First Bull Elk - A Dandy!

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YoteSmoker

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I need to get back out to the garage to work on meat for the second day...will edit story later. But for now, 6x7 Bull which would have been 8x7 before he broke 2 points. M70, 7mm Rem Mag, 160 Partition. 3 shots/3 hits- 2 ribs and spine. Bull was running straight up hill accross from the one I was on, didn't make it, around 2 pm Saturday after fresh snow. I'm about wore out but need to get back to work. Here's a pic for now:
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He is a dandy elk, for certain. He surely has some mass and length in those tines. I'll be most interested in your account of the hunt. Congratulations on a great score. The 7 RM bites again. Mine, loaded with 175 Partitions and/or 160 grain Fail Safes, has accounted for a few elk, and it never let me down.
 
Randy,

He is a stud! Congratulations on a great bull. Way to go buddy.

JD338
 
That is a super bull congratulations on a job very well done.

Bill
 
OUTSTANDING!

That's one heck of a bull - and you did a fine job bringing him down. Doggone!

Congratulations Hunter!

Guy
 
Randy! Awesome bull and great shooting buddy! That bull is a FIGHTER!! Awesome hunt buddy!
 
Great bull, congratulations, can't wait to see more pictures and hear the full story.
 
I said I'd tell more of the story when I got done cutting the meat. Almost 4 months later is a good a time as any.... ( especially since I'm laid up w a broken ankle on convolescent Ieave). I was actually tracking two bulls since daylight in very fresh snow from the night prior. There tracks led me from their beds not real far from my quad to 2.5 miles back in and of course they doubled back on there tracks on a consistant basis. After being part of that wild goose chase I started heading back at 1 pm and made my way down one steep hillside then across quite a wide sage field the elk had crossed earlier in the morning at some point. I started to quarter up the mountain now in front of me and two more between me and my starting point. Doh! I had only started the ascent a couple hundred yards when 2 deer spooked in front of me (my friends and I had seen deer and big bucks all day in the welcomed snow, though they were a few miles from me). Anyway, the deer in the rear crossed in front of me through the pines and scrub oak with its head down and headed toward the ravine to my right side. Thankfully I had cranked my scopee down from. 6 to 4x after leaving the sage field. Standing on the one hill, I was looking for the deer to pop up on the hill across the ravine to try to get a better look at what I suspected to be a buck. No deer, no deer, hmm. Maybe a couple minutes pass. Further up the same hill I'm watching into, about 45 degrees to my left, I see one big elk running full tilt straight up. Then through the thick scrub oak I see it has antlers. That is about all I know or had time to think as I fired the three rounds I had loaded in the rifle (7mm 160 Partitions). I shot very quickly as he was not giving me much time to do anything else). Now I'm out of lead and I quickly reload and I can hear crashing so I know he must be hit but where and how good or bad? Too thick and far to see. Did I knock off a leg? Man I hope not! Did it have 4 points on one side? I sure hope so? Crash....Oh boy! Well, I better mark the spot where I'm standing in case things don't go well.. Then I picked out best I could tell where I had last seen him trucking through my scope. Got it. Ok, so get on the rhino and raise my buddies and say " bull hit, that's all I know right now". Cross the ravine and start working up the hill which was quite steep I might add . I see crows in the general area and they're squaking and I'm thinking well that's a good sign, hopefully I don't have to track to far. So then I get up to where I believe I last saw his running hide and then I hear a crash 20 yds to my left . I approach from behind him gun at the ready...I see lots of bones I still didn't know how big he really was. He's on his belly , back legs splayed out, head up, and his body is held against the hillside where a log he knocked down has him pinned in. I am still at his rear a good distance an lay another bullet in him to finish him off. Steam poured from the entry hole and he was done. Ok, now I can count points. Amazingl, all three bullets earlier were lethal hits. 2 in the ribs and probably it was the third that took out the spine. Now it's a white out blizzard. It took my friends well over an hour to get to me. They both crossed bear tracks 1/4 mile from me. Of course it's all work and no fun after this point. We got it all quartered and hung from trees using a small handy block and tackle and carried out what we could straight up 3/4 mile in the dark to our atvs and then 2 miles to the trucks. It was so cold even when I began gutting the elk a few hours prior, my clothing had frozen harder than cardboard. We slept in untill 11 am when we went back for the last trip out with the meat and got to the quads just as the sun was setting ending our hunt the last day of the season.
 
Randal
Great story of your great hunt. I don't know if my old body could have done all that. Plus I don't do well in snow. LOL. Good going.
Russ
 
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