I passed this bull up on the opener, for two reasons 1. he was over 700 yard away on a heavily timbered sidehill and was afraid I wouldn't get another shot if I needed one. 2. I promised myself I wouldn't shoot the first bull I seen if it wasn't over 360" and he is under that mark so I passed. the weather was horrible for elk hunting HOT and DRY, the bulls where pretty timbered up. So after days of hiking and glassing and passing other bulls up I decided to go after this bull. I tried to get him out in the open and that just wasn't going to happen so I decided to take the game to him, he was in a heavily timbered drainage with a bunch of cows and a few satelite bulls, but this bull had a unique sound to his bugle and after 8 day it is etched into my mind for ever. it rained during the night, finally so the ground was damp and quiet. so we listened to him until about 9 am sunday morning and then made my move. I moved very slowly down through the quakies and pines to about where I thought he was, inside his comfort zone blew the hyperlip 3 times and there he was. he let out a bugle less than 100 yards away. and up the ridge he came I waited for a clear shooting lane he got within 60 yards slowed to bugle again came clear and I pulled the trigger. he hunch up, turned took about 5 steps and was done! it was a great hunt. Thanks Dad for your help couldn't have done it without you. ~G4