Big Game Hunting
2016 Western Hunts
In September 2016 two friends and I, all from Wisconsin headed out on our first ever western hunt. It was a do-it-yourself archery elk hunt in an over-the-counter unit. I feel as if we were prepared as we could be going out there and were fortunate enough to harvest a 330" bull. Moral of the story, if you're thinking about heading out west but are hesitant because it seems like a daunting task - just go do it, you'll have no regrets!
Here's the video from our hunt (Click here). Enjoy!
I was successful on my solo Drop camp in SW Colorado- Full moon and warm temps made for tough hunting-but I was able to watch this bull go into dark timber on day 3 of my hunt and bed at Daylight- I positioned for an afternoon/evening hunt-he came out of the timber with only 5 minutes of shooting light left-easy 125 yard shot!
Had another good trip to Wyoming.Antelope numbers still down in our area but seem to be getting better.Deer are coming back also but I did not draw a tag this year.Got this buck the first morning.Had the tenderloins tonight!Time to get after the Whitetails here at home now!
My brother is stopping by after work to pack the truck then off to Wyoming tomorrow morning. Our unit 16 elk hunt will start Sunday. It's been 11 years in the making and I can't believe it's finally here. I'll post my hopefully good results when I return. Good hunting to all!
Looking for someone to go to the Pine Ridge area of NW Nebraska rifle hunt for deer.Tag is $229 good for 1 deer mule deer buck,whitetail buck or whitetail doe.Season is Nov 12-20 guys I normally go with all backed out.Quality public land hunt in the past we have shot bucks nearing 150 inches and have seen bigger.Will try to post photos have to retrieve them from an old computer.I know its short notice but don't want to go alone for safety reasons and its nice to have help when you are 3 miles from truck.If interested my phone number is 920-639-6351 call or text thanks Toothy
Got back on Sunday and it was a great hunt! I had 7 mature bulls at 70 yards or less with 4 different bulls including 2 herd bulls at 35 yards or less. I shot a 6X6 herd bull on the last day i had to hunt but hit him about 3 inches high of his body midline. If he was on level ground would have been fine but he was up hill of me so i am pretty confident i missed both lungs. Tracked for 1/2 mile before we lost the last little bit of blood we were following. He had a very distinctive bugle and about 1 hour after i shot him we heard his bugle in front and down the mountain from us. As we tracked that is exactly where the blood trail lead us. P am pretty confident that the bull will live. Only had 12 or so inches of penetration when we found the arrow so thinking i must have hit a rib on the other side. Either way it was a pretty awesome hunt and yes, the bugling really picked up towards the end of the week. We could have hunted another half day but i marked my tag on the bull i hit.
RodBendr,
Good luck! you are probably headed there or already in mountains.
