat out the next day with it and we are indebted to him for that.
There wasn't a motorcycle on that trail the 4 days we hunted until he showed up. Talk about timing and the awesome generosity of a local guy to help out the out of staters. Part of me thinks that we missed out by not packing our bulls...but it's just a small part LOL. We have packed a couple of bulls out of that same draw before (not at the same time) so we knew the fun. Truth be told, we never would have hunted there if bikes were running that trail but I'm glad there was one that day.
Any other stories of doubles out there?
After he headed on, I grabbed a quick snack and a drink and spotted an elk down in the draw I stopped to watch. Further glassing showed 2 bulls feeding unaware of me being there. Both looked to be about the same size so I just waited for the first clear shot and took it. I could see that I made contact but was unsure of the hit and unable to get a follow up shot as both bulls just walked down out of site.
Hearing the shot, my buddy stopped and turn on the two-way to wait for the results. After calling him back up, I stood where I shot from and guided him down to where I last seen the elk. He spotted blood right away and waived me down to follow the blood trail. I told him to be ready as I wasn't sure of my hit and also there was another bull.
We trailed about 75 yards and seen my bull piled up. After the man hug, my buddy pulls out his phone to video my walk up to my bull when that other bull jumped up about 50 yards away. My buddy drops his phone and gets 3 shots off (all 3 hits which he points out to this day) and drops it on the 3rd. After standing in disbelief for a minute it was time for another man hug.
After the second man embrace, the search was on for his dropped phone. We found the phone still recording and replayed the whole scene. You can see me reacting to his bull jumping up then just the phone falling to the ground. The screen is black but we had full audio of the shots and the aftermath. Just an awesome set of events.....and then it got real!!!
Real meaning that we had two bulls on the ground 100 yards apart 2 miles in. That might not be bad for the seasoned mountain hunters but we are flat landers with only 2 weeks a year in the mountains. We each went to work on our bulls and made quick work of them. Then started to move the meat about a half mile to hang in the shade. While moving our meat, we met a local guy out hunting and had his motorcycle parked up the trail about a half mile. He offered to help us get our meat out the next day with it and we are indebted to him for that.
There wasn't a motorcycle on that trail the 4 days we hunted until he showed up. Talk about timing and the awesome generosity of a local guy to help out the out of staters. Part of me thinks that we missed out by not packing our bulls...but it's just a small part LOL. We have packed a couple of bulls out of that same draw before (not at the same time) so we knew the fun. Truth be told, we never would have hunted there if bikes were running that trail but I'm glad there was one that day.
Any other stories of doubles out there?
