Salmonchaser
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Some great hunts and very good bulls. Well done stick and string crowd.
Elk .... Let's see them!!!
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Wildabeest
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Congrat X 2!View attachment 417537
This guy (Bruce the Elk) was a bit harder of a hunt than last year's bull.
Reasons:
- He was hard to find after the shot (shit shooting on my part)
- Weather served up a number of torrential downpours
- Moving between 10k-12k is more difficult when you're 13 weeks pregnant
Just wanted to pop in and say hi hunttalk peeps! I know I've been scarce, it's been a bit of a year (re: above). Have some off days next week so throwing myself into grouse hunting. Maybe I'll lurk less and post more during this glorious fall season. Happy hunting to y'all!!
That little boy will remember that forever. Great looking horses and beautiful bull
pointingdogsrule
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Why do they die in those placesSon’s first elk…..I was able to call him in from quite a distance away (about 1000 yards). He was looking for love in all the wrong places, I guess.
wannakillabigbull
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Colorado, first muzzy bull for me.
Deez Nutz
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lifeisgoodsteve
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First archery bull and first packout with my mare and her 3yo mule. A funky, cool looking little 6x3.
Hunted solo but big thanks to my buddy for his help packing up the stock and getting it out.
After being so close so many times, and being into elk on most days for the past few years, it felt really darn good to get it done.
Hunted solo but big thanks to my buddy for his help packing up the stock and getting it out.
After being so close so many times, and being into elk on most days for the past few years, it felt really darn good to get it done.
WildWill
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Gonna have to change your handle to @killedabigbull.
NiceHere's my best elk. Shot in 2010 on public land in New Mexico.
The rest of mine would be more appropriately posted in the raghorn express threads!
Nice2010- Ca Tule Elk Archery
Looks fun
Awesome2011 Wyoming Raghorn
220yotekiller
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Awesome job!
BigGameEnergy
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This is awesomeThank goodness I grew up in an elk hunting family.
Grandpa with my 2 older brothers and me (age 1) skinning elk. (No my mother doesn't dress me anymore!)
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My grandpa Roy with the last bull elk (atleast that's the story we always tell!) that was legally killed in the old Railroad Ranch in Easten Idaho before It became Harriman State park.
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Few more elk from before I could go.
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Dad would always let us miss 1 day of school for the rilfe opener when we turned 8 years old. I was so excited that I made myself sick and puked and couldn't go. Later that season, on my first trip, my 2 older brothers and I got to help drag a cow out.
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Then I got to go! My first elk.
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It was all downhill from there! All Idaho DIY.
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Few Wyo DIY bulls
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Good pack mules - I mean buddies - are worth their wieght in GOLD! My buddy Rhen packing the BACK HALF of my 6pt from the above pic. Split in half at the 3rd rib. HEAVY
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Me, dad and brother, Zane, with Zane's Wyo bull
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Then it was my turn to pay it forward. Good buddy called and told me his dad, Sid, had just turned 60 and was diagnosed with cancer. He'd never killed a bull elk so "no pressure", but you've got to find him a 6x in Wyo this fall. We did! Wyo 2011.
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My 12 year old daughter, McKenzie, with her first elk. 10 year old sister Paige assisted! Wyo 2011.
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I had all 4 of my daughters on the same hunt that Kenz harvested her first elk. This time family friend, Tom, took a cow for the freezer. I'm 4 for 4 on daughters. If I were an angus bull, what would I be worth since I only throw heifers??????:
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Pass it on!
-Cade
www.HuntForeverWest.com
