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Wow great way to start elk hunting. Nice Bull

We hunted 5bn as well hunted the whole season and scouted 2 weeks before the season every day. The biggest bulls we seen were 360ish and 370ish. The 360ish bull was pretty cool with 30 inch 3rds going almost to the tops of his fourths. But his back end was a little week nice bull though. Talk to one other pearson that was chasing a 375 7x8 bull for sevarl days but never conected. Fun hunt though

Dam, I will be checking my cameras next Saturday. I hope they are still there. WOW what a shame people do this. When I see a camera I just politly wave and say Hi. They have been out a couple weeks as well!!!

Beautiful buck, Great shot, Congrats are in order.

yes very nice. Its getting to be that time.

Dam I forgot my bow Like my dad. He went fishing one year got up to the lake. Went to the back of the truck to get the fishing pole, and Thats right he forgot the pole, all he had was the tackle box. LOL

OK The season is coming soon need to get my basses covered. Have archery elk tags in 5bn. Just wondering if anyone could help in recommending the best place to have your meat processed in flagstaff.

The gutless way is the way to go in my opinion. To do it good I would recommend 2 people. Kinda hard with one. Hope this is not to graphic, but hear it goes With the elk laying on its side U cut from the head to its rump. Down the middle of its back, Like u were capping it. Then start skinning the animal. I then cut around the ankles then skin down to it. Or pull the legs threw. Now that u have the skin off on one side, You have the second person lift up on the front leg and you cut it off threw the tissue no bones to cut. Now the front leg is off. The hind leg is down similar with your buddy lifting the leg you will cut the meat around the pelvis bone and down the back bone a little ways, around the inside to the ball joint.{be very careful here as the internals are real close} But u take your knife and work around that ball joint in the pelvis and the leg comes off with out cutting threw any bones as well. Then I take a fillet knife and fillet the back straps off.Then I fillet the neck and brisket off in one shot.{fillet knife works real good for these steps}. Put hide back over the animal and flip and do the same thing on the other side. Once done with both sides cut down the last rib cage bone the last 1/3 towards back bone and down the back bone a little ways. With your buddy pushing in on the internals u can take your fillet knife and fillet the tenderloins out. Some people take the meat between the rib cage and some times by law u have to. But once it is cut out it dries up quick. This leaves u with very clean meat and is not messy at all. And cools the meat down quickly {very important}. plus you are getting rid of alot of bone. U can go farther if you want to reduce weight. It makes for easy hanging to. Heart Liver Sorry I will Pass on that. Hope this was not to graphic. and I hope it helps you. Good luck on your hunt

hey thanks everyone for the replies and the help. much apreciated

Here is a bull we took in 2004 in 6a. Fun hunt. We saw a ton of elk and some great bulls. good luck to everyone on there hunts this year.

great picture sounds like he needs to go play elswhere.

Great pictures thanks for sharing.

Great footage gets me pumped. Cant wait to get out there. Thanks for posting.

Very nice. great fishing up there. looks like some good memories were made. Thanks for sharing your trip

great trail cam pics. Thanks for sharing the elk pics. Cant wait for the archery season.

The 4th and 5th picture down. Those two bulls have a bummer of a birthmark. Right behind the front shulder. LOL

Great pictures, love to see the elk pics. Pumps me up, the season is just around the corner

Fantastic work. thanks for sharing

We usually come home with a couple extra bags full of trash from other people when we come back from an outing in the hills. The one I hate is lets empty the ash tray here.

Fantastic moun,t He does very nice work. I as well like the rustic look, congrats on an awesome buck hes a brut. And nice trophy wall.

Great pictures there PAPA Great times with the kids.

X2 Great picture

Congrats on one fine buck. Thanks for sharing your story with us.Those are times your family wont soon forget.

No Nope but I think he kinda likes this spikey sprinkler head.

I don't Know if it hurts, but he will have one cool looking rack in a couple years.