SwampMafia

Ehh he shot a little rag horn. Not the best shooter in the world…. Let’s just say he was down to his last few arrows after shooting at some good bulls over the course of the hunt.

0710FFD0-3B3B-4095-B247-C70E4D567794.MOV Saw these guys headed back for the RZR after by buddy shot one in 3a3c last year. Biggest bulls I have seen on hoof. What do you think they score? The one looks about 370+ to us. The other has some wicked fronts. Anyone with a 3c tag is in for a treat. I wasn’t trying to be quiet or anything. Was very out of breathe just trying to run back and get the gutting tools. Sorry for the shakey video too.

Should she have put in for a crappy hunt so she has a bad experience? I’d say that’s a pretty sweet first tag

My freaken mom drew 3a3c early rifle bull with only 8 points…. she hasn’t hunted a day in her life

When I pull my unit 1 early rifle tag with 2 points.. who’s comin with?! 😜

How do you even hunt the late archery tag? Crunchy grass/ice, no bugleS, nasty country... Do you just sit water all day?

And just to be clear, out archery hunt doesn’t end till the first of October in this unit. But I will definitely report it

Update: we found him this morning. We are going to sound like idiots... but we drive to our hunting spot, park.... something really smelled and we looked to the right and we were parked 2 feet from him. Maggots everywhere.... we cut the horns off, punched his tag, and I went after another one. His shot ended up being perfect and even broadside I wouldn’t wish for a more perfect shot... it just didn’t bleed well.... he didn’t make it more than 200 yards, however the trick was he circled back away from where we last saw him. Ended up in a ditch on the side of the road. No elk deserves to rot like that... maybe Hillary Clinton.. but not an elk. We had looked long and hard but unfortunately we came up empty last time looking for him. A definite blessing to have found him today, but sad about the meat

Has anything monstrous ever been taken from 3b?? Seems like with low tags and good land like that, it would have a better reputation. Nobody really talks about it seems like.

How was the tracking and blood trail?

The rut in 5bs has been insanely good. Comparable to 2018 3c

Where did you hit him?

My uncle wounded his bull last year with a G5 right in front of me. Never recovered that one either. Would a broad head really make that much of a difference? Montec G5 seems pretty standard classic fixed. Anyone got a recommendation??

You would think we would have more than just a few initial drops right??

That makes a lot of sense. Any thought as to why there was zero blood to follow after the spot where he was shot??