first muzzleloader bull

Sig3 · Nov 28, 2007

My first Muzz bull in Colorado with a T/C black diamond, 50 cal. This bull had a cow with him and my nephew had a cow tag. Both were dropped within 5 seconds. It was the last day of our hunt. Public land hunt in the San Juan Nat'l forest. Luckily we had several guys in our camp...some with muzz tags and others with archery tags. We had lots of help boning the meat and packing it down off the mountain.

Sig3 · Nov 28, 2007

as you can see, I posted this in the wrong place. My first time.

NMHUNTNUTT1 · Nov 28, 2007

Wrong place? No worries, brother you guys did awesome! Congats to you and your hunting crew , you done just right. Thanks for posting it...

NMHUNTNUTT1 · Nov 28, 2007

ELK FORUM = ANY AND ALL TALK OF ELK , WHETHER THEY FALL TO SMOKE POLES , ARROWS OR RIFLES.

Ah . yes , and welcome to MM...

overton · Nov 28, 2007

Nice elk. It is the right place. Congrats to you all.

Ransom

bkhunter · Nov 28, 2007

That second picture looks familiar. It looks like one from the original OJ Simpson trial!

Great job. Gotta love those "on three, one, two, bang!"

mntman · Nov 29, 2007

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Congrats on a fine CO bull.
Do you know how many years ago the fire happened?

Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"

Sig3 · Nov 29, 2007

The fires in that area were in 2001. The new quakies are about 6' tall now and lots of new growth. I've hunted that area since 1991 and the fires improved the food source greatly. The only problem now is all the falling trees when the wind blows.

RonW · Nov 30, 2007

Is that Dan Henderson the Ultimate Fighter in camo?

Ropinfool · Nov 30, 2007

Must be colorado.....there wearing sandles.....lol....j/k.

kirkl · Nov 30, 2007

Ronw, i was gonna say the same thing, looks just like dan henderson.

slamdunk · Nov 30, 2007

My gosh, you may have just wiped all the whole herd killing one of each right together like that!! LOL

Looks like a lot of work, but well worth it!!

Skull Krazy
"No Bones About It"

Sig3 · Nov 30, 2007

That is Henderson. He had an either sex archery elk tag. He called in cow to within 35 yards but she was coming closer so he let her come in. One more tree and she would have been at 20 yards. Never saw her again. There we lots of bulls bugling in that area but they just wouldn't come close enough.

PleaseDear · Dec 1, 2007

Ya done real good Sig3.

congrats

Robb

huntsonora · Dec 10, 2007

>That is Henderson. He had an
>either sex archery elk tag.
>He called in cow to
>within 35 yards but she
>was coming closer so he
>let her come in. One
>more tree and she would
>have been at 20 yards.
>Never saw her again. There
>we lots of bulls bugling
>in that area but they
>just wouldn't come close enough.
>

Were you the guy that killed a bull on the trail out? Dan told me about that. I was going to meet him for that hunt but couldnt make it down there. Congrats on your bull!

When he was down we saw some huge elk, he was salivating. He was going to come back and try to get one with a buddy of his but couldnt make it. I could not have gone down there anyway, my foot is still a wreck and I need to have it good for Mexico. He should knock one down next year for sure.

Drum

AndymanSavage · Dec 11, 2007

Man, that looks like a lot of work. Hope you let Henderson pack it all out for ya. Kind of a "bonus" training session. Thanks for posting the pics.

Andy

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Sig3 · Dec 12, 2007

yep, that was me....I had already saluted the game and thanked them for the opportunity, told the mountain I'd be back next year, and we were just about off the mountain when we jumped the bull and cow. too bad you couldn't join us...there were quite a few bulls in those canyons, all holding about 9000 to 9200 feet, except for the two that were at the bottom. Still can't believe how it all worked out, but I'm very pleased it did.