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I harvested this bull with 1 shot from my Winchester stainless 300
Mag. using a Nosler 180 gr. protected point partition bullet at 7:15 A.M. on Nov. 7, 1998
near Leadore Idaho. My good friend/hunting buddy, Tom
Hess, had made a stalk attempt on this same bull 6 days previous, only to have the stalk
blown by 4 hunters in a pickup. The shot was 424 yards (varified by a laser
rangefinder). The bull scores 334 B&C gross and had an 8th point on the right
side broken off the rear of the 6th tine. Tom harvested a nice 6X6 later the same
day that he stalked this bull, and my father harvested a 3X3 bull the following week.
Great hunt! Can't wait till I can draw another quality permit.
Eric Horman
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Edward Sodolak with his
325 3/8 Bull Elk
taken in New Mexico in 1999. |
"The bull bugled
at us at least 40 times during this entire hunt.
What a thrilling hunt!" |
| "The elk was taken
at about 70 yards through some dense oak thicket at 9:30am on October 10th. The bull
was spotted at about 1 ½ miles herding his cows and taking them into a
drainage. The bull was crashing into his cows, antlers down forcing them to go
where he wanted.We put on a stalk that required us to walk about 1.5 miles down wind of
the bull and then make our way back up the mountain towards him. We were continually
cow calling and bugling at him and he began to push his harem of cows (15) towards
us. The oak thicket was about 10 feet tall we were moving through and we
finally got real close to the elk when the bull burst from cover and ran up the mountain
about 75 yards from us. He positioned himself behind a huge juniper and all we could
see was his antlers sticking above the juniper. After about 10 minutes he took two
steps to his left and stopped in my only shooting lane (1 foot wide by 4 feet tall). I
shot and he ran about 50 yards up the hill before he expired." |
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