Some glory pics first then some fluff.
The rut was not started just yet, young bulls were staging with cows but mature bulls were still up in the dark timber. Made for tough hunting on mature bulls, we saw one 2 evenings before he shot his bull.
He decided to hunt the ridge where we saw the more mature bull and had only cows come out that evening.
Next morning at first light we were back, he climbed back up while I spotted from the road below.
I spotted the young bull and gave him the signal. He stalked across the ridge to about 50-75 yds of the bull before it sighted him and got spooky. A grunt call made it pause for a successful shot, one shot kill.
The bull died about 900 yds above the road and the truck. The pack out was steep but not terrible. 2 trips for the spouse, I pulled the sled and both packs up to the bull and carried down the straps and tenders. Spouse packed out a front shoulder and the head 1st trip and sledded down the 3 remaining quarters on the second trip.
It was a brisk morning with intermitted snow while we were working on the bull. Took 2 hrs to get him quartered and trimmed up and we had him back at camp by noonish.
We packed up camp and got on the road home by 3:30, pulled in at 9:30 pm.
The rut was not started just yet, young bulls were staging with cows but mature bulls were still up in the dark timber. Made for tough hunting on mature bulls, we saw one 2 evenings before he shot his bull.
He decided to hunt the ridge where we saw the more mature bull and had only cows come out that evening.
Next morning at first light we were back, he climbed back up while I spotted from the road below.
I spotted the young bull and gave him the signal. He stalked across the ridge to about 50-75 yds of the bull before it sighted him and got spooky. A grunt call made it pause for a successful shot, one shot kill.
The bull died about 900 yds above the road and the truck. The pack out was steep but not terrible. 2 trips for the spouse, I pulled the sled and both packs up to the bull and carried down the straps and tenders. Spouse packed out a front shoulder and the head 1st trip and sledded down the 3 remaining quarters on the second trip.
It was a brisk morning with intermitted snow while we were working on the bull. Took 2 hrs to get him quartered and trimmed up and we had him back at camp by noonish.
We packed up camp and got on the road home by 3:30, pulled in at 9:30 pm.
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