did i ever tell you that i'm more scared of mountain lions than i am of grizzly bears
this brings all new level of predator hunting looking for bulls and watching our back track
top one yeah
three high one to the left
i feel okay with that you're good yeah i'm good with that well they're all three dead bulls
good with that we're gonna go elk hunting with our good friend bill neff from yeti
bill's going to be chasing bulls in october and these bulls are starting to wind down on the rut
it's kind of a risky time to hunt because these bulls start traveling
but it's probably the best time to kill a big bull as they start looking for second cycle cows
so we're sitting here glassing for elk kind of waiting for it to get a little dark and uh what do
we find johnny looks over and underneath a tree is a mountain lion just laying there it's really rare
to see a mountain lion like that in the middle of the day usually they pretty nocturnal animals
he's even got his head smashed about flat on the ground how's cat laying underneath the bush
see it's coming down but there he is
oh great
you're watching we may bring him right up to us
i have to tell you that i'm more scared of mountain lions than i am of grizzly bears
mountain lions are hunters grizzly bears are just bullies
i think he's got a seventh point on one side off of his fifth i think he's got a crown point
this is brings a whole new level of predator riding
looking for bulls and watching our back track
now he's 230 yards he's actually got pretty decent royals
he's a young bull because he's not very solid in the front
someday that bull's gonna be a big bull
well that was fun
here in colorado southern colorado hunting elk with my friend bill first night two hours we
called this bull in from way up the canyon and he came all the way in within 200 yards and just
couldn't do it no first night you got a couple more days so yeah we've actually had a couple
out answer us in here it's cold it's been raining down here for five days and and uh everything's
wet and cold and so we got time oh yeah good time sorry let's keep on rolling see what else we got
so
that was a deep bugle
let's leave him and go see what that's about it's just it's just a bull
there they are
five or six thousand
and the weather looks like it has finally changed you can see the peaks behind us we've had some
moisture come in put some snow up there they've had a ton of rain here it is wet isn't it it's
been it's been crazy and crazy wet so we're gonna continue elk hunting so stick around
amazing 800 pound animal can hide like they do in this stuff huh
that's a 330 or better maybe
he's right there
is
stop
hit him yeah knocking him off his feet
awesome
nice work boys nice work
so i don't want to tell you but he's got he's got some extra points
yeah he's got several extra that's like we need to shoot that bull
we just pulled up here we'd give it up it's late late in the morning we're like well i guess we're
just gonna hunt tonight and see what happens given up and we'd come down here for one last glassing
you you actually spotted him didn't you well yeah we heard him and then oh i never heard him
kind of pretty far over but you know yeah yeah i hit the cow call he answered us oh and he was
on the other side on the other side of that ridge and well when i finally saw him ike he was right
there yeah and then he was honest and he came a long way you didn't even have your gun you're
like oh my gosh i gotta go grab my gun from about a second what games were on this afternoon we did
yeah well it worked it never works that way but never let's go take a look at it
well make sure to
look at that
that is a free running elk with two crown points like he's a red stag
nice shooting 300 and some yards it's been a crazy crazy season here this year the rain's been
five days of rain and these elk these bulls are separated from the cows which is really really
rare and the rut's still not over because they're bugling like this bull came from a long ways yeah
we did it colorado 2017. it was a really cool hunt because we we had a bull to come bugle right into
us turned him down had had coyotes playing and a mountain lion and we found a lot of a lot of
really cool experiences this bull came in from gosh how far was it when you saw him it was a
long ways it was a long ways and he you heard him bugle right i wasn't standing there i was on the
other side of the ridge glassing off the other way yeah we cow called he responded saw him briefly
uh and then he lost him and then we picked him back up 200 yards closer and knew he was coming so
at that point we're like that's a shooting bowl we gotta take him
well thanks for joining us today folks remember fair chase is the only way to
hunt and take trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on eastman's hunting tv
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you're right that's fantastic