Dieseldogs San Juan Bull
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elkantlers
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Very nice.
Elkhunter96
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Great bull, one of the best ones I have seen so far this year
fatrooster
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Nice bull, congrats. fatrooster.
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That's a great bull. Did you take him off the ridge or the blues?
treedagain
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GREAT BULL....congrads
ELKOHUNTER
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WOW!
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("For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9")
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Sweet bull !!!
What part of the unit were you hunting? I got my bull on the archery hunt over on Elk Ridge by Gooseberry Guard station. Spent some time up on the rockpile and skyline the last few days of the archery hunt with a buddy and the bulls were going crazy over there. He looks like a bull we called Mr. Heavy that was in Cherry canyon below the terraces. My buddies might even have some video of him.
Congrats on a dandy!!!
Cheers,
Pete
What part of the unit were you hunting? I got my bull on the archery hunt over on Elk Ridge by Gooseberry Guard station. Spent some time up on the rockpile and skyline the last few days of the archery hunt with a buddy and the bulls were going crazy over there. He looks like a bull we called Mr. Heavy that was in Cherry canyon below the terraces. My buddies might even have some video of him.
Congrats on a dandy!!!
Cheers,
Pete
dieseldog
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we were on elk ridge. i never went to the blues once the whole trip. I will tell the story when i get a chance to sit down and type it up. All i have to say was it was amazing, i passed on some bulls that i wasnt sure i should have been passing but i told myself if i had to question a bull he wasnt what i wanted. When i first saw this guy there was no question about it, he was getting some lead sent his way if he offered a shot.
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Congrats on a nice bull!
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I think that is a bull I was thinking of chasing on the archery hunt. He is a BEAUTIFUL bull. Congratulations!! I am curious what he scores. I know it really doesn't mean much but I am curious how close I was as I was having a hard time deciding what I thought he would score. Please let me know the score if you score him. Congrats again that is an amazingly good looking bull.
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cumminsboy97
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Great bull! Love the mass.
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Antlers_Ink
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Heavy Bull...............he's a beauty!
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We arrive in camp late on sat night. I meet my guide and he shows me video of a nice 6x7 bull that he watched sat am and pm. It is a real nice bull, long beams, good point length but fairly thin. He probably would score in the 360 to low 370 range. I tell him i am looking for a big symetrical 6 point, we decide the 6x7 is worth looking at though if we can find him again. So on the morning of day 1 we go into the area with the 6x7 and start walking to a high rim to glass on the way we see one 6 pt with a broken left main beam and a really nice 6by chasing cows. As we ease into the area of the 6x7 we begin with a few cow calls, nothing we move farther down and he finally answers it takes about an hr until we finally see him but he is moving thru the trees down to the bottom of the canyon to water. i cant catch a good look. After he waters he begins moving down the canyon looking for cows, we move down the rim aways and glass him up at about 1000 yrds i can tell he is really nice but at that distance just cant see the fine details. As he heads up anothe canyon on the other side of the creek we back out and go around to the top of the canyon he is headed up. After we get around to the other side we find him bedded down at the exact time he sees us he runs aways but we begin cow calling and follow about 200 yrds later we see him at 75 yds broadside body in the wide open but head behind a tree i refuse to shoot until i get a good look at his antlers, well he has enough and spins and runs off, i can tell he had a really nice backend and decent fronts but decide it is only day 1 and anyways i want a clean 6. Off to bed at midnight, alarm set at 4 head to new area we had heard bulls in after dark on the day before. We walk out on a finger overlooking a canyon on each side of it. Bulls are bugling the second we get out of the truck . As we get into position and the sun comes up i can see 3 bulls below at 300 yrds one narrow 6, one decent 6x5 and one really nice 6 with a great front end but really weak 5s on the back. We watch him chase the littler bulls around for a while and then from across the canyon a bigger 6 moves in with good back end, good fronts and nice width. The only bad things was that he had broken one fourth all the way off except for about 3 inches of it. Him and the other nice 6 square off for a little bit with nothing more than posturing going on and he decides to let the othe 6 wander off with some cows while he just stands in the trees and bugles. After we were confident we had seen all the bulls in that canyone we walk to the other side of the finger and fire up the cow call, we r