11-06-2010, 10:24 PM
Luck seems to have came my way and I may have missed a once in a lifetime chance to nail a trophy...hopefully I can find a nice bull.
On Thursday evening we were driving around in my area around Island Park right before sunset and we take a turn...we go a couple of hundred yards and then my buddy was like "holy sh&* there's an elk right there"!
I looked over and all I seen was antlers!!! This bull was pushing 350. Then he takes off into the woods. Then all of a sudden 2 more monster bulls follow him. One was about the same size at 350 and the last one was pushing 375. His antlers went almost to his butt!
Everything happened so fast, I attempted to jump out of the truck but the door was locked...it felt like it took ten minutes to get out of the truck. Once I did get out I didn't have a shot on the first one and I couldn't see the other 2 down on the ground because a little hill was covering them, and I could only see them from the truck.
We went after them but there was only about 20 minutes of daylight left so you know the story. I'm sure those bulls are long gone now, but it does give me hope that there are some monsters up there!
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On Thursday evening we were driving around in my area around Island Park right before sunset and we take a turn...we go a couple of hundred yards and then my buddy was like "holy sh&* there's an elk right there"!
I looked over and all I seen was antlers!!! This bull was pushing 350. Then he takes off into the woods. Then all of a sudden 2 more monster bulls follow him. One was about the same size at 350 and the last one was pushing 375. His antlers went almost to his butt!
Everything happened so fast, I attempted to jump out of the truck but the door was locked...it felt like it took ten minutes to get out of the truck. Once I did get out I didn't have a shot on the first one and I couldn't see the other 2 down on the ground because a little hill was covering them, and I could only see them from the truck.
We went after them but there was only about 20 minutes of daylight left so you know the story. I'm sure those bulls are long gone now, but it does give me hope that there are some monsters up there!
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