Sneaker Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Been following him all summer, got him at first light. Story to come. Update: We started hiking into our Plan A area well before light. I scouted hard all summer and this was in the bedroom of the biggest bull located, a straight 6 with one eyeguard that didn't curve up much My dad was with me to help call. During one of our pauses to stay quiet, rest, and listen, THERE IT WAS! The first bugle of the season sounds out through the dark. (Dark is relative as the moon was quite bright.) I couldn't believe our luck. As we waited in the dark, he sounded on 3 or 4 individual times, just short single sound bugles maybe 200 yards away on the hill to our right. It didn't sound like an old experienced bull. We crept over and set up on the opposite hill with dad further up and me 50 yards below him and the plan was to wait until shooting light to try and cow call him in. To my surprise, very soon after I was somewhat settled and starting to try to range find possible shooting lanes, dad starts doing a few cow calls?? I didn't feel it was light enough yet so I was pretty surprised and a little perturbed. He called a few times a few minutes apart, and then I heard a bugle response. Come to fine out, when he got to his calling spot, he could see two elk on the far hill heading the other direction and almost cresting the far hill. In an effort to stop them, he started calling. It worked, and one of the elk stopped. He said he just stopped and starred toward our hill for a long time, and then finally after maybe the third or fourth set of chirps, he just couldn't stand it, and started heading our way. I wasn't aware of any of that until all the sudden I heard crashing on the far hill. He was easy to see, by this time it was pretty light and his huge body and white antler tips were easy to see with the naked eye. I pulled up my binos, and it was my bull! It was too good to be true. He paused a couple of times on the way down to us, but he came down crashing and zig zaging through the scrub and into the perfect shooting lane as he started coming up our hill. As he was behind the final bush, I pulled back, but he saw movement and stopped and looked at me. 25 yards! His head was clear, then a step and his neck, then he started walking, and before he ran or circled or got behind a huge tree, I let it fly. Was not the best shot, the Lumenok worked super however. The shot was the only thing not perfect about the whole scenario. He was walking and turning and I should have tried to stop him. I was really down at first, but somehow I was one of the lucky few that still hit a vital spot not in the "vitals" as blood was awesome and he didn't go maybe 150 yards. I'm grateful it all came together so well. Got the cape and meat taken care of. Anyone know anyone in Kingman that would be willing to score him for me? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couzer Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Heck yea man!!!! Great job Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Browns Report post Posted September 12, 2014 we demand pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector777 Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Pics or it didn't happen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trphyhntr Report post Posted September 12, 2014 dang! nice bull dude. congrats. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZHog Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Very nice! Congratulations on the bull! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shedhunteraz Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Heck yeh!!!!!! Congrats to the hunter heck of a bull Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MULEPACKHUNTER Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Nice job on a tuff hunt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mesabulls Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Very nice, congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AKretschmer Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Awesome bull! congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flatlander Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Sweet! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigorange Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Nice bull on any hunt, but especially limited opportunity! Awesome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Browns Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Awesome!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couestracker Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Wow, very nice bull! You had it all planned out, glad it worked for you. Congratulations, that's awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rossislider Report post Posted September 12, 2014 Congratulations! Thanks for getting things started on here! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
