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Author Topic: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...  (Read 2220 times)

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2014, 08:16:00 PM »
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #21 on: September 13, 2014, 08:23:00 PM »
And !
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #22 on: September 13, 2014, 09:04:00 PM »
I'm diggin this story, can't wait to read the outcome! Thanks for sharing!

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #23 on: September 13, 2014, 09:06:00 PM »
Oh how I loooove Wyoming!  Good story telling....

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2014, 09:06:00 PM »
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2014, 10:05:00 PM »
so tell me, do you shoot 3d shoots? I love em myself.  and the targets these days.  I like the Rhineharts personally.  arrows pull so nice, and I like the looks of em.  one of these days, that Big Jim is gonna have a blemish elk target when I have a bit of cash laying around, and im gonna snatch it up. most of the tournaments around here use those targets, and we score em 12-10-8, and 5 for non vital.

on this particular shot, I hit the 12 ring!!!! I LOVE it when I hit the exact spot im looking at.

now for some reason, and I have no idea why, I got really, really excited when I drilled the bull and even yelled a bit. that kicked him into overdrive and he ran off hard.  probably not the best thing on my part, but damn it, I was excited!!!!  and, any direction from where we were was closer to a road then he started from.  the most impressive thing about the trail wasn't the blood, but the tracks.  he was running so hard he left 3 inch deep tracks all the way.  if it was open enough you could have followed em through the binoculars for miles at a time.  

at one point in his sprint, he went down a very steep hill and at the bottom was a fence.  it was over my head, and even mortally wounded he cleared it easily. normally this would have really made me nervous, but he was actually laying maybe 40 yards past it.  heres the fence..

 

heres a close up, if you look close perhaps you can see the blood im pointing at.  what a jump for an almost dead animal.  

 


I do realize yelling probably wasn't my best move, and I don't even know why I did, as ive never reacted that way before.  but the trail was maybe 150-200 yards, all in a sprint for the elk, and as I said before he fell just past the fence leap...
is it September yet??

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2014, 10:09:00 PM »
and one more, last little plot twist.  you've heard of ground shrinkage?  this wasn't it.  more like ground "growage"!!!!   ive only had that a few times in my life but its a great feeling.

 

 

 

 
is it September yet??

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2014, 10:12:00 PM »
talk about a great moment!  I don't have a pic of me, my brother and dad with it yet as those are on dads memory card, but ill get em.  I like the group pics best by a mile.  elk had a HUGE body, and I was glad the pack out wasn't any further than it was.  my brother has a game cart, but it has bicycle tires and had a flat so nice dice.  new wheels are coming lol.

 

 

Levi did get acouple good pics of me and the old man...
is it September yet??

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2014, 10:13:00 PM »
and, ill put up one more pic for now.  I shot the bull on the 5th, but afterwards I put a game cam on that wallow.  I am just enthralled with wallows.  anyway, only had it there a day before I had to come home and it had snowed, but got this guy passing by.  kind of a cool pic I think....

 
is it September yet??

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2014, 10:15:00 PM »
I can certainly understand the yelling - that's a real dandy.  Congrats on a great shot.  I am always amazed at how far a "dead" elk can go before piling up.
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #30 on: September 13, 2014, 10:20:00 PM »
Great hunt and story,good job.
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #31 on: September 13, 2014, 10:25:00 PM »
Wellll ar righty then.  Thanks for taking us.  I could smell the trees and hear hoves
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2014, 10:26:00 PM »
Great bull.   Congrats!   Really missing the WY high country this year.

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #33 on: September 13, 2014, 10:34:00 PM »
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #34 on: September 13, 2014, 10:39:00 PM »
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #35 on: September 13, 2014, 10:46:00 PM »
Great job! Congrats and thanks for sharing!
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #36 on: September 13, 2014, 10:47:00 PM »
Congrats on a great Bull! Nice story telling also.
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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #37 on: September 13, 2014, 11:06:00 PM »
Nicely told story!  Plenty of suspense.

Must've been that "lucky" hat you were wearing!

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #38 on: September 13, 2014, 11:13:00 PM »
:clapper:    :clapper:    :clapper:  

Worth coming in for a cuppa to catch the end. Great animal, congratulations.

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Re: another dumbass in WY, but this ones after elk...
« Reply #39 on: September 13, 2014, 11:26:00 PM »
:thumbsup:  Nice bull!

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