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<blockquote data-quote="longgunshooter" data-source="post: 147841" data-attributes="member: 6004"><p>hmmm....chance wounding him/never finding him in the black timber he's surley headed into, or wait for a better shot...</p><p></p><p>WHY chance it....all that delicious meat...potentially reuined...</p><p></p><p>give him a toot on your cow call...let him turn and wack him with a high shoulder shot...LIGHTS OUT! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif</p><p></p><p>i witnessed a shot similar to a texas while i was young and vowed never to chance it...it was ugly...</p><p></p><p>we were busy helping dad pack the ponies with a bull that he had taken earlier in the day when we heard a bugle not to far off. i didnt have a tag as i was too young and had missed seeing dad take his so off i went with this friend of my dads...hoping to see my first bull kill... </p><p></p><p>a bull was following a couple of cows into a quakie patch on the far side of high mountain ravine and this guy decided to try the shot. rifle was an '06 not sure what bullet but if i had to guess...probably a 180 partition from what i noticed he was hunting with in some later hunts...shot angle was a 3/4...maybe a little more... quartering away shot and he let a bullet fly hitting the bull...not sure exactly where but DOWN he went!...hit him like a bolt of lightening...then he got back up...almost instatntly...ran down the ravine dragging one hind and back up the other side into some HAIRY timber. we got close to him a couple of times but not close enough. we waited and waited for him to lay down but he NO intent of letting up...some friends of ours found the carcass the next spring while running cattle...nearly FOUR MILES from where we had last heard him /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif...too bad...it was a really nice 5x5...</p><p></p><p>Elk are tough critters...break em where it COUNTS THE FIRST TIME!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="longgunshooter, post: 147841, member: 6004"] hmmm....chance wounding him/never finding him in the black timber he's surley headed into, or wait for a better shot... WHY chance it....all that delicious meat...potentially reuined... give him a toot on your cow call...let him turn and wack him with a high shoulder shot...LIGHTS OUT! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] i witnessed a shot similar to a texas while i was young and vowed never to chance it...it was ugly... we were busy helping dad pack the ponies with a bull that he had taken earlier in the day when we heard a bugle not to far off. i didnt have a tag as i was too young and had missed seeing dad take his so off i went with this friend of my dads...hoping to see my first bull kill... a bull was following a couple of cows into a quakie patch on the far side of high mountain ravine and this guy decided to try the shot. rifle was an '06 not sure what bullet but if i had to guess...probably a 180 partition from what i noticed he was hunting with in some later hunts...shot angle was a 3/4...maybe a little more... quartering away shot and he let a bullet fly hitting the bull...not sure exactly where but DOWN he went!...hit him like a bolt of lightening...then he got back up...almost instatntly...ran down the ravine dragging one hind and back up the other side into some HAIRY timber. we got close to him a couple of times but not close enough. we waited and waited for him to lay down but he NO intent of letting up...some friends of ours found the carcass the next spring while running cattle...nearly FOUR MILES from where we had last heard him [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]...too bad...it was a really nice 5x5... Elk are tough critters...break em where it COUNTS THE FIRST TIME! [/QUOTE]
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