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memtbHad this with whitetail in college. I had only one or two days free to hunt. Wanted meat, was gonna shoot the first decent size deer, buck or doe, I could. Well I shot one away away in a field…hiked over to it…and it was so much smaller on the ground than when I first saw it!Mine too!
Cow/calf only hunt, friends jumped a group of elk. I could hear them running through thick timber, I picked an opening, shooting the first elk passing into the opening, as it fell……all of the adult elk started through the opening. I shot a baby!
. Sort of like a big wasp or bumble bee, they seem way bigger before they're dead!!! Congratulations!!!! Great Job!!!Just thought I'd share my successful hunt. Got drawn for either sex elk in zone 43 here in Saskatchewan…and scored on the opening day of the season, September 15!!!!
It's no trophy specimen, but it's a full grown bull elk and holy smokes I didn't realize just how much meat is on one of these things! I'm a happy (but sore and tired) camper. My family will eat well this winter and I'm so thankful to have been blessed in this way.
225 eld m out of a .300 win mag, 2760 fps, hit him twice at 320 yards (ranged after he was already down haha). The second shot was totally not needed at all but I've heard so many stories about how tough these things can be, he was still standing, so I hit him again. First shot was a broadside chest hit, and man let me tell you there is no better sound than that BOOM….THWACK! Combo that lets you know you made a solid hit. He staggered and wobbled immediately and swung his head back and forth, sort of like I might if I had taken a hard punch and was trying to stay on my feet but very rocked. The second hit he was quartering toward me and I shoulder punched him and he went down like a sack of hammers. The eldm had no trouble smashing and penetrating the shoulder joint and absolutely grenading in the vitals. This combo keeps on proving to be a death ray for deer and now elk as well.
I must say, I haven't had "buck fever" like that since I was a 13 year old on my first whitetail hunt and a saw a spike buck come out of the bush!
Here's some pics, just an ordinary critter (and we don't get the rocky mountain type monsters here in flatland quite the same) but I'm so happy about it!!!
Planning to do a euromount
I had a cow/calf tag and was hunting with a buddy with a bull tag, which worked out well. He got a bull on opening day. The heard headed out of the valley on onto private after a few days of hunting pressure. Last day of the hunt, last opening we were checking before sunset we came over the top and saw that this little guy had been left behind. The good thing about a calf elk is you still get a pretty good amount of meat.....and it was white like veal.....so tasty. It wasn't nearly small enough to throw over the shoulder but it was a one trip pack out. I would have been so excited with OP's bull!Mine too!
Cow/calf only hunt, friends jumped a group of elk. I could hear them running through thick timber, I picked an opening, shooting the first elk passing into the opening, as it fell……all of the adult elk started through the opening. I shot a baby!
