Ok so most of you probably already read the story of the bull I killed on opening day. Today we left the house to see if we could find an elk for my brother and a good friend of mine, we did not see any elk or deer but we did spot 2 nice bears and I managed to finish the deal on a nice western Oregon bruin so here is some pics of the weekend and a repeat of the elk story. Sorry for the repeat but I'm a little pumped right now!!!!
Six of us had spread out across several ridges early yesterday morning. We have a pretty good idea what the elk will do in this area when pushed. So when a call came over the radio that there was elk in what we call the bowl, we were pretty excited. My partner and I needed to get to a certain saddle to keep them in that bowl or push them back down to the guys that were in the bottom. We made a 45 min hike pretty much straight up, and when we were almost to the edge of the saddle we heard a single cow call, we krept up to the edge and there was 18 elk in the center of the saddle. The bull was feeding off to one side there were 2 spikes a few cows were bedded and the lead cow was looking right at us. We kind of leaned into some scrub firs to hide a little bit but she was nervous, after what seemed like forever she put her head back down and started feeding. I ranged the elk at 84 yds at this point and they were about at a 45 degree angle down from us. I think that lead cow knew something was up but what happened next will be something I wont soon forget, the elk started moving away from us, and we thought we had been winded, but then they turned and came straight up the hill towards us, this gave us time to quickly move to a open spot draw back and get ready, the elk walked single file over the edge of the saddle at 37 yds when the bulls turn came he must have seen movement as I raised up to shoot around a scrub fir because he stopped slightly quartering to me. I launched the arrow. And there is nothing better than seeing your arrow bury clear to the fletches in the sweet spot. We started calling immediatly after the shot an then we heard a big crash and the death cough. We sat up on the top of that ridge for about a half hour and watched the rest of the herd do what we had seen them do time and time again, which is run around the end of this big knob headed for safer country. This is where 2 of our group was supposed to be. So after heckling them on the radio for not being in the right spot, we decided to go find him, which was not to hard. From where I shot him he went 20yds down hill stopped and then crashed and slipped another 20 to I think the only flat spot on that side of the ridge. We took our time quartering as we had to wait for the packboards and crew to get up to where we were. And just kind of soaked it all up.
One heck of a weekend!!!!!!
Re: One heck of a weekend!!!!!!
Man you did have a busy weekend! Nice to see that you brought the kids out also.
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