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the camper and hurried up the hill spooked out of the area, so we backed could see was a hip and his antlers.
to a vantage point to glass. We out and headed back to set up camp and I ranged him, 35 yards, no shot.
found a couple of good bulls, but wait for our other partner, Coby. Coby The bull began to move and I tried
nothing special. I felt confi dent that would be hunting deer and helping me my best to follow quietly, but he
we would fi nd the big boys in the out with my hunt.
was soon gone. After a long day of
morning.
That night as all the guys got chasing the bull around the mountain
After a restless night, Adam together at camp, we decided that I my knees were shot. I hobbled my
and I were up and looking at bulls. should focus on hunting the big boy way back to camp.
A couple bulls were in the 370-380 who we fi gured was an 8x9 and around
The next morning found
class. We got a glimpse of one bull 400 Boone and Crockett.
me in the same spot. I wanted to
that we felt was really huge, but he
Opening morning, I headed up try to fi nd the huge bull that we had
disappeared into a small basin. I the trail at 5:00 a.m. to be in position seen earlier but, as the morning went
thought that if we went to a small at fi rst light. As I approached the spot on, it became painfully clear that I
point between us and the basin we where I wanted to be, I could hear the needed to get off the mountain. I
might be able to get a better look at familiar sound of hooves hitting logs reluctantly called on the radio to get
him. As we neared the top of the and branches snapping. I stopped where one of the guys to come pick me up,
point, I realized that I had screwed I was and waited for more light.
I was done.
up. There was elk sign everywhere;
As dawn arrived, I was in
When Mike came to get me
this was a huge bedding area! I position and trying to gain altitude on on the four-wheeler, he suggested
looked back to see if Adam had some bulls that were at the top of the that I may want to go get a cortisone
realized what was going on and, drainage that I was hunting. I had shot. Mike also told me of a bull
just then, I heard branches snapping covered half the distance I needed to that he had seen on his way to pick
below us in the timber. Suddenly, when I was told the bulls had hit the up “the whiner.” We stopped for a
there were horns everywhere. It was timber for the day. My hunting partners minute and looked at the bull which
the big bull. We froze in our tracks also informed me of a “shooter” bull in was about a 385-390 class.
and the bull came to within twenty the next drainage to the north. This bull
After a day in town
yards before he spotted us. We had was a long shot, but I took off as fast cleaning up, going to the doctor and
a two-second stare down before as I could safely go on the steep terrain. getting my cortisone shot, I felt like
the bull trotted off into the timber. After about 1200 yards, I could fi nally a million bucks. But, as part of the
I didn’t feel like the bull had been see the bull through the trees. All I instructions from the “sawbones,” I
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