greatbasin
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LAST EDITED ON Oct-13-08 AT 09:34AM (MST)[p]Since a bunch of you are posting your muzzleloader kills, here's mine.
At about 11am after waiting for the winds to change. I snuck in on this bull and his cows but, at about 25 yards I still couldn't see them because of the dense brush and timber. When I finally bumped a cow they all started to file out of the cover right below me, so I cow called a couple of times and walked with the herd. Then, after a short sprint, I had a clear quartering angle on the bull. At a distance of about 70 yards I connected with my first shot. A little confused, the other elk just stood there and the bull didn't even know he'd been hit. Quickly, I reloaded and placed another bullet tight behind his shoulder, quartering forward, breaking his offside shoulder. Now acting sick, the bull took 2 steps and dropped in his tracks.
This bull controlled some 30 cows and 8 smaller bulls and he was the biggest I saw during my summer scouting trips.
At about 11am after waiting for the winds to change. I snuck in on this bull and his cows but, at about 25 yards I still couldn't see them because of the dense brush and timber. When I finally bumped a cow they all started to file out of the cover right below me, so I cow called a couple of times and walked with the herd. Then, after a short sprint, I had a clear quartering angle on the bull. At a distance of about 70 yards I connected with my first shot. A little confused, the other elk just stood there and the bull didn't even know he'd been hit. Quickly, I reloaded and placed another bullet tight behind his shoulder, quartering forward, breaking his offside shoulder. Now acting sick, the bull took 2 steps and dropped in his tracks.
This bull controlled some 30 cows and 8 smaller bulls and he was the biggest I saw during my summer scouting trips.
