To get John and Denise Phillips’ free cookbook, “Miz Denise’s Outdoor Cooking: More Than 35 Recipes for Elk and Mule Deer,” go to. Dean just made a European mount out of the bull’s rack that was about 300 inches. Does this bull hit the 300 inch mark Whats your guess. We only had to make one trip with each of us carrying the meat. Im trying to figure out what a 300 inch bull looks like as a basis for field judging larger bulls. No need to spend much more time considering beam. My brother, Calvin, was hunting with us too, so we called him on the two-way radio. If a bull appears able to scratch his butt with his antlers, it likely has the frame to be a trophy elk. There were plenty of high-fives and hugs and jumping around like anyone does when they kill a nice elk. We had a really good blood trail to follow for about 80 yards, and then Dean saw his elk. Dean and I waited about 35 minutes, before we went after the elk. The elk went out of sight and down toward a canyon. When the bull elk was 30 yards from Dean, he took a broadside shot and the arrow penetrated both lungs. Over the years, I've learned that if you’ve got a bull coming to you, you don’t need to cow call much, because of that bull’s natural curiosity to come in and look for the cows. I only gave two more cow calls and then shut up. The bull was coming in from our right, and I was on the left hand side of Dean - back 60 yards. Because I was back in the trees behind Dean, I could hear but I couldn’t see the bull walking toward us. We knew that if the elk tried to come around downwind of us, he'd have to walk along the edge of the canyon, and he’d be within shooting range. I called again, and the elk bugled once more. After my first series of calls, we heard a bugle. Then I could sound like several different cows up near the water hole. I used a Primos Hyper Plate Double diaphragm call and several other Primos elk diaphragm calls. I sat Dean up 60 yards in front of me, and I got behind him and started calling. We watched, and the cows went over the edge of the water hole and down into a canyon. Dean had an elk tag and I didn’t, so I called for him.Īs we walked into the area where we were going to hunt, we spotted a couple of cow elk near a pond. My hunting buddy, Dean Sanchez, and I were hunting the Gila National Forest. I've called in quite a few bulls for other people that have scored 250 to 300 inches.
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