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    Internet Elk Calling Contest

    Last Call...... Last call...deadline for the contest is this Friday (April 22). There aren't too many entries, but there are lots of great prizes (over $1000 worth for the top 3 callers)! Get your calling sent in ASAP for your chance to win. Judging will be by viewers...
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    Internet Elk Calling Contest

    Grab your calls, blow the dust off your bugles, and enter the 2011 Elk101.com Internet Elk Calling Contest! Elk Calling Contests are a big hit across the west, but work and travel limitations often prevent many elk hunters from showing off their calling skills…until now! The rules are simple...
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    ID Point System

    Despite the voices of a majority of sportsmen in Idaho, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game is adopting a bonus point system for 2011 and is currently taking input on the specifics of such a system. Please read the proposed ideas from the Department, followed by the Bonus Point Proposal by...
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    Bear Pics

    That 5 gal bucket o burger should be stinkin it up nicely after the heat today!
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    390" Bull

    A few more pictures... Corey's bull green scored 390 4/8". He had 58" main beams, 22" fourth's, 24" thirds that were 55" tip-to-tip. He also had 30" of mass per side!
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    390" Bull

    Corey and Steve start the quartering process while I make my way back for the pack frames. I hurriedly load up the pack frame before Corey can get half the elk on it and make short, light packs out of there, instead of Burdette’s typical 200 pound pack just once. What a morning! What a hunt...
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    390" Bull

    We met Steve at our phone booth (a place a mile from camp that we would go to call our loved ones back at home) and piled into Corey’s truck, then headed down the road towards the water hole. Corey and Steve get set up on the south end of the newly discovered waterhole, while I find an area 20...
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    390" Bull

    So, back to the beginning of the story…it’s been a great year so far. Corey's bull on opening morning and I had harvested my first bull with a bow. Old friendships have been rooted deeper and whatever worries we had brought with us had managed to elude us, no doubt due to spending time with...
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    390" Bull

    Another bull had been bugling from the base of the mountain, so we moved down and got into position. Corey turned around to motion for me to get set-up, and as he turned back down the hill, the Circus Bull stood up 30 yards away and slowly walked away through the thick trees. We made our way...
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    390" Bull

    The next morning, the Dave’s headed to Phoenix to catch a flight back home and Corey and I went back to find the big bull from the night before, now named the Circus bull (big tops). We moved down the ridge and immediately start chasing bugles. After calling in 2 small 6 points, we heard the...
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    390" Bull

    As we came over a small ridge, we could hear 5-6 bulls going crazy below us, and as antlers started crashing 120 yards in front of us, Corey took off running in their direction. We got there just as the fight broke up, and the loser, a 320” bull walked right by Corey at 25 yards. Another big 5X5...
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    390" Bull

    Friday morning we moved into the middle of the elk as we had done the day before, and the bulls once again seemed to be responding a little better to the calling. Burdette called in a small 5X7 to 30 yards, as well as a couple other small bulls.
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    390" Bull

    We climbed the ridge and got on another bugling bull and Burdette was able to call him up the hill to within 45 yards of Corey. Although it was the biggest bull we had seen so far (probably 320”), Corey again decided to pass. That night we tried a new area and didn’t hear any bugles, but the...
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    390" Bull

    200 yards up the meadow, Corey set up and called in a big 5X5 to 25 yards, again electing to pass.
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    390" Bull

    The next morning (Thursday), we went into the same area from the east side, hoping to cut the elk off before they made their way up the mountain. The rut seemed to be intensifying, and we called in 3 small bulls to the same set-up, the largest bull being about 300”.
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