10-06-2014, 08:34 PM
Congrats on your hunting success, the wife had a LE Wasatch tag as well but she ended up not punching it. The first evening we had several bulls come into the small spring we had built a ground blind at. The 1st was a beautiful 5X6 with long main beams as well as good length on all of his points I figured he would have been a 330 bull. I had been cow calling to him and he came down the canyon on a string, 190 yards out a shot rang out from above us and he stopped in his tracks, we found out later it was a woman above us on the ridge that shot a 2X2 buck, the bull wheeled and took off back up the canyon, damn the bad luck! Twenty minutes later a 300 class 6X6 came down the same valley to within 50 yards, the wife had her heart set on a bigger bull so she passed him up. He hung around for ten minutes or so as we were putting our packs on to head back up to the truck and didn't take off until we stepped out of our blind. Her next chance came the 3rd evening (Friday) when the bulls really opened up prior to the storms moving in, we were walking a ridge I like to bow hunt on. We would walk along slowly with the ocassional bugle mixed with some cow calls. A bull bugled straight in front of us and popped out of the scrub oak at 77 yards. I judged him to be a 320 class 6X6, but he was facing us with only a chest shot offered. We were kneeling in the tall grass but the bull knew we were there. She passed on the shot not having a rest to shoot from, the bull soon wheeled and headed back into the scrub oak. The storms kept us in camp for the next two days and when we got back out Monday the bulls had pretty much quit bugleing and it became hard to locate them. We had alot of muzzle loader deer hunters who were also carrying cow elk tags. There was alot of bugleing and cow calling going on and I think that may have shut them down. The wife was a little disappointed in not taking a bull but I told her that I was very proud of her for turning down a smaller bull that first evening in hopes of getting a better one. She still has cow tag to fill on a later hunt so I'm hoping she can bust one for the winter's meat supply.
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