Mr.herd bull well we're pretty much out of light tonight so we gotta go go look
up on that burn area see if we can find some elk up in there
well we were down there last year hunting and southern Colorado had the best
hunting of elk they've had in most of the old-timers memory they was a perfect
deal they had a lot of rain a lot of vegetation came up and these elk down
there at semi-arid so when they had this good groceries they just put on the
antler girl and Guy was hunting elk Ike was hunting mule deer and so I was there
just that kind of film and so they're all done I'm sitting there we got a few
days left and I go I got these two young whipper snappers here and took him
packing on elk I haven't killed an elk long time which we wants to kill stinky
bull elk well I've harvest enough of them in my lifetime
but I thought oh gosh this would be an opportunity
they spotted a 370 bull up here last night so we are going to ease in here and see if we
can't catch him we heard a bull bugle could be him but the wind is really swirling up
here on this Ridge so we'll see maybe it'll calm down we go
out we got Paul with this and Paul goes you know this is a spot where these
bulls pull off and the cows and this is you know after the rut kind of so we get
up there and Paul does these little whistle and we hear this bull bugle went
clear up on top 9600 foot knob and there was a bull all by himself he pulled away
from cows it was the end of the rut you know and
I look in a and that sun's hitting this bull sitting there feeding he's a big
bodied sucker I mean his chest is like I mean he's an
old bull and I look and I see the whale tails and I said well he's 6.0 good bull
now you guys got to remember I I grew up hunting elk and back when I guided and
hunted in high school a 340 350 360 bull was a a really good bull I'm not into
this 380 390 400 that isn't how I grew up okay so I looked this bull like all
this bull is 350 if he's an ounce that's good enough to big whale tails on him so
guy was filming that's pretty cool my son was filming
over him
get down oh my did you do you see the backs on that sucker he winded us I
think he looked right down and he's always looking at and I felt the wind on
my back going no he was just starting to walk off and I hammered him
this bull got seven on one side and six on the other all I could see was his big
whale tails and a really nice backs three-fifty bull isn't he Wow
he was a great bull he's actually at my house he's kind of a last hunt of a of a
guy that's hunted bull elk for sixty years it was it was really cool the sunset
cruise yeah I was on the side I'm now on the sunset cruise they officially don't
put me in for any all kinds because I had these two guys there they packed him
out I didn't have to do anything but take pictures that was it you know I
didn't even have I didn't have to dress him for anything that goes so we kill
two bull elk and a buck deer it was good year was a good one the best son hunt ever huh yeah we'll
never do that again haven't all three of us hunting together
like that that's fun you know we all go different directions
may they leave me behind I'm sitting there at their office there goes the
truck off oh well I'm the old guy okay but this time he didn't it was all three
of us I've taken a lot of bulls in my lifetime and every one of them I have a
memory of and they were all good memories some little better than others
but most of all of them were in fact all of them except this bull was all you
know Wyoming wilderness public land a lot of do-it-yourself solo hunting I
probably never hunt another bull elk and I don't need to
I'm glad you come along with me on Eastmans hunting TV show and hope to see
you next week remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big
game