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HighHunter
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Anyone seen or know the story behind these pics? Just got them by email today. Tough luck for that guy but awesome bull! I would love to hear the story.
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The bull ran the wrong way after he was shot, that's for sure. Wow at least they got the head out.
Great bull! The hunter looks happy and relieved...
You never know what the animal is going to do after the shot. Looks like it was cold enough to save the meat. I saw pictures from the north of a dall that dived into one crevice and fall into another. The hunter and guide made a 15' ladder from trees, but had to go down it in a water fall.
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You never know what the animal is going to do after the shot. Looks like it was cold enough to save the meat. I saw pictures from the north of a dall that dived into one crevice and fall into another. The hunter and guide made a 15' ladder from trees, but had to go down it in a water fall.
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That's freakin great!
Good job to those guys on getting that bad boy out of there.
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Good job to those guys on getting that bad boy out of there.
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ELKabong
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How in the world would you ever get an 800 pound bull up that cliff??
I would guess this was in an area where vee-hickles are not allowed- so no winching option.
I guess they couldda risked life 'an limb to cut it up on the cliff face, hauling it up a piece at a time...
Unless you talk to the guy that shot the bull 'an get the "hole" story, it's hard to pass judgement.
He probably did well to just salvage the rack.
I'd say alot of folks wouldda just said "oh well..." 'an kept hunting.
I would guess this was in an area where vee-hickles are not allowed- so no winching option.
I guess they couldda risked life 'an limb to cut it up on the cliff face, hauling it up a piece at a time...
Unless you talk to the guy that shot the bull 'an get the "hole" story, it's hard to pass judgement.
He probably did well to just salvage the rack.
I'd say alot of folks wouldda just said "oh well..." 'an kept hunting.
Hey I'm not saying anything bad about the guy, I'm just saying in today's world there seems to be no excuse, even if the task is impossible. I bet 4 out of 5 game wardens would issue a ticket for that. If he did leave the meat. I would have done the same.
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Wow!
Very interesting post!
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Very interesting post!
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HighHunter
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Yeah thats tough to say what i would do in that situation without knowing the whole story. I can't image what that guy was thinking though as this beautiful bull, that he probly just spent hours hunting and stalking, turns and disapears right off a huge cliff. I'm sure he lost any hope of even recovering a broken tine, let alone the full rack.
Beautiful area though. Anyone recognize the area he was hunting?
Beautiful area though. Anyone recognize the area he was hunting?
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D13er
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I realize that being shot is most likely, but do we even know that the bull was shot ? or just found quickly after a good fight pushed him over the edge ?
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holy cow,,, what a bull hope they were able to get the meat out ,,,,
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We had a similar situation about 15 years ago with a cow. My bro n law shot her at about 200 yards, she ran for about a mile, ran off a 30 foot cliff, about half way down was a good sized dead log sticking out with blood all over it. You could tell she hit the log then fell the rest of the way into a rocky bottom.
Nothing as bad as this but it was hell getting her out of there.
Nothing as bad as this but it was hell getting her out of there.
It's been probably close to 15 years or maybe even more but there was a stroy along with pictures of a Bull Elk that was shot in Wyoming and fell over the edge of a cliff and was hanging there by a large tree on the face of the mountain. Well these hunters got to thinking about how they would salvage the rack and meat, so one of them, probable the ones with a big set of kahunnas, tied a rope around his waist and then to a horse and they lower him down to the dead elk hanging about 300 feet or maybe it was even more, don't recall the exact distance. He then tied another rope to either neck or antlers and then sawed off the neck or through the skull and the whole rest of the elk fell to the bottom of the canyon and they buddies up above with the horses pulled him back up along with him holding the rack that had the other rope attached to it.
Then they got back on their horses and rode down the trail and made their way back to where the rest of the elk was after falling the "surgery" above.
I don't know if I still have the story in the Magazine or not but for those who might doubt me, if you go into Eureka, NV to the Owl Cafe/Bar/Casino there is a large picture of the same picture that was in the story published by I think it was Bugle which is RMEF magazine, it is on the Cafe wall or was this was back in 1996.
I was telling the story to the other three friends with me at the Cafe and the owner came over and asked how I knew the story as others in there were listing to me tell the story. I told him it was in a Mag. and he told me he got the picture from the close friend who was with them at the time of incident.
Brian
Then they got back on their horses and rode down the trail and made their way back to where the rest of the elk was after falling the "surgery" above.
I don't know if I still have the story in the Magazine or not but for those who might doubt me, if you go into Eureka, NV to the Owl Cafe/Bar/Casino there is a large picture of the same picture that was in the story published by I think it was Bugle which is RMEF magazine, it is on the Cafe wall or was this was back in 1996.
I was telling the story to the other three friends with me at the Cafe and the owner came over and asked how I knew the story as others in there were listing to me tell the story. I told him it was in a Mag. and he told me he got the picture from the close friend who was with them at the time of incident.
Brian
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Alternate caption:
"The downfall of hunting"
"The downfall of hunting"
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I got these in the mail myself today. I wondered how long it would take to get posted. Not much gets past this site.
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DallanC
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Awsome pictures.
Its pretty obvious from the picts that it took quite a while for them to leave and return with repelling gear (to me it looks like they maybe hired someone to go in for it). The pictures before and after the snowfall attest to it taking at least a day. If any longer I could definitely imagine the meat spoiling, its sad but they did stick with it and retrieve what they could... I think it would be hard to convict them of "wanton destruction of wildlife" by letting the meat spoil. I'm glad he got the rack out, tagged it and went home vs maybe shrugging it off and going and shooting another critter.
Again, great picts!
-DallanC
Its pretty obvious from the picts that it took quite a while for them to leave and return with repelling gear (to me it looks like they maybe hired someone to go in for it). The pictures before and after the snowfall attest to it taking at least a day. If any longer I could definitely imagine the meat spoiling, its sad but they did stick with it and retrieve what they could... I think it would be hard to convict them of "wanton destruction of wildlife" by letting the meat spoil. I'm glad he got the rack out, tagged it and went home vs maybe shrugging it off and going and shooting another critter.
Again, great picts!
-DallanC
RE: Update to # 18 Post
I went through some old Eastman's Magazines and in the Winter 1994 Issue #24 is the story and a picture of this Elk I was talking about. It was taken by a hunter named John Grove from Dubois, Wy.
The article was by Rod Hart who worked or still does I guess for Mike Eastman and tells the story and shows a picture.
The BUGLE Mag. had a better picture and more of a write up I believe. In Eastmans it said that the meat was boned out and and all packed out from the hunters after the same hunter/shooter was lowered down to the Elk at only 100 feet below where the Elk was hung up in snow slide from other ridge where he cut off the head and let the body fall only 100 feet to the bottom of a very narrow and deep canyon.
Brian
I went through some old Eastman's Magazines and in the Winter 1994 Issue #24 is the story and a picture of this Elk I was talking about. It was taken by a hunter named John Grove from Dubois, Wy.
The article was by Rod Hart who worked or still does I guess for Mike Eastman and tells the story and shows a picture.
The BUGLE Mag. had a better picture and more of a write up I believe. In Eastmans it said that the meat was boned out and and all packed out from the hunters after the same hunter/shooter was lowered down to the Elk at only 100 feet below where the Elk was hung up in snow slide from other ridge where he cut off the head and let the body fall only 100 feet to the bottom of a very narrow and deep canyon.
Brian
