SirRoyal

Yuma Archer, don't know what you know but I do know you where not an eyewitness to this story. So I would say your version is hearsay and not admissable.

With the corny names it reads like a riddle. It's difficult to follow without reading it 3 times. Under Pressure, Coming Storm Almost Misses. That's a sentence. But these are just a few of the names. Can you understand why it's confusing?Not at all! And yes this has just become a reading comprehension test .

Trophyhntr: Excellent Comprehension !! The story does state and emphasis that Misses plainly said he missed both shots when asked by Coming Storm and Group A. MULEPACKHUNTER and naturegirl there are no secrets or sacred spots anymore . Probably due to the internet. Thank you for reading!!

The Story is very self explanatory! And yes it does tell who shot the bull. And no this is not a joke or an IQ test but maybe it should be.

Hmmm 123456 I understand why your lost.

Wow Nice Bull !

Wow! This civilian life is tough after 2 months of elk scouting and hunting.in unit 8 and unit 10. Here's a few points I observed during my time in the field! 1st. The top ends of most of the bulls was effected by the lack of early moisture. 2nd. The elk were very scattered. 3rd. The rutting activity kicked in good early archery and then slowed down as it warmed up and kicked in again as it cooled down again. 4th. Where I was in unit 8 average night temp was 58 degrees and in 10 a few weeks later as low 32 degrees . 5th. A lot of Hunter pressure in what I consider lesser known areas, oops not anymore, hmmm internet ? 6th. Monster bulls not with cows early on in season . This is just 1 elk hunters point of view others may have seen it different. In fact one of my buddies did in another unit and when we met for lunch in town I was blown away by the monster they took ! We started out in unit 8 archery hunting . Although we did not kill it was not because we did not have ample opportunity. Sometimes when your trophy hunting you have to wrap your tag around a juniper tree and walk away! Knowing you did your best! On to unit 10 for the early rifle hunt. My uncle had drawn this tag . Wow did we scout. I have helped kill alot of bulls on this unit and it is not a walk in the park ! You have to work for it!!!!!! We found 4 bulls that would be close or at the Mark! We hunted very hard and passed numerous bulls with either broken horn s or they were just not big enough. Finally after 6 and 1/2 days and down to the last hour of the hunt, we decided to knock down a 360" bull I had been watching for 3 days . He was near where I was also watching a 390" but we ran into a encounter of the human kind and This gentleman wasn't quite as careful with that bull as we tried to be! That 's public land hunting Needless to say that bull is available for the next hunt . My uncle was happy although after seeing those other bulls , it left us wondering what might have been! God Blessed us with a great hunt and a great bull and we were very grateful to even have had this opportunity!!!!

That is a buck of a lifetime!!!

Wow! Way to go, I mean shoot Mrs.bowhunteraz1 !!!!

kidso , You oughta be an author. I normally don't read long posts, but yours kept me spellbound! Excellent story, excellent hunt , excellent pictures!!! Huge congrats to your wife!

Good for him. I hope you guys knock'em down!

Just sick and wrong if his side of the story is true!

My kids have shot 6 big game animals with a youth model 243. 2 of which were elk and one shot dropped them including one 3rd eyeballed by my daughter at 100Yds! I think its an awesome tack driver if set up properly!

I use 15 x 56 Swarovski's and a 80 mm Swarovski spotting scope and a set of big eyes I I am still overwhelmed in glassing many a time! Anybody that tells you you don't need at least 2 of these glasses is not a serious trophy hunter or has never experienced how big of a difference it makes. Bottom line most guys don't know how or what to do with a larger objective and more magnification anyway!

I will pm you!

Craig : Good story ,good pictures, awesome buck ! You'll get him next year!

Let me know if you need some spots in 8 or 10

Thank you everybody for the kind words ! Thanks! Andy , We were so close on the 390"+. if that outfitter had not messed us up it would of been him in that photo. I had that bull nailed down. Wish I knew someone on that muzzleloader hunt we'd kill that bull.

Gorgeous Bull! Hmmm it may be all down hill from here!

Now that's the way to raise them! A good hunter in the making!

Good hunting Noah! Nice buck!

He will always remember that first one! Huge congratulations to you and your son!!!!

Great buck! Congratulations!

I believe so. They certainly have the genetics. That bull we killed was just a young bull maybe 4 1/2 or 5 1/2 years old. he was a 400 in the making. He had a 20" whalestail, his main beam was 57.4 long . Boy did he look good when he throw back his head and herded those cows around! He just did not have a lot of huge mass.

I forgot to mention a neat story! After our first morning of the early rifle hunt I was headed out to meet someone and I passed a guy standing by the road waiting for someone. I probably would not have stop ,but I saw 2 kids with him. He was pretty disappointed with his morning no elk , no bugling and his boys only had the weekend to hunt with him. He really wanted to kill his first bull elk with his boys! I hem hawed around for a few minutes and like a good catholic at confession I told him we had passed 6 bulls that morning the largest being 330. I told him where to go and how to hunt them all the while knowing this could come back to haunt us. Sure enough The last evening of the weekend we are setup in a meadow where Mr.Big was expected to make a showing and guess who drives up with the whole family. And of course the little bulls show up first. He shoots once then twice and 3,4,5,6,7 times but he got himself his bull. A nice 6 on one side and a gnarly horn on the other. We congratulated them and walked away feeling good about it! We did that last year in 10 told a lady right where to go and sit so she could kill a bull we had passed. A couple hours later I got the text picture! It is very fulfilling helping others. Try it sometime!