fredbear
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Well went out looking for a Muley buck in an area that allowed the shooting of a spike elk only with a general tag, I hadn't decided yet if I would shoot a spike or not, I had seen alot of bulls in another area that I was bow hunting so I figured that I probably wouldn't get the chance anyway, well wouldn't you know it the first elk I see is a legal spike. I had just jumped a muley doe and was watching it when I heard a bugle from across the canyon so I worked my way to the edge of the ridge I was on and as the sun came up it lit up an elk across the canyon. I glassed it and it was a spike, the first thing that went through my head was crap now I have to decide. So I sit there watching the spike and a cow feed on the hillside about 700 yards away, the bugleing raghorn chases two cows and a calf over the top. The spike is working his way right at me and I finally loose sight of him in the bottom of the canyon and he could have worked his way right up my draw but he nevery shows so I continue to wait and then 5 more bulls top over the hill, one 350 plus bull, one five point, two raghorns and one bull that was barely more than a spike. This whole time I was still deciding if I wanted a spike or not, well with a 14 month and a 3 week old baby at home I decide my chances to get out alot this year were limited so I decide to make a hunt of it. The spike never showed up my draw so I drop down and come up the next draw and wouldn't ya know it that darn spike was on the opposite hillside, I threw my pack off and got ready for him to clear a tree he was behind. When he finally cleared it he was at the very top ready to go down the other side, he was quartering away hard so I put the crosshairs about midway back his body and squeezed. I seen him hump hard and stumble he didn't take one step forward, just fell and rolled down the hill and luckily for me he landed in a tree before rolling all the way to the bottom.
Well I was by myself and fairly niave in killing elk so I fiqured I could just cut him in half and drag a half out at a time, I had all day. Well I quickly relized that wasn't going to work so I called my dad who I had been talking to throughout the hunt and he volunteered to come down from Great Falls to help with the extraction. He picked up a game cart on the way down, that helped a ton just don't put a whole elk on it folded a wheel a little, But we got him out in two trips and worked out great.
Well I was by myself and fairly niave in killing elk so I fiqured I could just cut him in half and drag a half out at a time, I had all day. Well I quickly relized that wasn't going to work so I called my dad who I had been talking to throughout the hunt and he volunteered to come down from Great Falls to help with the extraction. He picked up a game cart on the way down, that helped a ton just don't put a whole elk on it folded a wheel a little, But we got him out in two trips and worked out great.
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