Jgardner Report post Posted December 5, 2015 After three days of hitting the hills hard, I finally got it done. My two cousins and dad had all killed big bulls from the family honey hole. I had heard of countless stories from them of seeing no less then a hundred elk each day, passing up an abundance of bulls, and the opportunities I should have on wall-hanger bulls. Of course the year I have a tag something had to change and come the first day, I had only seen a total of six elk after eleven miles on foot. My cousins claimed something was not right, and assumed it was the big snowstorm that came through the area a week before my hunt or the fact that temperatures were much warmer the year prior. The second day things got better when we discovered that the greater majority of the elk were in a large, secluded thicket that was on top of a hill and had a few big crevasses in it. I noticed a lot of the elk I was finding were in the crevasses. Midday on the second day of the hunt, I shot a bull somewhere around 320-330 in size in one of these crevasses. I thought I hit him good when I saw him buck hard, and found quite a bit of blood where I shot him. The blood ran thin quickly and spent the rest of the day and half of the next day to come trying to find this bull. I felt terrible and knew this bull was probably going to die a painful death. After calling it quits on the blood trail on the third day of the hunt, I began hunting again. It was around 12:00pm when a mature bull that seemed to be a 5x or bigger sprang up in front of me and started to run. I snapped up my rifle and shot him as I watched him hit the forest floor just as quickly as he sprang up from it. I ran up to the downed bull and discovered that I only saw his "good" side when he got up to run. I started to laugh when I saw his non-typical side. Although he was not the wall-hanger bull I was after, I was more than satisfied with him. We nicknamed him "Clubby" for obvious reasons. Overall it was a great hunt and am hoping for an early archery bull tag in the future. 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arizona Griz Report post Posted December 5, 2015 Congratulations on a very unique bull. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonscaife Report post Posted December 5, 2015 Rad bull IMO! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couzer Report post Posted December 5, 2015 Awesome! Reminds me of a mid-evil club Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
longshooter Report post Posted December 5, 2015 That's a awesome bull!!! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted December 5, 2015 If Casey was an elk........ Naw, never mind, he'd be even weirder lookin. That's a cool bull. Looks like he probly had a headache. Lark 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeke-BE Report post Posted December 5, 2015 See even misfit island of elk are still trophy. Now if only Santa can understand that! Congrats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoghntr Report post Posted December 5, 2015 Coolest club bull ever! I love it Congrats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mesabulls Report post Posted December 5, 2015 Narly! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adicted Report post Posted December 5, 2015 That things awesome Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MuggyMan Report post Posted December 5, 2015 One of a kind Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mocha1545 Report post Posted December 5, 2015 He is a wallhanger! Love the club. Congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoghntr Report post Posted December 5, 2015 He is a wallhanger! Love the club. Congrats! Right! I swear no elk mounts but i would have to mount that bull Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
