willhunt4coues

24a archery for me

We tried around the neck and he just started plowing the ground. If anyone would have said to keep the cape for them I would have but otherwise I knew I would just european mount him. I don't know any taxis so that would have helped also to know a few. Thanks for the heads up though. I know next time to ask around.

Can't eat the cape. I did a european mount.

You should have an area by the batteries to put a memory card i think. I have the venture hc. You can only select the square areas on map source and you can't crop them. Wal-mart has the Lexar 1GB memory cards pretty cheap. Hope this helps.

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WOW That bull is huge. Great job kid.

Great story. Maybe next year it will be better. Sounds like you still had a good time and thats all that counts (the elk is the reward).

It was the same way in 4b also.

Well the Elk hunt had finally began and ended for me on the first Saturday (9-13-08). The great thing was we had two tags (my dad & me). 1st morning was all too quiet in the great outdoors. We had drove around trying to find all the great sounds we had heard on Thursday. We ended up back at camp pretty early. Waiting to find out when Andrew (Cubsfan) and Steve were coming up to help. We had decided to head out about 2:30 that afternoon and sit at a spring. At about 5:00 we herd the growl chuckle of an Elk. He was a few hundred yards away. As the growl got closer it grew darker. We then decided to head on back to camp and try again the next day. Cubsfan and Steve were already coming down the road to find us so we met up and had dinner. 2nd day was a riot. We woke at 4:45 and were off in about 15 minutes. We turned off the road to head back into the spring and low and behold Elk to our right at 60 yards. I jumped out and nothing of interest in the bunch (no bulls). So when we got to our spot we sat and waited about 10 minutes a heard the growl. We knew he was on the same ridge as we were on so cubsfan, Steve, and I headed to our destination. My dad decided to stay put while we stalked. As soon as we got around the corner Steve quietly sayed spike (I didn't hear him) again he softly said spike (I am deaf) then finally he said spike loudly I looked up and away he went hiding in some thicket. I said to Cubsfan cow call...here he came but 60 yards away. He stoped and I waited for about 15 seconds and decided what the heck my first with a bow why not the arrow flew twards him at what seamed 2 minutes a foot and miss. My heart sank. While we were looking for the arrow we heard the growl at only yards away. So of course we got set up. I looked at Andrew and he is pointing in front of me saying there he is. But I couldn't see anything in the thicket pines (jack pines). Finally he (4x5, 5x5 I don't care he was a bull) appeared raking a tree (rubbing). I bugled, he bugled. Wind in my favor it was perfect. He then walked to my left and I stayed with him. We walked and bugled at each other for 100 yards. He wouldn't come in to the calls so I just stayed with him. He then started raking another tree ( poor trees ) I knew this was me opportunity so I creeped up keeping two tree in his line of site. I got to within 50 yards and prayed "please help me get him". The next step he peeked around the corner....oh no there goes my heart........then he started raking the tree again. I said to myself "alright this is me chance he is making a bunch of noise and preoccupied." I then snuck into about 30 to 35 yards and let one rip. I was stuned he just looked around like I missed or something. In total blankness I just watched not even nocking another arrow or calling. He turned and I saw the arrow. The nerves took over from there. He gradually walked away to about 20 yards and started swaying. "Alright he's going down," nope, he then started to walk into the jack pines. I cow called and bugled and he kept on going. I ran over and told Andrew and Steve I got him (they almost knocked me down with the hugs .) My dad then showed up and we then waited for about 45 minutes. Off we go to find Rake. We followed a great trail and then it happened we looked up and there he goes trotting away. OH NO. So we decited to wait about 1 hour and 45 minutes and take off after him. From where we saw him get up he had only went 50 yards and went down. I have had dreams of always getting a 6x6 and there he was. My emotions ran high. Man what a great feeling my dreams came true. me 6x6 bull Here is my dad and I. My good bud Andrew And the whole clan. We still hunted the rest of the season for my dad with some close calls. But he was more happy with my success. this was my first archery elk. I have been drawn 4 times in 19 years with my first being a spike, 2nd a 5x4, and 3rd 5x5 all rifle. Thanks to Dad, Andrew, and Steve for making this happen. Big thanks to Jeremyb (meat man) for a great cut. Contact Jeremyb for some fine meat processing. Oh ya Cubsfan watch out for those corn cobs . We all had one great time.

SWEET You guys are the best.

Congrats on a job well done.

Great job, awesome elk. Good times are great with family and friends.

Thank you Amanda. Sorry you didn't eather. There is always next year. My dad and I got to spend alot of good time with each other and we learned alot. I will never forget it.

I will never ditch the Bowtech because, "I REFUSE TO FOLLOW". You should get one and try to target practice on the corn cob . You'll hit it every time. Did I just say hit it . Hit it Andrew hit it.

Bowtech all the way muzzy Andrew turned me on to them. But they sure do crumble under pressure. Still they worked. It was that or walmart eastmans

Way to go Jeremy . Hope you enjoy all the goodies. Thanks again for the fine job on my elk.

sweet bull! That thing is huge.

welcome

Okay my friend here in Globe told me to post this and see what you guys think he will score. OH MY So okay now what do you all think?

That gave me a _____. That is nice.

STOP IT your killing me.

HAPPY B-DAY

What the heck man I know its only a week away. You now have made my week into a month. Heck I can't even sleep right now. Does anyone have something to do to pass the time. Heck even work is slow even though it is busy. HURRY UP

Yep that was me. USAIRWELD is the business. Drop by next time you are in town.

It is always nice to run into members and share some stories. I happened to run into one member in Heber this past weekend (ARIZONA GRIZZ). Chris is just a great guy, he was hard at work chasing those antelope. I also got to meet Jeremyb but of course we had already been talking over the phone. I gave him a ring as we got into Payson and he also was great to talk to. Anything to do with hunting man I am all there. It was great to meet both of you. By the way they also sported the coueswhitetail.com sticker. That is just great. We need more stickers out there.