Late season Manti

[kgbigbulls]

Well we got my dad his bull it was the craziest hunt i have ever been on wish i had it on video. It started opening day later in the afternoon when we found a heard of about 200 hundred head so we set up a push to get my dad who is handicapped a good shot. There was only one good bull in the herd, and the push worked out perfect my cousin and his boy on the back side of the mountain me and my nephew in one drainage forcing the herd to run to my dad and they elk did he shot once hit the bull, it then ran around the back side, so my dad and friend and brother in-law drove the razor around the back of the mountain, the elk had gone out to to a edge of a cliff when he shot again the elk slid to the edge and only a sage brush was holding this elk from falling at this time it was dark, so me and my cousin and brother in-law decided to put a rope around a tree and try to put the other end around the elk neck, just then the elk flinched and went off the a 1000 ft. cliff all we heard was crashing, we are were sick to our stomachs we didn't know what to do. My dad coudn't walk to see all this happen and thought we were kidding it was a sad deal. We stayed in a motel nearby and decided to come back in the morning to look for it, so next day we worked our way below the cliffs and after an hour of looking i came across my dad's bull still intact no broken antlers could not believe it we were so excited, as for the body, it was destroyed no saving the cape or meat pretty beat up, we end up tagging it and cutting the head off and was able to drag it out the bottom. My dad was sad about the meat but so excited the bull he had just killed. It was very happy and emotional time for all of us to see my 70 year old handicapped dad get this bull,a hunt i will never forget, and want to thank everyone who helped out with this hunt, along with people on monster muleys advice (hossblur)thank you.

 

[bowhunt]

Stuff happens when you have Running Animals, bullets flying, and hunting season going on.
Nice job, glad it turned out ok, and he is happy.

 

[hossblur]

AWESOME!!! This country looks a little familiar, where did you get him?


"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"

 

[elkassassin]

All the Meat was Ruined?











I used to know of places worth Hiking in to for Elk & Deer!
Thanks to Illegal Bastards & the USFS not enforcing Rules you can Zing in to them Places on Wheelers now & not see a Damn thing!
But by GAWD it don't take long for them U-Tards to get there with all the Unethical BS and the New Technology!

 

[deerslayer88]

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>I used to know of places
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>Elk & Deer!
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>not see a Damn thing!
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>long for them U-Tards to
>get there with all the
>Unethical BS and the New
>Technology!


If that photo is of the 1000 foot cliff then I must be president. I bet some of the meat was salvageable.

 

[HayZeus]

That's awesome that your dad was able to fill his tag. Congrats to him on a real nice bull.

 

[eldorado]

Nice bull. Congrats to your father.

Eldorado

 

[kgbigbulls]

It was by duncan Mt.

 

[kgbigbulls]

Sorry Mr. Obama i didn't get my measure tape out but 7 of us just estimated 1000 ft cliff the picture is decieving it was far that's all i know and the stomach was split open and nobody thought the meat was any good you had to be there to see it it was gross, we made it presentable for pictures.

 

[travishunter3006]

The only thing that would have ruined the meat was not cooling it down after the kill. Falling would not do anything but soften it up a bit.

 

[HorseCreek]

Congrats to your dad on the elk head.


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[pookiebar]

That is a nice bull, and a very unique story!

Don't worry about the jokers on here regarding the meat and yackity yak. Ulitmately you did what you could to salvage a bad situtation and recovered the animal. With a freshly dead animal the amount of bruising and destruction in the meat would have likely rendered it dog food.

Again, nice work!!

 

[Gator]

After a huge drop that meat would good for dog food. Bruise meat is crap.
Nice bull glad your dad was able to get a nice one in his later years.

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[Cooper]

I have a friend that is a butcher, he told me that they have had roadkilled deer brought in to salvage, its alot of work,not worth their time by the time the cut out all of the bad

 

[deerslayer88]

I am not denying that its a tall cliff, I am simply saying I don't see it at being 1000 feet. Also I never said all the meat would have been salvageable, I just thinks some might have been but in reality you have a few factors to take into account the fall, the time from shot and so on. I bet a 20 foot cliff would make a big game animal split and such. The point is I just don't see 1000 feet in the photos or anywhere for that matter. One positive is you found the elk.

 

[dreaminbouthuntin]

IF any of you think that meat was salvageable or any good, you are watching too many hunting shows when they say 'oh, i'll just come back tomorrow'. They go back to get the antlers, not the meat. I guarantee non of the meat was good if it hadnt been gutted and sat all night like that.

That is unfortunate you couldnt get around to get the bull cleaned up.

I dont mean to preach, but if I shoot an animal in the afternoon, I make dang sure I have a good light and back up batteries so I can put in every effort to find it and save the meat.