instantly greet by no less than 5 different bugles. They are all in the treees and not showing themselves however. So we stay put and glass for an hour or more and keep cow calling. As we r sitting we draw one 320 class 6pt up the hill to within 20 yards of us until we throw a rock at him and he runs off, meanwhile at the same time we have anothe bull coming up the other side of the finger to us and he gets to the top and starts ttrying to find the cow he comes straigh at us and has to jump up on a rock to look around to find us. At this pooint he was 9 yards away standing up on a boulder looking around. We fire up the camera and i get up on my knees and by the angle it looks like he is standing with his head on my shoulder. He realizes the gig is up and gets outta there. We decide to sit on that finger allday and see what comes out at night. There are 2 bulls bugling all day, i mean if u even farted they would answer. It was cool but after 12 hours of the same two bulls it was getting old. Well the evening came and went and we saw pretty much the same bulls as the morning and decided that we would pass on them. Then right about dark we caught a glimpse of a good bull chasing cows in the oak brush, in total we saw him for 2 seconds but he was awesome he had a huge back end and awesome fronts with enormous mass. We decided to come back in the am. bed at 1 alarm at 4. Day 3 we go back into same canyon we set up and cow call and no answer we glass for a couple hrs and nothing but a couple bugles from the next canyon. So we go to investigate and locate the 6 by with the weak backend and the bull that came to us on the rock from the day before. We go back to the other canyon looking for the big one but see nothing. Back to the truck for lunch. After we eat we make a plan to go into a new area that my guides uncle had seen a 370 class bull in a couple nights before. We walk back into this area and it is super nasty thick with oak brush, it is all u can do to walk thru it without getting your gunbarrel caught on every branch. We finally find a little clearing on a steep hillside overlooking a nice pond. We sit down for the remainder of the evening. There are about 3 bulls bugling in this canyon 2 in front of us and one off to the side. It is early in the afternoon so we just sit tight and cow call every once in a while. After a couple hrs we can tell the bull off to the side is slowly coming down from the quakies. Since he is coming so slowly we figure he is coming to water so we decide just to cow call a little bit and just leave the bugle alone. After about 20 minutes we see 5 cows coming down a trail towards the water. We scan the hillside and pickup a nice bull about 50 yards above the trail following along. I instantly can tell that this is a bull i want to pull the trigger on, no doubts no second looks this bull was going down if he came in. As his cows get about 100 yrds from the water he runs down the hill and shoves the cows into the trees and decides that he is going to be the first one to the water. He comes into water at a lope and wades right in and start drinking by this time i have my gun rested on my shooting sticks and and have ranged him at 193 yrds. I ask the guide if he has him on the video camera and he says not yet, i wait for a few secs and ask again he says it wont turn on give me a sec. so i wait again, it wa probably 10 secs but felt like a minute ok he must have it ready now i ask him again he says no i dont know whats wrong with it i say &*ck it im shooting. So i level up on the shoulder and drop to the top of the bottom third and squeeze it off. I heard a good thump and he rears up on his back legs and leaps forward out of the water about 3 feet in the air and i know he is hit good but he is moving so i crack another round and do nothing but make a big splash in the pond right behind as he gets on shore he makes a left turn towards us and tips over before i can get round 3 loaded. He hits the ground and his leg shakes twice and he doesnt move again. After we watch for a minute or two high fives and handshakes are shared and we begin our climb down. I think that is the only time that week i actually could walk faster than my guide. As i get to him there is no ground shrinkage at all. I am amazed at the mass on his antlers and his bidy size. I cant get my hand around his mainbeam until you get between the 4th and 5th point. At this point we realilze that there we have all forgotten our knives back at the truck. All we have between us is two old timer pocket knives, well we take our time and we gut him with 2 pocket knives, needless to say we didnt cut the ribs or the pelvis but i did manage to get bloody up to my shoulders while diggin in the chest to get the windpipe and organs out. I was a bloody mess but it was worth it. As it turns out the trail he was walking down was on old atv trail so after sending one guy back to the truck to unload the atv we were able to load him whole on the atv and quad him out of there. So that pretty much is my elk story for my San Juan hunt. It was the best time i have ever had hunting elk and it truly was a once in a lifetime type hunt. So in the end i got my big typical 6 point that i wanted. . I couldnt be any happier. Thanks for the replies and thanks for reading.
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B_BOP_A_LU_LU
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Super Nice Bull for sure!
I love not acting my age,
Damn I love my NASCAR race,
And Hell yes I love my Truck!
Damn I love my NASCAR race,
And Hell yes I love my Truck!
completesportsman
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Heck of a bull! Congrats!
