The ROUGH way

wyohikeit · Dec 3, 2006

This is an over view of the hunt area

The fun ends when he pulled the triger

The next day

The recovery team

The veiw up from the landing

The hard earned trophy!

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

Flatlandr · Dec 3, 2006

WOW! Really hard earned Bull. Thanks for sharing.

wyohikeit, was this your hunt?

bobcatbess · Dec 3, 2006

I BELIEVE WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE???

WHATS THE STORY & WHERE???

THE ONLY Bobcat!!!

D13er · Dec 3, 2006

It happened again?? Looks like the same place and bunch of guys from last years multiple postings.

Interesting.

JB

wyohikeit · Dec 3, 2006

These pics were sent to me by a guy I work with that got them from a friend of a guy named Randy Cragoe; who I don't know at all. I was told that this is this years hunt. I have been right where this happened at the end of a 3 mile long ridge. I can see how a pushed bull my opt for the cliffs if he was hurt and desperate.

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

bobcatbess · Dec 3, 2006

I'LL BET IT WASN'T THIS YEAR BUT MAYBE LAST YEAR???

THE ONLY bobcat!!!

Dawgs · Dec 3, 2006

http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID12/6895.html

Cliff Jumping Elk posted on October 26th.

Shedreg · Dec 4, 2006

OLD NEWS??

Hornseeker · Dec 4, 2006

It was this year....I'm curious if anything but the horns were salvaged?

stickerpt · Dec 4, 2006

The way I saw the story was the guy who shot it found someone with the expertise and equipment to rapel down to the elk.
The elk was spoiled by then. The guy said it stank like heck
as he was cutting the head away from the body.

cmiddleton · Dec 4, 2006

i hear they were fined for not taking the G&F to the site when they cut the meat loose. the head was confiscated over it.

ELKabong · Dec 4, 2006

It happened last week!
I herd the guy shot the elk from the ridge visible above the pines, way across the valley(first pic). Good 1.5 mile shot (2620 yards!!)!!
Trusty .257!
On impact, the elk was thrown in the air 'an bounced over the cliff!
4 men went over the edge, but only 2 came back...
Upon cutting the head off, the body was imediatly eaten by a giant wistle-pig!
Fish and game confiscated the horns, the rifle, his ATV, the chute plane, his boots, hat and underwear.
The guy was fined $10,000 'an ordered to spend 100 hours community service at The Never Land Ranch...
Oh, 'an he had ta paint his house pink and register with the local Elk's Club as a wildlife violator...

wyohikeit · Dec 4, 2006

Dawgs Thanks for the link to the rest of the story
Sorry for the double post
You guys are CRACK Heads

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

Roy · Dec 5, 2006

Here is the text from the post above by an MM'er named "Climbinghunter" - the guy who actually rappelled down to get the head. This happened this year. Again - please check the link above.

Friday afternoon (10-06-06)an engineer that I work with called and said: "Ya Todd, I, uh, have a strange request. My good friend has shot a very nice elk, but when it died it tumbled off a cliff and they are not able to get to it." Later that day, Randy Cragoe (the hunter) emailed me pictures of the situation.. I called him back and we made arrangements to ride into the mountains on Sunday and recover the head and antlers. The Cragoe family is known to be full of very avid (if not
fanatical) hunters. Sunday morning Dave and I met Randy, his brother, twin sisters, brother-in-law and nephew at the trailhead. We rode to the sight at about 9500'. I fixed my rope to a large mass of rocks at the top of the cliff and Randy and I
rapelled down the cliff to see if we could recover the trophy. The elk chose the very best spot on the cliff to tumble... Had it been 40' on either side it probably would have fell the entire distance and shattered its massive antlers. The elk had
tumbled and slid about 100' down the 200' cliff and was dangling by its antlers above a large crack in the cliff. The whole body was literally hanging. We secured the head with a separate rope, assessed the potential danger of loose blocks and such, then I began to cut the body away from the head. The rancid smell
was almost too much to bear! I cut the hide and flesh all the way around the neck and then took a saw to the neck bone. Very soon the whole body (800-1000 pounds) dropped into the deep crack and was freed. Unfortunetly all of the meat was wasted.
I am amazed that the antlers had very little damage... This is the largest elk that Randy has ever shot. I'm glad that we were able to recover the head and antlers.

UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)

TripleK · Dec 5, 2006

>The rancid smell
>was almost too much to bear!

Yeah, he does look like he's grimacing a bit in the pic. LOL Trying to smile, but it just stinks too bad.