Couple of Kootenay bulls

[Jetboater]

First one is the younger brothers bull , really decent 7X6, the second one is my Dads Bull that I had to help on...he hit him the first time but I put him down...
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[pupper]

good work thomas!

[Blainer]

That first one is a real brute.
Good on both of them.

[guest]

Wow, great looking Bulls

Congrats to you ...... now get the good looking lady one !

CT

[Bugle M In]

Thanks for the post and the pics.
Nice bulls!!
Curious, what day/days were they taken and were they bugling,
or bugled in.

Cheers

[Elkaddict]

Two gorgeous bulls, congrats.

[bruin]

Great bulls, . Nice to see the young lady out there wackin and stackin!

[trigger]

congrats on two very nice rocky mountain elk

[5 spike]

awesome bulls congrats to everybody.

[J_T]

Yeah, both nice bulls. Way to go. When did you say you took them?

[Jetboater]

october 10th and 13th...and yes they were screaming...just have to hunt them differently...my wife has already killed a really decent bull last year....

[Bigbuckadams]

Great looking bulls! Congrats!

[frenchbar]

Nice ELK jetboater.nice to be able to have a sucessfull trip and to share it with family is all the better!

[ELKOHOLICBC]

Congrats to you and your dad jetboater. Those are two great Bulls. Good mass on the 7x6. Are those 4-22 bulls?

[Leaseman]

Very nice Thomas!

Now where is your usual story to go with the pics.....:smile:

[asurebet]

Great job, i'm jealous, what did they both weigh out at? Congrats

[Jetboater]

Congrats to you and your dad jetboater. Those are two great Bulls. Good mass on the 7x6. Are those 4-22 bulls?
NO not 4:22 .......There was a ton of Elk hunters out this year... Chris worked his bull for 6 days before finishing the deal... and my Dad was on the same bull for 4 days... we all worked really hard together to put these bulls on the ground...
My Dad made a poor shot on his and I caught up to the bull in the thick timber ... 4hrs later and 3 KM from the first shot... needless to say I was beat tired from the pack... the next morning I was getting set up on a bull to kill and another guy who just came into the area back doored me to kill it ...the guy afterwords admitted that he knew if we were parked ther... that a bull must be close...needless to say he had a long solo pack in front of him....
lots of camps rolled in and we only saw 2 other elk come out...
Oh and we got to deal with a meat robbing black bear in camp this year...word from the wise is look above the meat in the dark when you hear a noise on the hanging pole, we kept looking under the tree that night... as day break broke we finally saw the bugger up the tree.. waiting for us to leave....LOL


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needless to say we were super happy with 2 bulls 2 bucks and the whole family there to enjoy it...
it was really tough hunting as the bulls would talk but not come in ... every decent bull we found was grouped with 8-10 cows....
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[Bugle M In]

Thanks for the reply, I noticed a lot of bulls dropping as of late ( 1st weak of Oct) on some threads.
I think I understand the comment about hunting them differently.
I usually hunt the last week of Sept. ( which usually runs a few days into Oct), but the last several years the legal bulls have had large #'s of cows with them,and by the time I had located them, they would be heading the opposite direction due to the bugling ( the area I hunt is not very open, so unfortunately bugling is really the only means to locate them for most part )
So I went early (Sept 11th) this year, to try to get to some bulls before they had the cows and see if bugling had a better effect, and also to see if they were "bugling on their own"!!
We did have success, but hunting in in 30 to 35 degree weather sure made for long days, and left me not so sure as to when things really get into full swing ( meaning when bulls start bugling lots but don't have large harems together yet ), as I saw 3 bulls (6pts), but they stayed quiet for the most part.
They did however come in with bugling and cow calls.
Obviously weather helped and the temps dropped off dramatically the last week of Sept, so no surprise to more hunters success as of late.
Curious, did these bulls have cows???,
and have you ever hunted other weeks in Sept or do you usually hit the EK in Oct???

Cheers

[Brambles]

Very nice, good work...

[bayou]

Congrats on some nice bulls, have sent you a pm didnt want to start a uproar on here.

[Rattler]

Great job on a couple of real nice bulls.

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[hunter1947]

Two very nice RME your hunting party got ,you can't get a better elk hunting trip then the one you just completed.

Its hard hunting these beautifully animals and it is a real challenge to get one on the ground.

Congrats to your hunting party on having a very successfully elk hunting trip http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif.