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<blockquote data-quote="longrangefreek" data-source="post: 605322" data-attributes="member: 10074"><p>I will work on getting pictures this weekend. </p><p> </p><p>the story begins on October 15 2011 which is opening day in our unit. We hunt a huge basin that for some time has held little elk due to the wolf pressure. this year was the other way around. I started bugling at first light on the center ridge of the basin and had 6 different bulls bugling back. I had my wife and 9 year old son with me. My two buddies Jeremy and Kevin were on the next ridge just left of my position about 800 yards. Two other hunters walked right above my buddies not knowing they were there and were following a set of elk tracks that we later found out. They ended up walking clear to the bottom of the basin. what they did not know is that they were following a nice bull and he was being pushed up the other side. My buddies watched this unfold and got set up for a shot. we kept radio communication on the where abouts of the bull. I set up and had a 1375 yard shot if the bull came out towards me and he had about a 1400 to 1500 yard shot if he worked to his side. Well the bull ended up coming out in the clearing at the top of the ridge giving Jeremy a great opportunity. Jeremy dialed 39 moa elevation and the bull was ranged at 1480. Kevin called a 2.5 moa left wind hold. the bull stopped quartering away and Kevin told Jeremy to send it. I hear this shot echo across the canyon and hear no report back. All the sudden I hear them celebrating. I looked across the canyon and there lays the bull 20 yards from the ridge top deader than a doornail. the bull began to role down the steep hillside and into some very thick brush. We radioed our congradulations and I kept my eyes on the bull while they made there way down the ridge and up the other side those other two guys that were at the bottom already heard the shot and caught a glimps of the bull rolling down the hill and made there way to the bull. Jeremy was freeking out that they were going to claim his bull. I have never seen someone close that kind of distance in that terain that fast ever until that day. When he got over there those guys had already started to skin the elk thinking that a hunter shot it and left it. they hacked the hide up so bad that they could not get any good pictures of the bull. the guys could not believe that he shot that far. it made for a great story from what I heard. the bullet hit high just below the backstrap and came out at the bottom of the chest right behind the offside shoulder. those 300 grn bergers are outstanding. I ended up getting the stomach flue that evening and it made for a painful and frustrating night back at camp. the next moring it was raining and did not stop all day. we left down the mountain at around 10:00 am and did not arive back to camp till 7:30 pm. Not only was it a 4 mile hike round trip but we were soaked to the bone and I was sicker than crap. it was a hunt filled with great excitement and pain. We all agreed that it was an outstanding shot, an unbelievably ugly spot to kill an elk, and a brutal pack out but we would do it all over again in a heartbeat. My hats off to Jeremy for making the longest shot to date in our hunting party on an outstanding bull and to Kevin for being a great spotter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="longrangefreek, post: 605322, member: 10074"] I will work on getting pictures this weekend. the story begins on October 15 2011 which is opening day in our unit. We hunt a huge basin that for some time has held little elk due to the wolf pressure. this year was the other way around. I started bugling at first light on the center ridge of the basin and had 6 different bulls bugling back. I had my wife and 9 year old son with me. My two buddies Jeremy and Kevin were on the next ridge just left of my position about 800 yards. Two other hunters walked right above my buddies not knowing they were there and were following a set of elk tracks that we later found out. They ended up walking clear to the bottom of the basin. what they did not know is that they were following a nice bull and he was being pushed up the other side. My buddies watched this unfold and got set up for a shot. we kept radio communication on the where abouts of the bull. I set up and had a 1375 yard shot if the bull came out towards me and he had about a 1400 to 1500 yard shot if he worked to his side. Well the bull ended up coming out in the clearing at the top of the ridge giving Jeremy a great opportunity. Jeremy dialed 39 moa elevation and the bull was ranged at 1480. Kevin called a 2.5 moa left wind hold. the bull stopped quartering away and Kevin told Jeremy to send it. I hear this shot echo across the canyon and hear no report back. All the sudden I hear them celebrating. I looked across the canyon and there lays the bull 20 yards from the ridge top deader than a doornail. the bull began to role down the steep hillside and into some very thick brush. We radioed our congradulations and I kept my eyes on the bull while they made there way down the ridge and up the other side those other two guys that were at the bottom already heard the shot and caught a glimps of the bull rolling down the hill and made there way to the bull. Jeremy was freeking out that they were going to claim his bull. I have never seen someone close that kind of distance in that terain that fast ever until that day. When he got over there those guys had already started to skin the elk thinking that a hunter shot it and left it. they hacked the hide up so bad that they could not get any good pictures of the bull. the guys could not believe that he shot that far. it made for a great story from what I heard. the bullet hit high just below the backstrap and came out at the bottom of the chest right behind the offside shoulder. those 300 grn bergers are outstanding. I ended up getting the stomach flue that evening and it made for a painful and frustrating night back at camp. the next moring it was raining and did not stop all day. we left down the mountain at around 10:00 am and did not arive back to camp till 7:30 pm. Not only was it a 4 mile hike round trip but we were soaked to the bone and I was sicker than crap. it was a hunt filled with great excitement and pain. We all agreed that it was an outstanding shot, an unbelievably ugly spot to kill an elk, and a brutal pack out but we would do it all over again in a heartbeat. My hats off to Jeremy for making the longest shot to date in our hunting party on an outstanding bull and to Kevin for being a great spotter. [/QUOTE]
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