elkbow
09-23-2010, 08:18 PM
Took this on Monday evening.
Finished my elk hunt with 3 days to go. Bull scores green at about 354, 6x6. Shot downhill with a Mathews DXT and Rage 2 blades broadheads.
Bull started bugling at 5:30 Monday evening, figured it was one of the bulls we seen before with now cows, so i just used the cow call and not bugling. He came up the ridge from around 1/2 mile away.
I picked a shooting lane that I was hoping he would come through, downwind. I seen him coming, drew the bow, so what does he do...of course, he stops right before the shooting lane. I held for over a minute, he finally bugles and then steps out and the rest is history. He made it about 100 yards straight down the ridge, of course on the wrong side i needed to pack him out on.
We worked on cutting him up that night, put in game bags, left hanging in the trees, got done about midnight. Went back out the next morning and that was work, 3 trips with two of us and a game cart. Game carts are great, even on the steep hills, pulling them up isn't fun, but better than packing on your back. This bull had a huge body, estimated he was over 900 pounds, just the head, cape and antlers weighed alot.
Anyways, got it all done, and then loaded everything on the Polaris 850. Now that was funny, thats alot of weight, and we put on more than the racks are supposed to handle, but it handled it with a breeze. The hard part was strapping everything down, and keeping that big ole head and antlers from moving.
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128711234.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759048.jpg
This is what we used to pack it out:
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759165.jpg
All the meat hanging in the tree, we left a lantirn burning when we left it that night so that no lions, coyotes or bears would touch the meat
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759137.jpg
Some of the other critters i took pics of:
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759207.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759218.jpg
Finished my elk hunt with 3 days to go. Bull scores green at about 354, 6x6. Shot downhill with a Mathews DXT and Rage 2 blades broadheads.
Bull started bugling at 5:30 Monday evening, figured it was one of the bulls we seen before with now cows, so i just used the cow call and not bugling. He came up the ridge from around 1/2 mile away.
I picked a shooting lane that I was hoping he would come through, downwind. I seen him coming, drew the bow, so what does he do...of course, he stops right before the shooting lane. I held for over a minute, he finally bugles and then steps out and the rest is history. He made it about 100 yards straight down the ridge, of course on the wrong side i needed to pack him out on.
We worked on cutting him up that night, put in game bags, left hanging in the trees, got done about midnight. Went back out the next morning and that was work, 3 trips with two of us and a game cart. Game carts are great, even on the steep hills, pulling them up isn't fun, but better than packing on your back. This bull had a huge body, estimated he was over 900 pounds, just the head, cape and antlers weighed alot.
Anyways, got it all done, and then loaded everything on the Polaris 850. Now that was funny, thats alot of weight, and we put on more than the racks are supposed to handle, but it handled it with a breeze. The hard part was strapping everything down, and keeping that big ole head and antlers from moving.
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128711234.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759048.jpg
This is what we used to pack it out:
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759165.jpg
All the meat hanging in the tree, we left a lantirn burning when we left it that night so that no lions, coyotes or bears would touch the meat
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759137.jpg
Some of the other critters i took pics of:
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759207.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/rottweiler/image/128759218.jpg