Bedded Bull
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I'll never forget the first time I saw elk while hunting. I was on the only guided trip I've ever been on and it was for mulies in Wyoming in 1994. We were riding on the horses heading west to check another basin and we looked way up on the hillside to the south and there was a big herd of elk bedded down for the day. Right at the top we saw what was obviously the herd bull and we stopped for a break and got the spotting scopes out to get a closer look. That bull was laying on his side like a horse does sometimes and one side of his big rack was sticking straight up in the air. We thought he was dead, but after awhile he rolled over and lifted his head to look over the ladies. That's the only one I've ever seen resting like that!
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never_satisfied
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Poor Guy
He looks like hes ready for spring
He looks like hes ready for spring
greatwestern
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T-Gun...them big bulls will lay like that quite a bit ya know!
your story reminds of guiding a hunter one time toward the very end of the rut, and i glassed up this small band of elk down in the basin just getting up for the evening course. there were a few cows and calves, a 3x, and a small 5x plainly visible, and at the edge of the clearing, a pair of stretched out back legs, a set of knockers, and a big ol' beer belly stickin out from under a tree...
I said "there's a big ol' bull down there", hunter says "no there's not! them bulls ain't big!"
i told him to look under the tree at the edge, and the guy says, "you can't even see its head! how do you know its big? besides, it looks like its sick....or maybe even dead!"
i told him it was indeed a big bull, it certainly wasn't dead, but that it would be soon if we'd get down there and get on him! well, just about then the bull stands up, and he's a bruiser...hunter started getting buck fever immediately, and he just got more nervous and twitchy as the stalk progressed, despite my best 'coaching' efforts
well the dreaded fever culminated with my mighty hunter missing ol' Lazy Bones at 80 yards broadside with the swaro-topped 7 mag...TWICE!! that was one of those times i said i'll never take a dude after elk ever again!
hey, nice photo Yelum!
your story reminds of guiding a hunter one time toward the very end of the rut, and i glassed up this small band of elk down in the basin just getting up for the evening course. there were a few cows and calves, a 3x, and a small 5x plainly visible, and at the edge of the clearing, a pair of stretched out back legs, a set of knockers, and a big ol' beer belly stickin out from under a tree...
I said "there's a big ol' bull down there", hunter says "no there's not! them bulls ain't big!"
i told him to look under the tree at the edge, and the guy says, "you can't even see its head! how do you know its big? besides, it looks like its sick....or maybe even dead!"
i told him it was indeed a big bull, it certainly wasn't dead, but that it would be soon if we'd get down there and get on him! well, just about then the bull stands up, and he's a bruiser...hunter started getting buck fever immediately, and he just got more nervous and twitchy as the stalk progressed, despite my best 'coaching' efforts
well the dreaded fever culminated with my mighty hunter missing ol' Lazy Bones at 80 yards broadside with the swaro-topped 7 mag...TWICE!! that was one of those times i said i'll never take a dude after elk ever again!
hey, nice photo Yelum!
one_dryboot
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Deer and elk will sleep with there heads on the ground. Doesn't mean they are sick. If that was the case, I have seen a ton of sick and dying big bucks and bulls!
greatwestern
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^ha! hey that ol dude sure grew a hell of a rack of horns for being such a 'sickly' feller, eh! 
