devobrodie
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My wife got her second bull, it was a fun but short hunt, our first plan was aborted when we were waiting up on a hill in the dark and saw some 4 wheelers move into the area we planned on hunting that morning, so we drove back to a second spot, we heard bugles across a big flat and in the junipers at the base of some hills, we walked in on them and we got into a large herd in the junipers with lots of bugling going on, several bulls were really sounding off. We ended up spooking them off, and got to watch and feel a real stampede! There were way more elk in the herd than we had originally thought, I would guess at least 60 ran off and went up over a hill, we started following them and it sounded like they were going to keep on moving as the bugles were getting pretty far away. We went to the top and started down and then we ran back into them as they had held up. We sat down and glasses a couple of bulls, a mature 5 point and a 6x that was broken off just above his third on one side, we kept hearing a third bull bugle back to our right, the herd eventually filtered out away from us so we got up and started to move to the right to try and see what that bull looked like, I saw an elk through the trees, and we snuck around to get into full view, but when we got to a small outcropping where we should be able to see it, it had disappeared, we heard some chuckles quite a way back further to the right and thought he had taken off, but after several minutes standing and waiting, he walked out into view, broadside at 87 yards, we were looking at his right side, I said that's a good one, and she set up and shot him, he only went about 40 yards just behind a big juniper and went down, when we walked over after 10 minutes, we saw he was a real fighter! really broken up on his left side, fresh-cut open ear. Lots of hair missing on the back of his neck, many scars and cuts on his neck and back leg. We spent the next 8 hrs breaking him down and packing him out, 3 loads ea of meat, and a final trip for the head, she is really happy with this bull.
