Elk down

[ryanb]

Not much of a story to this one. My partner and I woke up early at our hike in spike camp. Had a nice freeze dried breakfast and coffee. Walked about 150 yards from camp and bugled. Heard a barely audible distant reply. 3 minutes later another bugle from the same direction but now a few hundred yards away. Switched to cow calling for him to zero in on and three minutes later he bugles at around 75 yards. Spot him through the spruce coming hard. Walks past us at around 20 yards and I see six and quickly fire a shot in behind his shoulder. He bolts and we give him 10 minutes. All is quiet and we walk up to where he was. Look left and he's still standing, and wobbling 15 yards away. Put another shot behind the shoulder and he's down for the count.

First elk for me. Next one will hopefully be a shorter pack out.

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[rocksteady]

Congrats... Elk meat is the sweetest out there.

[Spy]

Congrats that's awesome :-)

[Darksith]

awesome...up in the peace?

[leftfield]

Very nice!

[kennyj]

Nice bull! Way to go.
kenny

[markt308]

Congrats that's actually a cool story! Thanks for sharing

[nazarow]

Nice looking bull. Good eats. Thanks for taking the time to post.

[sdurango41]

Great job. Tender vittles!!

[nature girl]

Very nice elk congradulations.

[Bugle M In]

Congrats, nice bull....can't believe the amount of elk, and nice ones posted so far this season.

[.308SLAYER]

Yah between this site and the ones gone down locally I know of alot of bulls taken this year seems to b a good year

[buckshot]

Second that. Lots of gorgeous animols! Good job on that one.

[325]

Nice bull!!

[Blainer]

Fantastic!!!

[ElliotMoose]

Awesome bull. Looks like some nice country To hunt

[todbartell]

nice bull congrats on your first! How far was the pack out?

[Husky7mm]

Congrats, nice bull....can't believe the amount of elk, and nice ones posted so far this season.


Really?? I saw about 5-7 bulls posted so far, is that unbelieveable? For sure there are many that are not posted but personally I thinks its pretty quiet.

OP, congrats on a nice 6 point and thanks for posting the pics and story. Did you have to put him in the jet boat and jump a few gravel bars to get him out? Lol that was a crazy video. Happy hunting.

[Caribou_lou]

Not much of a story but I'd take that senario any day!

[Bugle M In]

Really?? I saw about 5-7 bulls posted so far, is that unbelieveable? For sure there are many that are not posted but personally I thinks its pretty quiet.

OP, congrats on a nice 6 point and thanks for posting the pics and story. Did you have to put him in the jet boat and jump a few gravel bars to get him out? Lol that was a crazy video. Happy hunting.

Oh, I'm sure there are more bulls being taken than posted here.....for sure.
But, some years on this site, people don't even bother posting until way after the season.
And many so far aren't raghorns, many are respectable 6 pt, where usually you see a lot just from Peace region and less points.(note: I do not have a problem with seeing the smaller bulls and those peoples success....)
I have already heard of 2 bulls taken out of the Princeton area, that never were posted, nor mentioned.
They might not even be members?
But, good on the folks here, that have been successful, and to be sharing.

[Boner]

Awesome! You guys on HBC are killing me with all of the elk pics.

[gcreek]

Nice bull, congrats.

[Festus]

Nice bull. You earned it.

[sniper ren]

Very nice bull! Congrats!

[elkrub]

Great Bull .....Good for you!!

[srupp]

Hmmm well done..homework was well done..great results. .no more high salt breakfasts from aluminum pouches..lol
Thank you great adventure.
Steven

[Timbow]

Great job! Nice first elk.

[bigstew]

Great job!!

[Whonnock Boy]

Gotta love it when they come in on a strings. Congrats.

[Glenny]

Love the short humble stories. First elk? good one man. Congratulations. GTs for ever.

[HarryToolips]

Nice elk congrats!...sounds like the hunt went exactly how an elk hunt is supposed to go with him bugling and coming in hard etc..

[Surrey Boy]

Very good. Thanks for posting.

[nolimits]

Great job. Congrats on this beauty bull!

[ryanb]

Thanks for the comments. Pack out was around 5kms and 2100 vertical feet. Me and the partner did it in 2 trips over a day and a half, but in hindsight, not the smartest place to shoot a bull.

You're only young, dumb, and fit for so long.

[.308SLAYER]

And yet it's funny how well do it again knowing how much it will hurt

[Rattler]

Nice bull, nice when they come in like that...

[Gfunk340]

That's because Princeton hunters don't like to advertise their bulls all over the internet. we have more than enough hunters up here from the lower mainland and the hunting pressure is pretty high. no disrespect meant by it

[calvin L]

ryanb congrats on your first bull , as for being young and dumb once ??? When it comes to elk you WILL BE DUMB again just possibly not young lol

[Getbent]

Right on....great stuff

[BigBanger]

Beauty! good job.

[curt]

sounds like a wicked hunt!!!! congratulations!!!

[ryanb]

ryanb congrats on your first bull , as for being young and dumb once ??? When it comes to elk you WILL BE DUMB again just possibly not young lol

I never said once... This is definitely NOT my first time being young and dumb when hunting.... HAHA. But, you can only be young and dumb for so long. So far I haven't really learned my lesson when it comes to shooting animals way too far from basecamp.

Next up... Moose!

[walks with deer]

ps of the two bulls from princeton heard one was confiscated..

original poster thats a great story sounds like you did your homework or where really lucky..i would guess homework.