bullwidgeon Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Here is my first archery anything. I can't really see why all the goofballs down at the Archery proshops look down at you and treat you like a leper when they find out you're mostly a gun hunter. I have been on at least 4,724 tougher gun hunts in my short lifetime, and bunch of them were tougher elk muzzleloader and rifle hunts . I managed to miss two different "bulls of a lifetime" this week and saw a bunch of ginormous ones that put the slip to me or offered no valid stalk options. Of the two I missed, one was a little bigger than the one I shot last year and one a little smaller, both due to deflection from cr@ppy little shrubs . To be honest I didn't really practice shooting in/through/among the shrubbery this summer, and I guess I should have. When both of the big bulls that I missed came into range and turned broadside I was completley focused on them and not the little foliage in the way that was not in my sight picture at the time. I would like to thank my good buddy Bill "Pierre" Quimby who provided excellent lunches for me and firends and added alot of encouragement and couth to my hunt. My buddy Roger Cook who taught me that rutted bull elk really are like Javelina and can be run down and cow called into insignificant bow yardage. My family that manages to, and taught me to, kill elk like the black plague even in units that have no elk . And lastly, my buddy Brian Serna who busted his @ss and in the end his truck and quad helping me get a large bodied dead bull off of a cr@ppy nasty cliff in the middle of nowhere at midnight. Winches rule!!! Here is Brian and I after finding the bull dead on a cliff, and realizing we were pretty much chingered till about 03:30 in the morning with a packout job. Here is me trying to imitate my hero Chuck Adams. I just wish I had longer arms I scored him on via the Metric system and he scores exactly 724 Bret M. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azcouesandelk Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Great elk and a great animal for the first with a bow. So he scored right at 280 is what you are saying right Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DEERSLAM Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Hey bullwidgeon that's a great 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th....... archery anything. Congrats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Bret, Congrats on your bull with a bow. You need to add a cheezy grin and wear a green beeny to mimic the Chuck thing. Were they still vocal up in 1? Things have gotten quiet around Flag/11M this week. RR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
25-06 Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Bret, Big congrats on the hunt I envy you fer huntin with a Quimby But you huntin ruttin elk and thinkin about javelina has got me worried........Maybe Lark is on to something.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullwidgeon Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Doug, The bulls are seriously WILDLY RUTTING (fighting, breeding, bugling, and all that) up here where I have been hunting. I feel bad about tagging out early, but I was in a serious state of "being freaked out" after missing a TOAD on Friday and another TOAD on Saturday about 3 hours before I killed this one, I also knew I would be hunting solo after Sunday morning too. Taking care of big dead elk solo sucks, I know from past nightmares. Bret M. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KGAINES Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Congrats to you and your family and friends, looks like you had a great hunt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bowhunter4life Report post Posted October 3, 2006 any bow kill big game is an honor.congrates on a terrific bull.mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DUG Report post Posted October 3, 2006 That's a nice bull especially for a first bow kill. Congrats! What unit? Oh, I think someone mentioned unit 1. Right on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peloncillo Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Thats a good bull, Congratulations. Packing those out can be a real nightmare. Great first bow kill. Keven Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ernesto C Report post Posted October 3, 2006 You the man Bret you the man.Congrtulations and God bless you more my friend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paso Robles Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Hey Brett........Congratulations from Calif. I'll let Doug know you got lucky and found a great bull to run into your arrow. Tell your family "Hello" for me and I hope to see you at the "Rock Pile" next Feb. Take care, Jim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bullwidgeon Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Jimmy bra, I was fixing to get you the story and all the pictures of this little teeny archery weener bull on Friday when I go back to work. I will be back up in the rock pile in 26 days or so trying to kill the tiny miniscule midget coues buck I saw in there during hog season. I saw Doug Hollywooding it on the Outdoor Channel stacking up hogs and turkeys like cordwood, you guys rule and are added on to my list of heros... Hopefully you'll come on down to the rockpile and we can wreck the hogs this spring... Bret M. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azryan Report post Posted October 3, 2006 awesome to see the outcome man! nice archery kill...heck thats something to be really proud of Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZP&Y Report post Posted October 3, 2006 Nice job on an excellent bull. I think the guys will be jealous at the Archery pro shops. You are no longer an archery 'virgin'. Some of them are so bitter they haven't drawn a tag in so many years it reflects their attitude. . Way to hang in there after some misses and drop that guy. Thanks for posting some pics! Doug AzP&Y Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
